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  • Rather, it seems to project an exhausted Mary, asleep in the crook of the Sphinx's leg, with the infant Jesus resting on her lap.

    A Christmas Riddle Dan 2007

  • All of Sphinx's powers emanated from his manipulation of the magical Ka stone or the Jewel Of Ka.

    Dart Adams presents Black Like Me: Black Comic Heroes Through The Ages Revisited Part One 1967-1988 Dart Adams 2009

  • Because al-Midhar and al-Hazmi, two of the muscle hijackers who flew AA #77 into the Pentagon on 9/11, not only had mailboxes at Sphinx but they got the fake IDs they used to board that flight from Mohammed El-Attriss, Sphinx's co-founder and partner in Sphinx with Waleed al Noor.

    Peter Lance: Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up 2009

  • Rather, it seems to project an exhausted Mary, asleep in the crook of the Sphinx's leg, with the infant Jesus resting on her lap.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Dan 2007

  • O my home, my home! what minstrel can I summon from the dead to chant a fitting dirge o'er my tearful fate, as I bear these three corpses of my kin, my mother and her sons, welcome sight to the avenging fiend that destroyed the house of Oedipus, root and branch, in the hour that his shrewdness solved the Sphinx's riddling rhyme and slew that savage songstress.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Sphinx's riddle, and so he became king of this land and received its sceptre as his prize, and married his mother, all unwitting, luckless wretch! nor did I his mother know that I was wedded to my son; and I bore him two sons, Eteocles and the hero Polyneices, and two daughters as well; the one her father called Ismene, the other, which was the elder, I named

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • My noble fellow-countrymen, behold me; I am Oedipus, who solved the famous riddle, and once was first of men, I who alone cut short the murderous Sphinx's tyranny am now myself expelled the land in shame and misery.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • My noble fellow-countrymen, behold me; I am Oedipus, who solved the famous riddle, and once was first of men, I who alone cut short the murderous Sphinx's tyranny am now myself expelled the land in shame and misery.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • O my home, my home! what minstrel can I summon from the dead to chant a fitting dirge o'er my tearful fate, as I bear these three corpses of my kin, my mother and her sons, welcome sight to the avenging fiend that destroyed the house of Oedipus, root and branch, in the hour that his shrewdness solved the Sphinx's riddling rhyme and slew that savage songstress.

    The Phoenissae 2008

  • Sphinx's riddle, and so he became king of this land and received its sceptre as his prize, and married his mother, all unwitting, luckless wretch! nor did I his mother know that I was wedded to my son; and I bore him two sons, Eteocles and the hero Polyneices, and two daughters as well; the one her father called Ismene, the other, which was the elder, I named

    The Phoenissae 2008

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