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  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
  • Scragg, meanwhile, stuck to her graymare, and went bumping along to the admiration of all beholders, and was soon out of sight: luckily a joskin, who witnessed my dear aunt's immersion, ran to her assistance, and, with the help of his pitch-fork, safely landed her; for unfortunately the pond was not above three or four feet deep! and so she missed the chance of being an angel! Sketches — Volume 05
  • In the North Alley of the said Nine Altars, there is another goodly faire great glass window, called Joseph's Window, the which hath in it all the whole storye of Joseph, most artificially wrought in pictures in fine coloured glass, accordinge as it is sett forth in the Bible, verye good and godly to the beholders thereof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See
  • May this missive find its beholder sound of shank and in good kidney.
  • It has been said that art is a tryst , for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
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  • Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the allure of affordable-luxury businesses such as day spas and beauty salons is positively irresistible.
  • Crippled effectivity is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Texas Faith: Should the next Supreme Court justice be a Protestant? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • His achievement is not in his emotional impact on the beholder.
  • Quality, in any case, is in the eye of the beholder.
  • Beholders prefer inaccessible locations that earthbound foes can reach only with difficulty.
  • Remember that beauty is the eye of the beholder and people see pretty much what they want to see. SOMEBODY
  • Ghirlandaio uses the gesture to address the beholder at the beginning of both triads of heroes.
  • And whether one is a 'scofflaw' is sometimes in the eyes of the beholder. Questions and Concerns about Foreigners in Mexico
  • They are commodities that, in their mere visible presence veil the production process, and - like mood pictures - encourage their beholders to identify them with subjective fantasies and dreams.
  • There is a mystic beauty lurking in its vales and dells, which lifts the soul above the realms of time and space, and makes the beholder sense the presence of the divine.
  • Beauty is in the beholder’s eye. 
  • And although that icon is not a full-faced depiction of the Baptist, as you will sometimes see in iconography, what you see is John the Baptist in relation to and communion with Christ and therefore opening himself to the communication of Christ through him to the beholder. Royal Academy of Arts Byzantium Lecture 'Icons and the Practice of Prayer'
  • She repeated these words to her husband and they waited till the appointed time, when the King bade his Marids bring out to them a great litter of red gold, set with pearls and jewels and covered with a canopy of green silk, purfled in a profusion of colours and embroidered with precious stones, dazzling with its goodliness the eyes of every beholder. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The second woman turns outward to the beholder to elicit our negative opinion of this misbehavior.
  • Such images, the writer thought, could encourage beholders to accomplish noble deeds.
  • Then, lay out the ground lines of the length and breadth of the work proposed, and when once we have determined its size, let the construction follow this with due regard to beauty of proportion, so that the beholder may feel no doubt of the eurythmy of its effect. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • Bloggers decocted the effects of beauty on the beholder and the holder. Debrahlee Lorenzana Asks Human Rights Officials To Investigate Citibank (VIDEO)
  • It is a discourse of engaged beholders - quite literally a colloquy of amateurs - and need be nothing more.
  • In the marshy districts is seen the large elater, which displays both red and green lights; the red glare, like that of a lamp, alternately flashing on the beholder, then concealed as the insect turns his body in flight, but the ruddy reflection on the grass beneath being constantly visible as it leisurely pursues its course. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
  • It might not have struck every beholder, for it looked old and smoke-dried; but a connoisseur, on inspecting it closely, would have pronounced it to be a judgment of Paris, and a masterpiece of the Flemish school. Lavengro
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • That beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a truism the beauty giants are all too aware of as they cash in on the hang-ups of different races. Changing faces: cosmetics firms are forced to find a new image as beauty goes truly global
  • Debating groups like this are a common feature in Italian trecento and quattrocento narratives and usually serve to comment on scenes in the margin of which they appear, thus inviting the beholder to engage with what is represented.
  • There was a certain insolent quality in her beauty, as if it flaunted itself somewhat too defiantly in the beholder's eye. Further Chronicles of Avonlea
  • But it is very fine, and gives the beholder the idea of vastness, which seems harder to attain than anything else. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • It raises the ill humour of mankind, excites the keener spirits, moves indignation in beholders and sows the very seeds of schism in men's bosoms.
  • Then there came in three in an anticke which were well attyred for that purpose, and daunced well to the great delite of the beholders. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
  • The deep angry remonstrant eyes, the shaggy eyebrows, telling tales of frequent anger — of anger frequent but generally silent — the repressed indignation of the habitual frown, the long nose and large powerful mouth, the deep furrows on the cheek, and the general look of thought and suffering, all combined to make the appearance of the man remarkable, and to describe to the beholders at once his true character. The Last Chronicle of Barset
  • Developed in the style of Eye of the Beholder this game is easily the best role playing adventure available on shareware.
  • The beholder, then, is invited to laugh with Death at the people.
  • A lot of people who know nothing about art say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
  • They were a gorgeous group and though they lacked the brutishness of the Beholders, they still gave every appearance of being dangerous. Arcane Circle
  • The motif requires a beholder who, on encountering the artist face to face, might understand how Erminia's charity allegorizes his own rehabilitation through selfless love and compassion.
  • Who wins a baseball game is undebatable, but who wins a debate is very much in the eye of the beholder.
  • They were a deep, soulful grey which made any beholder know she was sincerely listening to you.
  • There was an air about the place that seemed to scorn the facile awe it woke in the breasts of the beholders and that fleered at the human banalities upon their lips. The Palace of Darkened Windows
  • Eye of the beholder: Inside this experimental camera, a stretchable sensor array sits below a liquid lens.
  • BTW Sam ... a 'smirk' is certainly in the eye of the beholder ... you obviously have a jaundiced eye! Clinton win leads to Obama boost
  • Unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder, which is mypoint. The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes
  • Beauty is in the beholder’s eye. 
  • A monument's beholders might never inform themselves about its history.
  • Celestial and August: a vase imitating the substance of ore-rock, all aflame with pyritic scintillation, -- a shape of glittering splendor with chameleons sprawling over it; chameleons of porcelain that shifted color as often as the beholder changed his position. Some Chinese Ghosts
  • Cleopatra's palace in Egypt, — [3258] Crassumque trabes absconderat aurum, that the beholders were amazed. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • For in order to direct the view aright, it behoves that the beholder should have made himself congenerous and similar to the object beheld. Biographia Literaria
  • And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly The Eustace Diamonds
  • Personally I don't think he's very attractive, but they say beauty's in the eye of the beholder, don't they?
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, but so are ugliness, crudity and complete bewilderment.
  • That said, offence is also often in the eye of the beholder, and I can't now count the number of times a caricature of, say, Ariel Sharon has elicited the response that this is 'the most foully antisemitic cartoon since the closure of Der Stürmer'. Open door: The readers' editor on… the fine line between caricature and stereotype
  • Fiscal discipline is theoretically a laudable goal, though in this case the agreement won't prevent governments from embarking on Keynesian spending sprees as "one-off and temporary measures"—the definition of "one-off" presumably being in the eye of the beholder. Seventeenth Brussels Washout
  • But beauty lay in the eye of the beholder, and the Edwardian cartophile beholders were fleshy fat persons, who consumed large dinners and showed their wealth through an excess of avoirdupois.
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • Haying comforted my interiors with hot grog of the stiffest, I called for another shillingsworth of brandy, and deliberately emptied it, to the astonished edification of beholders, into my boots! literal fact, and it kept my feet comfortable all night long. My Life as an Author
  • The quadrille was a stately spectacular display, in which splendid dress and stirring music and the effects of rhythmic motion had been brought freely into play for the delight of the beholders. Miss Bretherton
  • Unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder, which is my point. The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes
  • We recognize it when we see it, even though it may be in the eyes of the beholder, whereas strangeness is by definition unfamiliar.
  • Nobody Really: Unreasonable is in the eye of the beholder, which is mypoint. The Volokh Conspiracy » “IM GAY” License Plate “Offensive to the General Public,” Oklahoma Government Agency Concludes
  • (and shaking the sides of all beholders,) in these attitudes; thy fat head archly beating time on thy porterly shoulders, right and left by turns, as I once beheld thee practising to the horn-pipe at Clarissa Harlowe
  • Obviously, its quality is partly a function of its power to persuade, but its persuasiveness is in the eye of the beholder.
  • Achilles 'shield does not paralyze its beholders with a frightful monstrosity, but overawes them with its impression of divine artifice, an emblem of the irresistible destiny of its bearer. Ekphrasis and the Other
  • In the sonorous words of Schiller: ‘The temples remained sacred to the eye of the beholder long after their Gods had become figures of fun.’
  • He was also watching the Beholders, who had lined up as bidden, though they had taken it upon themselves to separate their line into two groups. Arcane Circle
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • Ripeness is all, as every spin doctor knows, and what the seer beholds is usually what the beholder is ready to see. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
  • I come, now, to the silence of affectation, which is presently discernible by the roving of the eye round the room to see if it is heeded, by the sedulous care to avoid an accidental smile, and by the variety of disconsolate attitudes exhibited to the beholders. Cecilia
  • It has been said that art is a tryst , for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder [gazer]. 
  • The meaning will vary accordingly to the beholders' perceptions.
  • The dance is structured to both imply and guide the beholder as a critical individual.
  • If she has a royally beautiful hand, the most perspicacious beholder will believe that it is absolutely necessary that she should twist, or refix, or push aside the ringlet or curl she plays with. Another Study of a Woman
  • One day, being in the house of one of his intimates, he saw painted on the wall the figure of a lutanist, a beautiful damsel, beholder never beheld a fairer or a more pleasant. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • The evil eye in Bedouin folk belief is tied to the fear of envy and jealousy in the eye of the beholder.
  • Beholders usually carve out underground lairs for themselves using their disintegrate rays.
  • On this view beauty - to the extent that beauty, along with truth, has not been ejected into the dustbin of unmentionable ideas - really is in the eye of the beholder and nowhere else.
  • If visible objects are thought necessary to suggest the mention of his name oftener that it would otherwise occur to the mind, they should be such as to improve the taste, as well as awaken the patriotism of the beholder. The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01
  • And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie's eye was apt to convey to the beholder. The Eustace Diamonds
  • Its marvellous try-try-try-again floriferousness in all weathers is the admiration of all beholders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920
  • Turns out that mobby is in the eye of the beholder. Rick Horowitz: "Mob" Rule? It All Depends
  • A cycle of mixed emotions runs through the beholder.
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • The problem is that the beholder will be a group of unelected bureaucrats who will get to make up the law without any real accountability. Do you know what is in the Bank Bailout Bill?
  • According to the findings published in ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences’ journal, a lopsided face is less attractive to both Hadza and Britons, so that the age-old idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a romantic myth. Study: Symmetry is Sexy | Impact Lab
  • They will seat 5, comfortably is in the eye of the beholder. Minivan with high wheel clearance?
  • Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
  • So sone as the clashing armoure did sound at their first incountrie, and their glittering swordes did shine, an incredible horror and feare perced the beholders, and hope inclining to either partes, their voyce and myndes were whist and silent. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
  • To that end knowing how, as well as their Mistriss, to Hood themselves, curl their locks, and wantonly overspread their breasts with a peece of fine Lawn, or Cambrick, that they seem rather to be finically over shadowed then covered, and may the better allure the weak eys of the beholders. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  • Into one wherein we went this morning was what they called a Calvary: a horrible, ghastly image of a Christ in a tomb, the figure of the natural size, and of the livid color of death; gaping red wounds on the body and round the brows: the whole piece enough to turn one sick, and fit only to brutalize the beholder of it. Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
  • Its seat was in her eyes, which many thought not at all beautiful, for they were like those gems called aquamarine, of a puzzling tint varying from blue to green, lustrous and lapping the beholder with their gentle lambency, except when passion moved her, when I have seen them glow with a menacing light as though they might shoot forth green flames. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
  • But the eye of the beholder on the balcony convinced itself that it was. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
  • Activism/judicial overreach is in the eye of the beholder. Sound Politics: Absence of Justice
  • a deep impression on the beholder; there must be a great force of will and withholding of resources, giving a sense of depth below depth, which we call sternness; or else there must be that purity, flowing as from an inexhaustible fountain through every lineament, which drives far off or converts all baser natures. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
  • The beholder is confronted by the façade of the castle, a two-storied structure in the style of the Renaissance, with windows whose casements are made of peperino (cement). Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
  • And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie’s eye was apt to convey to the beholder. The Eustace Diamonds
  • Their prettiness are in the selfish mind and in the untrained eyes behind the blinkers of this blind beholder!
  • It is notorious that even a renowned piece of sculptured marble which produces in one person a kind of religious tranquility and philosophic contemplation, with a sense of the eternity of form and the transience of passion, may at the same instant excite in another beholder such shamefastness that he will cry out for fig leaves, or such unruly emotions as, unchecked, may disrupt society. Unprintable
  • Their genius is felt not in the ready, perhaps instant, recognizability of their work - although their art requires such distinctiveness to maintain its persuasion - but in its abiding ability to transport its beholders by oscillating between fantasy and reality, banality and magic, intimacy and universality, the dreamt and the dumb. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams
  • Indeed, Japan went so far as to plan for 50% of its power to come from nuclear by 2030, in a nation where people have grown accustomed to not having to open doors because electric motor-driven doors open automatically, and there is similar use or wastage of power, depending on the perspective of the beholder. Sunil Chacko: Cost of Nuclear Power May Enable Renewable Energy to Gain Further Ground
  • Beauty is in the beholder’s eye. 
  • Assuming that "inauthenticity" is a meaningful character flaw as opposed to an it's-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder type of shortcoming, what did Bernstein offer as proof? David Fiderer: Maureen Dowd, and The Women of Washington Who Project on to Hillary
  • The place looks rustic and a bit weird, however it is an amazing structure that astonishes the beholder and makes one think nothing is impossible. Largest Solar Powered Building in the World Unveiled in China
  • Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover ev-erybody's face their own. 
  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder [gazer]. 
  • He is a man of medium size (statura procerus, mediocris et spectabilis); he has a venerable aspect, and his beholders can both fear and love him. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • The fairness of each line is ‘in the eye of the beholder’ and ultimately is in direct proportion to the skill of the loftsman and designer.
  • Beauty is in the beholder’s eye. 

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