It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice.

Before religious rituals were established, before great superstitions arose, before poetry was sung, before musical instruments were invented, before artists sculptured marble or melted bronze, before coins were stamped, before temples arose, before diseases were healed by the arts of medicine, before commerce was known, those Oriental shepherds counted the anxious hours by the position of certain constellations.

Praxiteles sculptured several figures of Eros, or the god of love, of which that at Thespiae attracted visitors to the city in the time of Cicero.

It was his scholars who sculptured the Colossus of Rhodes, the Laocoön, and the Dying Gladiator.

So this was not the real, tender image that came out of the father's heart; he had sold that truest one for a hundred guineas, and sculptured this mere copy to replace it.

And over his tomb was sculptured the Cross of Christ, that his soul might have repose.

Over them I sculptured artistically a crown of beast of the fields, a bird in stone of the mountains.

"Stick on this arm, Roger, while I sculpture these marble features.

But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.

He left many eminent scholars, among whom were Chares (who executed the famous Colossus of Rhodes), Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus who sculptured the group of the "Laocoön."

"One Greek sculptured a hog on the Mosque of Omar, trying to make it into a kanisah (unclean idol-house).

On all were engraved the epitaphs and sculptured insignia of the heroes who had been interred there.

He wrote as Michael Angelo sculptured his Moses; and he wrote not merely amid the cares and duties of a great public office, with other labors which might be called Herculean, but even amid the pains of disease and the infirmities of age,when rest, to most people, is the greatest boon and solace of their lives.

It is entered by a detached archway, on which were formerly sculptured the four orders borne by James V., the Thistle, Garter, Holy Ghost, and Golden Fleece; but these are now nearly effaced.

They are remnants of a vast system of glaciers which recently covered the upper part of the Colorado basin, sculptured its peaks, ridges, and valleys to their present forms, and extended far out over the plateau regionhow far I cannot now say.

DENDERA, a village in Upper Egypt, on the left bank of the Nile, 28 m. N. of Thebes, on the site of ancient Tentyra, with the ruins of a temple in almost perfect preservation; on the ceiling of a portico of which there was found a zodiac, now in the museum of the Louvre in Paris, and dates from the period of Cleopatra and the early Roman emperors, and has sculptured portraits of that queen and her son Cæsarion.

Then over the bald, featureless, fire-blackened mountains, glaciers began to crawl, covering them from the summits to the sea with a mantle of ice; and then with infinite deliberation the work went on of sculpturing the range anew.

Persons of rank who are curious may there see the art of chasing, or sculpturing in basso and alto relievo, together with various operations in the art of metallurgy.

They are undoubtedly the descendants of the Northmen who built the old mill at Newport and sculptured the Dighton Rock.

It was the block of marblerude and unpolished it may have beenfrom which was sculptured the life-breathing statue.

The Column of Antoninus stands on the Piazza Colonna; on it are sculptured the victories gained by that Emperor.

Before he was eighteen the youth had sculptured the battle of Hercules with the Centaurs, which he would never part with, and which still remains in his family; so well done that he himself, at the age of eighty, regretted that he had not given up his whole life to sculpture.

On the remainder were sculptured the Christian Virtues and the Fates,two on each column.

Here they stopped for the night, and being furnished with lights, and attended by the caloyer's servant as a guide, they proceeded to inspect the Paneum, or sculptured cavern in that neighbourhood, into which they descended.

An artistic calker had sculptured a wooden cray-fish climbing over the rudder.