Whereupon Michelangelo, who thought he spoke in this way to make fun of him, replied in anger: 'Explain them yourself, you who made the model of a horse to cast in bronze, and could not cast it, and to your shame left it in the lurch.'

Étagères of carved and gilded wood occupied each corner, and, together with the low mantelshelf (which was upheld by two dancing nymphs in Carrara marble), were crowded with costly trifles in Bohemian glass, Dresden and Sèvres porcelain, gilded bronze, carved ivory and Parian ware.

And, besides, do you like bronze, Laura?"

Crowther's eyes rested on the smiling face with its proud, patrician features with the look of a man examining a perfect bronze.

It was love's hands that had chiselled the bronze of his face to leaner lines, and that threw a new darkness into his dark eyes.

With a shudder she dropped the bronze, and looked down.

Her white arm gleamed in the gathering dusk, and she was dressed in some diaphanous blue stuff that enhanced the bronze of her hair.

Close by the Ruhr I found the bronze and bought the three idols, and a man from the village told me that hardly an hour's walk from there was a place in the woods among the mountains where an enormous quantity of bones were piled up in the sand and gravel.

Therein the Bonnie Lassie had been prophetess as well as poet and sculptress, for she had finished the bronze before Minnie left us.

" He flushed a ruddy bronze.

The shadows had lengthened and the moon already glowed a warmer bronze.

At the same moment, Bates, upon another chair, grasped the companion bronze and wrenched it sharply.

A sword would merely lay bare the uncleavable bronze beneath, but if his nose be smitten constantly with a stick he will always recoil from the pain, and thus may Tharagavverug, to left and right, be driven away from his food.'

Then R.C. located a big bronze and white gobbler on a lower limb of a huge pine.

Behind the hedges of well-kept gardens squatted the brown gardener, making trenches indifferently with a hoe or a toe, and under the municipal lamp-post lounged the bronze policemana touch of Arab about mouth and lean nostrilquite unconcerned with a ferocious row between two donkey-men.

Ghiberti was charged with making bronze do things that it was ill fitted for; but I do not know that even he moulded waterand transparent waterfrom it.

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.

The yellows are brought near to orange, tawny, bronze, except in the hair of youthful personages, a large majority of whom are blonde.

On the pyramidal roof of this tower he placed a bronze Triton holding a rod in his right hand, and so contrived that the Triton, revolving with the wind, always stood opposed to that which prevailed, and thus pointed with his rod to the image on the tower of the wind that was blowing at the moment."

We might then have gone barefoot, saying prayers as we toiled along the banks of the Arno and up the steep Appenines, as did Benevenuto Cellini, before he poured the melted bronze into the mould of his immortal Perseus.

He lay there remembering the bronze pouring into the heart.

There are window seats painted to imitate marble, with the Roman or Greco-Roman ornaments painted green to represent bronze.

And Rosenbomlike the bronze manhad forgotten why they had begun this tramp.

As the gloom rises up out of the earth, bands of dark red gather on the horizon, seaming the clear bronze of the sky, that passes upward into olive-color, merging in dark blue overhead.

But do we reflect that Vermont is half marble, and that Lake Superior can send us bronze enough for regiments of statues?