sphinx

The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed.

Probably King Harmachis had the Sphinx altered to look like him.

The Sphinx is a woman, as I will insist to my dying day, if it were my last word!

Which do you find more impressive, the Sphinx or the Pyramids?

He became an inexplicable creature; a breeched and booted Sphinx.

For hours together he lay stretched upon my knee, like the shadow of a sphinx.

The dawn filtered over the head of the Sphinx, and there were stirrings in the sky.

But he might as well have looked for expression in that of a sphinx.

Good fellow all right, and, for a 'sphinx' as you call him, likable.

But what—as the country parson's sermon drones on—thinks the Sphinx?