Towering statue

Usage examples of colossus.

Pale pink in color, the benthic colossus had surfaced less than a mile from the ship.

Commanded and paid by the IP to isolate himself, Dagenham had abandoned research and built the colossus of Dagenham Couriers, Inc.

There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.

Not only did she take the evening meal in company, she commanded Colossus to arm her into the sitting room where she sat enthroned on the only Louis XIV chair of which Beau Repos was possessed.

Highway, a broad, rutted, well-travelled way curving south through Fabeque like a slow dusty river, through the villages and hamlets, through ancient, sleepy towns such as Gram mantes, Fleuvine and Beronde, before crossing the Niay Rise into Sevagne Province, a great lush expanse of lake-riddled farmland, at whose southernmost point the capital city of Sherreen straddled the water of the River Vir like a colossus.

But the colossus was made to lift not little glasses or pebbles but multiton pipes, beams, and boulders.

He caused temples to be erected in most of the great cities of the kingdom, he added to the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and erected immense colossi in front of its pylons in memory of his deliverance from the fire.

And the vast majority of net users were residents of the two North-American colossi, chiefly the USA.

To a certain extent I was acquainted with the ways of the Colossus which was crushing me under foot, but there are things on earth which one can only truly understand by experience.

Then, obeying a radio signal, the immersed colossus pushed its Dirac emitter above the surface of the water.

Nevertheless, the steel colossus floated softly through the night, as if carried by gently rolling waves.

After all installations had been checked, the armored colossus slid down the ramp effortlessly and passed through the openings in the energy dome which had been marked by blue lights.

Meanwhile the Cyclops had come so close to the Invincible that they could recognize the colossus as soon as the second probe had gained a little altitude.

Banbury Valley they flew north and east aboard the Shark, a thundering colossus of black armor-plated weaponry.

By slow degrees this amiable weakness of the Colossus became known to the business world, which exulted greatly in the knowledge.