How To Use Sculptured In A Sentence
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And as the Roman Consuls held this to be the principal praise of their glory, they had this title curiously sculptured in marble on the Quirinal and in the forum of Trajan --- "Most powerful gift in a Prince is liberality [12].
History of the Incas
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The mountain theme is incorporated throughout the facility - from its curved parapets and sculptured stone fountain to the grassy park with tree-covered walking trails.
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This sculptured limestone panel in the centre of a three-part canopied reredos was comparable in size to the Sandford reredos.
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The arch and gateway with the oriel are the oldest parts of the front, and on each side of the arch is a sculptured head, one representing Edward III and the other his queen, Philippa of Hainault.
Vanishing England
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They were more like the aged and smoother forms of the Laurentian Mountains, whose shape was sculptured and rounded by the elements since their beginnings.
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Around this grand square with its central lake were arranged as follows: on the north side a superb colonnade of sculptured columns, forming the façade of the Temple of Mnevis, the sacred ox of On, at the gate or propyla of which crouched two sphinxes, with majestic human heads.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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The deliberately sculptured profiles of the Tower proved extremely difficult to build because of the complexity of the necessary framework.
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sculptured representations
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These are smooth, with a slight silvery sheen on the grooved upper surface, sculptured with raised veins on the convex lower surface, and with a few crenations on the margins.
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When I looked back, I saw he was standing there staring down at the doll, his face as hard and as still as a sculptured one.
WEB OF DREAMS
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Her lovely tone and delicately sculptured phrasing in the second movement Andante semplice were magical!
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In anthropological accounts, in no instance are boundaries - whether marked by sticks lying across a road or elaborate sculptured portals - meant actually and always to block movement across them.
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On view here are complex, deeply sculptured surfaces, wrought-iron grillwork, elaborately carved decorations surrounding round-arched windows, arcaded entrances and porches, and tile roofs.
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Its craftsman made upholstery is from the Allied classic range of sculptured moquette in a subtle blend of fresh shades.
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From a distance, the village looked like a holiday trailer park surrounded by grotesque, wind-sculptured trees.
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Sculptured finishes may require use of a soft nylon - bristled brush in a rotating motion to get the detergent solution into all the crevices; blot up with absorbent cloth or paper towel, and rinse.
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You can't look at the smooth, sculptured lines of a Marchetti SF - 260 or Partenavia P68 without thinking of a Ferrari or Maserati.
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The bath had original sculptured Carrara marble, nickel-leg sinks, and some examples of the original moldings.
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In general, the north sides are concave in both their horizontal and vertical sections, having been sculptured into this shape by the residual glaciers that lingered in the protecting northern shadows, while the sun-beaten south sides, having never been subjected to this kind of glaciation, are convex or irregular.
The Yosemite
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With sculptured lips, Roman nose, tattooed neck and blazing eye, he's like a toy.
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Her eyes sought the monogram sculptured on the stone gate-pillars: 'E. L.' entwined in graceful curves on a rounded shield upheld by playful amorini.
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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The title and the frankly freaky sculptured titular bunnies on the cover might put you off (you know, like they would).
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Like the figures of usurers at Dijon, the sculptures at Mainz stood as explicit warnings for men and women to steer clear from vices so as to avoid becoming like their hapless sculptured counterparts.
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As Imogene, she teases Bellini's nobly sculptured melodies mercilessly.
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Thus, the column of sienite from Charnwood Forest has a capital of the cocoa palm; the red granite of Ross, in Mull, is crowned with a capital of lilies; the beautiful marble of Marychurch has an exquisitely sculptured capital of ferns; -- and so through all the range of the arcades, new designs, studied directly from Nature, and combining art with science, have been executed by the workmen employed on the building.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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As the poetry of Chaucer corresponds, in its wealth and intimacy of decoration, to the illuminations and tapestries of the middle ages, so the epigrams given under this section constantly recall the sculptured reliefs and the engraved gems of Greek art.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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Combining text with a sculptured likeness and appropriate symbols in an everlasting material, medals could be distributed widely for lasting glory.
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A relevant example is that of spiral sculpture in the gastropod Nucella emarginata, which ranges from strongly sculptured to smooth.
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I see them sculptured and painted with shapes of Gods and Kings, with blazonings of royal names, with sacrificial altars, and forms of sacred beasts, and emblems of wisdom and truth.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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The Lion Crest of RICHARD II., sculptured _statant guardant_ upon his helm, with a chapeau and mantling, and with the Badge of two Ostrich feathers, in Westminster Hall, is without any crown: No. 199.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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When I had traversed the “Hall of the Gods,” we came to a lofty two-leaved gate of brass, which stood between two sculptured propyla of Libyan stone.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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He had removed his gloves but the rest of the uniform remained, clinging tightly to the sculptured muscles of his physique.
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He had time to think, time to become an old man in aspic, in sculptured soap, quaint and white.
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Contemporary observers did not fail to note the association of the sculptured body of Christ and the redemptive effects of physical passage that the screens so effectively dramatize.
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She told me the instrument was called the vielle, in fact -- our old English viol; a very ancient instrument, which is represented as being played by one of the minstrels sculptured on the east front of Launceston Parish
In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
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One lord of Ulland had expressed his fancy on the eastern façade in gable and sculptured gargoyle; another his fear or his defiance in the squat and sturdy tower with its cautious slits in lieu of windows.
The Convert
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A face halfway between the round and the oval, with sculptured curves and high cheekbones.
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Latham proposed topping them with sculptured monuments and designating them as works of art.
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I long to kiss that strong mouth, that sculptured mouth that was designed specifically to keep girls going forever.
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From its boat-shaped towers to its sculptured roofscape, its crazy office windows, its expansive reception hall and its gravity-defying cantilevered front entrance, it is an exercise in eccentricity.
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The bottoms of my bars of Dial soaps are deeply sculptured while the tops are mildly concaved.
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Painting, for him should imitate the roundness of sculptured forms, and architecture, too, must partake of the organic qualities of the human figure.
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All the canals have bridges at stated distances; these bridges are bordered with balustrades of white marble sculptured in basso-relievo.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Once, beside the foot of the cross which stood in Sancreed [Footnote: This fine sculptured cross has since these events been placed within the said churchyard, at the desire of Mr.A. G. Langdon, the greatest living authority on the subject of Cornish remains.] churchyard wall, between two tree-trunks under a dome of leaves, the girl found growing a spotted persicaria, and the force of the discovery at such a spot was great to her.
Lying Prophets
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No statue of a warrior was sculptured in the varied attitudes of attack and defence; no wrestler, no _discobolus_, no pugilist exhibited the grace, the vigor, or the muscular action of a man; nor were the beauties, the feeling, and the elegance of female forms displayed in stone: all was made to conform to the same invariable model, which confined the human figure to a few conventional postures.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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'Surely,' adds Dr Buist, 'coincidences such as these can neither be fanciful nor accidental; they carry us far back beyond the ages of those we call the aborigines of Britain, as the pyramids and sculptured stones of
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852
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Please take into consideration the swelling, look deeply at the photo and also look at the identikit which is sculptured from facial bone structure.
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Walls of the long elevations have sculptured surfaces of zinc siding, horizontal cedar, and flush-detailed glazed openings.
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The attractive Palomino color provides the elegance of a sculptured casting.
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One may follow Woman Decorative in the Orient on vase, fan, screen and kakemono; as she struts in the stiff manner of Egyptian bas reliefs, across walls of ancient ruins, or sits in angular serenity, gazing into the future through the narrow slits of Egyptian eyes, oblivious of time; woman, beautiful in the European sense, and decorative to the superlative degree, on Greek vase and sculptured wall.
Woman as Decoration
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Its gable shape stands as the prototype of features noted in important Irish art treasures such as the gabled top of the Monasterboice Muireadach sculptured Cross and the gable shape of the Moneymusk reliquary (a case for relics of Colmcille, preserved from 1315 in Moneymusk House and now in the Edinburgh Museum.)
More Boats
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Practically speaking, the artists had little choice but to use visual cues to signal nighttime in the sculptured panels.
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Dermal sculpturing on the surangular is confined to the area ventral to the oral sulcus; dorsal to the sulcus, the surangular is smooth and unsculptured.
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Seventy years ago, these inscriptions were the puzzle and despair of the learned; but since modern science has plucked out the heart of its mystery, the whole Temple lies before us an open volume filled to overflowing with strange and quaint and heterogeneous matter – a Talmud in sculptured stone. 4
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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With respect to the pseudoscope -- which makes the outside of a teacup appear as the inside, and the inside as the outside; which transforms convexity into concavity, and the reverse; and a sculptured face into a hollow mask; which makes the tree in your garden appear inside your room, and the branches farthest off come nearest to the eye; and which, when you look at your pictures, represents them as sunk into a deep recess in the wall, -- with respect to this instrument, its practical uses have yet to be discovered.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
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They are evidently quite frightful things to him under any other condition, and most of all if they are rough and jagged; but if smooth, looking "sculptured," like the sides of a ship, and forming a cave or shelter for him, he begins to think them endurable.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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The sima or gutter-facing, whose profile is here a cyma recta (concave above and convex below), is enriched with sculptured floral ornament.
A History of Greek Art
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The Northern Gateway was meticulously sculptured with depictions of the miracles associated with the great one, crowned by a wheel of justice.
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Stained glass and sculptured carvings told the story of its patronal legends and its founders' munificence.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The highest ranges of the Cape Fold Belt, reaching over 2,000 m high, are formed of the rugged highly sculptured Table Mountain and Witteberg Groups of barren quartzitic sandstone intermixed with Bokkeveld Group shales and overlying the sometimes exposed eroded Cape Granite.
Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa
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Before she could warn him about her makeup, he had gathered her close in his arms, and was lowering his finely sculptured lips to meet hers.
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The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated.
St. Elmo
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It lies on a chalk knoll, its natural topography having been sculptured and modelled through successive phases of construction and reconstruction.
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All but the small pieces were exhibited close to or actually backed by the gallery walls, in part reflecting the original placement of statues within the frameworks of such sculptured shrines.
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A female figure and child recumbent, also elaborately sculptured in black marble, adorn the opposite niche, and under them, in alto-relievo, are several figures in religious habits.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
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The obscurity about the major ethnie of Dark Age Scotland was more to do with the fact that the eloquence of their complex sculptured stones was not transliterated into Roman script.
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There are two horses sculptured in bronze at the gate.
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Has any orthodox preacher, or any preacher in an orthodox pulpit uttered a paragraph of what may be called sculptured speech since Henry Ward Beecher died?
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews
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The collection highlights three sculptured wire finial designs in two sizes that can be paired with metal or colored wood poles.
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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
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In the apse is the chapel of Saint Théofrède; with sculptured stone roof.
The South of France—East Half
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Defined fringes with asymmetry and sculptured hairlines at the nape and sides finish the looks, while tonal colour featured in the collection emphasizes form and texture, enhancing a brilliant shine.
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Just before this we had by the roadside a common looking Arab burial-place, named _Shaikh Sad_; probably from some Mohammedan devotee of that name interred there; and among the stones about the graves is a fragment of an ancient cornice, deeply sculptured in the pattern here shown.
Byeways in Palestine
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The initial Peeps line will feature the bunny and chick icons sculptured in pastel colors and accented with 24-karat gold.
Peeps Licensed Products Spring Into Stores
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A high nose, sculptured lips and a chiselled jaw completed the work of art.
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Not just for honeymooners, Florence has art, architecture and culinary delights on every sculptured corner.
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Certainly, at first, as one passes into the strange vestibule which intervenes still between the front and the interior of the shaîtya, one does not think at all -- one only _feels_ the dim sense of mildness raying out from the great faces of the elephants, and of mysterious far-awayness conveyed by the bizarre postures of the sculptured figures on the walls.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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They walked together in Maximus's garden, down white colonnades, around marble ponds fringed with mosaic, through a complex of rose-beds, past ornamental balconies and sculptured ilexes.
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The architectural appearance of this edifice reminds us a little of the severe style of the florentine architecture; the large doorway is ornamented with the attributes of commerce, as likewise the coping of the edifice; two bas-reliefs, of eight and a half feet high, and sculptured on stone by David, representing the _symbols of navigation and commerce_, decorate the middle of the facade on the first floor.
Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers
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Ever since the appearance, in 1846, of Mr. Binney's paper on the relations of stigmaria to sigillaria as roots and stems, I have been looking for distinguishing specific marks among the former; and, failing for a time to find any, I concluded that, though the stems of the sigillarian genus were variously sculptured, their roots might in all the species have been the same.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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Its craftsman made upholstery is from the Allied classic range of sculptured moquette in a subtle blend of fresh shades.
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Many a time had he paused before it by day and by night, wondering who lived within its massive, irregular walls, behind those uncouth, barbarously sculptured saints who kept their interminable watch high up by the lozenged windows.
The Witch of Prague
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There are two horses sculptured in bronze at the gate.
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At night, these monitors become light beacons with the internal sculptured ceilings ghosting behind translucent glass.
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Perhaps the most delicate and beautiful kind of sculptured or modelled relief is to be found in the work of the Florentine school of the fifteenth century, more especially that of Donatello and Desiderio di
Line and Form (1900)
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Its multispiral, heavily sculptured, darkly colored shell, plus its large four-lobed velum, point to a different type of snail, one of the neogastropods.
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The exospore often bears spines or warts, or is variously sculptured, and the character of the markings is often of value for the distinction of genera or higher groups.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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He ran a hand down the smooth and finely sculptured chest, the muscles twitching upon the caress of the long, tapered fingers.
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The medallion of Pierre Corneille is sculptured on the entablature which is supported by these columns, and on each side of the medallion, we perceive Melpomene with a dagger, and Thalia with a mask.
Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers
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So now, the clods of earth of my veg patch have been sculptured into the shape of human skulls, all smooth and rounded, not by frost but by almost constant rain.
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I see in him a different type to that of the Arab – a something, however slight, which recalls the sculptured figures in the tomb of Ti.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Painting, for him should imitate the roundness of sculptured forms, and architecture, too, must partake of the organic qualities of the human figure.
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The stately shafts and polished corners, the sculptured chapiters, and elaborate grace of the house, which was "exceeding magnifical," filled his eye and soul with forms of beauty, and suggestions of more than visible perfection.
Sermons. Volume Third.
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This sculptured tableau is divided horizontally by the river Orontes, represented by the zigzag lines.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Her perfectly chiselled face and perfectly sculptured nose and almond-shaped eyes, although in a stern look, exuded beauty at its best.
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On either side, the Crescent Rainbow arch would have roundels containing ‘sculptured scenes’ from The Thousand and One Nights.
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On one side of the adytum is a small dark chamber, in which is a deep sepulchre, with a large lion sculptured in the wall immediately over it; and, on the other side, behind the wall, is a passage, communicating with the pronaos, and containing a staircase which leads up to the top of the building.
Travels in Nubia
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Reticulochlamys zinsmeisteri is easily distinguished from R. borjasensis n. sp., mainly because R. borjasensis has strongly inequivalve shells, with prominent plicae sculptured with scaly riblets.
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The obscurity about the major ethnie of Dark Age Scotland was more to do with the fact that the eloquence of their complex sculptured stones was not transliterated into Roman script.
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The neoclassic design, with its six tall Corinthian columns and sculptured pediment, is the famous building known around the world today that NYSE still occupies, and is a National Historic Landmark.
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Generally, I believe these views emphasize all of the aspects noted in our earlier considerations of the particular elements; the importance of the use colour, the addition of sculptured and painted imagery, the new location and form of the tabernacle, the new, more substantial form of the altar -- and, I might add, the thoughts about greenery, the moderate use of flowers, and the benefits of the predella and ciborium.
Renovations: St. Mary Church, Marietta, Ohio
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You enter this palace by four great portals, beautiful with sculptured figgers and ornaments, and as you go on in the colonnade you see beautiful paintin's illustratin 'the rise and progress of Art. And way up on the outside, on what they call the freeze of the buildin'
Samantha at the World's Fair
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Her cartouche is sculptured in the space between her right arm and left knee, but the hieroglyphic characters have been erased, and it is no longer legible.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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To give the Indian flat bread a sculptured look, use a pair of kitchen tongs to carefully hold bread a few inches above the open flame of a gas burner.
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Another stairway reached from the terraces to the roof, the edge of which, all around the square, was defined by a sculptured cornice, and a parapet of burned-clay tiling, sexangular and bright-red.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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In Florence Cathedral the equestrian figures of the English condottiere John Hawksmoor by Uccello and of Niccolò da Tolentino by Castagno both simulate sculptured monuments.
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She murmured an "addio" in response, and when he had gone, and the echo of his footfall down the great marble stairs had completely died away, she went out once more to the balcony and leaned among the sculptured angels, a dainty, slender, white figure, with her soft flower-like face turned up to the solemn sky, where the large moon marched like an Amazon through space, attended by her legions and battalions of stars.
The Master-Christian
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Rational Review
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The mountain theme is incorporated throughout the facility - from its curved parapets and sculptured stone fountain to the grassy park with tree-covered walking trails.
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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.
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They looked out at a glittering white world, sculptured by blue-black shadows, dotted with skeletal trees.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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The adytum, which is entered through a narrow chamber, three paces in breadth, is ten feet in length by nine in breadth; in its posterior wall are two fine monolith temples of granite, the largest of which is eight feet in height by three in breadth; the winged globe is sculptured over each of them.
Travels in Nubia
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And if we are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that we shall be split up again and go about in basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half a nose which are sculptured on monuments, and that we shall be like tallies.
Thispain Diary Entry
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Large choruses of dancers, their individuality consumed in replicas of the sculptured, stylized masks, cut swathes of movement patterns across the levels and widths of the stage.
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A rangy brunette with the kind of sculptured face he remembered from his years in Caracas, she had shown Clan to a private little shelter just large enough for two.
Empire Builders
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The architecture of the museum shared many of the same features—massive stonework, statues that were strikingly similar to the lovely caryatids and other sculptured figures created by the masterful Grecian artists, columns topped by Ionic capitals, and acroteria—the elaborately carved figures adorning the corners and tops of pediments.
Highborn
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Its fluid curvilinear, concave and convex forms let it appear sculptured rather than built, resembling in its shape a wind swept submarine with the sprawled arms of a sphinx.
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The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented.
The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
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Mighty Manaia towered above them in sculptured splendour.
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The limbs twist around quite a bit, giving the trees a somewhat sculptured look.
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The Pisaniinae comprise ovate to fusiform gastropods whose shells are sculptured with axial ribs and finer spiral cords and threads.
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I particularly like the colorful sculptured candles and the intricately made glass figurines.
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It was decided that portraits of historical figures who have made important contributions to culture and art should be sculptured.
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Sculptured on the architrave was the Boat of the Moon, containing
The Jewel of Seven Stars
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They had not even noticed the ancient sarcophagus in front of the altar except as 'some odd kind of sculptured ornament.'
God's Good Man
