| Johann Georg Heck - 1851 - Počet stránok 814
...fabulous creatures, variously described, and divided into male and female sphinxes. Usually they are found with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, covered with the sacred cap, which was a head-dress with very ample folds ; the body is generally seen... | |
| 1852 - Počet stránok 814
...fabulous creatures, variously described, and divided into male and female sphinxes. Usually they are found with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, covered with the sacred cap, whicli was a head-dress with very ample folds ; the body is generally... | |
| Johann Georg Heck - 1860 - Počet stránok 804
...fabulous creatures, variously described, and divided into male and female sphinxes. Usually they are found with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, covered with the sacred cap, which was a head-dress with very ample folds ; the body is generally seen... | |
| Théophile Gautier - 1863 - Počet stránok 274
...characters of Thoth. Many of this species of ape were tamed and kept by the Egyptians. CKIOSPBINX. A sphinx with the body of a lion and the head of a ram. DROMOS. Avenue or approach to the principal gate of a temple or palace. EMBALMING. There were... | |
| Noah Webster - 1912 - Počet stránok 1214
...or bearing both male and female organs; hermaphroditic. [Greek.] androsphinx (an'dro-sfingks), n. a sphinx with the body of a lion and the head of a man. [Greek.] anecdotal (an-«k-d6'tal), adj. relating to, or consisting of, anecdotes. anecdote (an'ek-d5t),... | |
| 1927 - Počet stránok 1010
...also interesting to note that to the time of the first Egyptian dyansty belongs the great statute of Sphinx with the body of a lion and the head of a man, representing the Sun-god. The Indian Manu, Iksvaku and their descendants also are said to be of... | |
| David Stuart Davies - 2000 - Počet stránok 244
...character in Wilde's story 'The Sphinx Without a Secret'. The original Sphinx was a mythical creature, with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, which posed a cunning riddle and killed all those who could not solve it. As a result the term sphinx... | |
| Alixe Bovey - 2002 - Počet stránok 68
...Oedipus and the Sphinx (15). In the story, Oedipus encounters a ferocious Sphinx on his way to Thebes. The Sphinx, with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, gives Oedipus a riddle and threatens that if he cannot solve it she will devour him. Oedpius defeats... | |
| Augusta Jane Evans - 2002 - Počet stránok 258
...disagreements with other officers and his superiors. 6.1 don't know what. 7. According to ancient Greek legend, the Sphinx, with the body of a lion and the head of a woman, killed anyone who could not solve her riddle: "What walks on four feet in the morning, on two at noon,... | |
| Nikki Stafford - 2004 - Počet stránok 465
...one that will bring the ultimate apocalypse upon the Earth. He describes a creature that looks like a Sphinx — with the body of a lion and the head of a man — who is slowly creeping through the desert toward humankind. At one time the world had destroyed... | |
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