sphinx
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Visitors can trade $5 for a small black sphinx, a replica of sculptor Lee Lawrie’s Belgian black marble and bronze sphinxes that flank the north staircase on the library’s second floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
And funny: Don’t miss the tiny cat by Giacometti that’s hidden off to the side of the structure beside an imposing sphinx.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
While the 11 rival candidates crisscrossed the central African country pressing the flesh ahead of the October 12 vote, Biya's campaign has been largely virtual, true to his reputation as a secretive "sphinx".
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
The Czech entrepreneur has been described as a "quiet sphinx" for his inscrutable style.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2024
“Third,” the sphinx said, louder, and its wings opened for just one moment, a great sweep of feather and threat, and the air shook, “because it is a way of attracting food.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
We no longer write of ideæ, chori, asyla, musea, sphinges, specimina for ideas, choruses, asylums, museums, sphinxes, specimens, and the notion of returning to such plurals would seem barbarous and absurd.
From Society for Pure English, Tract 03 (1920) A Few Practical Suggestions by Society for Pure English
There are eight Hathoric columns and eight sphinxes in “sister dreamer” that honor local heroes, community workers and Halsey’s friends and family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
In it are depicted small sphinxes, cult items and an altar, all items recovered from the ruins of Antirhodos and depicting a scene that likely would have taken place in the temple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Its five long chapters — each written by a different scholar — cover unicorns, dragons, griffins, sphinxes and half-human creatures.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2021
When you get close enough, you can see that the heads of the sphinxes are really cranes and the haunches steel gates.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
“Irian, no matter what the sphinxes say, the boat cannot exist,” said Nighthand.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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