Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphynxes
Literary usage of Sphynxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1868)
"It is approached from Luxor by an avenue of two hundred sphynxes, terminating at the
... There are three other approaches, all by similar lines of sphynxes, ..."
2. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"1436, NOTE ON THE EGYPTIAN sphynxes. Heeren, giving an account of the ... 28)
says " The Egyptian sphynxes, we have the authority of Mr. Wilkinson for ..."
3. A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs by John Murray (Firm) (1888)
"Scales of gold, stamped with sphynxes and birds. 4-6. Cylinders of bronze, lined
with wood, and covered with plates of gold—ornaments, or to contain amulets ..."
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