例文・使い方で印象づける「colossus」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... After which his eyes darkened and closed, his face grew ashy pale, the hands whitened, and the colossus sank quite down, breathing his last sigh... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...“O 'Sblood! A pirate!” He swung to the Colossus who followed him—“A damned pirate, van der Kuylen...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
... “Oh! And what do you think of it?” Arms akimbo, the Colossus towered above him...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The superintendent in this age plays the part of the Colossus of Rhodes; the vessels pass beneath him and do not overthrow him...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...Conrart, a member of the academy, I believe, that when the Colossus of Rhodes fell from its lofty position, the merchant who had cast it down—a merchant, nothing more, M...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... There I stood, straddling like a Colossus over a wasteof white waters, with the cave floor far below me in the gloom, and mydiscarded axe lying close to a splash of Laputa's blood...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... For the young rascal had fled as soon as he had witnessed the awful colossus in such close vicinage...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The favourite attitude is that of the Rhodian Colossus, with the elbows bent to the fore and the hands clasped behind the head...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...The locust, onthe contrary, assails a colossus, far larger and far more vigorous thanits enemy; yet the result is a foregone conclusion, in spite of thisdisproportion...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...I am speaking of the Grey Locust, the colossus among our acridians,which is often seen among the vines in September when the grapes aregathered...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Soon there will be nothingleft of the colossus but a pitiful empty carcase...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... Undiscouraged by all her set-backs, the Wasp picks herself up, brushes her wings and resumes her attack upon the colossus, almost always by mounting the larva's hinder end...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...The most imposing of all in some respects is the Ramesseum, where lies the huge granite colossus of Ramses II, prostrate and broken, which Diodorus knew as the statue of Osymandyas...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...Two pyramids, each surmounted by asitting colossus, one representing the king and the other his queen, wereerected in the midst of the lake...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...Thanks to these subtle devices of the ancient craftsman, a tinystatuette of this or that divinity measuring scarcely an inch and a quarterin height, has almost the breadth and dignity of a colossus...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
..."I'm Pat Brennan, street floor watchmanof the Colossus," he said...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...We have built scores ofthe biggest blocks in the world and ofthem all this Colossus was the mostperfect...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...He had walked pastthe scene of the Colossus crash severaltimes...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
..."Hehad a studio in the Colossus," he remindedLinane...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...One of the men suddenlydashed to the left, apparentlyin a last frantic effort to escapethe metal colossus...
Hal K. Wells 「The Cavern of the Shining Ones」
...In short, it was upon the ruins of nature, that man erected the imaginary colossus of superstition, that he reared the altars of a Jupiter, the temples of an Apollo...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) Samuel Wilkinson 「The System of Nature, Volume 2」
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