There was also a simplicity about them which was refreshing; having no truth or honesty in them, nevertheless they pretended to be something, hoping to succeed in deceiving themanikins of earth and gain celebrity among them.
You should cheer up, and treat such manikins with lofty contempt.
Who would not suppose, seeing these pallid, hairy manikins scattered on the ground, that it had none to fight for it, and so had turned out its gaol-birds to fill the ranks?
The box contained a quantity of exquisitely carved wooden manikins of both sexes, painted with great dexterity so as to present a miniature resemblance to Nature.
But the manikins were brave automata, and again they closed and charged the gallant Mino.
Yes, Monsieur Kerplonne," he continued, "my manikins are well made.
Madame Filomel, taking one of the manikins out of the box and examining it attentively; "you work well, Duke Balthazar!
Wooden and inflexible no longer, the crowd of manikins were now in full motion.
Here two martial manikins paid court to a pretty sly-faced female, who smiled on each alternately, but gave her hand to be kissed to a third manikin, an ugly little scoundrel, who crouched behind her back.
Despite the thin, whitish smoke, he saw men on the horizon, mere manikins moving back and forth, apparently without meaning, but men nevertheless.
Using his glasses again, he saw that the disturbance among those manikins was increasing.
The illustrations of the tiger and bison manikinsshow the form of the external muscles of Felis tigris and Bison americanus, and what is possible in a manikin.
It is an excellent plan, and one which we have found particularly satisfactory in grouping ruminants, to prepare all the manikins before putting any skin on permanently.
By mounting the manikins one by one, and grouping them, we are able to secure the precise artistic effect that was intended in our design.
The grouping of the naked manikins from time to time enables you to eliminate errors, and make such changes in the attitudes as the eye may suggest.
Fixed to a stand at his side or on the back of his chair is a glass bottle, in which are two or three hollow manikins of glass, so arranged as to rise and sink by pressure of the confined air.
When the skin is still not quite filled give the head and neck a coating of potter's (or modelling) clay and then several coats of well pasted paper as directed for coveringmanikins for large animals.
The larger manikins are to be posed and paper coated in most cases before receiving the skin.
Then the little manikins would dive down into the sea, and rove about in the coral groves, making love to the mermaids.
For convenience, the manikins reduced their tendrils, sporting, nothing but coronals.
In the tones of the nightingale the manikinsare heard in all places, amusing themselves by their sudden change of position, and in misleading the sportsman; while the woodpecker makes the distant forest resound as he strikes the trees.
The Quiche leaders fortified their position with palisades and fallen trees, and stationed on them manikins of wood armed like soldiers and decorated with the gold and silver stolen from the sleeping foe.
On their arrival at court they refused to salute the manikins or to sit upon the red-hot stone; they even passed through the first ordeal in the House of Gloom, thus thrice avoiding the tricks which had been played upon their fathers.
Our ensign, true to himself, gives the minutest schedule of the order of march, and the oddest little diagram of manikins with cocked hats, and blacker manikins bearing burdens.
Ye see what little, barefooted manikins the men of it are.
Men and women he seized in either hand and hurled them like manikinstoward the open gates of the train.
Yet just as the good fairies had many a sad failing to offset their grace and charm, the grim, dark-skinned manikins had sudden impulses towards honor and kindness.
Margaret assembled the four manikins into a smart little group.
That man's name is Cavell: and I think of "nobility" in connection with him, and not in connection with the manikins who rush over Epsom Downs.
He was silent for a moment, looking at the manikins with a sort of half-hearted pity.
He was looking about the place with a frank interest, and his gaze had lighted upon a group of marcelled, manicured manikins at a near-by table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manikins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
