Satiny gleams played over its rounded forms, doubtless polished by the amorous kisses of twenty centuries, for it seemed a Corinthian bronze, a work of the best era of art, perhaps moulded by Lysippus himself.
And to prove that she was not flattering herself, Omphale threw back her lion's skin and allowed me to behold her exquisitely moulded shoulders and bosom, dazzling in their white beauty.
The hard, Covenanting leaven had moulded her from childhood, and though of late years she had been touched by a gentler spirit, it was impossible that habits of a lifetime should be entirely eradicated.
The discipline of the past had moulded and set, without unduly hardening, the lines of her simple, cheerful character.
The window-frames of these early eighteenth-century houses were made of plank, mortised and pinned together, the sills and caps being often moulded and a bead run around the inner edge of the frames.
Broken pediments with volute terminals were placed over doors and windows; while a slight admixture of wrought and moulded bricks was often added to give some degree of elegance and richness to the façades.
They are from four to six inches in height, partly nude, and carefully moulded in regard to anatomy.
Under the Tudor sovereigns, moulded and carved brick-work attained a high standard of excellence.
Moulded brick could now be procured in abundance, the tax having been removed by Parliament in 1850.
The old Hazard house shows one of the best examples of a moulded and panelled chimney with which I am familiar.
The truncated roof is fully developed, with moulded cornices of good section, the modillions being frequently carved with acanthus-leaves.
The long, slow action of water has further moulded everything into symmetry, so that the low ancient hills descend to the valleys in exquisite folds and uninterrupted slopes.
Life remained tense, sad, barren; character moulded itself on a model of Spartan simplicity and hardihood, without the Spartan treachery and cunning.
A work of art is the statement of the artist's insight into nature, moulded and suffused by the emotion attending his perception.
What were the circumstances that moulded his character and decided his course?
For him the external world is fluid and plastic, to be moulded into forms at will in obedience to his creative desire.
Sir Timothy himself is moulded to some extent upon Sir Francis Ilford, but, as Geneste aptly remarks, he may be considered a new character.
In the minute fraction of time that followed--so short that no one in reason could call it a pause--Mrs. Durlacher had moulded a swift impression of Sally.
By pressure ice can be moulded to any shape, while the same ice snaps sharply asunder if subjected to tension.
The substance may moreover be moulded into vases and statuettes.
Its character, however, as to continuity may be inferred from the fact that the ice-cup, moulded as described, held water without the slightest visible leakage.
Minute quantities of both remained in the moulded ice, and thus rendered it in some degree turbid.
At this distance of time I can only give the freest rendering of his words, the more so as I have so often used them in my own meetings that I may have unconsciouslymoulded them after my own fashion.
Human nature is there checked and moulded by the amiable spirit and lovely character of Jesus.
Here, if anywhere, the right emotion could be adequately expressed in stone, and the moulded form be made the symbol of repose, expectant of restored activity.
Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from 1:12 trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.
Honey child," he murmured as he modelled and moulded the youthful lines of the mouth and lips and stood yearning before them, all his heart and soul in his hands that made before his eyes a lovely woman.
He had moulded from the soft clay on the banks of the levees the head of a famous general, who had later become president.
And then he turned the baby's face towards him, and tenderly contemplated the bright surprised blue eyes, the tiny dimples, the soft moulded chin.
For, at its best periods, the chintz was not a base imitation of more expensive fabrics; it did not, for instance, occupy the relationship of pewter to silver or mouldedcomposition to genuine woodcarving.
This diminution in design is a factor in the potter's art, when figures in some cases lose nearly a third of their original proportions when moulded in the clay prior to firing.
Moulded edge and carved in one piece from a single pattern.
It will be observed that this specimen has a moulded edge, which is from a single wood pattern carved in one piece.
That being so, the reality of the object does not lie in the outer form but in the inner life, in the idea that has shaped and moulded the matter into an expression of itself.
He did not certainly disclose to the many what did not belong to the many; but to the few to whom He knew that they belonged, who were capable of receiving and being moulded according to them.
It is desirable, therefore, that your lives be so moulded and influenced by it that you may long hence look back to it and recall its significance.
I do not know what advice I can give you which will be more fruitful of results, than that among your studies you include that of the lives of the great men who have moulded destiny and made the world's history.
History in general is but a record of the succession of great events or epochs which have moulded the world's affairs.
It is pity to think of so much skill and so much good metal going to the composition of a mere saint that might have moulded me a Venus.
Cups and small vessels could easily be moulded from small lumps of clay, but large pieces--great bowls and jars--it was soon found would have to be formed in a mould.
A bowl or cup that is moulded from such clay will not hold water for very long either.
The Indians moulded all sorts of things out of clay besides these utensils.
A sense of trustfulness, a feeling of a common object too, sufficed to establish between them a sentiment to be moulded by the events of after-life into anything.
If it were not that, in her capricious moods, Nature has moulded stranger counterfeits than this, we might incur some risk of incredulity from our reader when we say that the Princess was no other than Grog Davis's daughter!
He cou'd ne'er bide to see a moulded ane, and there was ane, by ill luck, on the table.
The Greeks perfectly drew, and perfectly moulded the body and limbs; but there is, so far as I am aware, no instance of their representing the face as well as any great Italian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moulded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
