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  • A 12-needle multi-colour computerised machine for embroidering anything from bed-sheets and pillow-covers to caps and jackets was the cynosure on all eyes on Thursday.
  • The cute boy was cynosure of all eyes while his cousin was slugging it out in the National ‘B’ Chess Championship tournament at Chennupati Ramakotaiah hall here on Tuesday.
  • The items sold were the cynosure of art collectors from all over the world.
  • The lead guitarist, in particular, was the cynosure of all eyes.
  • Nearly 6 ft. tall, imperially slim and sleekly dressed, she is usually the cynosure of attention at any gathering.
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  • Though our new-made foretopman was well received in the top and on the gun decks, hardly here was he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the merchant marine, with which companies only had he hitherto consorted. Billy Budd
  • The towering spires, soaring vaults and sturdy columns of this Gothic church make it the cynosure of a visitor's eye.
  • Having ceased to be the refuge of the hunted and the cynosure of the oppressed, this country would thenceforth awe the nations of the Old World by its military power, and shock them by its profligacy, whereof the Ostend Circular and the murders and forgeries of Kansas were but foretastes, until God in His righteous wrath should bring upon it some visitation like the present, and hurl it from its pinnacle in mercy to mankind. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • This 19-year-old South African athlete, who took to swimming at the age of six, out of love, was the cynosure of the capacity crowd at the swimming pool.
  • The man, the cynosure of all eyes at the packed auditorium, spoke from the bottom of his heart.
  • The postman, aware that he was the cynosure of all eyes, would strut to the centre of the village and call out names of those whose letters he had brought.
  • Perhaps "cynosure" is even too brainy a word for PBS audiences. NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
  • The group dance event, however, seemed to be the cynosure of all eyes, with audience expressing their appreciation with loud whistles and applause after every item.
  • Washington and its environs have always been a cynosure for American eyes, a place people have wanted to be proud of and have fought to keep 'right.' The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Here Egmont himself, in happier days, had often borne away the prize of skill or of valor, the cynosure of every eye; and hence, almost in the noon of a life illustrated by many brilliant actions, he was to be sent, by the hand of tyranny, to his great account. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
  • It is beauticians who make brides and bridegrooms the cynosure of all eyes.
  • The cynosure on the evening in question was the American tenor who sang the part of Faust.
  • But then Canary Wharf is not yet, despite the much bruited movement eastward of London's core, a Saturday-night cynosure.
  • CynoCast comes from 'cynosure' which is something that provides guidance or direction. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Beauchamp, Lucien Debray and Château-Renaud were not the only persons puzzled with regard to the enigmatical M. Dantès; all Paris was more or less bothered about him; his entire career prior to his appearance at the capital as the Deputy from Marseilles seemed shrouded in impenetrable mystery, and this was the more galling to the curious Parisians as his wonderful oratorical powers and his intense republicanism rendered him the cynosure of all eyes and made him the sensation of the hour. Edmond Dantès
  • The elegant sculptures in bronze, white metal and ceramics were the cynosure of connoisseurs.
  • let faith be your cynosure to walk by
  • Bronze idol of Ganapathi, with finely proportioned torsos and exquisitely designed limbs is a cynosure of all eyes.
  • By the early 17th century, "cynosure" was also being used figuratively for anything or anyone that, like the North Star, was the focus of attention or observation. Latest Articles
  • His brisk What Happens Next recounts the history of American screenwriting from the silents to 2005, but its cynosure is the studio era, a period he writes about with romanticism and passion. Toiling in the Dream Factory
  • Let faith be your cynosure to walk by.
  • The novel air cooler that runs on solar power instead of electricity was the cynosure of all eyes.
  • How proudly she had strutted around that day, the cynosure of all eyes.
  • Naturally, the film personalities queuing up with their tickets before boarding the wide-bodied jet liner were the cynosure of all eyes.
  • Amid the lighter, pastel colors, she was a dramatic highlight; as intended, she was the cynosure of all eyes. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
  • if he was the cynosure of all eyes he didn't notice
  • When the Millbank building was opened in 1897, contemporary British art was the cynosure of the world.
  • They are the cynosure of all eyes with their remarkable somersaults cutting across each other's paths in perfect unison.
  • The cynosure was a statue -- a statue of a buck-toothed, wall-eyed youth gazing steadfastly up into the heavens. The Servant Problem
  • In a district where the focus is on religious tourism, with the pilgrims visiting the other places sights incidentally, the Godavari has hardly been made the cynosure it deserves to be.
  • `The cynosure ," said his assistant complacently, spreading the word out as if it were caviare. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • A girl, who donned the dress of Radha, was the cynosure of all eyes for her elegant movements and facial expressions.
  • David and Jane's house was definitely gone and they were in their magnificent new barn, cynosure of the Mattole.
  • Fair be the fortunes of such a master and such a servant, the one the cynosure of knight – errantry, the other the star of squirely fidelity! Don Quixote

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