And the fairies can hear the low sweet chimes As they gently sway to and fro; Perhaps it's an echo of those soft tones Which the cherubs heard long ago.
TWO cherubs were playing near Heaven's gate, Which an angel had left ajar; They were toying each with small silver bells, Whose soft chimes could be heard afar.
She stands in the middle of the picture, upon a mass of clouds, which two pendent cherubs deliciously loop up.
Frugal orders for breakfast, and to rest, with the cherubs of the mantel-piece watching over you.
The Dominican in the foreground, who has his arm raised as if appealing to heaven and earth against the barbarous act, seems to have communicated a touch of his passion to the two cherubs above, who bear the martyr palm.
It hurt Marie Louise so extravagantly to be hated by these irascible cherubs that her anger vanished in regret.
She heard them coming now, and she could not reach the door before it opened and disclosed the grinning, tousle-curled cherubs in their sleeping-suits.
Examples of his work may perhaps be seen in the nearest villain with a big hat in the Flagellation chapel, and in two cherubs in the Assumption of the Virgin.
The two large cherubs here are obviously by a later hand, and the small ones are not good.
Four beautiful cherubs bear her armorial ensigns, two at her head and two at her feet (the work of Thomas Meyt, the brother of Conrad).
Satiro, which Caradosso had lately adorned with his elegant frieze of cherubs and medallions.
Great Shepherd of thine Israel, Who didst between the cherubs dwell, And led the tribes, thy chosen sheep, Safe thro' the desert and the deep.
Jesus the Saviour reigns, Let earth adore its Lord; Bright cherubs his attendants stand, Swift to fulfil his word.
And the mother of the cherubs rushed from the room in a state of unangelic excitement, while Simon Rump seated himself in his big arm-chair and looked doleful and desolate.
The two cherubs tried the strength of their lungs; and Simon Rump arose from the table, and, putting on his hat, opened the door to go forth and talk with his lawyer about the big case.
Pate filed a bill in chancery for Dobbs, and a decree was passed changing his name to Rump; and Simon Dobbs is now Simon Rump; and an angel dwells with him, and seven sweet little cherubs run about his domicile with their bare feet.
Two of the cherubs also took part in the combat, and Rump was driven from the door into the street.
Rump was overpowered, and turning his back, ignominiously fled, leaving the angel and cherubs in possession of the field.
Dobbs dreamed of Susan and the seven sweet little cherubsevery night, and every evening, when he called to see her, he found one of the order on duty in the parlor.
One of the little cherubs ran into the room, and bawling out, 'You stop biting my mamma!
Angels must eat, and cherubs must have bread and butter, and it takes money to obtain a constant supply of such articles.
Cherubs are always barefooted," said the Professor.
His statue of Washington, at the Capitol, is taken precisely from the Plodian Jupiter; his Chanting Cherubs are copied in marble from two figures in a picture by Raphael.
He devoured his food as if he feared the cherubs sporting in the gilded panels of the ceiling would descend and snatch it from his plate.
The essence of the event is forgotten: its external manifestation alone is presented to the eye; and only the accessories of beardless angels and cloud-encumbered cherubs are really beautiful amid a surge of limbs in restless movement.
It represents Madonna and a crowd of saints under an orchard of apple-trees, withcherubs curiously flung about almost at random in the air.
Cupolas through the length and breadth of Italy began to be covered with clouds and simpering cherubs in the convulsions of artificial ecstasy.
And they sung a new song before the throne and before the four cherubs and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.
AND I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and heard one of the four cherubs say like the sound of thunder, Come.
And one of the four cherubs gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of the God who lives forever and ever.
And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the fourcherubs and in the midst of the elders, a lamb standing as if killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.
Correggio was a famous Italian artist of the sixteenth century, who painted cherubs like children who were just going to heaven, and children like cherubs who had just come out of it.
All round I set a crowd of cherubsin divers attitudes.
The boys’ eyes were glowing on the saucepan, and their cheeks were filled out with food as the cherubs in his chapel at home were puffed out with air as they blew celestial trumpets.
The Virgin floats, up-borne by rosy clouds; flocks of pinkcherubs flutter at her feet, waving palm branches.
Thirty-three beautiful cherubs are showering the kneeling St. Francis with red and white roses, blossoms from the briers with which he scourged himself.
That's very true," said Adonis, "and I suppose the cherubs make as good caddies as we can expect.
On cherubs and on cherubines full royally he road And on the winges of all the windes came flying all abroad.
As he entered the hall, Madame came swaying out of Miss Murray's room with a group of cherubs peeping from behind her.
Madame came swaying out carrying a bunch of gay spiked gladiolus, her draperies floating about her with cherubs peeping from their folds, like a saint in an old picture.
The tall Madonna was broken in two; Washington had his cocked hat crushed; the cherubs had lost their wings; and as for the elephants and the giraffes, there was a general mix-up of broken trunks and long necks.
It was not removed from the earth after the fall; it is there still, else whence the need of cherubs to guard the access to it?
The belief in the cherubs which guard Paradise is also widely diffused.
The cherub on the Jarrett tablet bears a strong resemblance to two similar cherubs which support a royal crown carved on the back of an old walnut chair which I bought in the village in a cottage near the Manor House.
We look up and see the clouds floating above us, sometimes with shapes like cherubs and angels, at other times like demons and evil spirits: so the old painters and poets watched, and got their ideas of heaven and hell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cherubs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
