Miniatures
[miniətʃəz]
Examples
- This room was my late master's favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He had hung out his sign as Painter of Miniatures at the corner of Second and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia, under the friendly patronage of Benjamin Franklin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Miniatures, half-lengths, whole-lengths, pencil, crayon, and water-colours had been all tried in turn. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She approached and saw the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures, over the mantelpiece. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- And that, said Mrs. Reynolds, pointing to another of the miniatures, is my master--and very like him. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She looked up at Tarzan to find him leaning toward her gazing on the miniatures with an expression of astonishment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This is your mother, said Dorothea, who had turned to examine the group of miniatures. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typed by Chauncey