Painted

Examples

• I feel how vivid an impression I must have produced to have been painted in such strong, such rich, such massive colours as these. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He lived at the house of Benjamin West, and painted, and his portraits were shown at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Artists. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The names of the occupants were painted at the bottom on the wall, but there was no such name as the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• They buried their dead, often with ornaments, weapons, and food; they used a lot of colour in the burial, and evidently painted the body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Martha painted flowers exquisitely and furnished half the charity bazaars in the county. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Still better, however, is nitric acid, which if painted upon a colored spot of this kind first renders it more distinctly yellow, then orange-brown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Sam threw the painted tops into a corner, and led the way through a dark passage, and up a wide staircase. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The names is not only down on the vay-bill, Sir,' replied Sam, 'but they've painted vun on 'em up, on the door o' the coach. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This was effected by having the twenty-six letters painted on a board, and concealed from view by a number of small paper screens, which were attached to magnetic needles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• To chambers of painted state farewell! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have two water-wagtails, carved in wood, and painted--perhaps you have seen it? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus, when the figure of a bird is painted on one side, and an empty cage on the other, by rapidly turning the card, the bird appears to be in the cage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I suppose it was drawn in outline, and then painted, as other pictures are. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For decorations already painted it suffices to apply it to the back and wooden frames. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This guileless confectioner was not by any means sober, and had a black eye in the green stage of recovery, which was painted over. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He wore no mask; but his face, though curiously patched and painted, was easily known. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The Last Supper is painted on the dilapidated wall of what was a little chapel attached to the main church in ancient times, I suppose. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In one picture a still more astonishing appearance was produced, by the change of the interior of a beautifully painted and decorated church into a mass of charred ruins. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was the portrait of a gentleman in pencil, his face having the advantage of being painted up in pink. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the second, third, and fourth centuries some of the most lovely landscapes were painted that have ever been done by men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They painted Virgins enough, and popes enough and saintly scarecrows enough, to people Paradise, almost, and these things are all they did paint. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They drew and painted on the cliffs and cave walls that they had wrested from the Neanderthal men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They were, in fact, except for a fur wrap in cold weather, naked painted savages. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The most esteemed of the painted caves is ascribed to the latter part of this the first of the three subdivisions of the newer Pal?olithic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From that one may infer that they painted their bodies during life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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