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Example sentences for "human figures"

  • Most of the designs, like those shown in the cuts, were of human figures in various attitudes, and having a variety of dress, ornaments, and insignia.

  • This stucco work consists of human figures in various attitudes, having a variety of dress, ornaments, and insignia.

  • The figure behind him may mean an island, on which are represented some pueblos and human figures.

  • The lion and the hare, birds and insects, are the commonest; and there are some instances of human figures reduced to a pattern in these sculptured representations of textiles.

  • Representations of human figures in embroideries probably originated in hangings for the wall; but have been treated as decorative forms, both by the Indians and the Greeks, for wearing apparel.

  • In radiating the forms of a flower, nature gives endless hints of beauty; but a radiating pattern of human figures would be ridiculous, and even the branches of a tree cannot be so treated.

  • There are many features in this art which show its absolute independence of origin from that of the Magdalenian of the north, among them the frequent presence of composition and the almost invariable presence of human figures.

  • Corinthian vases without ground-ornaments, and with large friezes of animals or human figures; incised details.

  • Others are modelled in the form of human figures, animals, heads, or sandalled feet; the British Museum possesses a good example of grey ware from Knidos in the form of a figure of Artemis (Cat.

  • The oinochoae appear, from the absence of human figures, to be earlier than the amphorae, and the number of friezes often exceeds two; there are also a few minor distinctions.

  • Footnote 121: The rarity of human figures on such kinds of pottery as are found in the oldest ruins would appear to indicate that decorations of this kind were a late development.

  • The majority of the bowls from Awatobi are decorated in geometric patterns and a few have animal or human figures.

  • From their character I am led to the belief that the drawing of human figures on pottery was a late development in Tusayan art, and postdates the use of animal figures on their earthenware.

  • The inscriptions not only retain the ancient characters, in which faces and human figures were intermingled, but they sometimes entirely consist of human figures grouped in the most violent postures.

  • Instantly a rain of shell and shrapnel was directed upon the black mass of human figures.

  • Sidenote: Black Mass of Human Figures] It was in one of these trenches on the ridge of the hills to the northeast of Chiu-lien-cheng that the greatest damage was wrought.

  • Lions, birds, human figures painted in brown under the glaze or incised through.

  • No more sculpture in round or relief of human figures or animals.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    human activities; human behavior; human brotherhood; human experience; human food; human form; human institutions; human labor; human language; human laws; human learning; human lives; human milk; human natur; human nature; human power; human representative; human sacrifice; human shape; human understanding; human welfare; human work; humanly speaking; marry another; means always; soft parts