| 1. | The decapitated colossus reeled like a drunken giant but it did not fall over. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly of the colossus could be distinguished. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | I was very far then from expecting the change you have just informed me of namely, that four years afterwards, this colossus of power would be overthrown. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |