10 examples of ambrotypes in sentences

I went to the "little" war; and of her I carried, as I marched, an ambrotype in a closed case, which I had obtained deviously.

There are heads that can't wear hats; there are necks that can't fit cravats; there are jaws that can't fill out collars(Willis touched this last point in one of his earlier ambrotypes, if I remember rightly); there are tournures nothing can humanize, and movements nothing can subdue to the gracious suavity or elegant languor or stately serenity which belong to different styles of dandyism.

They were just alike; there were the two crooked marks upon each, speaking as accurately as the most highly finished ambrotype of the day.

MORSE AND HIS YOUNGEST SON From an ambrotype.

See how the faithful sun-print advertises the rival establishment of "Meade Brothers, Ambrotypes and Photographs."

No, Maggie, no; the surprise awaiting you is of a far different nature, and the tears flow afresh when Rose, in reply to the question "What is it, darling?" answers, "It is this," at the same time placing in Maggie's hand an ambrotype which she bade her examine.

she exclaimed at last, closing the ambrotype and laying it upon the table.

Maggie asked, holding to view the ambrotype of Hester Hamilton.

From an ambrotype in the possession of Mr. Marcus L. Ward of Newark, New Jersey.

From an ambrotype taken for Marcus L. Ward (afterwards Governor of New Jersey) in Springfield, Ill., May 20, 1860, two days after Mr. Lincoln's nomination.

10 examples of  ambrotypes  in sentences