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Example sentences for "draughtsmen"

Lexicographically close words:
draughted; draughting; draughts; draughtsman; draughtsmanship; draughty; drave; draw; drawback; drawbacks
  1. A few fundamental points which can always be kept in mind will enable draughtsmen to make sure that their work will reproduce well, that is to say, will give a fairly truthful reproduction of the original drawing.

  2. The competition is open to architectural draughtsmen under thirty years of age, residents of the United States, and not practicing architects.

  3. He's going to give a dinner, he says, to his draughtsmen .

  4. There'll be something to eat, and drink, and there will be fifty or more of my draughtsmen and former employes.

  5. It was with cheerful patience that he attended to his three draughtsmen in the studio, or walked about the environs of the fortress during the fifty hours spent by her presumably tender missive on the road.

  6. Somerset was deeply engaged with his draughtsmen and builders during the three following days, and scarcely entered the occupied wing of the castle.

  7. The dog plays no great part in the story, and I suspect it is in respect of the proverb that a dog is generally introduced by native draughtsmen into the popular bazaar pictures representing these personages.

  8. He develops large canine teeth, which some observant Hindu draughtsmen take care to grace their pictures of Hanuman withal.

  9. But draughtsmen and painters as a rule keep faithfully to the hieratic type of the stone-cutters, who never make preliminary models.

  10. Mr. Arthur Hopkins, and his brother Mr. Everard Hopkins, are careful draughtsmen of some distinction.

  11. But in turning to the work of those draughtsmen whose subject is the presentment of character, of every man in his own humour, the illustration of literature is a part only of what is noteworthy.

  12. In this connection one may consider those draughtsmen who illustrate modern wonder-books with Zankiwanks, Krabs and Wallypugs.

  13. In the writer's collection there are some draughtsmen of unpainted wood most beautifully carved.

  14. They are probably of German manufacture, as they closely resemble sets of draughtsmen that are in the Nuremburg and Munich collections.

  15. Draughtsmen or checkers are made of many different materials, such as clay, bone, wood, and ivory.

  16. Draughtsmen are aware that lines drawn on paper with good India ink well prepared cannot be washed out by mere sponging or washing.

  17. The greatest draughtsmen draw leaves, like everything else, of their full-life size in the nearest part of the picture.

  18. The subjectivity of experience governs the different conceptions that good draughtsmen will form of the same object.

  19. But high modelling that would make for illusion of reality is not the first aim of draughtsmanship, nor have the best draughtsmen employed it save by exception.

  20. The great draughtsmen of every time and country are known by their own words, as well as their works, to have been infinitely respectful to the form of every detail in nature.

  21. They will ask, How is it otherwise to be explained that two equally good draughtsmen will invariably make different drawings of the same figure?

  22. It is not to be supposed that able draughtsmen work, or need ever have worked, consciously in this manner.

  23. Ambiguity and obscurity, since they help to pass Bills, are in the judgment of Parliamentary draughtsmen and Parliamentary statesmen characteristics which promote the easy working of Acts.

  24. One of the brightest and most talented draughtsmen Punch has ever had was Charles H.

  25. The Queen figures often in the earlier cartoons, and the care with which the draughtsmen sought to do justice to the pure outline of her fair face is at least a tribute to their good taste.

  26. But if the Impressionists themselves have neglected actively to assist the interesting school of modern illustration, a whole legion of draughtsmen have immediately been inspired by their principles.

  27. One of their most original characteristics was the realistic representation of the scenes, the mise en cadre, and it afforded these draughtsmen an opportunity for revolutionising book illustration.

  28. But all modern draughtsmen have been taught a lesson by his painting: Renouard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen have been impressed by it, and the young generation considers Degas as a master.

  29. According to him, engraving, or, to speak more exactly, the printing of engraved work, must have been invented by goldsmiths rather than by draughtsmen or illuminators.

  30. Since then it has attracted a great many draughtsmen and painters, as it requires only a short apprenticeship, and is the quickest kind of engraving.

  31. It is not solely by inference that we are led to surmise that the ingenious draughtsmen of Southern France had a higher aim than mere pastime in some, at least, of their graphic devices.

  32. The Innuit and Eskimo designs do, indeed, more nearly approximate to those of the primitive draughtsmen than other aboriginal efforts; but their inferiority in all respects is equally striking and indisputable.

  33. All this has to be kept in view, in any attempt to gauge the intellectual development, or determine the degree of civilisation, of the palæolithic draughtsmen and carvers of the Garonne.

  34. Fifteen draughtsmen serve for the flock of geese.

  35. Quaternions is the name of a somewhat easy yet interesting game played on a checkered board (similar to a draughts board) with thirty-two counters or draughtsmen (sixteen white and sixteen black).

  36. The fox may be two draughtsmen placed one upon another.

  37. The Chiaroscurists are essentially draughtsmen with chalk, charcoal, or single tints.

  38. Among those responsible for the designing of what are usually termed "Extra Illustrations" were many well-known draughtsmen of the day, including Hablot K.

  39. Maclise, like other draughtsmen on wood, doubtless often experienced a sense of disappointment when their delicately-pencilled drawings were hurriedly engraved and submitted to the arbitrary treatment of printer's ink.

  40. The first cheap editions of later works were graced with frontispieces from the pencils of two artists better known as draughtsmen than as painters.

  41. Architects and draughtsmen will be surprised to find what a saving can be made in time and trouble by the use of this most essential article of furniture, as well as the remarkably low price at which it can be bought.

  42. Dilettanti, who could not draw a fingertip, scolded one of the most accomplished draughtsmen of the age because he delineated what he saw.

  43. How many can the draughtsmen print before to-morrow?

  44. I shall take a couple of draughtsmen and a clerk and an orderly, and Hale.

  45. To-day I'm doing a map, and the draughtsmen are copying it, of some Boche dug-outs.

  46. Wherefore no long time passed before he became one of the first draughtsmen who frequented the Chapel of Michelagnolo; and, what was more, he would not for a time set himself to paint or to do any other thing but draw.

  47. As a text-book for draughtsmen it is the clearest and most thorough work that has ever been written on the subject.


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