Sentence examples for great statues from inspiring English sources

The commanding stones reminded me of the great statues on Easter Island.

The three great statues are seated on elaborate thrones, backed against walls, but the figures are carved virtually in the full round.

Here, either side of the gates, stood Colly Cibber's great statues Madness and Melancholy, life-size figures modelled on inmates, one of whom was said to be Oliver Cromwell's butler.

It claimed that Marochetti's Richard I ranked "with the few great statues of that class in Europe".

She heard a rumble, lifted her head to see the great statues inside the building starting to fall over.

Outside her mortuary temple stand great statues, accompanied by all the regalia of a pharaoh, but with all her defining feminine characteristics obscured.

The great statue of Saddam, in front, was untouched.

The first great statue of our first president was the work of a French sculptor, Jean-Antoine Houdon.

The Parthenon was the display place for a great statue of Athena by the sculptor Phidias, a statue that honoured the city goddess.

Still, there he was at the feet of the great statue of Abraham Lincoln, a man who once said, "War, at the best, is terrible," singing the line, "We'll put a boot in your ass / It's the American way".

No prequel or sequel to Planet of the Apes can avoid the great statue-shaped shadow of that famous finale, one of the most brilliant endings in Hollywood history.