How To Use cyclopean In A Sentence
- Do you ever lay awake at night dreaming of ways to introduce the word "cyclopean" into everyday speech? The Lovecraft News Network
- The name Cyclopean, attached to those desolate remains of buildings which were older than Greek history itself, attests their romantic influence over the fancy of the people who thus attributed them to a superhuman strength and skill. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
- It seems that this latter material was mostly used in the almost "cyclopean" defensive walls of Düzen, while smaller beige limestone bocks were used for walls of buildings. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Geological Survey Report 1
- The engineering difficulties were great, the dredging and filling a cyclopean task. Chapter XX
- A staircase of 240 stone steps leads to the top of the hill, where, above and behind all the stateliness of the shrines raised in his honour, the dust of Iyeyasu sleeps in an unadorned but Cyclopean tomb of stone and bronze, surmounted by a bronze urn. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- And surmounting a higher ledge beyond this upthrust a huge dome of dull gold, Cyclopean, striking eyes and mind with something unhumanly alien, baffling; sending the mind groping, as though across the deserts of space, from some far-flung star, should fall upon us linked sounds, coherent certainly, meaningful surely, vaguely familiar -- yet never to be translated into any symbol or thought of our own particular planet. The Moon Pool
- Hellenes, who ascribed them to a race of giants called Cyclops; hence the name Cyclopean that also attaches to them. General History for Colleges and High Schools
- It was built of large stones carefully fitted together, like the architecture that I remembered to have seen called Cyclopean in architectural histories of Greece. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
- The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.
- Other and more reliable traditions, however, attribute to them a knowledge of agriculture, and some little acquaintance with navigation; while there is a strong probability that they were the authors of those huge structures commonly called Cyclopean, remains of which are still visible in many parts of Greece and Italy, and on the western coast of Asia Minor. Mosaics of Grecian History
