Use canvas in a sentence
Sentences ending with canvas
- Presently, glancing round the room, I saw an easel on which was a canvas. [11]
- In less than ten seconds that comet was just a blazing cloud of red-hot canvas. [5]
- How shapely it seemed, even inside the canvas! [11]
- A pretty quarter of the moon threw a pleasant light over forest and river, making a picture that would be a delightful piece of landscape study, could an artist only hold it down to his canvas. [5]
- But when the moon, having passed the line of pinnacles, was hidden behind the stupendous white swell of Mont Blanc, the masterpiece of the evening was flung on the canvas. [5]
- There it was, covered up with a great canvas! [11]
- A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. [4]
- Lajeunesse, with a burning righteous joy, snatched off the canvas. [11]
Short sentences using canvas
- There are those canvas boats. [11]
More example sentences with the word canvas in them
- He had not yet recovered from the shaking up his system had sustained, and he took to a canvas easy chair he had brought with him and placed a decanter of Scotch and a tumbler of ice at his side. [9]
- She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. [2]
- The wagons are without seats, and the canvas is too low to admit of sitting upright, if there were. [4]
- With a fair wind they might, with all canvas set--mainsail, foresail, jib, and fore-topsail--make Rozel Bay within two hours and a quarter. [11]
- The simple figures whose inmost being I have endeavored to reveal to the reader fill the canvas of a picture where, in the dark background, rolls the flowing ocean of the world's history. [10]
- There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmly along under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be ready to make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. [4]
- And when they were through they said that portrait, fine as it is, that work, beautiful as it is, that piece of humanity on that canvas, gracious and fine as it is, does not rise to those perfections that exist in the man himself. [5]
- By these tokens we may perceive that this faculty of our heroine's has been at work, and her canvas already sketched in. [9]
- Which is another way of saying, that between us and the front door of our happy homes there are rattlesnakes that can sting--Nahoum's arm is long, and his traitors are crawling under the canvas of our tents! [11]
- I stumbled my way in the dark among the ranks of canvas scenery, and stood on the stage. [5]
- Inside the canvas walls Ephraim was lying on his uncle's camp-bed. [10]
- His clear strong voice rang down the table: "Will you let me come and see your canvas some day soon, Mr. Bagshot? [11]
- It is a truism to say that the genuine creations in fiction take their places in general apprehension with historical characters, and sometimes they live more vividly on the printed page and on canvas than the others in their pale, contradictory, and incomplete lives. [4]
- I should like to know if an artist could ever represent on canvas a happy family gathered round a hole in the floor called a register. [4]
- Then we have this fine picture--flung upon the canvas with hardly an effort, as you will notice. [5]
- But presently, while they sat talking of many things, the canvas of the fly was thrust back with a quick movement, and who should come stooping in but General Sherman himself. [9]
- The hatred and the suffering and the tears, the heartrending, tearing apart for all time of loving ones who have grown together,--these were not upon that canvas, Will war ever be painted with a wart? [9]
- We stirred up the hard leather letter-sacks, and the knotty canvas bags of printed matter (knotty and uneven because of projecting ends and corners of magazines, boxes and books). [5]
- Only there at the edge of the water, where Butter was to end himself, lay a life-preserver--a big round canvas one, which would float after the scrap-iron was soaked out of it. [5]
- She now blew the dust from the frame and canvas, and perceived the signature of the artist to whom the picture owed its origin. [10]
- I know now that the pictures never came up to the subject in any respect, and that no painter could represent Versailles on canvas as beautiful as it is in reality. [5]
- The fact was that he had been pulling in and lowering canvas for months. [4]
- There is a tap on the drum, a tuning of the strings, a flash of light from the rear of the room inundates the white canvas, and suddenly a figure is poised in the space, her shadow cast upon the glowing background. [4]
- Now you can take the canvas off her. [11]
- Thus, into the Supreme Canvas, came the Virgin. [9]
- It was a strange pleasure to meet again and again in the streets of the town the faces, or types of them, that we had just seen on canvas so old. [4]
- And if you stood in a dark room and your neighbors in the next had lights, the shadows on your canvas told queer secrets sometimes! [5]
- Behind Ani's pavilion stood a tent, enclosed in a wall or screen of canvas, within which old Hekt was lodged; Ani had secretly conveyed her hither on board his own boat. [10]
- You may have some notion of the old beau Horry can be when he tries, and he is over-fond of Miss Dolly--she puts him in mind of some canvas or other of Sir Peter's. [9]
- The light fell softly but clearly on the dim and faded canvas from which looked the saintly features of the martyred woman, whose continued presence with her descendants was the old family legend. [6]
- We built a small, rude cabin in the side of the crevice and roofed it with canvas, leaving a corner open to serve as a chimney, through which the cattle used to tumble occasionally, at night, and mash our furniture and interrupt our sleep. [5]
- So there were six places in his canvas which had to be done over again. [5]
- Then, with a sigh of relief, he turned his face toward the canvas wall of the tent, saying quietly: "Now I will go to sleep. [10]
- We carry the royal mail, and as we go along drop little sealed canvas bags at way offices. [4]
- In the deep recesses of the forest suddenly flamed to the view, like the splashes of splendor on the somber canvas of an old Venetian, these wonders of color,--the glowing summer-heart of the woods. [4]
- The young men read, strolled the ample deck, rested and drowsed in the shade of the canvas, took their meals with the captain; and when the day was done they played dummy whist with him till bed-time. [5]
- Next came the rattling of chains, the scramble of hoofs in the mire, and here was a wagon with a big canvas cover. [9]
- Thoreau had many rare and admirable qualities, and Thoreau pictured by Emerson is a more living personage than White of Selborne would have been on the canvas of Sir Joshua Reynolds. [6]
- Heaven knows who painted it, though no great art were needed to suggest on canvas the tough fabric of that sitter, who was more Irish than Scotch. [9]
- He brooked no opposition, and delighted to carry, against his captain's advice, more canvas than was wise when it blew heavily. [9]
- Profanity, indecent talk on topics that even the license of the sixteenth century would not have tolerated, and freedom of manners that even Teniers would have shrunk from putting on canvas, made the journey horrible. [4]
- By the side of it Virginia and Maude, enchanted, beheld Captain Colfax shouting his orders while his troopers dragged the canvas from the wagons, and staggered under it to the line. [9]
- And is it not appalling to think of the 'large constitution of this man,' when you reflect on the acres of canvas which he has covered? [6]
- From that moment no other thing in those forty feet of canvas has any charm; one sees the Hair Trunk, and the Hair Trunk only--and to see it is to worship it. [5]
- That background of mystery, without which life is a poor mechanical arrangement, is shaped and colored, so far as it can have outline, or any hue but shadow, on a vast canvas, the contemplation of which enlarges and enriches the sphere of consciousness. [6]
- It occurs to me now that I have never seen the ice-storm put upon canvas, and have not heard that any painter has tried to do it. [5]
- They wanted to make the house positively gloomy for the sake of a little artificial moonlight on the painted towers and the canvas lakes. [4]
- There is a large brig right astern of us with all her canvas set and chasing us at her best. [5]
- The painted youth is still blooming on the canvas, but the fresh-cheecked, jaunty young author of the year 1830 has long faded out of human sight. [6]
- It was as if an artist saw a young genius use a brush on canvas for a moment; a swordsman watch an unknown master of the sword. [11]
- But he lit his lamp and transferred the process of his thinking from the canvas to the opening of the syndicate letter which he knew Fulkerson would be coming for in the morning. [8]
- He cannot warm himself before a group of statuary, or extract heat from a canvas by Raphael, nor keep his teeth from chattering by the exquisite view from the Boboli Gardens. [4]
- Then they stripped him naked, tied a bit of canvas round his waist, fastened him to a tree, and were about to complete his punishment when Tim Denton burst upon them. [11]
- She sat in her day-dream long after Bathsheba had left her, her eyes fixed, not on the faded portrait of her beatified ancestress, but on that other canvas where the dead Beauty seemed to live in all the splendors of her full-blown womanhood. [6]
- The day before he had rushed upon canvas the conception of a picture which he said to himself was glorious, and to others (at the table d'hote of Maroni) was not bad. [8]
- Mr. Cooke I had transferred with a load of canvas and the tent poles, and next I returned for Mrs. Cooke and Mr. Trevor, whom I deposited safely. [9]
- For years I had felt that it had the essentials for a larger canvas, and at the earnest solicitation of Messrs. Harper & Brothers I settled to do what had long been in my mind. [11]
- There was a gale blowing, and both vessels clapped on every stitch of canvas and swept up through the channel and past the fortresses at a magnificent gait. [5]
- He was roused from these thoughts by the artist, who had been feasting his eyes a long time on the handsome lad, now rapidly developing into a youth, as he stood before the canvas as if spellbound. [10]
- Not made of fictions, surmises, reports, rumors, innuendoes, dropped by her enemies; no, she has furnished all of the materials herself, and laid them on the canvas, under my general superintendence and direction. [5]
- A table for eight, and eight canvas chairs; a table-cloth and napkins whose whiteness and whose fineness laughed to scorn the things we were used to in the great excursion steamer; knives and forks, soup-plates, dinner-plates--every thing, in the handsomest kind of style. [5]
- We sail directly east--this brings the brig, with all her canvas set, almost in the eye of the sun, when it sets--beautiful. [5]
- If the artist did not use a big canvas, he adopted a broad treatment. [4]
- In sight on deck were the crew, in sou'westers, yellow waterproof canvas suits, and boots to the thigh. [5]
- The sky was dark with snow, which was not permitted to fall peacefully like a blessed mantle, as it sometimes does, but was blown and rent and tossed like the split canvas of a ship in a gale. [4]
- We ran under courses with what canvas we had, and got away with a fair breeze and a good squall whitening to windward, while our decks were cleared for action again. [11]
- Pen and paper, brush and canvas, are wholly inadequate to describe the charm of the man. [9]
- Why, the aboriginal bipeds, to be sure,--he answered,--the red-crayon sketch of humanity laid on the canvas before the colors for the real manhood were ready. [6]
- Occasionally, also, the better classes embellished their canvas by pasting pictures from Harper's Weekly on them. [5]
- It scarcely need be said that it is not multitude of figures on a literary canvas that secures breadth of treatment. [4]
- They are to be carefully studied as the earliest efforts of the hand which painted the Marriage at Cana, of the art which taught the rude fabrics made to be trodden under foot to rival the glowing canvas of the great painters. [6]
- The canister, chain-shot, and langrel of the French foe had caused much injury to the Ariadne, and her canvas was in a sore plight. [11]
- These pictures are all battle scenes, and only one solitary little canvas among them all treats of anything but great French victories. [5]
- Sometimes it was a young man and a maiden, handed down to posterity in dresses that would have caused their arrest in the street, sentimentally reclining on a canvas rock. [4]
- She regarded with a tinge of awe the vast expanse of tent that rose before her eyes, the wind sending ripples along the heavy canvas from circumference to tent pole. [9]
- A man imagines a silk thread, imagines a machine to make it, imagines a picture, then by weeks of labor embroiders it on canvas with the thread. [5]
- Colors, colors, canvas, a model like Sophonisba, and success in the realm of Art! [10]
- Some painting by a master looks down upon us from its old canvas, and leaves a lasting copy of itself, to be stored in memory's picture gallery. [6]
- The general of a great army leading tens of thousands into the clash of battle--that had been always within her comprehension; but this was almost miraculous, this sudden projection of one ship and her commander upon the canvas of fame. [11]
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