Memnon
noun
Colossus of, (in ancient Egypt) a colossal statue near Thebes said to produce a musical sound when the rays of the early morning sun struck it.
Memnonian
-
a word derived from
Memnon.
Example Sentences
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Its stability is equal to St. Paul's, or the Memnonian Temple.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
Ah, then my hymn in the ears of the earliest gods shall be chaunted, As the Memnonian form breath'd forth sweet secrets in song.
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring
Empires followed: first, in seeming, Old Chaldea lost in dreaming; Egypt next, a bulk Memnonian Staring from her pyramids; Then Assyria, Babylonian Night beneath her hell-lit lids.
From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
A hundred domes and spires, wind sculptured and water sculptured, reached up like Memnon to catch the first light of the sun, and seemed to me to break out into Memnonian music.
From Among the Forces by Henry White Warren
It was a Memnonian cry, the greeting of the hard, harsh image of man, rough-hewn, flinty, granitic, uttering a note of joy, acclaiming the new risen sun.
From The Octopus : A story of California by Frank Norris
