How To Use Waxen In A Sentence
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The restaurant area is aglow with vibrant shades of turquoise and tangerine, while huge candles drip waxen stalactites down one wall.
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The trees around a Shintô shrine are specially under the protection of the god to whom the altar is dedicated; and, in connection with them, there is a kind of magic still respected by the superstitious, which recalls the waxen dolls, through the medium of which sorcerers of the middle ages in Europe, and indeed those of ancient Greece, as Theocritus tells us, pretended to kill the enemies of their clients.
Tales of Old Japan
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My skin is as pale and waxen as a corpse, dotted here and there with freckles.
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Clouds of metallic blue butterflies dispersed off their gold and waxen perches and rippled over his head.
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His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
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His father's skin, once ruddy from a lifetime of Montana ranching, has gone waxen and slack.
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And Hope's eyes remained closed; her chocolate hair spread in a cloud behind her head, waxen complexion and slowed breathing giving her the look of a sleeping fairytale princess under an evil curse.
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The floor is a waxen, polychromatic coat of sharp, glistening shards.
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His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
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Her hair, a lustrous shade of auburn, waves about her waxen face.
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the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor
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She sat beside him for a moment, studying his waxen features with a sadness that somehow erased all of her pity.
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Her hair, a lustrous shade of auburn, waves about her waxen face.
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His face was sheened with sweat; the gash on his cheek a startling contrast against his waxen skin.
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His face is waxen and his breath comes in wheezes, and as I move to pick him up his skin is hot to the touch.
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Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.
Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
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The blossoms upon the lilac tree looked waxen in the pale light and filled the air with heavenly fragrance.
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In the holidays they drove about together in droskies, and told fortunes: Kseniya Ippolytovna was presented with a waxen cradle.
Tales of the Wilderness
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He was muscular, in a T-shirt and shorts, waxen rather than the hue of fruitwood he should have been.
Beard
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I lifted my head to see that Tanya was looking much better that morning, though she still looked waxen and skinny, as if she hadn't eaten in a while.
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bees filled the waxen cups with honey
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The restaurant area is aglow with vibrant shades of turquoise and tangerine, while huge candles drip waxen stalactites down one wall.
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She appears waxen and dead, akin to Lenin's body in its Red Square tomb.
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The waxen pellet which packed the powder hit him smartly on the philoprogenitive bump, and he swore audibly.
The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
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Her waxen lips move slowly, as if she is speaking quietly, but her fear and the screaming of those around her steals the voice from her words, leaving her the empty comfort of having said them.
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What might be called the waxen period had set in, and the high colourless features seemed to be modelled in that soft, semi-transparent material.
The Witch of Prague
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Adamnan, after Columba himself the brightest ornament of the School of Iona, in his "Life" of the founder, makes explicit references to the tabulae, waxen tablets for writing; to the pens and styles, graphia and calami, and to the ink-horn, cornicula atramenti, to be found in the scriptorium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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The pavilion was litten by two great waxen torches, placed in candlesticks of fine gold, decked with jewels worth a lord's ransom.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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When did brands start positioning themselves as families, communities, their offices big picnic blankets of giggling executives, their products carved from whimsy and solid, waxen love?
When familiarity breeds contempt
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Her hair, a lustrous shade of auburn, waves about her waxen face.
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Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells.
All Gold Canon
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And even now, Isolde could see with aching clarity the tiny, waxen face and flowerlike hands of her stillborn baby girl.
Dark Moon of Avalon
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I remember seeing a body, a waxen broken body, hearing someone say something about slipping in a bathtub, and then seeing that the chest is not rising and falling, and feeling sad because someone has died.
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Mann scrapes the ring on his finger and the waxen rail
K. & V. Mann (*), 1986
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She looked dead, waxen, looked as though she had never been alive in the first place.
HOPE TO DIE
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His wife, who runs the register and takes special orders, is a fragile, waxen figure, with large strawberry-colored hair coiffed like cotton candy.
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Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells.
All Gold Cañon
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When that, too, failed, the waxen-faced summiteers emerged, and the recriminations began.
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He rolled on one shoulder and saw the waxen face of the shirtsleeved man, neck folded unnaturally to the side, tongue blue.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
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But Probert, normally a ruddy, open man, was pale and waxen, quiet and withdrawn.
THE SCAR
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Bees filled the waxen cups with honey.
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Yes, she is a heavy pink and white bloom, full, scented, a little waxen.
Rachel Cusk | Portraits
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waxen candles
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His face was deeply lined and waxen, his jaw set determinedly.
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A hook must be fixed in some convenient place to make the waxends on, or, as they are called in the trade, "threads," which term it will be as well to call them by here; thus a _four-cord thread_ means a thread or waxend containing four strands of hemp, a six-cord contains six strands, and so on.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
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Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.
Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
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Bessy's features seemed to shrink into a kind of waxen quietude -- as though her face were seen under clear water, a long way down.
The Fruit of the Tree
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Not a shadow flickered in the waxen light the moon cast over everything.
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Every death is ugly and undignified, as life is wrenched away, leaving an inanimate, waxen corpse.
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The body was waxen and pale, grained like the ancient bark of an oak after rain.
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Hilda's blank eyes stared at her, face waxen and mouth open in a silent scream with a thin line of blood drying on the side of bluish lips.
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Many had been built crudely and with such haste that they were too short for the occupants, whose pale, waxen feet stuck out.
A Covert Affair
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His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
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A very old man, shrunken and faded, a waxen wraith of his former self, was sitting in a high-backed armchair by the fireplace.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Strangest of all of them is a many-tinted and puzzling waxen symbol which sums up all the internal organs of the abdomen in one bold effort of artistic condensation; a kind of heraldic, materialized stomache-ache.
Old Calabria
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Adamnan, after Columba himself the brightest ornament of the School of Iona, in his "Life" of the founder, makes explicit references to the tabulae, waxen tablets for writing; to the pens and styles, graphia and calami, and to the ink-horn, cornicula atramenti, to be found in the scriptorium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
