24 Words to use with museum

A long, long time passed before he could bring himself to enter again the museum doors.

Slowly we passed down the corridor that led to the "museum wing," walked through the ill-smelling laboratories (for Challoner prepared the bones of the lower animals himself, though, for obvious reasons, he acquired the human skeletons from dealers) and entered the long room where the main collection was kept.

I slackened my pace somewhat to let him overtake or pass me, and when nearly opposite my side door (the museum entrance) he edged alongside and addressed me in a hoarse whisper.

Alive he was merely a nuisance and a danger to the community, whereas in the form of museum preparations he might be of considerable public utility.

The plate I cared not a fig for, but the museum specimens were a different matter; and he might damage them from sheer malice.

Our unknown operator was not preparing a skeleton as a museum specimen; he was dividing a body up into convenient-sized portions for the purpose of conveying them to various ponds.

The final result will be understood by the following quotation from the museum catalogue: "Specimens Illustrating Criminal Anthropology.

As I labored from day to day rendering the osseous framework of the late James Archer fit for exhibition in a museum case, I reflected on the future to which recent events had committed me.

But Hapley was skilful with his rhetoric, had a turn for ridicule rare in a scientific man, was endowed with vast energy, and had a fine sense of injury in the matter of the extinguished species; while Pawkins was a man of dull presence, prosy of speech, in shape not unlike a water-barrel, over conscientious with testimonials, and suspected of jobbing museum appointments.

" "I have no doubt it is all right, sir," the museum man hastened to assure me.

Starling, when he thus discoursed, sat chiefly in the little office before the rusty stove, idly flicking his memory with a buggy whip from the rack above his head, where reposed a dozen choice whips soon to become mere museum pieces.

The portly museum policeman who had been watching him furtively, wondering why a student should sit in front of the "Sacrifice of Lystra" and gnaw lips and nails and moustache, and scowl and glare at that masterpiece, saw him rise suddenly to his feet with an air of resolution, spin on his heel, and set off with a quick step out of the gallery.

After that it crawled for a time over the museum roof, entered the dome of the reading-room by a skylight, buzzed about inside it for some little timethere was a stampede among the readersand at last found another window and vanished again with a sudden silence from human observation.

Consequently, as Egyptology is largely a museum science, he was a learned Egyptologist.

They last well, such people,as well, almost, as agatized wood on museum shelves; and the most you can do for them is to keep them well dusted.

"'There is one thing I must point out to you,' I said, anticipating an early visit on my friend's part to Mr. Hammerstein; 'the skeletons as you get them from the dealers are not always up to museum style in point of finish.

When he had gone I let myself into the museum lobby.

The Council on Women's Employment also claimed: "That women should be made eligible or considered for appointment "As scientific specialists, especially museum assistants and keepers.

His rheumatism would no doubt soon compel him to relinquish his post as a museum attendant, and how would they be able to manage with his pension of a few hundred francs per annum if she did not keep up her business?

The museum custodians of Italy are either like thisjaded figures of apathyor they are enthusiasts.

The museum folks were pretty good to me.

And in the spacious solitude of the museum gallery devoted to the Raphael cartoons sat Lewisham, plunged in gloomy meditation.

West of Lemberg the pleasant country lost its war-time air and in Przemysl the two or three lonely Landsturm men guarding the wrecked fortifications, twice taken and twice blown up by retreating armies, lit candles to take us through the smashed galleries, and accepted a few Hellers when we came out, with quite the bored air of professional museum guides.

No aspirant for museum honors made his appearance.

24 Words to use with  museum