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Definition of Sphynx
1. a cat of a breed of hairless cats [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphynx
Literary usage of Sphynx
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake (1914)
"CHAPTER XX THE sphynx Laugh and mock if you will at the worship of stone idols;
but mark ye this, ye breakers of images, that in one regard, the stone idol ..."
2. The Adventures of Christopher Hawkins by Christopher Hawkins, Charles Ira Bushnell (1864)
"Hunt ordered to be burnt, and the latter sunk, but the Crews were brought in with
the sphynx. " The Eagle on her Cruize brought too a Brig from Liverpool ..."
3. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"And near the Pyramids, more wondrous and more awful than all else in the land of
Egypt, there sits the lonely sphynx. Comely the creature is, ..."
4. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society by Essex Archaeological Society (1858)
"I need scarcely insist, before an Essex auditory, on the beautiful figure of a
sphynx, dug up near, and now carefully preserved in the Hospital, ..."
5. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1870)
"The sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude ; it is
impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. ..."
6. An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892) by Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale (1911)
"THE sphynx Eothen And near the Pyramids, more wondrous and more awful than all
else in the land of Egypt, there sits the lonely sphynx. ..."
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