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Example sentences for "frieze"

Lexicographically close words:
friendships; friendt; frient; frier; friers; friezes; frigat; frigate; frigates; frigging
  1. The people who worked this frieze may have pretended, perhaps, that they were expressing the pleasures of hunting; but what they actually realised was evidently the horrors of a world given over to ravening creatures.

  2. The strange, wild frieze moved slowly and silently onwards amid a setting of black stone and yellow sand, with the one arch of vivid blue spanning the rugged edges of the ravine.

  3. The frieze now was more grotesque than ever, but had changed suddenly to an equestrian one, sharply outlined against the deep-blue Egyptian sky.

  4. Like a grotesque frieze the party moved one by one along the plank gangway and up the brown crumbling bank.

  5. The frieze of the Parthenon is recalled, so plastic is the grace of these young frames, and the style and repose of the treatment of lines, which are such as may only be found in Puvis de Chavannes.

  6. He cooked, and his friend scoured the pans; meanwhile he worked as a mason on the frieze of the South Kensington Museum, and hired himself out for the evenings as a zither-player.

  7. Anning Bell, well known by his design for the cover of the Studio, has also done excellent work in coloured relief, especially in his frieze "Music and Dancing.

  8. His "Pegasus" might have come straight from the frieze of the Parthenon.

  9. The room is quite simple, a frieze with angels' heads being its only ornament.

  10. While she was but a flying phantom on the frieze of time, Death fixed her there forever,--a haunting spirit in perennial bliss.

  11. The homespun frieze that the peasant wore upon his back was hung by the nobleman upon his walls.

  12. In all such clothes as are mentioned above every rich stuff of cloth, silk, wool, and frieze may be used, and fur linings and fur hats are constant, as also are furred edges to garments.

  13. A background of humbler persons in homespun tunics with cloth or frieze hoods over their heads.

  14. Silk dresses and frieze gowns, velvet and homespun, hurry along as the rain falls more heavily, and after a while the street becomes quite deserted.

  15. How else Shall ye contrast my frieze to come beneath?

  16. Under the frieze of the naos an oval with the prenomen of Rameses II.

  17. The first of these is the row of hexagonal studs, which forms a kind of frieze above the pilasters.

  18. On the frieze of the latter is represented the solemn sacrifice that was to cement the union of the Hellenic people, and place it at the head of civilization.

  19. This Artemis appears, with a bundle of twigs in her arm, next to Ares, among the Spartan divinities, on the frieze of the Parthenon.

  20. Here he is," said Simon, nodding at the figure behind him, a short round figure wrapped in a thick frieze cloak, from which water ran.

  21. It was after ten o'clock that night when a woman, wrapped in a rough frieze coat, knocked at the door of the house in the Bree Straat and asked for the Vrouw van Goorl.

  22. Very fair and surprising it is with its frieze of angels' heads by Donatello, helped perhaps by Desiderio da Settignano.

  23. And they inlaid that frieze with rubies and jacinths until it made the cupola resemble the domes of Paradise.

  24. The ceilings were inlaid with choice gems and lapis lazuli and precious metals: the walls were coated with white stucco painted over with ceruse[FN#187] and the frieze was covered with silver and gold and ultramarine and costly minerals.

  25. This gate is a Frieze of Paris, as deeply significant of modern aspiration and sorrow as the Parthenon Frieze is the symbol of the great clear beauty of Hellas.

  26. Above this fine frieze of subject-pictures runs a course of single figures, grouped in pairs, on either side of the windows in the clerestory.

  27. Opposite the archers is another magnificent frieze of =angry lions=, from the summit of the portals in the last-named palace.

  28. Note modern reproductions on the frieze of this apartment.

  29. In the frieze and dado the prevailing color is dark blue.

  30. The frieze at the top is of white flowers in arches with blue sky between the arches.

  31. It was like walking on the unrolled frieze of a white Etruscan vase patterned with black vine garlands.

  32. Round the smouldering embers of the fire a score of figures lay sleeping in the open, wrapped in their frieze coats.

  33. The man in the frieze coat followed more leisurely, and with such dignity as became the owner of a stone-walled house.

  34. Augustin stepped forward impulsively, as if he had a mind to throw the gentleman in the frieze coat into the sea.

  35. Still the greater part of the assemblage, with Irish patience, remained seated in ranks on the slopes of the hills, the women with their drugget shawls drawn over their heads, the men with their frieze coats hanging loose about them.

  36. He descended more slowly, and reached the girl's side as O'Sullivan Og, in his frieze coat, came to the front in support of his men.

  37. And precisely as in the figures or tendrils of a frieze we do not look for minuteness of execution in the individual forms, or for distant perspectives and different planes, so we must as little expect anything of the kind from these poems.

  38. Above, in a broad strip, a frieze of angels blowing trumpets stand on the celestial sea on either hand of the Enthroned Majesty.

  39. The attached angle-shafts of piers are found here for the first time, and their capitals are enriched, as also the frieze surmounting the walls, with other conventional patterns.

  40. In a frieze are the portraits of seventy-six of the Doges, but in one space is a black tablet only, with the inscription: "This in place of M.

  41. The columns and the pilasters support the beautiful cornice of white marble; the frieze is of porphyry, and goes round the whole temple.

  42. This is exemplified in all the great works of antiquity, among which the Parthenon frieze may be quoted as evidence.

  43. A sculptured marble frieze or a carved ivory snuff-box may be equally censurable as being either so bare that they verge on baldness and want of interest, or so elaborate that they look like layers of fungus.

  44. On the backs of the stalls, and on the entablature of the frieze fifty-four carved pictures represented the principal incidents of the conquest of Granada.

  45. Above the three hollows or chapels that pierce it runs a frieze of ancient relievos, the work of some obscure mediaeval artist.

  46. The desire to fire grew upon me, when suddenly from the cave came a flash, a report, and the tall man in the frieze coat fell without a moan.

  47. With the soldiers was a tall, wiry-looking man, dressed in a long frieze coat that went to his heels.

  48. The faithful Venetians have made a frieze of them, also, at the end of which we read aloud and thankfully, the name of Manini.

  49. The portraits of the Doges are upon the frieze close to the ceiling.

  50. The draperies are unfinished, the hair and wool of the animals are unfinished, and the entire bas-reliefs of the frieze are roughly cut.

  51. But I can only at present suggest decorating its frieze with pendant purses; and making its pillars broad at the base, for the sticking of bills.


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    Other words:
    border; corduroy; cotton; fabric; frieze; nylon; topping