Scientific gentlemen with long faces and one eye-glass gaze at the images and translate, or at least pretend to, the hieroglyphics which cover them.
Thousands of candles lighted up the gloomy building, and Christ and the Virgin were the only images in sight.
These aqueducts hold very beautiful carved pieces and niches, every here and there, in which are placed images of the Virgin.
Conceive how deeply that eternal coastline, that fixed horizon, those island rocks, must have graven their images upon the minds of the Grecian warriors by the time that they had reached the ninth year of the siege!
It answered admirably, and I received more money for the fragments than I had asked for the images in an unmutilated state.
I didn't realise dangers, I simply disliked the sloppy, relaxing quality of this new sort of work.
It wasn't fear I felt so much as an uneasy inaccuracy.
I am sure that we were merely taking the outcrop of a stratum of nodulated deposits that dip steeply seaward.
VI It pleased my uncle extremely to find I had never seen London before.
It is framed in a circle with the signs of the zodiac and the images of the great Olympian deities.
Around the altar are many images of the saints, and the tall and massive candelabra, lighted during mass, throw an imposing light upon the whole.
Three woodenimages yet remain upon the altar, but they are sadly broken and their vestments are gone.
To convey ideas through the medium of images has always been the aim of those who are artists as well as thinkers in literature, and it is to a desire to give a sensuous environment to intellectual concepts that we owe Mr. Pater's last volume.
His story is like some splendid old tapestry crowded with stately images and enriched with delicate and delightful detail.
And a brave addition to the kingdom of Satan," said De Bracy; "this comes of reviling saints and angels, and ordering images of holy things and holy men to be flung down on the heads of these rascaille yeomen.
And there the Philistines left their images and David and his men burned them.
And the hours in the course of which he listened to truth seemed to him as years, and that which had passed in the morning before the confession, appeared dim and faint like all images of a distant past.
Even devout worshippers, who confined their adorations to the one true God, sometimes thought they did honour to Him by introducing into His services the images and all the paraphernalia of the splendid cults of the great heathen empires.
And there they stood images of pale, hollow-eyed despair, and oh how they looked on the bier, and envied those whom they had sent before them on the dark road they were going upon themselves!
Ay," cried Colonna, "such are the tutelary images of most great Italian towns.
Jerome here broke in impatiently, and reminded him that the images the most revered in Christendom were made by no mortal hand, but had dropt from heaven.
And as these gods were the sum of the best feelings he had, so the images of them were the best things he made.
I have tried in this book to be the artist at second-hand, to make pictures of pictures, images of images, poems of poems.
But by degrees, as his hand grew obedient to his heart, he set to work to make more lasting images of these gods--Thunder Gods, Gods of the Sun and the Morning.
But Petrarch, and after him all Tuscany, dallied with light thinking, and beat all the images of Love's treasury into thin conventions.
Out of the drenched earth whence these worshippers arose, they made their rough-cast gods; out of the same earth they still mould images to speak the presentment of them which they have.
Now and again it may happen that a poet, ridden by the images of his thought, can "state the facts" and leave the rhyme to chance.
They are covered with Teak, scarped, and many images are carved in the recesses of the rock, apparently sandstone.
The images all occupy niches in the face of the hill: two are gigantic, the rest not very large.
The variety of pose and expression in these fifty-odd life-size images was extraordinary, and some of them were wonderfully good, but the workmen handled them without respect as they cleaned and painted.
The sacredimages which they contain are generally grotesque or hideous.
You are struck with the succession of shrines, one within the other, the huge gilded statues of Budha, and the monstrous images by which they are surrounded and attended.
She barely remembered that rugged little island now; the images were faint and overly romantic.
The interior is almost awful, with its great dome covered with gigantic early mosaics--the pale, large-eyed Christ surrounded by images of paradise and perdition.
From the images of Baal and the Ashtaroth Israel had turned; but where was their Heavenly King?
There were heathen images to break in pieces, altars and high-places to demolish.
Further she dedicated two hundred of her shekels to make graven and molten images in token of piety and gratitude.
Soon the court of the farmstead is invaded, the images are brought out and the Levite Jonathan, tempted by the offer of being made priest to a clan, is fain to accompany the marauders.
In fine, the Danites with the images of Micah went their way and he and his neighbours had to suffer the loss and make the best of their empty chapel where no oracle thenceforth spoke to them.
The Danites as they pass Micah's house hear from their spies of the priest and the images that are in his charge.
Shall a man or a church that has been so roused and thrown back on reality sit wailing in the empty chapel for the images of silver and the deliverances of the hollow ephod?
Everywhere in the land of the Hittites and Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites, there were altars and sacred trees, pillars and images used in idolatrous worship.
The Danites are thieves, brigands, and yet they are pious; so pious that they steal images to assist them in worship.
They indeed carried with them into the desert the recollection of the sacred bulls or calves of which they had seen images at Hathor and Memphis.
It was not against images but against worship of false and impure gods that his zeal was at first directed.
They were carrying imagesand relics, and a banner upon which were inscribed these words: "The Virgin Mary, Mother of God.
There were, besides, pictures, altars and images all around me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "images" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
