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Example sentences for "effigies"

Lexicographically close words:
efficiency; efficiens; efficient; efficiently; efficients; effigy; effloresce; effloresced; efflorescence; efflorescences
  1. The effigies furnish excellent illustrations of the armour of their periods.

  2. The windows are traceried, and have above them figures of the four Evangelists, and ecclesiastical effigies stand as finials on two of the gables.

  3. Features to be observed are (1) effigies on W.

  4. Between the chapel and chancel is another tomb of later date with effigies of Marmaduke and Robert Jennings, surrounded by figures of their families.

  5. The recumbent effigies are finished in much detail, but a certain mystery hangs about their identity.

  6. There are two effigies in recesses in the nave wall, one representing a woman and her six children.

  7. The parish church, which has a squat tower surmounted by a gable, contains within the chancel rails the coloured effigies of Sir W.

  8. The church contains the effigies of a knight in armour and his lady, within a recess in the S.

  9. Printing and engraving rendered these effigies more common, the portraits of one often served for another, and the booksellers used them without very much scruple.

  10. The effigies of knight and lady, or priest, became more and more like portraits in stone or alabaster, the details of their dresses more rich, delicate, and beautiful.

  11. With reference to the different notices that have appeared in your pages respecting effigies bearing the collar of SS, and especially in compliance with the desire expressed by MR.

  12. On the Festival of St. Charles, there's a solemn Procession here, in which the Effigies of that Monarch is carried with an Equipage which excites Laughter rather than Devotion.

  13. Thus, at Abbots Ann, near Andover, the good people hang up effigies of arms and hands in memory of girls who died unmarried, and gloves and garlands of roses are sometimes hung for the same purpose.

  14. The usual scenes of mad iconoclasm were enacted--stained glass windows broken, altars thrown down, lead stripped from the roof, brasses and effigies defaced and broken.

  15. The noble parish church here contains a number of fine brasses and tombs, including the recumbent effigies of Lord John Williams of Thame and his wife, who flourished in the reign of Queen Mary.

  16. Not uncommonly effigies are burned in these fires, or a pretence is made of burning a living person in them; and there are grounds for believing that anciently human beings were actually burned on these occasions.

  17. Shots are fired everywhere, and effigies of Judas are hung on trees or dragged about the streets, to be finally burned or otherwise destroyed.

  18. They throw themselves furiously on the figures of the detested traitor, cut them down, hurl them with curses into the fire, and fight and struggle with each other in their efforts to tear the effigies to tatters and appropriate their contents.

  19. Effigies are sometimes burnt in the fires.

  20. Effigies of Judas used to be burned at Athens on Easter Saturday, but the custom has been forbidden by the Government.

  21. Nishga Indians of British Columbia, their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii.

  22. River, Queensland, magical effigies on the, i.

  23. Zurich, effigies of Winter burnt after the spring equinox at, iv.

  24. Therapia, near Constantinople, effigies of Judas burnt at Easter in, x.

  25. Tibetans put effigies at doors of houses to deceive demons, viii.

  26. Theodosius and Honorius, decree of, against the burning of effigies of Haman by the Jews, ix.

  27. I steeled myself against the delusion; the room itself was vacant: it was only prudent, I repeated to myself, to examine the rest of the house.

  28. Image carvers had now plenty to do in making, out of camphor or hinoki wood, effigies of such of the eight million or so of kamis as were given places in the new and enlarged pantheon.

  29. The Seven Happy Gods of Fortune form nominally a Buddhist assemblage, and their effigies on the kami-dana or god-shelf, found in nearly every Japanese house, are universally visible.

  30. Here, in a small compass, you may follow the whole development of the plastic art, from the rudest clay effigies and caricatures, to the most lovely realisation of the Greek feeling for beauty.

  31. Turn your tail up to me, and I'll pull you through hindforemost, and then you won't stick in the spikes.

  32. And where is the home of the water-babies?

  33. Time has broken and shuffled these erst so significant effigies till they have become as unmeaning for us as the bones in one of the old plague-pits.

  34. My own special purpose in coming is to see certain old waxen effigies that are here.

  35. Besides two of the thirteenth-century effigies of earlier bishops, there are in this aisle two ancient monuments of great interest.

  36. They were both buried in the church of that abbey, where their effigies in white marble were placed, lying upon their black marble tomb.

  37. In the south transept stand conspicuously the tomb and effigies of William Canygne.

  38. These effigies are singular in themselves.

  39. We passed into an adytum, wardered by gigantic effigies whose mystic forms we could hardly trace; above us that ponderous roof, tier on tier of solid stone, upheld by enormous columns, and incrusted with strange carvings.

  40. Effigies of the fabulous Hydra, or dragon with seven heads, illuminated, and animated by men concealed within, are seen endeavoring to swallow the moon, represented by a globe of fire.

  41. The royal effigies are shown forth not only on gold and silver, and the most costly materials, but the royal form itself, even on copper.

  42. What do our adversaries say to these things, they who maintain that we should not worship the effigies of the saints, which are preserved amongst us for a remembrance of them.

  43. It was indeed the Duke of Thunder, his name printed under his effigies in the Hawaiianised form of Nelesona.

  44. St. Olaf (Danish Oluf) and St. Knut are among those whose effigies are painted in the Chapel of Three Kings.

  45. In the Lady Chapel of the cathedral is a fine monument to Gustaf Vasa with effigies in English alabaster of the king and two wives.


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