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Example sentences for "marble statue"

  • In the chapter-house we saw a marble statue of Newton, wofully maltreated by damps and weather; and though it had no sort of business there, it fitted into the ruins picturesquely enough.

  • In one part of the Park we came to a small tower, for what purpose I know not, unless as an observatory; and near it was a marble statue on a high pedestal.

  • On each side of the door was a marble statue as large as life; and the young man started--but only for a moment--as the white and motionless effigies stood out suddenly as if it were from the deep darkness which the lamp illumined.

  • And the young man darted a glance of savage hatred upon the woman who, pale and motionless as a marble statue, seemed petrified by the crushing truths that fell upon her ears.

  • Every tinge of color faded from her cheeks, she seemed frozen into a marble statue.

  • Pale, and almost as inanimate as a marble statue, she went through the usual ceremonies; but not the slightest change of countenance betrayed the conflict within.

  • I forgot to mention that the middle of the open space is occupied by a marble statue of Wellington, which appeared to me very poor and laboriously spirited.

  • A marble statue by Sievier has been erected to his memory in the nave of Gloucester Cathedral; and another statue of him has been placed in a public building at Cheltenham.

  • You would be transformed into a marble statue!

  • Yes, in that case the life of the king's son will be saved; but if the man who kills the snake repeats to the king's son the conversation between you and me, that man will be turned into a marble statue.

  • But alas Unc Nunkie was now a marble statue in the house of the Crooked Magician and Ojo must not falter in his efforts to save him.

  • So Ojo related the sad story of Unc Nunkie's transformation into a marble statue, and told how he had set out to find the things the Crooked Magician wanted, in order to make a charm that would restore his uncle to life.

  • Then he must remain a marble statue forever," declared the Tin Emperor, firmly.

  • You can't do anything with a marble statue.

  • We must both go to bed now, and at daybreak I will call you and at once complete your transformation into a marble statue.

  • If it's properly made," replied Mombi, "it will change or transform you into a marble statue.

  • Might have gone after flesh and blood instead of a marble statue.

  • He might as well have watched a marble statue.

  • A man who would fall in love with Victoria Pengelley would be capable of falling in love with a marble statue.

  • In the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville is a marble statue of Greuze, erected by the citizens in 1868.

  • There was no more meaning in it than in the expression of a marble statue, far less than in that of a painted portrait.

  • Her dress was black, and in the soft light of the shaded lamps she was like a dark, marble statue set in the midst of thick shrubbery in a garden.

  • Like a marble statue he stood still, and she leaned upon his shoulder.

  • But now to marble statue changed, what can he feel?

  • Hermod, from behind the bush advancing, Touches Odur with his magic wand: Straight transform’d e’en to the very marrow See him now a marble statue stand!

  • Immers’d in grief the fair Iduna sat Like marble statue on a monument; Upon the sea of time so desolate, Which never ebbs, her look despairing bent.

  • Nisida, struck by these words, remained pale and motionless like a marble statue kneeling on a tomb; Gabriel was already preparing to make an unreasoning resistance, when a gesture from his father stopped him.

  • He found Vaninka seated, dressed in a white robe, and as she was paler than usual he stopped at the door, for it seemed to him that he was gazing at a marble statue.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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