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Example sentences for "cameos"

Lexicographically close words:
camellias; camelopard; camelott; camels; cameo; camera; cameraman; cameramen; cameras; camest
  1. Margaret Foley, formerly a member of the New England school of design, resided in Lowell, and cut cameos at $35 apiece.

  2. The shell cameos are cut with small steel chisels, from the white portion of the shell, leaving the chocolate color for the background.

  3. There are a good many Italians in Egypt, as you know, and this paper had a correspondent in Cairo with a sharp pen that cut little cameos of the cosmopolitan life that centres round the Esbekiah Gardens.

  4. Our literary club makes no mention in its List of Authors who have lived in Netley, of Mr. Carville and his Cameos of the Sea.

  5. Cameos were at one time quite in the fashion, both as ornaments for the person in the way of brooches, and as bric-a-brac about the room.

  6. These shell-cameos are made from the genus Cassis, the helmet shells.

  7. Among the gems of such ornaments were the exquisite tablets and cameos made by Josiah Wedgwood, whose beautiful vases and miniature bottles, as well as tea-sets in the same wares, were so much admired.

  8. The watch key ultimately became very ornate, for the more precious metals were gradually introduced, and rich enamels, rare gems and stones, and Wedgwood cameos were added.

  9. Wedgwood took most careful and delicate impressions of these, and from these his careful and delicate cameos were formed.

  10. So great was the production of the cameos and antique ornaments, and so greatly were they used as articles of jewelry, for settings in furniture, etc.

  11. The tools of the worker in cameos are of the most delicate description.

  12. Rome and Paris are the principal seats of the trade, and immense numbers of shell cameos are imported by England and America, and mounted in rings, brooches, etc.

  13. The father could not give him much money, hardly more than enough to get him across the ocean, but he could cut cameos to pay for his lessons.

  14. So while he went to a night school for drawing lessons, he cut cameos through the day.

  15. It was the age of cameos rather than canvases.

  16. The result has been narrowness, cameos instead of canvases, short stories rather than novels.

  17. She managed to glide to the other end of the room where Wilfrid was scowling over a collection of cameos without being noticed.

  18. We cannot speak too highly of the care, good sense, and literary skill with which these historic cameos are cut.

  19. Cameos from English History: the Wars in France.

  20. They gave me the name of the man who had carved the cameos for them, but they knew nothing of the imperfect button.

  21. The most of the modern cameos are made from sea shells.

  22. There are a few very fine specimens of antique cameos to be found in Europe.

  23. The art of cutting shell cameos is a modern one.

  24. These the only cameos I ever saw that I thought pretty," said Annie, holding up a handsome set.

  25. But Mrs. Burton noticed that Lucy laid aside the cameos for the tableau party.

  26. I think it is not a hundred years since shell cameos were introduced, but the art of cutting precious stones like the onyx and agate, in fact, any stone which has layers of different colors, is very ancient.

  27. When he entered she was looking at some cameos which she had been buying for Celia.

  28. The blue-green boudoir looked much more cheerful when Celia was seated there in a pelisse exactly like her sister's, surveying the cameos with a placid satisfaction, while the conversation passed on to other topics.

  29. The bright fire of dry oak-boughs burning on the dogs seemed an incongruous renewal of life and glow--like the figure of Dorothea herself as she entered carrying the red-leather cases containing the cameos for Celia.

  30. Hoechst and Marburg were both important seats of the industry, and at the former we find a vase having its neck ornamented with white reliefs, like the cameos of Wedgwood.

  31. Cameo-cutting came after gem-engraving, and those who are learned in such matters tell us that there were cameos made as early as 162 years before Christ.

  32. In order to get the materials on which cameos were to be engraved, the Greeks and Romans travelled a great distance, even as far as India.

  33. To-day a great many cameos are made, but not out of hard stones.

  34. But more than that: on some of these cameos we have the exact likenesses of great personages, who as Roman Emperors once ruled the world.

  35. By the study of ancient cameos a great deal is learned, for they show us the actual pictures of the dress and costumes of people who lived more than 1800 years ago.

  36. Of the old cameos there are two famous ones, one cut on an agate, the other on an onyx.

  37. As for the Archduchesss, her cameos were rising and falling stormily.

  38. Even Annunciata, hung now with ropes of pearls, her hair dressed high for a tiara of diamonds, her cameos exchanged for pearls, looked royal.

  39. There are cabinets also, containing rare gems, cameos and bronzes of all sizes and shapes.

  40. The number of mosaics and cameos was very great.

  41. As perhaps some of the readers of this book may not know precisely the meaning of these words, I will here explain to them, as Rollo did to Charles, how mosaics and cameos are made.

  42. By far the most extensive collection of mounted cameos is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris.

  43. Steel was largely employed as mounts for the fictile cameos of Wedgwood, Tassie, Adams, and Turner, which were in considerable demand for rings, brooches and buttons.

  44. At this period cameos were still worn, but seldom of strictly classical character.

  45. Public and private collections likewise contain a considerable number of enamelled miniature cases furnished with loops for suspension, and cameos set with jewelled and enamelled mountings of the period.

  46. Bracelets formed of cameos are met with sometimes on portraits.

  47. Its design offers an interesting comparison with two cameos (Nos.

  48. On the under side of the larger cameos which form the clasps are two interlacing C's within a wreath of palm and olive, enamelled green, and a barred S in blue enamel at each angle.

  49. With the revival of the glyptic art, cameos begin to play a prominent part in jewellery.

  50. The use of ancient cameos as personal ornaments has already been mentioned; and there is in the British Museum a mediæval intaglio, the finest of its kind, which was used as a morse.

  51. The frame of the couch rested on four supports, most gracefully cut in rock-crystal; the frame itself was ornamented with bulls' heads and inlaid with cameos and gems, to the number of four hundred and thirty.

  52. Nothing was found in the fourth; the fifth furnished two heavy gold rings with cameos representing respectively a mask and a bear-hunt.

  53. The taste for engraved gems, which kept pace with the increasing knowledge of antiquity and the passion for books and antique works of all kinds, revived the art of cutting cameos and precious stones.

  54. In the Museum of Naples alone (formerly in the palace of Capodimonte) are preserved more than twenty cameos with Lorenzo’s name, and a great number of gems set as rings.

  55. I felt as sure as I possibly could feel that I had bought one of the finest, if not actually the finest, cameos known to exist.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cameos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.