Sentence example with the word 'atlantes'

atlantes

Last update: October 20, 2015


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In the colossal temple of Zeus the huge Atlantes (figures of Atlas), 25 ft.   [Please select]

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The walls were broken by Atlantes, no two of which were alike, but all supporting a cornice wrought with arabesques exceedingly intricate in form, and more elegant on account of superadditions of color--blue, green, Tyrian purple, and gold.   [Please select]

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There are five chandeliers hanging by sliding bronze chains from the ceiling--one in each corner, and in the centre one--enormous pyramids of lighted lamps, illuminating even the demoniac faces of the Atlantes and the complex tracery of the cornice.   [Please select]

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There was a shout that set the floor to quaking, and the grim Atlantes to dancing, and the orgies began.   [Please select]

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Again, figures in the form of men supporting mutules or coronae, we term "telamones"--the reasons why or wherefore they are so called are not found in any story--but the Greeks name them [Greek: atlantes].   [Please select]

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