How To Use caryatid In A Sentence
- Stern-faced caryatids with gilded wings support card tables, above legs carved as muscular lions' paws; gilded acanthus leaves curl around the pillars of center tables and sideboards. Furniture for a Young Nation
- The sunken rosettes, surrounded by raised arabesque borders, between the caryatides, are sculptured with such a careful reference to the distance at which they must be seen, that they appear as firm and delicate as if near the spectator's eye. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
- We have much of the frieze of the treasury of the Siphnians of c. 525, as well as one of the caryatid figures supporting the porch; other buildings so decorated are extremely scrappily preserved.
- Even those dim and shapeless monsters of notions which I have not been able to describe, much less defend, stepped quietly into their places like colossal caryatides of the creed. Orthodoxy
- Worn walls reformed themselves into a series of buttresses and rounded finials, bearded caryatids, zoomorphic statues.
- The porch over the main entrance is supported by caryatids, set in front of the asymmetrical facade as a direct historicist quotation.
- I became an ardent fan of Rodin after seeking him out due to Jubal Harshaw's paean to the "Fallen Caryatid" in Stranger in a Strange Land. REVIEW: The Enigma of Departure by Nicholas Royle
- Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
- Statuettes like Caryatides sustain the columns of the triforium. The South of France—East Half
- Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked down from corners of the building upon the grey confusion of the garden paths; but the faces seemed to be frost-bitten. The Complete Father Brown