The building with the sphinx and obelisks in the center housed Akoun's Beautiful Orient with its bazaar offering wares from the Middle East. |
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The shy, introverted Gandhi, once described as a sphinx and an enigma, has come a long way in the past six years. |
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The house features a stone replica of a sphinx at the front door and a statue of the pharaoh Tuthmosis III brought from Luxor in Egypt in the entrance hall. |
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A slave driver brandishing a whip and a stick presides over Egyptian slaves struggling to move a colossal sphinx covered with hieroglyphs. |
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The Labyrinth of Egypt Video Slot takes you back to the time of pharaohs, pyramids and the mystifying sphinx. |
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Dulles, Moses recalls, sat as silent as a sphinx, and the meeting ended inconclusively. |
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Its fluid curvilinear, concave and convex forms let it appear sculptured rather than built, resembling in its shape a wind swept submarine with the sprawled arms of a sphinx. |
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Betty smiles so rarely on Mad Men that when she does it holds special importance, akin to a sphinx letting her guard down. |
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A saccharine smell hangs in the air. A monumental mammy sphinx hardly sounds nuanced. |
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From then on, Egyptomania and the sphinx, its most representative icon, continued to fascinate and influence the world of the arts. |
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Something has happened to shake her awake, and now she roars like a wounded lion, a monster or a sphinx. |
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When the sphinx was crumbling they finally repaired it in plaster, which needs replacing every five years, in order to maintain the point of decay, and clarify the difference. |
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They were going to see the sphinx and come back with souvenirs. |
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Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx. |
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It is set in a theme park containing a pyramid, a medieval castle, a sphinx with the face of a lion and a swimming-pool boasting the world's biggest man-made surfing waves. |
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In appearance the Asian sphinx differed from its Egyptian model most noticeably in the addition of wings to the leonine body, a feature that continued through its subsequent history in Asia and the Greek world. |
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Jayne Yack at Carleton University in Ottawa revealed that walnut sphinx caterpillars could toot from their sides. |
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Lack of hair is particular to sphinx cats. |
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It is believed the sphinx was about to be smuggled out of the country after being stolen from the Montem Rossulum necropolis 60 miles north of Rome. |
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The Sphinx, aloof from such matters of little consequence, waits patiently beyond the pool. |
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Like the Sphinx of antiquity, I left him standing there staring at my mysterious, leonine face. |
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Next out was Madeline, a one-and-a-half year old Sphinx in a frilly pink ballerina outfit. |
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The first cat on the catwalk was Vengeance, a 12-week-old Sphinx in an argyle sweater. |
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With this dog, her own son, Echidna incestuously begat the Sphinx. |
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The female Sphinx moved to extend a paw, which contained a small silver headband set with a single cabochon of amethyst, that pulsated in time with a heartbeat. |
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I regarded her as an archeologist might regard the riddling Sphinx. |
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Sphinx was designed to accurately simulate these effects, including gap fields, wrap around currents, and return path discontinuities. |
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Newly approved titles The Sign of Zodiac, Sphinx II and Babooshka further demonstrate the library supporting e-motion. |
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Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns. |
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Coventry Sphinx, Alvis Sporting Club, Coventry Copsewood and Coventry United all play in the Midland Football League. |
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The Sphinx of Egypt became Asiatic, and its new form was transplanted to Nineveh on the one side and to Greece on the other. |
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Natural rock formations made into statues or other sculpture in the round, most famously at the Great Sphinx of Giza, are also usually excluded. |
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The route is rough but allows the ordinary hillwalker to view Napes Needle, Sphinx Rock and many of the famous climbing locations. |
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Sanitec is thought to be in merger talks with Keramic and is also thought to have approached Sphinx, a Dutch bathroom fittings manufacturer. |
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The way in which this passage compares with The Sphinx sheds light on the latter's glyphic stiffness, a property of gemstones. |
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Nourison's Guggenheim Collection and Hellenic's Flokatis and Rugs a L'Art are regular favorites at the Nebraska Furniture Mart, as are contemporary collections from Sphinx. |
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