Memnonian
- a word derived from Memnon.
Example Sentences
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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 Warren, Henry White
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 Norris, Frank
It has gone, it is to be feared, with those Memnonian mornings we sleep through with so determined snore, those ancient mysteries of night we forget beneath the mimic firmament of the music-hall.
From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard
Through a certain Bedouin-like conformation,—which, however, is idealized by the lofty, massive forehead, and by the prevailing subtilty of the general expression,—it seems fitted to desert solitudes; and in this respect it is truly Memnonian.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
Thy shadowy Idols in the solitudes, Awful Memnonian countenances calm Looking athwart the burning flats, far off Seen by the high-necked camel on the verge Journeying southward?
From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
