"Monumentally" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in human history "all great women and mythical ladies were serpents"; but when monumentally or pictorially represented, they appeared "with the head of a woman, while the body was that of a reptile." This figure represented Wisdom and Passion, or the spiritual and material planes of human existence. The mythical woman whom Hercules met in Scythia, and who was doubtless the original ...
— The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble
... she said to him, "This book of yours" (the "Life of Sheridan") "will be dull, I fear;" and to Lord Porchester, "I am sorry to hear you are going to publish a poem. Can't you suppress it?" we do not find these remarks to be any more clever than considerate. They belong to the category of the monumentally uncouth. ...
— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier
... he stopped before her, in his unrest, monumentally pledged, yet still more massively immeasurable. "How'll you ...
— The Outcry • Henry James |
