It is my dearest ambition to be as impassive as the
Sphinx."
Fragment #3 -- Scholiast on Euripides Phoen., 1750: The authors of the "Story of Oedipus" (say) of the
Sphinx: `But furthermore (she killed) noble Haemon, the dear son of blameless Creon, the comeliest and loveliest of boys.'
Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the
Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king.
In the first place, let me read to you a schoolboy account of the genus
Sphinx, of the family Crepuscularia of the order Lepidoptera, of the class of Insecta -- or insects.
I wonder if they'll look up at the
Sphinx and knit," laughed Priscilla.
It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged
sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a
Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the
Sphinx, who was said to sit in the road-side and put riddles to every passenger.
Almost imperceptibly the eyes settled into a watching that was like to the stony stare of a
sphinx across aching and eternal desert sands.
Sabin's face was as the face of a
sphinx. He made no sign.
'You are nothing better than a
sphinx! And a married
sphinx isn't a--isn't a nice confidential husband,' said Bella, in a tone of injury.
It was a People's Course, the lecture on the Pyramids, and Jo rather wondered at the choice of such a subject for such an audience, but took it for granted that some great social evil would be remedied or some great want supplied by unfolding the glories of the Pharaohs to an audience whose thoughts were busy with the price of coal and flour, and whose lives were spent in trying to solve harder riddles than that of the
Sphinx.