188 examples of vignettes in sentences

[Footnote 1: The cut accompanying the above chapter is from the illustrated title-page of the English monthly numbers of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood;"in which it is the last of a series of border-vignettes; and plainly shows that it was the author's intention to bring back his hero a living man before the conclusion of the story.

His chef came, presenting a list adorned with vignettes, and the first article of which, that met the prince's eye, was "fifty hams."

PORTRAITS / VIGNETTES THE POEMS.

"Instead of attending to mass, she looked at the pious vignettes with their azure borders in her book, and she loved the sick lamb, the sacred heart pierced with sharp arrows, or the poor Jesus sinking beneath the cross he carries.

Austin Dobson, Eighteenth Century Vignettes, Third Series, 99.

'Good times and bad times, and all times pass over;'I learnt that lesson out of old Bewick's vignettes, and it has stood me in good stead this many a year, and shall now.

Lord DUNSANY has a happy trick of compressing a great deal into a little space, and his vignettes, sketched in with a conscious art, should find a place on our shelves among the war records which our children are to read.

Her recollection of the next few hours, though it contained some vignettes so sharp and deeply bitten in as to be, she fancied, ineffaceable, was in the main confused.

Vignettes.

It will be remembered that this Chapter consists of a series of what might almost be called articles of faith, each of which is followed by one or more explanations which represent one or more quite different opinions; the Chapter also is accompanied by a series of Vignettes.

Certain scenes which are found in the Book of the Dead as vignettes accompanying certain texts or chapters, e.g., the Fields of Hetep, or the Elysian Fields, are exceedingly old, and are found on sarcophagi of the XIth and XIIth dynasties; but the earliest picture known of the Judgment Scene is not older than the XVIIIth dynasty.

" Anonyma, on her return to the inn, was very generous with "word-vignettes" dealing with Nature.

The violets and the may-flowers are as its superscriptions and its vignettes.

Here Green is lucid, graceful, and refined: producing one after another little vignettes in prose, which remind us of the simple drawings of the water-colour masters of the age, of Girtin or Cozens or Glover.

Vignettes of the sea.

© 12Sep25, A864693. R116214, 19Aug53, Felix Riesenberg, Jr. (C) Vignettes of the sea.

Vignettes by Gunnar Lindvall.

by Harry Roth. Vignettes by Joseph Friedrich.

Vignettes of the sea.

© 12Sep25, A864693. R116214, 19Aug53, Felix Riesenberg, Jr. (C) Vignettes of the sea.

by Harry Roth. Vignettes by Joseph Friedrich.

The Cuts are but three vignettes from the architectural lore of the district.

It is proposed to publish the Work in Monthly Parts, containing three Etchings drawn with the most scrupulous fidelity, and illustrative Vignettes beautifully engraved on Wood.

Like Eisen's vignettes, or the contes of innumerable story-tellers, they bring back to us the grace, the luxury, the prettiness, the frivolity of that Court which believed itself, till the rude awakening came, to contain all that was precious in the life of France.

DOBSON, AUSTIN, poet and prose writer, born at Plymouth, is in a department of the Civil Service; wrote "Vignettes in Rhyme," "Proverbs in Porcelain," "Old World Idylls," in verse, and in prose Lives of Fielding, Hogarth, Steele, and Goldsmith; contributed extensively to the magazines; b. 1840.

188 examples of  vignettes  in sentences