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illusory; illustrate; illustrated; illustrates; illustrating; illustrations; illustrative; illustrator; illustrators; illustres
  1. Illustration] If you are working in a strong wind, or if you have a large canvas, such an easel as this illustration shows is the best and safest yet invented, and it is as good for other work, and particularly when you want to stand up.

  2. Illustration] The illustration shows one of the firmest of the inexpensive easels, and one which will fold up into as small a compass as any practical easel will.

  3. The general support of the efforts of the Executive to enforce the just rights of the nation in this matter has given an instructive and useful illustration of the unity and patriotism of our people.

  4. In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary, division of illustration and engraving: One artist.

  5. Not the least striking illustration of this principle is shown in the case of John Cairns.

  6. Reference has been made to this already, but the following further illustration of it may be added here.

  7. I will give you the reason for this in a few words, using an illustration which used to serve me for the same purpose in one of my lectures.

  8. But the most striking illustration I can give you of the state of the working-class dwellings in New York is by placing side by side the figures of the population per acre in the slums of New York and Manchester.

  9. It is only an illustration of the practical value of credit, showing how it covers a retreat, so to speak.

  10. The Honorable Budlong Dinks watched the result of the illustration with deep interest, and shook his head gravely when he saw that the stone was thoroughly drenched by the salivary cascade.

  11. No, no," said he, "your illustration is at fault.

  12. His illustration of the eternal truths of penitence and aspiration, of “the awakening conscience” and the resurrection of the soul, is given us in his beautiful drawing of “Mary Magdalene at the door of Simon the Pharisee.

  13. Each plate was prefixed by a caption and attribution on a previous page, and both caption and illustration were blank on their verso, and all four pages were not included in the pagination.

  14. At the same time, his work was so intimately connected with that of the men whom he powerfully influenced and inspired that it may fairly be studied side by side with theirs in illustration of the dominant principles common to all.

  15. Some highly-finished studies were made by him for this head, from one of which the present illustration is taken.

  16. But with all such qualification, these volumes show indisputably that in the matter of illustration and typography the New World is now quite the equal of the Old.

  17. But Jesus taught us to comment upon these as an illustration of His truth.

  18. Think of the effect of refined power of expression, of a keen and vivid imagination as applied to the illustration and enrichment of moral subjects,--to bringing out, e.

  19. Horizontal Loom, Tomb of Chnem-hotep, from the illustration in Cailliaud's Recherches, etc.

  20. The warp weights on this Athenian illustration are triangular in shape, and perhaps resemble the pyramidic weights found in Egypt and attributed to Roman times.

  21. Halifax, the illustration in Montelius' book already referred to, and asked him to weave me a small piece of cloth on it.

  22. Illustration on a small lekythos of an Athenian girl at work on a tapestry loom, together with a full size tracing of the tapestry loom.

  23. It is not possible to say from this illustration whether this is a warp weighted loom or not.

  24. From the illustration all one can say is that it might have been done either way.

  25. The illustration is taken from Monumenti d.

  26. But I am unable to follow Wilkinson in this, for I can find no indication in his illustration which shows how the beating-in of the weft is accomplished.

  27. He has kindly sent me an illustration of this loom, but unfortunately the weights are not clearly shown, and the same is the case with an illustration of a loom from Cyprus.

  28. This illustration shows the warp flat against the wall like the mat making shown at Beni Hasan.

  29. Illustration on a skyphos (van Branteghem vase in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).

  30. It must be remembered this illustration is not a technical drawing, but an artist's representation where correctness of detail cannot be expected.

  31. Illustration on an Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi, and at present in the museum there.

  32. The illustrations are for the most part reduced in size to suit the smaller form of the volume, the lettering of the composites is rearranged, and the coloured illustration is reproduced as closely as circumstances permit.

  33. The next point which I shall mention in illustration of the extremely close resemblance between certain twins is the similarity in the association of their ideas.

  34. This composite was one of the first I ever made, and is printed together with its six components in the Journal of the Royal Institution, in illustration of a lecture I gave there in April 1879.

  35. In illustration of this, I may mention an anecdote of a matter which greatly impressed me at the time.

  36. His evidence was limited to the substantiation and illustration of the legal positions laid down in the document drawn up by him [see page 208], and of the whole case he was evidently master to its most minute points.

  37. Less finished advocates turn aside to indulge themselves in playing with an illustration or a favourite proposition, at the risk of betraying the distinction between their own natural train of thought and their immediate argument.

  38. Our illustration is incorrect in this respect.

  39. Mr. Lawrence's method of doing this at little cost is a good illustration of Yankee ingenuity.

  40. Our illustration represents a portrait, although the features are barely recognizable.

  41. The flowers in our illustration are formed by the union of crystals, each of which represents the petals or sepals of a flower.

  42. These designs were engraved by Blake himself, and they are interesting not only for their own merit but for the peculiar system by which the illustration has been associated with the text.

  43. The chief work of these last years was the splendid series of engraved designs in illustration of the book of Job.

  44. The mild and amiable poet had planned to write a life of Cowper, and for the illustration of this and other works he sought Blake's help and companionship.

  45. As it is, however, he remains as an extreme illustration of the ascendancy of the artistic faculty.

  46. We know how little acceptable that compromise was to the God of Israel; and no illustration can be more apt than this narrative, which we may well, as we would fain, believe to be rather typical than historical.

  47. And the illustration is the more suitable in that the purpose of this paper is not ethical, but points to a metaphysical conclusion, though without any attempt at metaphysical exposition.

  48. The illustration shows it in a part of a border-front that is to be for August.

  49. The longer cross-path, which on the right leads in a few yards to steps up to the paved court on the north side of the house, on the left passes down the nut-walk as the second illustration shows.

  50. On the south side of the house there is a narrow border full of Rosemary, with China Roses and a Vine, as shown in the illustration opposite p.

  51. As a home illustration of this method of attack, a chimpanzee named Chico in the Central Park Menagerie once bit a finger from the hand of his keeper.

  52. It is like a tiny speck on the crystal of his character which shows us the exact location of the orb, and it is the best illustration of the feeling of the times which has come down to us.

  53. The difference between Emerson and the other moralists is that all these stimulating pictures and suggestions are not given by him in illustration of a general proposition.

  54. Illustration in literature is a very fine art, and you have got the touch in your "Little Foxes.

  55. And I thought, what a fine illustration of a strong life he was.

  56. Undoubtedly you desire a sort of illustration of the courtship, from the first meeting down to the avowal, and then the golden honeymoon is to be painted in brilliant colors.

  57. Thought, indeed, thought in itself and apart from the story, which is only a chosen illustration of a thesis, seems her principal concern.

  58. An illustration of the perfection to which the art of printing has been brought, was given in the printing of the catalogues of the great Exhibition of 1851.

  59. As an illustration of this, may be given the case of a young girl who had never seen the inside of a printing-office, and who was induced to try the new machine.

  60. It is shown with the portrait and the two windows in another illustration in ch.

  61. Rossura porch was thus an illustration of what he says in Alps and Sanctuaries in the chapter "Considerations on the Decline of Italian Art.

  62. There is an excellent illustration in regard to that in Mr. Horsfall's work in connection with Germany.

  63. And pray what prompts this last illustration of the wisdom of the modern Solomon?

  64. He submitted, in a low voice across the table to Bishop, that it was a kind of analogical illustration of those physical laws, in virtue of which Like flies to Like.

  65. Moving in Society If Young John Chivery had had the inclination and the power to write a satire on family pride, he would have had no need to go for an avenging illustration out of the family of his beloved.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "illustration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstract; abstraction; alphabet; altarpiece; art; blueprint; case; characterization; chart; citation; clarification; collage; coloring; copy; cyclorama; daub; decoding; delineation; demonstration; depiction; diagram; diptych; drama; drawing; elucidation; emblem; engraving; enlightenment; examine; example; exegesis; exemplar; exemplification; explanation; exponent; exposition; figuration; figure; fresco; hieroglyphic; icon; iconography; ideogram; illumination; illustration; image; imagery; instance; interpretation; item; letter; light; likeness; map; miniature; monochrome; mosaic; mural; notation; painting; panorama; particular; photograph; picture; plan; plate; portraiture; portrayal; presentment; print; printing; problem; projection; prototype; quotation; rationale; realization; reason; reference; rendering; rendition; representation; representative; reproduction; sample; schema; score; script; simplification; solution; specimen; stencil; syllabary; symbol; tableau; tapestry; testimony; triptych; type; wash; writing