"Dyce keeps her rooms like waxwork and she is a capital cook.

Instantly, as the wheels ceased to turn, a young man in the smartest livery imaginable, green garnished with gold, leaped smartly from the driver's seat, with military precision opened the door of the tonneau and, holding it, immobilised himself into the semblance of a waxwork image with the dispassionate eye, the firm mouth, and the closely razored, square jowls of the model chauffeur.

She might have been a waxwork dummy out of Madame Tussaud's.

image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile. figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet^, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet^, marionette, fantoccini^, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette. ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji [Jap.]; diagram, monogram.

This ain't a waxwork.

I refer to waxwork.

When waxwork is properly executed, it produces a perfect illusion; but for that very reason we approach a wax figure as we approach a real man, who, as such, is for the moment an object presented to our will.

" III.Jarley's Waxwork Codlin and Short stuck so close to Nell and her grandfather that the child grew frightened, especially at the unwonted attentions of Mr. Thomas Codlin.

"There child," she said, "read that!" Nell read aloud the inscription, "Jarley's Waxwork.

"I never saw any waxwork, ma'am," said Nell.

It's not a common offer, bear in mind; it's Jarley's Waxwork.

CELASTRUS SCANDENS.Climbing Waxwork, or Bitter Sweet.

But that laugh started the machinery of the group of waxwork figures with the wax-white skins.

She seemed now some fantastic doll, some ghastly waxwork image of death such as we see carried on the stage in tragic plays.

[Footnote 3: [Fifteen images in waxwork, prepared for a procession on the 17th November, Queen Elizabeth's birthday, had been seized under a Secretary of State's warrant.

Overhead was a bower of climbing Waxwork, with its yellowish pods scarce disclosing their scarlet berries,a wild Grape-vine, with its fruit withered by the frost into still purple raisins,and yellow Beech-leaves, detaching themselves with an effort audible to the ear.

By the light which streamed in through the holes in the tops of the shutters I distinguished the green painted chairs backed up stiffly against the wall, the striped homespun carpet, andirons crossed in the fireplace, with shovel and tongs to match, the big Bible on the table under the glass, a waxwork on the high mahogany desk in the corner, and a few shells and other ornaments upon the mantelshelf.

The corpse in the waxworks.

[Footnote 4: The sign before her Waxwork Exhibition, in Fleet Street, near Temple Bar, was 'the Golden Salmon.'

[Footnote 3: [Fifteen images in waxwork, prepared for a procession on the 17th November, Queen Elizabeth's birthday, had been seized under a Secretary of State's warrant.

However, as my cousin Fleury is not above six-and-twenty, I had much rather be excused from such a commission as showing the Tombs and the Lions, and the King and Queen, and my Lord Bute, and the Waxwork, to a boy.

The Duchess of Choiseul, the only young one of these heroines, is not very pretty, but has fine eyes, and is a little model in waxwork, which not being allowed to speak for some time as incapable, has a hesitation and modesty, the latter of which the Court has not cured, and the former of which is atoned for by the most interesting sound of voice, and forgotten in the most elegant turn and propriety of expression.

"I think this line, "'Lovely as waxwork is thy brow,' "does you great credit.

I saw the Empress Eugénie driving in the Bois, looking like an exquisite waxwork.

TUSSAUD, MADAME, foundress of the famous waxwork show in London, born at Berne, and trained in her art in Paris; patronised by the sister of Louis XVI.; was imprisoned during the Revolution, and in 1802 came to London (1760-1850).