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But his countenance still bore that sphinx-like expression which so often caused his friends to entertain vague suspicions.

By jove, just that moment—then I caught an expression—I say, do you know you would make a remarkable symbolic study of the Sphinx?

The rain falls, the mud deepens; the beautiful sphinx lies still, her eyes lost in the dull horizon.

THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDET

The sphinx, which men have imagined concealing herself in the cloud, seemed to mock him with a dilemma.

A terrible sphinx propounding a terrible riddle; the riddle of the existence of Evil.

Why should he question the Sphinx of Fate, or quarrel with destinies the high gods had decreed?

And above this sandy desert, above this sea of dead dust, rises the immense head of the Egyptian sphinx.

Here dawns a question with which some modern Sphinx may defy some coming Œdipus.

"You might as well flatter the Sphinx," remarked John impersonally.

THE OPENED SHUTTERSCLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

One of the figures often repeated by the sculptors of Egypt was the Sphinx.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985