Statues

Examples

• It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yes, sir, it was I who sold Dr. Barnicot his two statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Frazer's _Golden Bough_ about the ancient use of human beings as well as statues to represent gods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There are statues of serpentine marble, gifts of the late Tsar of Russia, whose admiration is also represented by a gorgeous inlaid and enamelled cigar-case. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The sacred objects, statues, etc. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Who did I get the statues from? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The statues of children holding vases of holy water were immense, according to the tables of figures, but so was every thing else around them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That, if statues were decreed in Britain, as in ancient Greece and Rome, to public benefactors, this shining citizen would assuredly have had one. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• And you think I cannot create the soul of my statues? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You and I don't like our pictures and statues being found fault with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for the sale of pictures and statues in the Kennington Road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The day for irrelevant statues, as for wall pictures, is over. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The manners of Mr. Lodge have that immobility which comes from too much gazing at bad statues of dead statesmen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Scattered here and there were statues finished and unfinished, some completed in marble, others incomplete in clay. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• So, although, as you say, there are many hundreds of statues in London, it is very probable that these three were the only ones in that district. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You say you love art, admire pictures, adore statues; yet, if every man followed the life you eulogize, such things would not be in existence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He is not lost in rapture at the great works of Phidias, the Parthenon, the Propylea, the statues of Zeus or Athene. Plato. The Republic.
• Among other works of art in which he was engaged, he had projected the erection of a national gallery for statues and pictures. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The stage faced the mountain, and had an altar beautifully sculptured in front of it, and life-sized statues of Dionysius and Ph?bus on either side. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• You are a sculptor, Socrates, and have made statues of our governors faultless in beauty. Plato. The Republic.

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