Now, waxworkand skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me.
With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state.
He learned from them all they could tell him--that the child and the old man had disappeared at the fair, and that since then (so they had heard) a pair resembling them had been seen with the Jarley waxwork exhibition.
There was not enough of the waxwork about these creatures; in the poor light, and their own clothes, and the veritable dock in which many of them had heard their doom, they looked hideously human and alive.
At this last stage there is also a series of waxwork figures which symbolize the vanity of life and of human desire.
It was headed by a symbolic float of waxwork figures, in which a colossal horse, prancing on its hind legs, seemed just about to soar into the air.
His idea of the cowardice of girls combined with his ideal of a waxwork sex to persuade him that though they are often (he had experienced it) wantonly desperate in their acts, their tongues are curbed by rosy prudency.
His ideal, the common male Egoist ideal of a waxwork sex, would have been shocked to fragments had she spoken further to fill in the outlines of these awful interjections.
At length, some waxwork attracting our notice, a change took place in the disposition of our party.
Once I had been taken to see some ghastlywaxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state.
It looked as if we'd stuck up a waxwork instead of a statue in the centre of our garden.
And so you have that great Giuseppe Loti at the head of your waxwork department, eh?
The custodians are supposed to be men of special insight in the branches over which they preside, yet for all the advantage to the public they might as well be waxwork dummies.
The realism of the Stuart stump picture was never so atrocious as this baleful invention, which was as meretricious as a waxwork show.
When I was a little boy, I ran away crying from a waxwork exhibition I was taken to, and even to this day I never can enter a place of the sort without a horrible, eerie, shuddery feeling.
For you may notice that scarcely any one talks, except in a whisper, in those waxwork places.
He was off in a moment, and sat facing the audience in his magnetic trance, looking like a figure at a waxwork show.
Miss Chandos put him into his waxwork position again, and got No.
When it was drawing near ten, Miss Chandos brought the proceedings to a close by animating--like Pygmalion--her waxwork statues.
They are standing at the back of the hooded chair, and the waxwork figure of the Chinaman, with its fixed and pallid face, stares straight at vacancy.
If you have no reason to feel a becoming pride before waxwork children, there are young ladies here who have, and you must either defer to those young ladies or leave the establishment, Miss Edwards.
At last the villains who had led him on--not satisfied with their small winnings from him--urged him to get the money belonging to the Waxwork show, saying that when he won he could pay it all back.
It was a Waxwork exhibition; and as she looked at Nell's attractive face she was seized with an idea.
Life, dress'd in his Robes as Knight of the Garter: In the same Chapel I also saw the Waxwork Statue of the Duchess of Richmond, in her Habit as Duchess.