Miniature

Examples

• This idea increased my melancholy, for I hate, and always did hate, anything like London in miniature. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The miniature of my late dear uncle, Sir John, hung on the wall opposite the bed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She told me, that that same evening William had teazed her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• What breadths of experience Dorothea seemed to have passed over since she first looked at this miniature! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was a miniature of himself, very prettily done (though not half handsome enough, we may be sure, the widow thought). William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It sounded as though pack after pack of miniature firecrackers were going off at a distance that was almost out of hearing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Thomas Blanchard, born in Massachusetts in 1788, while a boy, was accustomed to astonish his companions by the miniature wind-wheels and water-wheels that he whittled out with his knife. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This is a miniature copy of the Orange laboratory, with its machine shop, chemical-room, and general experimental department. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They showed us a miniature cemetery there--a copy of the first graveyard that was ever in Marseilles, no doubt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This machine in general appearance resembles a miniature elevated railroad. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Then, I shall kiss the hand, said he; but that moment it became a miniature fist, and dealt him payment in a small coin that was 漀琀??kisses. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• On the opposite wall hung the miniature portrait of her father. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Below this picture was a miniature of William; and my tears flowed when I looked upon it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Pointing to the miniature of the man within the locket he handed the photograph to Jane, holding the open locket beside it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It was curious to trace in this miniature model the very traits of its father. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• 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.

Typist: Ted