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...t. She pulled her blouse to carve her breasts, and, to adjust her stocking, she stretched a bronzed and streamlined leg. Janusz gulped these inadve... ..."Don't you cry now, children" – my father glided from the adjacent room and leaned a naked, bronze, shoulder on the doorframe, his face a sad and di... ...cally, as time passes, the plant I pee on blackens. It is an odd and ominous hue, a mesh of bronze and mustard arteries, like poisoning. Still, it ... ...owls, creating fizzing ponds on shimmering floors. I half expect the tiles to yellow and to bronze and then to rarefy into limpidity. But porcelain... ...e entire animal corner. We have sheep and horses, too" – he hugged the circumference with a bronzed gesticulation. "I climb the mountain daily with ... ...pography. Your muscles ripple. Scared animals burrow under your dewey skin. Frozen light sculptures where wrinkles dwell. Embroidered shades, i...

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...It’s crazy! The metal was…well I’m no engineer, but refined you know? This isn’t polished bronze or copper we’re talking about. It looked…” “Advance... ...right gold, the golden eyes were rimmed with black, and the body seemed to have a coppery-bronze sheen to it. “Mitch, say something, this has to be ... ...re body had been overlaid with a protective outer covering, which had a beautiful coppery-bronze sheen to it. The effect was dazzling as the sun hit ... ...tem- ple was an altar, with a large, golden ankh in the center and behind it hung a large bronze carving of a sun image. Candles were lit, their flam... ...n full bloom. In the background was the Amsara monument, the sun glinting off its coppery bronze body and the golden streaks of its mane. Princess A... ...ce of great wealth was every- where around them – paintings of tapestries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was obviously a sophisticated and...

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...wake and trying to look interested; Ao Ch'in, senile, preening her fading bronze scales with her tail and foolishly ogling every male in the place; ... ...with blackness. There were places it had melted and run, forming macabre sculptures of beings beyond madness. All had been scoured by evil, scourg...

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...ation. Stone tools took millions of years to become mostly obsolete. Copper-Bronze Age tools took only a few thousand years to become mostly obsol... ..., Chairs, Machines, Highways, Jewelry, Antiques, Ancient Tools, Paintings, and Sculptures… we call these things artifacts… Boats, Planes, Guns, Bom... ...Kings were crowned. Their cultures were all wiped out by the Copper Age, The Bronze Age, and the Age of Iron. We know almost nothing of how they ac... ... They are decapitated Gods. Thy are the mentally detached insane Gods of the Bronze Age: where humans in the North: finally found a way of killing t... ...ng. It signifies the base- root of human brainwashing that was instilled into bronze-copper age human… to trust their gods implicitly: and never, ne... ...! No! “Y”?!! Why! Why? The gods, the unseen insane detached gods of the Bronze Age have covered up their tracks: but their copper pennies stil... ...erected in their honor: statues in parks and squares all over the world. The sculptures of these monuments only have one place where birds shit on ...

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...her -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab, for the great green bronze piece is always first of the conqueror’s loot. There was some justif... ...mazed. In the entrance hall stood the larger figures of the Greco Buddhist sculptures done, savants know how long since, by forgotten workmen whose ha... ... and I thank Bhumia, the God of the Home stead.’ He shrugged one knotted, bronzed shoulder. ‘Think you our Lord came so far North?’ said the lama, tu...

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...edge of a cliff. At its base, in its projected shadow, gleamed certain dim sculptures which I wonderingly ap- proached. One of the images, on the left... ...ed with a certain relief from his sinister strength to a slender figure in bronze, stationed beneath the high light loggia, which opposes the free and... ...wing-room chimney-piece. Surrounded by these treasures, and by innumerable bronzes, mosaics, majolica dishes, and little worm-eaten diptychs covered w... ...sixty francs for a little group like that. My statuettes are as durable as bronze—aere perennius, signore—and, between ourselves, I think they are mor...

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...med by a wing which, on the right, comes forward. This front, covered with sculptures, is of the richest, stateliest effect. The court is approachcd b... ... piles itself, on a great scale, carried up by galleries, arches, windows, sculptures, and supported by the extraordinarily thick buttresses of which ... ...nd fearfully; they hang back, and seem to say, “Oh, dear!” These elaborate sculptures, full of in- genuous intention and of the reality of early faith... ...gar. This fifteenth-century millionnaire, with his palace, his egotistical sculptures, may have produced that impression on some critical spirits of h... ... from it, especially if he were to bring in, as they say, the little black bronze statue of the good King Rene (a weak production of David d’Angers), ... ... and a shroud thrown over his body. At each of the angles sits a figure in bronze, the two best of which, representing Charity and Military Cour- age,... ...ll, with a brush dipped in blackness; and, placed among the paint- ings, a bronze replica of the charming young David of Mercie. These things have bee... ... wide awnings,—a little place of which the principal feature is a very bad bronze statue of Saint Louis by Pradier. It is almost as bad as the breakfa... ...vening, in the vague moon- light, which made it look as if it were cast in bronze. Stendhal says, justly, that it has the shape of a playing- card, an...

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...quity of which there is no token left, save its cavernous tombs, and a few bronzes, and some quaintly wrought ornaments of gold, and gems with mystic ... ...ilvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in a... ...e is a resolution to which I bind myself, come what come may! You know the bronze statue of Pope Julius in the great square of Perugia? I remember sta... ...c imagination showed its overflow and gra- tuity of device in the manifold sculptures which it lavished as freely as the water did its shifting shapes... ...he piazza. And, beyond all question, they thus witnessed the erection of a bronze statue, which, three centuries since, was placed on the pedestal tha... ..., arrayed in his pontifical robes, and crowned with the tiara. He sat in a bronze chair, el- evated high above the pavement, and seemed to take kindly... ...n, which every man—so broad, so wise, and so serenely affectionate was the bronze pope’s regard—might hope to feel quietly descending upon the need, o...

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... sarcophagus without its lid, and with all its more prominently projecting sculptures broken off; perhaps it once held famous dust, and the bony frame... ...ause he sincerely believed that, whether he wrought the busts in marble or bronze, the one would corrode and the other crumble in the long lapse of ti... ...erican art is much better represented at Rome in the pictorial than in the sculpturesque depart- ment. Yet the men of marble appear to have more weigh... ...Rome and its neighborhood are still rich in; seals, gems, small figures of bronze, mediaeval carvings in ivory; things which had been obtained at litt... ...on the summit of the Capitoline Hill. They stood awhile to contemplate the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The moonlight glistened upon t... ...quity of which there is no token left, save its cavernous tombs, and a few bronzes, and some quaintly wrought ornaments of gold, and gems with mystic ... ...ilvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in a... ...e is a resolution to which I bind myself, come what come may! You know the bronze statue of Pope Julius in the great square of Perugia? I remember sta... ...c imagination showed its overflow and gra- tuity of device in the manifold sculptures which it lavished 239 Hawthorne as freely as the water did its ...

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...some paintings of Scotch scenery, three big armchairs, a buhl clock, and a bronze Dancing Faun, by their want of any col- lective idea enhanced rather... ...s manner. “I was explaining to the young lady that it dates from the early bronze age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothi... ... age. Before chronol- ogy existed…. But she insists on dates.” “Nothing of bronze has ever been found here,” said Sir Richmond. “Well, when was this e... ...e has ever been found here,” said Sir Richmond. “Well, when was this early bronze age, anyhow?” said the young lady. Sir Richmond sought a recognizabl... ..., anyhow?” said the young lady. Sir Richmond sought a recognizable datum. “Bronze got to Britain somewhere between the times of Moses and Solomon.” “A... ...hedral. The three tourists devoted a golden half hour before dinner to the sculptures on the western face. The great screen of wrought stone rose up w...

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... sarcophagus without its lid, and with all its more prominently projecting sculptures broken off; perhaps it once held famous dust, and the bony frame... ...ause he sincerely believed that, whether he wrought the busts in marble or bronze, the one would corrode and the other crumble in the long lapse of ti... ...erican art is much better represented at Rome in the pictorial than in the sculpturesque depart- ment. Yet the men of marble appear to have more weigh... ...Rome and its neighborhood are still rich in; seals, gems, small figures of bronze, mediaeval carvings in ivory; things which had been obtained at litt... ...on the summit of the Capitoline Hill. They stood awhile to contemplate the bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. The moonlight glistened upon t...

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...ls and shrill merriment over head. Here were old brick tombs with curious sculptures on them, and quaint gravestones, some of which bore puffy little... ...ugh he is but a kind of dream stuff in his widest awake state. Hannah, you bronze jade, call the school master to come to breakfast.” Hannah departed... ..., etc., as if year after year had been spent in bringing these veg etable sculptures to perfection. In one of the gardens, more over, the ingenious ... ...d was piled up in the virgin soil. Old tombs there were too, with numerous sculptures on them; and quaint, mossy gravestones; although all kinds of mo...

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... and he wore it wide open on a muscular chest the colour and smoothness of bronze. From the twist of threadbare sarong wound tightly on the hips protr... ...stockade was thrown open she perceived an expectant and still multitude of bronze figures draped in coloured stuffs. They crowded the patches of shade... ...beads, remained cross-legged with their swords across their knees like two bronze idols. Even the plumes of their head- dresses stirred not. “Sudah! I... ...y streaming with sweat, his firm limbs gleaming like limbs of imperishable bronze through the mass of green leaves that are forever born and forever d... ...ft the fierce flame from which a few sparks were fall- ing slowly. A naked bronze arm lighted from above pointed out the direction and Mrs. Travers be... ...ering of mournful meditation. Such attitudes are met with sometimes on the sculptures of ancient tombs. D’Alcacer began to speak: “She is a representa...

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... patronized Art, and it was a pleasure to hear him speak upon pictures and sculptures; he knew a great deal about them. ‘He is an authority.’ Her humo... ... etageres, holding every knickknack she had possessed and scattered, small bronzes, antiques, ivory junks, quaint ivory figures Chinese and Japanese, ...

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... of a type of peasantry he had seen in old tapes- tries, old pictures, old sculptures, and which, up to this time, had seemed to him imaginary. He res... ...he unmeaning commonplaces of modern luxury. Rich papers with gold borders, bronze chandeliers, mahogany furniture of a new pattern, astral lamps, roun... ...cenes, or of Callot, that poet of the fantastic in poverty. The pic- tured bronze legs, the bare heads, the ragged garments so curiously faded, so dam... ...cious; they begin to take the russet warmth of Sienna earth, and the green-bronze tones which form the lovely tap- estry beneath which they hide from ... ...henomenon; there are spots where the tree-tops are the color of Florentine bronze, the leaves are dried—” “Well, I’ll dress.” 276 Sons of the Soil “O...

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...ompacted aged robustness. His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalter- able mould, like Cellini’s cast Perseus. ... ...n standers-of-mast-heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still ... ...l delu- sions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscru- pulous times when on... ...a of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every co...

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...ompacted aged robustness. His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini’s cast Perseus. Th... ...n standers of mast heads we have but a lifeless set; mere stone, iron, and bronze men; who, though well capable of facing out a stiff gale, are still ... ...ial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on t... ...a of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every co...

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...marvels of Vesuvius and Pompeii, the travellers went on to Rome. There the sculptures were Coley’s first delight, and he had the advantage of hints fr... ...tone work, &c.,—perfect.’ And the house, ‘full of first-rate works of art, bronzes, carvings, &c.,’ was pleasant to the eyes that had been so enthusia...

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...r, and for a long time, in a stillness broken only by the ticking of the big bronze clock, she passed them in review. It had been a very happy life an... ... comfort and affirm his nationality; and with his pleas ant steady eyes, his bronzed complexion, fresh beneath its seasoning, his manly figure, his min... ...kened with incense and with the reflections of marble and gilt, of mosaic and bronze, her conception of greatness rose and dizzily rose. After this it ... ...It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as ...

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... and for a long time, in a stillness broken only by the ticking of the big bronze clock, she passed them in review. It 47 Henry James had been a very... ...comfort and affirm his nationality; and with his pleasant steady eyes, his bronzed complex- ion, fresh beneath its seasoning, his manly figure, his mi... ...ed with incense and with the reflections of marble and gilt, of mosaic and bronze, her conception of greatness rose and dizzily rose. After this it ne... ...s impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great com- pany of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as wi...

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...ee air, and the plashing of the fountains, which, forced into the air from sculptures of fatastic and gro- tesque forms, fell down with ceaseless soun... ... music. From the highly-carved oaken roof hung a superb chandelier of gilt bronze, formed like a spread eagle, whose outstretched wings supported thre...

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...uline look, that reminded people of the faces of Hercules in paintings and sculptures. It was, moreover, an ancient tradition, that the Antonys were d... ... that place in token of his victory, the statue of this man and his ass in bronze were placed amongst them. After examining the rest of his fleet, he ...

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...od, Fair to be seen, and rear’d of honest wood: A tomb, indeed, with fewer sculptures graced Than that Mausolus’ pious widow placed, Or where enshrine... ...eers shine round him with reflected grace, New edge their dulness, and new bronze their face. 10 So from the sun’s broad beam, in shallow urn... ...s to show, Dishonest sight! his breeches rent below; Embrown’d with native bronze, lo! Henley 364 stands, T uning his voice, and balancing his hands.... ...translations of Homer and Virgil done to the life, and with such excellent sculptures. And (what added great grace to his works) he printed them all o...

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... V enetian glasses, cups and goblets, natural curiosities, works in ivory, bronzes, and a hundred other things, were separated and displayed; and I di... ... passion upon the otherwise so splendid sixteenth century, when, in German sculptures and poems, they knew how to represent life only under the form o...

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...an iron ring in its nostrils, and who moved no more than if he had been in bronze. A child in rags was holding him by a rope. Between the two lines th... ... not?” said she. For she clung with her expiring virtue to the Virgin, the sculptures, the tombs—anything. Then, in order to proceed “by rule,” the be... ...ating in the purple colour of the sun, like floating plaques of Florentine bronze. They rowed down in the midst of moored boats, whose long oblique ca... ...the haste of her lips that fastened to his mouth. On the clock there was a bronze cupid, who smirked as he bent his arm beneath a golden garland. They...

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...he bluish-grey pile of the Opera, with its pompous win- dows and its naked bronze ladies holding lamps. He was in a narrow street full of hotels and f... ...it wonderfully in the landscape, don’t they? Did I ever tell you about the sculptures in the hospital where I was when I was wounded?” 338 Three Sold...

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...is very scene. The dame of dames! can I believe then, Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her? Nor shades of Virgil a... ...ss and iron facades, Gladdening the sun and sky, enhued in cheerfulest hues, Bronze, lilac, robin’s egg, marine and crimson, Over whose golden roof sh...

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...able; if you could have turned one of these young Indians into a statue of bronze, his drap- ery would have been perfectly graceful. One day I rode to... ...nd were free. What a fine picture one can form in one’s mind, — the naked, bronze-like figure of the old man with his little boy, riding like a Mazepp... ...; they equalle in the size of their huge heads and necks the Grecian marbl sculptures. Capt. Sulivan informs me that the hide of a average-sized bull ...

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... itself to the eye had likewise its share of this coarseness. Think of the sculptures on the capitals and the modillions of churches, and the crude fr... ...co, Fra Pietro in the scuffle broke the heads of the assail- ants with the bronze crucifix he had taken from the altar? A well-handled cross could so ...