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Example sentences for "engravings"

Lexicographically close words:
engraven; engraver; engravers; engraves; engraving; engro; engross; engrossed; engrossers; engrosses
  1. An angel exhibits these same plates to other men, and permits them to examine the engravings thereon.

  2. A Series of Twenty-one exquisite Engravings on Steel.

  3. Engravings and Plans of the Battle-fields.

  4. With about 2,000 Engravings and Tinted Plates.

  5. With upwards of 400 Engravings on Wood, and numerous full-page Plates, printed in Colours, from Original Designs by F.

  6. Mention has been made already of the engravings with which the Concordances are nearly all supplied.

  7. They had engravings made, to which they added the motto, "I will give them the shield of my heart.

  8. The accompanying engravings represent a new disinfecting apparatus invented by Mr. W.

  9. The works illustrated by the engravings are now being constructed under a concession from the imperial government of Brazil.

  10. Extensively Embellished with Engravings on Copper and Wood.

  11. Designed as an Introduction to Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany, for Cultivators of Flowers, with 80 beautifully colored engravings of Poetic Flowers.

  12. Comprising Angling and Dyeing of Colours, with Engravings of Salmon and Trout Flies, shewing the Process of the Gentle Craft as Taught in the Pages.

  13. Folio, Full-page Engravings by Tookey, from drawings by Ibbetson.

  14. Birds, done in real feathers, the backgrounds being colored engravings or water-color sketches.

  15. The double figure engravings have apparently been done on copper by American engravers from Bewick's woodcuts.

  16. Engravings on Wood from Drawings by Leech, Alken, Landseer, etc.

  17. Nearly one-half of these fine stipple Engravings are of celebrated Botanists.

  18. Title-pages have colored engravings of groups of boys examining a tub of fish, etc.

  19. With copper-plate engravings of every species and variety.

  20. Our first and second engravings show the formation of the twist, thus making the above explanation clear.

  21. Our second and third engravings are likewise borrowed from Heron.

  22. Our other engravings show water serpents, water dolphins, and the floating fire fountains.

  23. Our engravings show the mechanism of the photographic gun and the method of using it.

  24. Our engravings show the upper and the under side of the gridiron of the Castle Square Theater, in Boston, Mass.

  25. Our next two engravings show two kinds of jumps: the first, the flexure of the legs and the reduction of the shock; the second, with the leg almost straight, which implies a severe shock by the feet striking the ground.

  26. Reference to our second and third engravings will give the secret of the trick.

  27. The accompanying engravings represent an object sold in the London bazars.

  28. We now present some engravings of the electric torch and electric jewels for which the theatrical world is indebted to the French inventor M.

  29. The general method of securing the side scenes by scene frames and extension braces will be understood by reference to the engravings in the chapter entitled "Fireworks with Dramatic Accessories," in the present work.

  30. It will be seen by one of our engravings that the Indian appears tied in a bag in the trunk.

  31. Our engravings were taken with an ordinary four by five "kodak," and the box was an ordinary cigar box cut down to fit, and blackened inside.

  32. Our engravings show the various systems of lighting employed, showing the cords, pulleys, and other devices for turning the gelatine shades around or raising them so as to give the desired effect.

  33. We present a number of engravings of photographs taken upon a black background.

  34. The annexed engravings show pictures of clay-pigeon shooting and of the firing of a ten-inch disappearing gun at Sandy Hook.

  35. Profusely Illustrated with about =2,000= splendid Engravings and Tinted Plates.

  36. With Three Fine Engravings on Steel, and Eight Woodcuts.

  37. Illustrated with over 80 Engravings, =and full-page Engravings from Photographs=.

  38. But the majority of our illustrations will consist of engravings upon zinc and wood, which will not, we hope, fall short of their more elaborate companions in honesty and fidelity.

  39. Father Peter had left his curate his furniture, but the pretty mahogany bookcase and the engravings upon the walls were Father Oliver's own taste; he had bought them at an auction, and there were times when these purchases pleased him.

  40. All of these three were engraved in Watteau's life-time or shortly after his death, and the verses sub-joined to the engravings are a charming rendering of the sentiment underlying the pictures.

  41. It is interesting to note that this alliance was formed when the three young artists were looking over a book of engravings of the frescoes in the Campo Santo at Pisa.

  42. Shenkel, the architect, had been very kind to him, and presented him with a set of drawings and engravings of his great architectural works, which Mr. Maudslay exhibited to me with much delight.

  43. Illustrated with Seventy Engravings from Original Drawings by the Author.

  44. The engravings by De Bry are ghastly and revolting, and present all too faithfully the shocking enormities related in the text.

  45. The engravings were reproduced in heliotypes; and with the text translated by Frederick B.

  46. A proof-copy of this engraving is among the Tosti Engravings in the Boston Public Library.

  47. In one of the engravings a garden near the Puerta de Goles is marked “Guerta de Colon;” and in the other the words “Casa de Colon” are attached to the top of one of the houses.

  48. Behaim and his globe (besides those accompanying the engravings above indicated) in the Journal of the American Geographical Society (1872), iv.

  49. One of these early engravings is given on page 15.

  50. This cut follows the engravings in Ruge’s Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen, p.

  51. This cut follows the engravings in Ghillany’s Behaim, and in Ruge’s Geschichte des Zeitalters der Entdeckungen, p.

  52. The previous thirteen are given in small marginal engravings in the border of the frontispiece of Herrera’s fifth and sixth Decades, and copied in the edition of Barcia, who throws discredit on the engravings which De Bry had given.

  53. He adds, however, engravings of Father Juan Xuarez and Brother Juan Palos, after portraits preserved in Mexico of the twelve Franciscans who were first sent to that country.

  54. There is a collection of old and choice copperplate engravings in the possession of Mr. Plassman, who has a school of art in New York; there is also such a collection at the Historical rooms in the same city.

  55. We have read "that an improved method of transferring copies of delicate copper and steel plate engravings to the surface of lithographic stone has been invented.

  56. Each illustrated with 200 fine engravings by French artists: p.

  57. With eighty-one engravings on wood, by Joseph A.

  58. But it is impossible even briefly to attempt to speak of these beauties—our engravings will have shown some of their features; others must be left for the eye of the visitor to revel in while there.

  59. Illustrated with Three Hundred and Eighty Engravings on Wood New York A.

  60. There are also pictures of great worth in some of these rooms; notably a portrait by Holbein of his mother, a series of charming drawings by Henry Bright, and several fine proof engravings of great pictures.

  61. In one of our engravings we show the panelled front of the Minstrels’ Gallery, and on the preceding page we give a vignette of the entrance to the gallery from the drawing room.

  62. For the loan of the engravings of the Church, the Children’s Cottage, the Statue of Sir R.

  63. The engravings represent the mountain as seen from Catania; the Isole dei Ciclopi, and the neighbouring coast; the Montagna della Motta; and a view from Catania of the eruption of 1787.

  64. The maps are both geological and topographical, and they are accompanied by outline engravings of various details of special interest.

  65. Rollo's father had a great many books of pictures and engravings of various kinds in his library; and sometimes he used to allow the children to see them, but only a very few at a time.

  66. But, little by little, Angelique was curious to know exactly what these engravings represented.

  67. We could amplify these notices, but we consider that the engravings will be sufficient to show our readers the kind of groups that can be arranged, and suggest to inventive and tasteful minds a multitude of other combinations.

  68. This is really one of the most beautiful engravings we have ever published: "Time in search of Cupid.

  69. The engravings in the volume by which these remarks have been elicited are beautiful.

  70. Later, we published the engravings with those of other artists, mostly by G.

  71. Routledge made a collection of engravings from Foster's drawings in their various books, for publication.

  72. He gave us a list of those waited for, and placed the completion of the engravings in our hands, asking us to look up the artists, which brought us in close communication with those engaged upon the work.

  73. Dalziel the book was financially never a success, some day their effort to produce the best engravings they could from the best drawings they could get will be acknowledged.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engravings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.