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Example sentences for "human head"

  • One represents a human head, with a singular head-dress, closely resembling some of those observed on the idols and sculptures of Mexico.

  • It has the form of a human head, with a portentous nose and unprecedented phrenological developments.

  • By its side is the figure of a human head, and several wolf and deer tracks.

  • The Hindus think that the cocoanut is a substitute for a human head.

  • Once the buch is removed the cocoanut is not an acceptable offering, as its likeness to a human head is considered to be destroyed.

  • The cocoanut is commonly regarded by the Hindus as a substituted offering for a human head.

  • Dupaix mentions a human head, wearing a kind of helmet, cut from green porphyry.

  • Del Rio sees in the subject homage paid to a river god; and Galindo believes the object offered to be a human head.

  • A Romanesque modillion carved with a human head, under the cornice.

  • Above the Romanesque gate in the south base of the tower, a human head carved in a limestone didn't resist well to the test of time, unlike the heads carved in granite in the south gate of the church of Yquelon.

  • The archivolt rests on the right on a stone carved with a human head, while disappearing on the left into the masonry of the nave.

  • The archivolt topping the semi-circular arch rests on a granite stone carved with a human head.

  • One of these, from Syracuse, exhibits a swastika, in the centre of which is a human head--a sign which I should interpret as the image of a state and its single central ruler.

  • A statue of a standing tiger, with a human head and a shallow depression in its back, was also found near the same spot.

  • Seen from a distance it resembles a human head.

  • Certainly, it is a human head--the head of a man!

  • This was decorated on the outside with a human head wearing a peaked headdress, somewhat resembling the cap of liberty, and large circular ear plugs in the ears.

  • Immediately behind God K is repeated the design of the serpent swallowing a human head, above which is a striated bar, whose sole purpose seemingly is to decorate a vacant space.

  • This represents a deer with a human head, whose headdress is the upper jaw of some mythological animal.

  • One king of Dahomey, on whom the French made war, bore the name of Shark; hence in art he was represented sometimes with a shark's body and a human head, sometimes with a human body and the head of a shark.

  • The heathen priestess cuts the likeness of a human head out of the sheath of a sago-leaf and sets it up on three sticks in the courtyard of the house.

  • In one myth we find the heavens spoken of as representing a human head, the sun and moon forming the eyes, and the supports of heaven being formed by the hair.

  • In another form, represented with a human head, it was symbolic of the human soul, a distinction it shared with the heron and swallow, in both of which it was believed the human soul might reincarnate itself.

  • On monuments this goddess has the sun's disk upon her head, or, in the place of a human head, the head of a cat, which animal was sacred to her.

  • Osiris is always represented in a human form, and with a human head.

  • Hence they consecrated this insect to their god of beginning and creation, and on monuments and records we find the god Ptah with a beetle on his shoulders, in the place of a human head.

  • She is also found on inscriptions with the head of a vulture, the bird sacred to her, instead of a human head; and in pictures of battles the vulture of Mut hovers over the Pharaoh as the symbol of protection.

  • There is a band of small bells round the hips, and a human head and a bunch of bells on the left side.

  • At point, a skeleton of a crocodile, and a human head at base, the mouth of which is peculiar.

  • Bronze square bell, the ornamentation tastefully designed, with a human head, crocodiles, and floral ornaments.

  • Skirts each ornamented with a human head.

  • The period of mourning can only be properly terminated by a ceremony in which a human head plays an essential part.

  • Nevertheless, like all the other tribes, except the Punans, the Klemantans need a human head to terminate a period of mourning.

  • This man had adorned the pediment of his house with stone balls, and the popular belief was that each ball represented a human head that he had guillotined.

  • Another Icelander took a pole, carved a human head at the top, then killed a mare, slit up the body, inserted the post and set it up with the head looking towards the residence of an enemy.

  • So in Norse mythology Odin had a human head embalmed, and had recourse to it for advice when in any doubt.

  • Nineteen men in twenty of Bontoc and Samoki have taken a human head, and it has been seen under what conditions and influences some of those heads were taken.

  • The tops of some posts are rudely carved to represent a human head; on the tops of others, as in a'-to Lowingan and Sipaat, there are stones which strikingly resemble human skulls.

  • The Dyaks thought it a grand thing to be able to bring home a human head to hang up as an ornament in their house.

  • There were certain ancient customs which necessitated the possession of a human head.


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