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...ound more wildly. He kept wishing that it would stay stolid and poised as statues of the Garuda and Kinnara, mythological creatures that permeated Th... ... When someone thinks of Thailand it is always Thai silk, temples, Buddhist statues, nightlife, and beautiful girls like me. What is the symbol of Can... ...Now this wooden, shiny-faced Christ or the ashes of it were somewhere in a colossal garbage heap with so much Kumpee had coerced them to throw away or... ... felt wholly real. He thought, in Thailand one gave the "wei" to Buddhist statues, stupas, shrines, temples, and people who were older and of higher ...

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...ppened? NANA Another of them here has caught it. He began to smash up the statues and pictures in the drawing room, gnashed his teeth, foamed at the... ... It's about Radius, Doctor. He had an attack this morning. He smashed the statues downstairs. DR. GALL What a pity to lose him. HELENA Radius isn't g... ... even today? DOMIN Not even today, the last day of civilization. It was a colossal achievement. BUSMAN (sotto voce) Three hundred sixty million. DOMI...

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...wrence of Arabia (1962) were each 3 hours and 42 minutes. Walt Disney - with 26 statues - won the most awards. Alan Menken for music and Denis M... ...tecs and Indians as a decorative motif in headdresses, necklaces, and ornaments on statues of divinities. In the 16th century, both Hernando Cortes... ...s androgyny (bisexuality). http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Judaism/star.html Statues The United States boasts a few statue-related records.... ...her. He carried it with him wherever he went. Leonardo's terra cota model for a colossal bronze sculpture of the father of his benefactor and em...

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...ock, then to add on to it to give the body strength. Traeus gazed at it in wonder, it was colossal and yet he could already see the artistry inheren... ...to the Palace library. They had walked together in silence, passing the two large granite statues that Traeus had commissioned of King Mesah and Que... ...red as the series of tarps made from fine Kierani linen were pulled from the front of the colossal monument and the breezes made the covering seem t... ...as bright and clear and the moonlight seemed exceptionally bright. It shone down over the colossal monument, casting a long shadow. Standing squarel... ...iolent explosions, tearing out from the source. The deafening blast blew the head off the colossal Amsara monument in a spectacular concussive force... ...her. A wall collapsed, crashing behind her, taking part of the ceiling with it. The large statues of King Mesah and Queen Elenia, which had stood pr...

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... Nawin doing the same but as he glanced up dizzyingly at the facade of the colossal Intercontinental Hotel with its eerie pale-blue light diffused thr... ...l counterpart beyond the letters of the word, was falling into this alien, colossal structure with its lambent bluish light. Then the edible Nawin wok... ...istence but womanly purpose in nurturing posterity, and such happiness had statues of limitation on it. It was not a literal smoke that they were flee... ...lsome feeling, his was the full numbness of a shadow dragged about by some colossal and incomprehensible figure. Dogging him no differently than the p...

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...ed in vain to make me believe! the jealousy of engravings, of pictures, of statues, wherein artists exaggerate human beauty, as a result of the doctri... ...which yielded an income of six to eight thousand francs, then considered a colossal fortune for an attorney in the provinces. Old Maitre Sarrasine, ha... ...t. She was surprised, I think, that her colleague was able to triumph over statues. “Sarrasine started for Italy in 1758. On the journey his ardent im... ...onuments with which the fa- therland of the arts is strewn. He admired the statues, the frescoes, the pictures; and, fired with a spirit of emulation,...

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... man and a Frenchman.” He rose to his feet, and assumed an attitude which for sublimity has never been approached by man, and has sel- dom been surpas... ...ccomplished, on the spot. When I went back to Harris, I said: “Now you see what a person with talent and address can do.” “Excuse me, I see what a per... ...in the world, is wanting. The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff—for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. His s... ... one who has learned to live up there would ever want to live on a meaner level. We swept through the prettiest little curving arms of the lake, among... ...d, the giant form of the Jungfrau rose cold and white into the clear sky, beyond a gateway in the nearer highlands. It reminded me, somehow, of one of... ...ion—it was a long way down to it. We began our descent, now, by the most remarkable road I have ever seen. It wound it corkscrew curves down the face ... ...t as violently as if he had been running a race; and all the while he quaked from head to heel as with a palsy. He was a handsome fellow, and he made ... ...ast and beautiful Arcade or Gallery, or whatever it is called. Blocks of tall new buildings of the most sumptuous sort, rich with decoration and grace... ...revolting or indelicate. It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has been doing wi...

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...hrough the chasm the flood did break With an earth-uplifting cataract: The statues gave a joyous scream, And on its wings the pale thin Dream Lifted t... ..., ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far awa... ...works of art was full enjoyment and wonder. He had not studied pictures or statues before; he now did so with the eye of taste, that referred not to t...

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...ngs, the frowning bastions and turrets, the huge stone gateway, with its gilded bars and its magnificent array of colossal granite lions, and other th... ... But they were waved aside with a right royal gesture, and they stopped stock still where they were, like so many statues. Edward took Tom to a rich a... ...t, with gilded pillars and pilasters, and pictured walls and ceilings. At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picture...

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...uch juster grounds than to Silanio and Parrhasius, for making pictures and statues of Theseus. There being then a custom for the Grecian youth, upon t... ...an- deur; others, that Publicola was the first that rode in tri- umph. The statues of Romulus in triumph are, as may be seen in Rome, all on foot. Aft... ...t when I was at Rome, I heard many say, that, when the oracle directed two statues to be raised, one to the wisest, and another to the most valiant ma... ...eration. Other wonders of the like nature, drops of sweat seen to stand on statues, groans heard from them, the figures seen to turn round and to clos... ... longish and out of proportion. For which reason almost all the images and statues that were made of him have the head covered with a helmet, the work... ...us leave their angry gods to the Tarentines.” Nevertheless, he removed the colossal statue of Hercules, and had it set up in the capitol, with one of ...

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...nship. From the gable above depends a stone dais like those that crown the statues of saints at the portal of churches. Can you not see a woman walkin... ...dant hair descends in heavy masses beside the throat, like the coif of the statues at Memphis, and carries out magnificently the general severity of f... ...ng of the arms from the shoulders, superb in outline, seems to belong to a colossal woman. The arms are vigorously modelled, ending in wrists of Engli...

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...ntly taken furnished, rather common and ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the c... ... He felt as if he were seated in immemorial potency, like the great carven statues of real Egypt, as real and as fulfilled with subtle strength, as th... ... he replied. ‘The frieze is part of the whole archi- tecture. Yes, it is a colossal thing.’ Then he seemed to stiffen, shrugged his shoulders, and wen... ...t on: ‘Sculpture and architecture must go together. The day for irrelevant statues, as for wall pictures, is over. As a matter of fact sculpture is al...

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... instances of his lofty appreciations of the garden of Art and Nature, and statuesque walk through it, would have been more amusing if her friend coul... ...lish taste for red and white, and for cold outlines: he secretly admired a statuesque demeanour with a statue’s eyes. The national approbation of a re... ...livan Smith, ‘that some of the grand instructive figures were in their day colossal bores!’ ‘So you see the marvel of the poet’s craft at last?’ Diana... ...n of imperishable type, who are never for a twinkle the prey of the blood: statues created by man’s common desire to im- press upon the sex his posses...

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..., like those of the palace at Versailles, and the gateway is surmounted by colossal vases. The gold of the arabesques is ruddy, for rust has added its... ...umeau, and is bor- 206 Sons of the Soil dered by flower-beds adorned with statues, and flanked on either side by columns with niches, which terminate...

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...l barges lay indistinctly on the darkly shining mud and water below, and a colossal crane was per- petually hauling up coal into mysterious blacknesse... ...tings, steel engrav- 216 The New Machiavelli ings, busts, and full-length statues of the late Mr. Gladstone; and its spacious dining-rooms, its long,...

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...ver truly given ourselves to another, without running the risk of living a colossal lie. The quality of this relationship will determine the quality... ... have archeaological remains, which include thousands and thousands votive statues left in the various sanctuaries by women who were thanking the go... ...n stay buried under the sea for millennia, as happened to the bronze Riace statues, but when it re-emerges, its overwhelming beauty is just as power...

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... to port many a cargo which crowned the edifice of fortunes already almost colossal, but he had also done a little sagacious trading on his own accoun... ...laughing. “He has found something in Blackstone that I never did. He makes statues then simply for his pleasure?” 15 Henry James Cecilia, with a smil... ...ome and study the antique. To go to Rome you need money. I ‘m fond of fine statues, but unfortunately I can’t make them myself. I have to order them. ... ...s; and the three at which he looked longest were finished busts. One was a colossal head of a negro, tossed back, defiant, with dis- tended nostrils; ... ...ves either in masterpiece or in proceeds. She can see no good in my making statues; they seem to her a snare of the enemy. She would fain see me all m... ...ey had been spending an hour in the mouldy little garden- house, where the colossal mask of the famous Juno looks out with blank eyes from that dusky ... ... the need for intellectual rest, for a truce to present care for churches, statues, and pictures, on even better grounds than his companion, inasmuch ... ...e gondola, and declared that the only thing worth living for was to make a colossal bronze and set it aloft in the light of a public square. In Rome h... ... his bed was a pallet in a loft, which he shared with a German botanist of colossal stature—every inch of him quaking at an open window. These had bee...

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... a matter of course, only be in- scribed with the Cogito ergo Sum. The two statues mark the two opposite poles to which the brilliant French mind has ... ..., so wide and gradual that a coach and four may be driven to the top. This colossal cylinder has to- day no visible use; but it corresponds, happily e... ...aeval tower, which is ornamented by Gothic windows and the empty niches of statues; a mea- gre but delicate hotel de ville, of the Renaissance, nest- ... ... one side by the theatre, a pompous build- ing, decorated with columns and statues of the muses. Nantes belongs to the class of towns which are always... ... of its commanding position. This hotel, “magnifique construction ornee de statues,” as the Guide-Joanne, usually so reticent, takes the trouble to an... ...cent, takes the trouble to announce, has an omnibus, and, I sup- pose, has statues, though I didn’t perceive them; but it has very little else save im... ...as one encounters only in the cities of France, the chief of these being a colossal figure by Pradier, rep- 136 A Little Tour in France resenting Nim... ...tone seats, in a semi- circle, in the slope of the lull, and planted their colossal wall opposite to it. This wall, from the inside, is, if pos- sible... ...t, roofed with the old beams and cornices, it contains, filling one end, a colossal Gothic chimney-piece, with a fireplace large enough to roast, not ...

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...wears diamond ear-rings; and the drawing-rooms are deco- rated with marble statues. I should indeed be sorry to let you know how I have allowed myself... ...the other hand, no beggars and no cocottes—none, at least, that you see. A colossal mediocrity, except (my brother- in-law tells me) in the machinery,...

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...o the eyes of all persons in the imperial palaces, by pictures, busts, and statues; for we find the same description of his personal ap- pearance thre... ...s it may be said, that they were equally patri- otic in their purpose, and colossal in their proportions. As an orator, Cæsar’s merit was so eminent, ... ...nds of chaotic composition—light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by un- symmetrical arrangement, the angelic in... ... fitted to sustain a Roman popularity; for, in addition to his extreme and statuesque beauty of person, he was (in the report of one who did not wish ... ...lled the world with images of his perfect fawn-like beauty in the shape of colossal statues, and raised temples even to his memory in various cities. ... ...world with images of his perfect fawn-like beauty in the shape of colossal statues, and raised temples even to his memory in various cities. This Cæsa... ...ch, which silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of... ... million of spectators sat round them: standing in the centre was a single statuesque figure—the imperial sagittary, beautiful as an Antinous, and maj...