In the intervals between the panels golden peacocks drank from golden fountains and cupids played with doves.
O mark ye how The soul of nature melts in numbers: now See, a thousand Cupids fly To light their tapers at the bride's bright eye.
About the sweet bag of a bee Two cupidsfell at odds, And whose the pretty prize should be They vow'd to ask the gods.
The angels and celestial beings of these grave old painters are as different from the fat little pink Cupids or lovely laughing children of Titian and Correggio as are the sermons of President Edwards from the love-songs of Tom Moore.
Beneath her feet she treads a cool mosaic pavement where laughing Cupids are dancing.
The scenes thus depicted are undoubtedly borrowed from daily life, although Aphrodite, with her attendance of Cupids and Graces, has taken the place of mortal women.
They found the object under three folds of linen; it was a Faenza plate representing Cupidsflying away, and pursued by apothecaries' apprentices armed with enormous squirts.
The pursuit is full of comical grimaces and postures; one of the charming little Cupids is already impaled; he writhes, flutters his wings, and strives to fly away, but the assassin laughs a Satanic laugh.
If Cupids be child-life, then the old style offers scores of examples, but the modern child has been denuded of his wings and is employed in other occupations than twining wreaths of roses around lovers.
On one of these vases is a panel decorated with a group of Cupids supporting a shield upon which is inscribed the mark used by Fournier in the period of Frederik V.
Decorated in rococo style with panels having allegorical subjects, one of which has a medallion supported by cupids upon which a crown and F5 are inscribed in gold.
Master Titian has twice painted this design, only that in one picture two Cupids appear, while the other shows only one Love.
Music sent forth sweet strains, and from the rosy clouds the chorus of Cupids greeted the gods with songs of rejoicing.
In the center is a huge piece of chased silver, representing Cupidsand genii, who in golden shells, cornucopias, and vases offer the rarest fruits, the most delicious confections!
There were blue silk, pink silk, red silk, violet silk, mauve silk garters, and the buckles were made of two gilt metal cupids embracing each other.
Two stone cupids supported the number of the house.
Then I peeked out from behind those cupids and watched you wish.
I think there is a place to go down behind those cupids that hold the pedestal, but the water shoots right over it.
I’d like to stand up there behind thosecupids and look out at the back of the waterfall.
Do you think anyone can hear me if I stand up there behind the cupids and call for help?
Even the cupids look alive now that they’re all wet and shiny.
All sorts of littlecupids and gnomes peered out at me from unexpected places.
A dainty bower it was, filled with the perfume of flowers, and rosy cupids disporting on the ceiling; and china and silver and gold filigree strewn about, with my tea-cups on the table.
No marble Cupids or tall Dianas fill the niches in the staircase, and the mahogany board, round which has been gathered many a famous toast and wit, is gone from the dining room.
Between and among these were littlecupids and doves fastened on, also nosegays of flowers and fluttering ribbons, and hearts pierced with darts, and the whole effect was like one great big valentine.
And indeed the room looked like a valentine shop, with its flowers and gifts and cupids and valentines, and the big heart standing in front of the mantel.
Sometimes they only took the round or square lace papers, and mounted them on cards, and added little scrap pictures of doves or cupids or flowers.
The Roman villa level on the grass, With wrestling cupids on the floor within; The church where first a Norman priest said mass, The ivied chimneys of the Georgian inn: These have their message.
Laugh not at the statue calling Phyllis with her marble muff, Nor the marble cupidssprawling On a cloud of powder puff.
By this time all the ladies were crying in their handkerchiefs, but presently the Cupids had a lovely idea.
Most gladsome sight of all, the Cupids plucked the hated fools' caps from their heads and cast them high in the air.
Maimie cried, and away she ran to look for them very recklessly, for the Cupids hate to be laughed at.
Naturally Queen Mab felt disgraced, and first she tried the effect of ordering the court into tears for nine minutes, and then she blamed the Cupids and decreed that they should wear fools' caps until they thawed the Duke's frozen heart.
A knot of Cupids co-operating for the fabrication of their barbed arrows is the poetry of painting applied to the arts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cupids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
