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How To Use frontispiece In A Sentence

• But, as the visual evidence of his increasingly elaborate frontispieces suggests, this was also a logical next step in Soyer's ongoing, authorial masquerade: to appear in the most exalted of guises, as Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
• It was a low, flat building with arched windows and a central balcony and square frontispiece, with the post office occupying one wing.
• The sisters saw that I was much taken by the book as a handsome period curiosity; also that I was intrigued by the frontispiece engraving of Connop, aged eleven.
• Passerotti's Self-Portrait with Skeleton, Ecorche and Nudes, early 1580s (Warsaw University Library), is presumed to have been drawn as the frontispiece for his book.
• My copy has two titles, the first being an engraved one, with ten small circles round it, containing hieroglyphical figures, and an engraved frontispiece, which is repeated in the volume, with some other cuts. Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850
• Portmanteaus being then opened and clothes changed, Mr. Goodchild, through having no change of outer garments but broadcloth and velvet, suddenly became a magnificent portent in the Innkeeper's house, a shining frontispiece to the fashions for the month, and a frightful anomaly in the Cumberland village. Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
• The name of this extremely popular Yiddish work derives from the beginning of the versicle “O maidens of Zion, go forth and gaze …” (Song of Songs 3: 11) which appears in the frontispiece after the title: חמשה חומשי תורה מגילות והפטרות בלשון אשכנז (The five books of the Pentateuch, the Megillot and the Haftarot in Yiddish). Ze'enah U-Re'enah.
• Bibliography of his works, of which the frontispiece is a portrait of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
• Known for hiring some of the best artists of the day to illustrate his publications, Bell provided each volume with fine engravings, including frontispieces of contemporary actors and actresses.
• 'The arbutus is particularly fond of pine-woods and light sandy soil'" Frontispiece Flower Stories