He ordered the miniature to be photographed, and held a short consultation with the assistant commissioner.
When he returned he held the diamond-set miniature in his hand.
And Sir Ralph recognised the miniatureas little Lola of Vienna.
He held his clenched hand out, and suddenly unclasped it to disclose the miniature set in diamonds.
The miniature helped me to bluff Sir Ralph Fairfield into an admission that it was the portrait of Lola of Vienna, and I purposely showed it to some newspaper men on a pretext.
The ground rose towards it, and in the centre was a miniature conical hill, out of which there bubbled a stream of water running down on one side of it.
You will find a miniature world around you; you will be surrounded by temptations; and you will have rare chances of proving whether your character can be strong and great and true.
This artist was of the family of Pioli, which had already produced an excellent miniature painter called Gio.
In one instance only I meet with handsome eulogiums on a miniature painter, occasionally mentioned throughout this work.
Batista Castello, a Genoese, a scholar of Cambiaso, and the most celebrated miniature painter of his age.
The boys were hurrying away, not looking in the direction of the girls, when there was a flurry of skirts and a miniature cyclone descended about the lads.
The explosions of the numerous gasolene engines sounded like a miniature battle.
In view of the accuracy of many of the miniature sculptures of animals, it has been reasonably assumed that they perpetuate no less trustworthy representations of the workmen by whom they were carved.
In the carvings of the old Mound-Builders, as in those of the vastly more ancient artists of palæolithic Europe, we have to deal with miniature works of art; but both include productions meriting the designation.
Some of the miniature representations of animals found here are remarkable for their accuracy.
Something similar to a miniature water-spout immediately arose, and the monarch of the brook was in a fair way of sharing the same fate which had befallen the innocent fly.
There is a miniature steamboat on the river, but as the unnumbered canoes of the inhabitants are engaged in a kind of opposition line, the fiery little craft would seem to have a hard time.
He pointed out that the "rustlers" were well organized and strongly fortified, each cabin, in fact, constituting a miniature fortress.
It was clear that if hostilities once broke out, they would develop instantly into a miniature war.
For may we not regard that company upon the mount as a miniature of the Church in heaven and on earth?
But those of them who do appear in the records are men of such varied dispositions and powers that the Twelve might after all have been a fair miniature of the Church at large.
Her veil, flimsy defence for her face, was dripping in a moment, and the water streamed in miniaturecascades from her bonnet and shoulders.
You are tired waiting, I suppose, but I had a longer search than--" The glow of a stormy sunset rushed to his face as he saw the miniature she did not attempt to conceal.
This peculiar turn of affairs gave Fred his favorable chance; and, standing motionless, he continued his miniature bombardment as fast as he could shove the cartridges into the chamber of his weapon, aim, and fire.
The scion of the great captain is dressed in a miniature uniform, with a long sabre trailing on the ground, and a gold stick, which he is trying to fancy is a riding-horse.
The general is seen in solitary abandonment on the island rock which constituted his miniature kingdom of Elba, shedding tears over 'the brief history of my life, which I intend to publish.
The bicycle to which this miniature steam-power plant of the Copeland brothers’ invention was attached was one of the old high-wheel models with the small steering wheel forward.
Method of obtaining a variable movement of a miniature target, corresponding to rolls of a vessel of from 1 to 10 degrees.
Just below our position, a narrow strip of land jutted out into the stream, forming a miniature peninsula.
As he stood upon the bank above us, his fine form outlined against the sky, he presented the appearance of a miniature warrior.
The box was priceless, the spreading trees in the miniature park no less so, and time, the unbribeable, alone could now have produced the wide, carefully cherished Victorian mansion.
She led Honora up the narrow but thickly carpeted stairs to a miniature boudoir, where Madame Adelaide, in a gilt rococo frame, looked superciliously down from the walls.
The Count has been accepted; he has presented his betrothed "With a miniature sketch of his hooky nose, And his dear dark eyes as black as sloes, And his beard and whiskers as black as those.
An Englishman -- a miniaturepainter by profession.
He is a miniature painter, by profession, but I fear does not make much of a living.
From the miniature jungle bordering the path, a soft whistle sounded.
There was a miniature kitchen-garden, and a few stunted fruit trees in the northwest corner; the whole being surrounded by a gray stone wall.
In these miniature libraries not only do the children become familiar with library regulations, but more judicious and intelligent in the selection of books.
Pictures of countries and national costumes were hung on the green burlap screens which enclosed the sides of the miniature room.
She was not far from the edge of a portion of barren lands that formed a kind of miniature desert, and the worst of the situation was that she herself was very tired and that through her own selfish forgetfulness her horse was even more so.
On the satin shone a miniature crown of diamonds and pearls and an exquisite necklace of the same jewels.
And they chanced to be standing close together near one of the big rocks that rose like a miniature fortress beside Rainbow Creek.
It was characteristic of the period in which he lived that something like a miniature factory system was establishing itself in the midst of the new outwork system.
A highly idyllic picture of work in one of these miniature factories, which we may amuse ourselves by applying to Thomas Paycocke's, is contained in Deloney's Pleasant History of Jack of Newbery.
The theatre is a miniature society within society, with a monarch, ministers, officials, and a whole number of classes, ranged above one another in ranks.
Now, from my earliest childhood, I had seen over the mantelpiece in his study a miniature of a very lovely woman, with powdered hair crowned with ivy, and a tiger skin over her shoulder.
He opened the case in an absent-minded way, and what was his surprise to find a miniature portrait of Madam de Coursy painted on the interior of the case?
Not so clever as you'll have to be when Mrs. Gruyere comes round to have her miniature done," said Clem maliciously.
There was a grove of orange-trees, and a miniature forest of mangoes.
Mrs. Gerald Lace, all attention, thinking what a charming miniature her blonde beauty would make.
