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How to use cyclopean in a sentence

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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.
The cyclopean walls of the fortress of Sacsayhuaman also have patterns formed by the assembly of stone.
Objects in the cyclopean image have depth proportional to the disparity between the left and right eye images.
This is the most archaic and mysterious room as it contains the secrets of the ancient Sardinians who built imposing constructions by using cyclopean rocks.
Identified recently, some cyclopean walls,Go to  Le secret des grandes pierres the ruins of a very large and very ancient building, and the remains of an imposing viaduct made the front page of every newspaper.
The remains of the imposing cyclopean walls of the Volscian period, restored and added to in Samnite, Roman, and medieval times, surround the town.
The cyclopean walls of the acropolis of Mycenae have been dated to 1350 BC and those of Tiryns slightly earlier.
Their goals are to dress a batter and to hold back the earth and can be very likely diverse: A flowerred rockery, an enlivenned cascade, a cyclopean wall or still a staircase.
The Mycenaean Greeks fortified the town with cyclopean walls in the 12th century while the Phoenicians founded a powerful kingdom here in the 9th century.
They are constructed with the cyclopean technique, which used great stone slabs on the bottom that form a slightly convex wall and an apse in the upper part.
Her smokebox door hangs open, with headlight peering sideways through the fog with a wall-eyed Cyclopean stare.
Incorporated into its elaborate frame are two miniature pairs of binoculars, a pince-nez and a bulbous, Cyclopean glass eye.
We rounded a point of land, emerged into blue stream and bright sky, and left the whole Cyclopean region behind, ruddied with jets of flame, and shrouded with vapour.
Polygonal stonework structures are also considered Cyclopean, composed of medium-large stones or irregular shape and not isodoma.
One of the best example is the Cyclopean Wall in Rajgir, India.
Examples from Classical Literature
The engineering difficulties were great, the dredging and filling a cyclopean task.
Within the sea of light I glimpsed shapes cyclopean, unnameable.
And how my hatred for him grew and grew, during that fearful time, to cyclopean dimensions.
With its cyclopean dome, it could shoot everything from wide-angle seascapes to portraits of shrimp.
Scattered over the surface of the Peruvian slope are Cyclopean ruins, the sole remnants of the works of a more primeval people.
Sometimes the chulpas are round, and in some the masonry is of that variety we have already mentioned, called the Cyclopean.
Her Cyclopean walls, that seemed to render her impregnable, did not save her.
The cell was large, and if it was the bottom of a well, it must have been a Cyclopean one.
The doorways were formed from huge monoliths, and the whole aspect of the building was Cyclopean.
But what a picture of titanic energy, of Cyclopean ambition!
The simile is noble and worthy of the Cyclopean craftsman, Dumas.
If the elm gives the Gothic, this was assuredly the Cyclopean arch.
If the buildings are Cyclopean, so is the race that reared them.
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