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Example sentences for "statuette"

Lexicographically close words:
statuary; statue; statued; statues; statuesque; statuettes; statuimus; statuit; statum; stature
  1. In the little wooden statuette of St. George of Dijon, which is a most useful record of the armour of this period, we find that, in addition, the camail is fastened to the breast with aiguillettes.

  2. Visored Bascinet from the statuette of S.

  3. I feared she felt hurt, but was disarmed of this thought, for she returned in a moment, and over the statuette she threw her old Camlet cloak.

  4. I often think of her now, and I have in my possession the statuette Hal made, which shows camlet cloak, herb-bags and all.

  5. And that statuette would never be any good, try as he might.

  6. He's asked me to make a statuette of his daughter on horseback.

  7. Do please ride with me to-morrow; then you will get what you want for the statuette instead of being so cross with it.

  8. As for myself, I will take this statuette of Our Lady of Lourdes, this small one, which is rather prettily painted.

  9. Above another window, as a pendant to the escutcheon, there was one of those little shrines which are still common in Rome, a satin-robed statuette of the Blessed Virgin, before which a lantern burnt in the full daylight.

  10. On its mantel was the desecrating plaster statuette of a diving-girl--tinted in various pastel shades; this between two vases of paper flowers.

  11. Then he saw the weird little glass statuette among the usual bric-a-brac.

  12. Pembroke watched with lifted eyebrows as the clerk whisked the bizarre statuette underneath the counter.

  13. Several years ago, when wells were replaced by pumps, they put the statuette of the Milk Girl upon the top of the pump.

  14. In obedience to the vision she obtained the statuette and took it to a painter, who decorated it in gold and colours.

  15. It is the history of this statuette which we propose to relate.

  16. It is surmounted by a carved statuette representing a milk-woman, with the peculiar brass milk can of the country upon her head.

  17. The statuette of Lyntje was placed over a well at the north of the market, that of the Virgin at the south, near the dwelling of Dewis.

  18. Believe me, my dear sir, if I had any work to give you to do, I would give it with pleasure, for I have seen that statuette of yours, which shows that you have intelligence and love.

  19. The statuette was liked; and I pleased myself with executing it in wood, and finished it with great care of handling and delicacy of detail.

  20. It appears that sometimes, perhaps because this annoyed him, he made matters so far from clear that the statuette passed off as his own work.

  21. But the purchaser did not come, and I was obliged to place my statuette in the magazine of antiquities of the Brothers Pacetti, on the ground-floor of the Borghese Palace in the Via del Palagio.

  22. Encouraged by this trial from life, I determined to make a statuette of small dimensions.

  23. The statuette of the Bacchino so much pleased my friend Pietro Selvatico, who happened to be in Florence precisely at the time when I finished it, that he made a drawing of it as a souvenir in his album.

  24. He often came to my studio by order of the Grand Duke, for whom I was making a statuette of Dante and another of Beatrice.

  25. Flemish, about 1500] A Pope, Statuette in Oak.

  26. The little statuette here reproduced represents one of the Chinese immortals, Tung Fang So, who carries the peaches of longevity.

  27. This charming statuette of Pomona, or Dovizia, as it has been suggested, is the work of Giovanni della Robbia, a Florentine sculptor, the son of Andrea della Robbia who was the nephew of Luca della Robbia.

  28. Goddess Neith, Bronze Dynasty XXVI] Goddess Neith, Bronze Dynasty XXVI This bronze statuette represents the Goddess Neith wearing the crown of Lower Egypt; probably of the Saite period.

  29. A similar statuette in the Berlin Museum carries a cornucopia as well as a basket.

  30. In one cavity the statuette was that of a kneeling man (Fig.

  31. In each case this hollow contained a small bronze statuette packed, as it were, in an impalpable dust.

  32. He held the statuette out stiffly, it seemed fairly to leap in his hands, as if tugging with an ecstatic longing to reach the dark place ahead.

  33. Jake waved the statuette in a circular motion, then crossed the circle twice with the waving gold.

  34. He walked ahead toward that frightening manifestation of the unknown, holding the little statuette before him like a sword, his ugly face rapt in some listening beyond me.

  35. A curiously wrought little statuette about eight inches high, of gold.

  36. They brought you the golden statuette to help you gain an entry, did they not?

  37. A crucifix stands on the mantel, and a smaller one, attached to a rosary of Roman pearls, on the table by her side, where also is an exquisite Parian statuette of the Blessed Virgin and Child.

  38. A small pedestal, on which the statuette of the faun stood, is still seen in the marble-lined impluvium.

  39. An exquisite bronze statuette of a dancing faun, now in the Naples museum, gave its present title to the most beautiful and also one of the largest houses in Pompeii.

  40. The statuette of the archangel preserved in this subterranean chapel is a work of the late Renaissance.

  41. In the centre of the room is a pretty statuette of a girl shielding a dove.

  42. Statuette of Ceres, the head from some other statue.

  43. I told her that it was a statuette of a god named Osiris and very, very ancient, probably quite five thousand years old, a statement at which she smiled a little; also that it came from Egypt.

  44. While he was again lighting the narcotic weed he directed my attention to the pretty statuette of St. Elisabeth, which had attracted my gaze when I entered the room.

  45. Together with the statuette of Ujue in Navarre, the Virgen de la Vega of Salamanca may be classed as one of the earliest "local Virgins" of this country.

  46. An aureole of the fifteenth century, studded with precious stones belonging to a statuette of the apostle Santiago.

  47. Before this statuette the King Don Sancho is stated to have offered his devotion.

  48. Salamanca, as well as on the Virgin's throne in the gilt bronze statuette of the Virgin de la Vega at San Esteban in the same city.

  49. A formula recited opportunely, a sentence of prayer traced on a papyrus, a little statuette worn about the person, the smallest amulet blessed and consecrated, put to flight the serpents who were the instruments of fate.

  50. Bronze statuette of the XXth dynasty, encrusted with gold, from the Hoffmann collection: drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a photograph taken by Legrain in 1891.

  51. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bronze statuette encrusted with gold, in the Gîzeh Museum.

  52. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a bronze statuette found at Thebes, and now in my possession.

  53. Drawing by Faucher-Gudin of a green enamelled statuette in my possession.

  54. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bronze statuette incrusted with gold, in the Gîzeh Museum.

  55. About the time when the worship of Sît was proscribed, one of the Egyptian owners of this little monument had endeavoured to alter its character, and to transform it into a statuette of the god Khnûmû.

  56. Drawing by Faucher-Gudin of a bronze statuette of the Saïte period, found in the department of Hérault, at the end of a gallery in an ancient mine.

  57. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a painted wooden statuette in my possession, from a funeral couch found at Akhmîm.

  58. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from a painted limestone statuette from the tomb of Sonnozmû at Thebes, dating from the end of the XXth dynasty.

  59. Finds his statuette of Dying Hercules in basement of Capitol.

  60. He pointed to that lovely statuette of Pallas that stands on the mantelpiece, and said bitterly, 'Edna Earl has no more heart than that marble Athena.

  61. The next room is crowded with an equally varied collection of bronze and iron work, among which we note a fifteenth-century statuette in bronze of Joan of Arc.

  62. Madonnas and other figures in wood and stone; a fifteenth-century statuette in marble (No.

  63. This beautiful porcelain statuette was moulded at the Chelsea factory in 1777, the same year in which Boswell chronicles Dr.

  64. He put down the statuette gingerly on the table, hesitated, then turned its face away from them.

  65. The Captain picked up the statuette and peered at it.

  66. Anderson turned away from him and regarded the statuette gravely.

  67. My gaze alternated from the statuette to the young girl; and I saw her blush--so frankly and fully!

  68. It was very quickly said; but even while hearing it I had time to perceive that my fairy was a statuette in coloured wax, modeled with much taste and spirit by some novice hand.


  69. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "statuette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bust; carving; doll; dummy; figure; figurehead; figurine; likeness; mannequin; marionette; model; monument; puppet; representation; scarecrow; sculpture; snowman; statuary; statue; waxwork