How To Use Cyclopean In A Sentence
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The cyclopean has been a /shite/ chancellor, he might be okay at math but has the economic grasp of a 10 year old, he never realises the human ramifications of his policies, he is the very definition of the C word you will not let me use here.
Gordon Brown Meets the Ten Year Olds
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Bellegra, a prehistoric fastness with some traces of "cyclopean" defences.
Alone
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Tall, strong, silent, able to destroy the earth and resurrect the dead (sort of) and shoot disintegrator rays from his cyclopean eye, I would say the classical Gort space robot. on a scale of one to Awesome, is an eleven.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction?
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Her smokebox door hangs open, with headlight peering sideways through the fog with a wall-eyed Cyclopean stare.
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Here NGP proposes inserting what is effectively a completely new glazed building into the hole, rising on tall columns to provide an inhabited roof level with a cyclopean belvedere of a west wall.
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The Tullianum stood in the lap of the Arx hill just beyond the Steps of Gemortia, a very tiny grey edifice built of the huge unmortared stones men all over the world called Cyclopean; it was only one storey high and had only one opening, a doorless rectangular gap in the stones.
The First Man in Rome
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Beyond, the temple was larger than it had looked, e'en to the trained hunter's gaze; a sickly air of the amber-light pervaded the columns of the temple, emanating like some swamp-illness from the cyclopean ruins of the moon-deity.
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Beyond, the temple was larger than it had looked, e'en to the trained hunter's gaze; a sickly air of the amber-light pervaded the columns of the temple, emanating like some swamp-illness from the cyclopean ruins of the moon-deity.
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As far as I know there is not an exact Danish match to "cyclopean" but I would say a good substitute would be "enormt.
Dark Tales : The Lovecraft News Network
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Cyclopean eye
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The street ended in a vast Cyclopean gateway---built of enormous rough stone blocks.
NEVERWHERE
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Mycenaean architecture, called Cyclopean, is characterized by use of enormous stones.
D. The Late Helladic Period: The Mycenaean Age
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The only form of the arch observed, is that called the cyclopean arch, which is made by one course of stones overlapping another, till the two walls meet, and
Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846
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Or it could be the empty eye-socket of a cyclopean presence that still manages to hold us in its baleful stare.
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Black basalt of the kind the Greeks called Cyclopean—smooth, immensely high, and impervious to rams or siege towers.
Antony and Cleopatra
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The street ended in a vast Cyclopean gateway---built of enormous rough stone blocks.
NEVERWHERE
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The engineering difficulties were great, the dredging and filling a cyclopean task.
Chapter XX
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.
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Do you ever lay awake at night dreaming of ways to introduce the word "cyclopean" into everyday speech?
The Lovecraft News Network
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Incorporated into its elaborate frame are two miniature pairs of binoculars, a pince-nez and a bulbous, Cyclopean glass eye.
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Above the town, where the cemetery now stands, is a likely site for a citadel, and on examining it from the sea I noticed, sure enough, a few blocks of prehistoric structure of the so-called Cyclopean type underneath a corner of the cemetery wall.
Alone
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At ten my children set off to the dockyard, which is a most prodigious effort of machinery, and they are promised the sight of an anchor in the act of being forged, a most cyclopean sight.
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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We were at the bus stop in front of the cyclopean walls built by King Herod in the 1st century BCE.
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It boasts the conventional prison gateway, the solid-looking, nail-studded door, the low, worn archway which the better deserves the qualification "cyclopean," because the jailer's peephole or _judas_ looks out like a single eye from the front of the building.
Lost Illusions
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The other arch stands close by - a Cyclopean gateway through a tall and slim sea stack.
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This style of masonry is called polygonal and is to be carefully distinguished from Cyclopean, as above defined.
A History of Greek Art