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Example sentences for "medallion"

Lexicographically close words:
mecum; med; medailles; medal; medallic; medallions; medallist; medallists; medals; medanos
  1. Medallion put his hand on the old man's arm.

  2. Armand nodded to Medallion, and Medallion to the priest, but the priest nodded back again.

  3. Then the Seigneur came in, leaning his arm very lightly on that of Medallion with a kind of kingly air; and, greeting his son before them all, as if they had parted yesterday, sat down.

  4. Galloir stopped, and lighted his pipe, and was so long silent that Medallion had to jog him into speaking.

  5. Probably only Medallion the auctioneer and the Cure did not lose themselves in the general admiration; they thought he was to Annette like a farthing dip to a holy candle.

  6. Well," said Medallion at last, "a strange little dog is Parpon.

  7. The son of your grand Seigneur asks you a question, Parpon," said Medallion soothingly.

  8. Perhaps it would have been if Medallion had not sent a lad down to the bottom of the river and got the ring.

  9. Like most people, he found Medallion interesting, and the Avocat and he were old friends.

  10. Medallion knew that the closed, barred rooms were the young man's; and he knew also that the old man was waiting, waiting, in a hope which he never even named to himself.

  11. But Parpon knew, and Medallion the auctioneer guessed; and the Little Chemist's wife hoped that it was not so.

  12. Medallion caught the dwarf under the arms and lifted him on the table.

  13. Upon her thinly covered bosom reposed the kingly medallion of her father, King Juan, with its massive golden chain of Estate, the emblem of her sovereign rank.

  14. Accepting the good-omened offering, Louis loosened his surcoat to insert the fragrant spray, when his kingly medallion fell out at the foot of the damsel.

  15. Reaching down her hand, she fondled the little trembling creature, when, to her immense surprise, she discovered upon its neck a faded ribbon, with a medallion bearing an image of the Virgin.

  16. Into his hand the two gentlemen delivered the Sovereign’s medallion and its royal chain of gold, and again they did obeisance to their new Sovereign.

  17. Around his neck his mother had but just hung the chain and medallion of sovereignty, taken tenderly from her dead spouse.

  18. There is a medallion portrait to each life.

  19. There has also been added to the collection a fine medallion head of Capell, engraved by Bartolozzi after a plaster model taken from life by Roubilliac in 1750.

  20. Medallion with portrait of Nelson, held by Britannia l.

  21. Monument of two small obelisks and larger one in centre, decorated with medallion of Queen, inscription, &c.

  22. Monument, on which are seated the three Fates, decorated with medallion of Queen and reliefs representing funeral procession.

  23. Attached to trophy of flags, medallion of Charles III.

  24. The art of the medal and the medallion was another artistic specialty of this time in which it has probably never been excelled and very seldom equalled.

  25. No doubt the medallion represented a sun, and the table beneath was an altar to the sun.

  26. The figure wears around its neck a necklace of pearls, to which is suspended a small medallion containing a face; perhaps intended as an image of the sun.

  27. About twenty of these disks, without idols, were also found, seven or eight of which bore indistinct medallion figures sculptured in low relief, and the rest were rough and apparently unfinished.

  28. Among other exhibits appeared a medallion of his Holiness all done in flowers, the nose being made rather bright with carnations.

  29. On returning the visit we found the sisters in the quaintest little sitting-room imaginable, the floor covered with a green Brussels carpet, woven in one piece, with a medallion of flowers in the centre, evidently manufactured to order.

  30. In 1790, when twenty years old, Thorwaldsen made a medallion of the Princess of Denmark, which was so good a likeness that a number of copies was sold.

  31. He also constructed the spiral staircase leading to the roof through an elegant Gothic turret, where the medallion portrait of Omodeo may be seen.

  32. David d'Angers has made a very fine medallion of him.

  33. In his street dress, with a bronze velvet jacket, great soft felt hat and a gold medallion portrait of Liszt worn as a scarf pin, he is the typical musician.

  34. Walter is wondering whether this is not the medallion about which Dr.

  35. This admirable medallion excited the two antiquarians of the party more than anything we have seen here, even more than the weird sky parlor of Ruggieri.

  36. September, 1914, morning edition); but precisely for that reason people persisted in wearing the little medallion until the German police demanded its forcible removal.

  37. The portrait prefixed to this volume is from a Contorniate, or bronze medallion of the time of Constantine, representing the poet's likeness as traditionally preserved amongst his countrymen three hundred years after his death.

  38. From a bronze medallion of the period of Constantine.

  39. Along with it might be mentioned a suffrage medallion and a smaller piece, "The Silent Appeal.

  40. The central basin is additionally embellished with seven medallion heads of Catholics prominent in the Revolution, the selections being La Fayette, his wife, De Grasse, Pulaski, Colonel S.

  41. The ground color is a soft and beautiful shade of green; and the handles, base, neck, and frame of the medallion are in gold.

  42. One piece has in the centre a small medallion representing Diana, the huntress, equipped for the chase and accompanied by her dogs.

  43. A plaque of the same ware had eighty figures, on a gold ground, surrounding a medallion with flying birds.

  44. The scene in the medallion represents Louis XVI.

  45. Item: to make a head of our Madonna the late duchess, and place it on a medallion with that of the duke on the doors of the chapel in Santa Maria delle Grazie.

  46. The name and arms of Beatrice were to be seen everywhere; her portrait was to be placed in the church of the Grazie, and her medallion above the gate.

  47. This follows an ancient medallion as engraved in Buckingham Smith’s Coleccion.

  48. His larger likeness he reproduced in a small medallion as the title of the Herrera narrative (part xii.

  49. The field of plain color became paramount; but it was rarely used, in the best early periods, as it is in the West, as a hard, defined area with central medallion and corner spaces.

  50. The edge of the medallion is worked round with button-hole stitch.

  51. Turn the work again, work a scallop like the preceding one, and repeat 15 times more from *, only the scallops at the lower edge of the medallion must have a few double stitches more, as can be seen in illustration.

  52. Lace stitches are introduced in the medallion which incloses these letters, the outlines being worked in overcast and point de pois, the pens and initials in raised satin stitch, as also the flowers.

  53. Medallion for a purse in embroidery, 199.

  54. The inner border round the oval medallion is worked in gold braid, and the outer one in blue soutache.

  55. For the middle part of the medallion sew on the pattern in appliqué of cambric with button-hole stitch; the remaining part of the embroidery is worked in satin stitch and point russe.

  56. Embroidery, medallion for a purse in, 199.

  57. The circle all round the medallion is worked in appliqué; in the middle work lace stitches from illustration.

  58. Medallion for a purse in embroidery, 198.

  59. Above this an oval medallion presents a picture of the efficacy of Nature’s cures; a wounded stag with the arrow still in his side has come to Æsculapius for healing.

  60. A picture of Franklin’s press with the American flag and a liberty pole crossed before it; above, a large eagle with a medallion of Franklin depending from his beak.

  61. A circular medallion upon the tree represents the peak of Snowden, the highest mountain in Wales, and the motto, Cared doeth yr encilion, is given upon the frame.

  62. A medallion beneath the shield shows cupids in a corn-field.

  63. Amongst them, however, a seal in the form of a medallion in gold recurred to him; but whether the impression upon it was raised or sunken he could not have certainly said; nor could he have told what the device was.

  64. Then, taking out of an inner pocket the medallion that Mr. Bonnithorne had lent him, he looked at it long and earnestly.

  65. He took a medallion from his pocket and held it out to her.

  66. It had in the centre a bas-relief medallion representing the Virgin, another medallion with a portrait of the donor, and various saints in niches, interworked with precious stones.

  67. If the drawer is shut without a medallion being put into it, or if a blank medallion, viz.

  68. The painting was enclosed above by a semicircular bordering composed of medallion heads of the Prophets, and below was a similar medallion border of the principal saints and worthies of the Dominican order.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medallion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    boss; cameo; glyph; intaglio; mask; medal; medallion; order; pendant; plaque; relief