71 examples of statuette in sentences

On it as decoration (it was laid for two, side by side) were some curious straw mats, a few laurel leaves, a little marble statuette of Pan, and three Tangerine oranges.

In one corner stood a low table of Italian mosaic, bearing a somewhat battered statuette of Saint Geneviève plying her distaff, and the walls were fairly covered with photographs photographs, for the most part, of women more anxious to display their charms of person to an admiring world than to observe the rigour of convention.

" Pelletan carefully replaced the photograph under the statuette and then reseated himself opposite his companion.

Casting about for the best means of perpetuating his fame, he found the alternative to lie between a statuette to be erected in the temple of the hero-god, or one of the odes of the learned Theban.

Schreiermeyer presented her with a bronze statuette of Shylock whetting his knife upon his thigh.

So much flesh to move, so much money.' 'Shylock!' suggested Logotheti, glancing at the statuette and laughing.

She did not turn her head, and her fingers still touched the Tanagra, but he saw the rare blush spread up the cheek that was turned to him; and because she stopped moving the statuette about, and looked at it intently, he guessed that she was not colouring from annoyance at what he had said.

and her little favorite statuette!" "Hideous things!

I told Hines that I would see the Bonnie Lassie about the statuette, and led him on, through the nagged and echoing passage and the iron gate, to the white-studded space of graves.

[Sidenote: "Clever Darlings"] Her room is appalling; it is full of Early Victorian furniture, and horrid alabaster statuette things, under glass cases, and then a few modern armchairs covered in gorgeous brocade, but it is all clawed by the cats, and soiled by the dogs' muddy feet, and you are unable to make up your mind where it will be safe to sit.

Here stood the statue of Italy given by grateful Italians and the silver statuette given by the ladies of Bedford in recognition of Reform.

Finds his statuette of Dying Hercules in basement of Capitol.

Finds his statuette of Dying Hercules in basement of Capitol.

Curious to see what this could be, he went up to it, when what was his amazement to find that it was a plaster cast of that little statuette of the Dying Hercules which had won for him the Adelphi Gold Medal so many years before in London.

By the marriage of the heiress of the ducal house of Della Rovere with a Duke of Tuscany, this work of art passed, with other art treasures, notably with a statuette of Michelangelo's Moses, into the possession of the Medici.

" The objects of art discovered in Michelangelo's house were a blocked-out statue of S. Peter, an unfinished Christ with another figure, and a statuette of Christ with the cross, resembling the Cristo Risorto of S. Maria Sopra Minerva.

In keeping with the furniture was the sole occupant of this stately chambera little negro boy in a livery of velvet picked out with silver tinsel, who stood as motionless as a small swart statuette against the door which faced that through which the king entered.

A silver statuette of a nude girl.

He struck him with that silver statuette.

Grimshaw had not touched the statuette.

He had not, he swore, heard the actress speak of a silver statuette, or of revenge before God....

He does not affect to think that the world calls for a full-length statue of such a fantastic hero; but he seems to claim leave to execute a statuette in terracotta for a cabinet of curiosities.

I saw one horse that looked exactly like a plaster statuette.

At the Salon, Artistes Français, 1903, she exhibited "Fortune" and "A Statuette.

" "And this statuette in green marble?" "A copy of the celebrated 'Pensiero' of Michel Angeloin other words, the famous sitting statue of Lorenzo de Medici, in the Medicean chapel in Florence.

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