10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCULPTURESQUELY»
Discover the use of
sculpturesquely in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sculpturesquely and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Normandy, its Gothic architecture and history: as ...
... is lined with voir, an under-garment reaches to the ancles, and is held to the
waist by a finely- wrought band, the end of which hangs to the mid-leg ; this work
cannot be a likeness but its face is handsome and sculpturesquely noble.
Frederic George Stephens, 1865
... clump of woods there——" A vagueness expressive of divided interest had
crept into the lady's tone rather than her words. Colville could feel that she was
waiting for the right moment to turn her delicate head, sculpturesquely defined by
its ...
William Dean Howells, 2004
3
Their Silver Wedding Journey: Complete
After repeated agitations at the door among portiers, proprietors, and waiters,
whose fluttered spirits imparted their thrill to the spectators, while the coachman
and footman remained sculpturesquely impassive in their places, the carriage ...
William Dean Howells, 2010
4
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett ...
... enthusiastic chivalrous fellow—it is the fashion to affect to sneer at him, of late, I
think—the people he has praised fancying that they 'pose' themselves
sculpturesquely in playing the Greatly Indifferent, and the other kind shaking
each other's ...
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 2009
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The Sexual Relations of Mankind
Guests are widely invited, from among the men of the neighboring tribes, and all
gather upon the summit of a hill, where all the trees are tattooed and laboriously
and sculpturesquely carved. The women must remain at a distance of not less ...
Paolo Mantegazza, Victor Robinson, 2001
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
She was stylishl' dressed, as Bartley saw, and her smooth, yellow hair was
sculpturesquely waved ove a low, white forehead. "Here," said Lapham, with the
same prompt gruff kindnes that he had used in addressing the young man, "I
want you ...
William Dean Howells, 2014
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Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
There were, indeed, no Greek heads, but the bronzed lithe flgures, naked save
for loin-cloth and sandals, and most sculpturesquely muscled, might well have
inspired some vasedesign of dancing fauns. After these god-possessed ...
Sheets sculpturesquely draped the deities who took part; a fox-pelt from the
hearth did duty as the leopard-skin of Bacchus ; a feather duster served Neptune
for a trident ; the lyre of Apollo was a dust pan; a gull's breast furnished Jove with
his ...
William Dean Howells, Kermit Vanderbilt, 1974
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The practice of oil painting
A knowledge of modelling in wax or clay is helpful in composing figures that are
in action or that might be sculpturesquely interwoven. Nothing is more suggestive
than some such plastic material. Lord Leighton, the grace of whose line is rarely ...
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Delphi Complete Works of Robert Browning (Illustrated)
He has unmistakable genius, and isafine, honest, enthusiastic chivalrous fellow
— it isthe fashion toaffect to sneer at him, oflate, I think — thepeople hehas
praised fancying thatthey 'pose' themselves sculpturesquely inplaying the Greatly
...
