De Legibus, written amid many distracting occupations; a work professedly modelled on Plato and the older philosophers of the Socratic schools.
He prepares the optical illusion of the stereoscope, so that through tiny windows we may look as into fairy-land and find sections of this magnificent world modelled in miniature.
The test, at Washington, of political orthodoxy was modelled on the pattern of the test of religious orthodoxy established by Napoleon's minister of police.
It seems Urbano bought the metal to cast a half figure of Judith, and one of St. John, both modelled by Donatello.
The statue above the door, of St. Martin dividing his cloak with the beggar, is sufficiently well modelled as to suggest its belonging to a later century.
In this year he composed his Overture to Parisina, and his Concerto in C minor, modelled on Mozart.
Everywhere the community was modelled on the type established at Liege.
The year 1891 saw the birth of the Society of American Friends of Russian Freedom; modelled on a similar society which, with "Free Russia" as its organ, was doing good work in England.
Mrs. Peachey's group of wax flowers, modelled for the Glass Palace, is now on view at her house in Rathbone-place.
There cannot be a more natural looking flower than the last described, if modelled neatly, and well in regard to colour; at the same time, I must remind my pupils that none can look worse if badly executed.
All the flowers were modelled in the first instance from white wax, and the beautiful colours are all produced by painting.
All the flowers were modelledseparately from white wax, and the colours afterwards superinduced.
If a real leaf cannot be obtained of any particular flower, they can be modelled from a plaister mould, which I shall be happy to furnish.
As long as the sail holds, a well-modelled vessel will maintain her situation, and ride every sea, as if instinct with life and reason.
The canoe was modelled with the bow and stern alike, and, in place of turning it round, we merely changed our position in paddling.
St. George, who had sat quiet, examining closely the backs of his finely modelled hands as if to find some solution of the difficulty written in their delicate articulated curves, heard his outburst in silence.
It may or it may not have been consciously modelled after the saga style, to which, however, it bears an obvious resemblance.
In so far as the modern epigram is modelled upon Martial, we should expect it to flourish with especial luxuriance in the classic literature of France.
He saw private houses, some modelled on what was supposed to be an Italian pattern, and others modelled on what was supposed to be a mediæval pattern, and he found too often neither grandeur in the one nor grace in the other.
St. Francis’ Treatise on Divine Love, a longer work, is modelled much on the same plan.
Every thing in this scene had been created and modelled by the genius of her father.
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries gave birth, all over Europe, to popular lyric poesy, modelled on literary antecedents, and replacing in general estimation the ancient dramatic ballad.
All our Parliaments are modelled on the necessities of bygone centuries.
This work was, in fact, the carrying out of that part of Menz's programme which had been modelled on the Circus shows of the Emperors of Rome.
It was built just after the American Revolution, the plan having been brought from France by Thomas Jefferson, and modelled from the ancient Roman temple of the Maison Carree at Nismes, the front being a fine Ionic portico.
In studying the architecture of the Moors or the Moguls, one cannot but perceive, that in its first inception it has been modelled after forms familiar to their nomadic ancestors.
A new postal system has been introduced, modelled on our own.
Most of the original work was directly modelled in plaster-staff used so successfully throughout the Exposition.
Sunburst standards modelled in imitation of snow crystal, and resembling monstrance used in Catholic church; two at south of court; only large light sources in court; contrast with other illumination.
Modelled by Donnelly and Ricci after designs of the architect.
Pedestals at base of columns, agricultural scenes in low relief, modelled by Donnelly and Ricci after designs of the architect.
Designed by Hastings, modelled by Newman and Evans, New York.
Lion's head around cornice, designed by the architect, modelled by artisans of Exposition.
The figure comes in some ways nearer even in design, and infinitely nearer in feeling, to Giorgione's Venus at Dresden than does the Venus of Urbino in the Tribuna, which was closely modelled upon it.
But the surfaces of the fair and exquisitely modelled neck and bosom have been less cruelly treated; the superb costume retains much of its pristine splendour.
Every leaf and every flower has to be drawn and practically modelled into form, while even so simple a thing as the bending of a twig requires much care and knowledge.
They suggested to me badly modelled statues," he explained; "they never seemed to move gracefully, and their actions were always violent and exaggerated.
He wanted to provide his future sovereignty with organs analogous to those of France; a permanent army, and a judiciary and financial administration modelled on the French parlement and exchequer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
