Use miniature in a sentence
Sentences ending with miniature
- There it was, with its solid green gates between the lions, its yellow walls with the fringe of peeping magnolias and oranges, with its green-latticed gallery from which Monsieur Auguste had let himself down after stealing the miniature. [9]
- I ought to slay a calf, as the father did for the prodigal son; but we live in miniature. [10]
- The high ridges of rock lay parallel, with bosky valleys and ponds between, and the sea shining in the south--all in miniature. [4]
- It's a kind of copy of Joan's own in miniature. [5]
- She was the lady of the miniature. [9]
- Oh, I wish I had the miniature. [9]
- Had she heard how Madame Bouvet had begged me to buy the miniature? [9]
- I had my hand in my coat; I fully intended to give her the miniature. [9]
- But I have forgotten the miniature. [9]
- Yet there was a sorry difference between this and the haughty young patrician who had sold me the miniature. [9]
Sentences containing miniature two or more times
- He thrust his hand into his coat and drew forth an oval object wrapped in dirty paper, and then disclosed to my astonished eyes the miniature of Mademoiselle de St. Gre,--the miniature, I say, for the gold back and setting were lacking. [9]
- I have seen a miniature of her, which her lover wore at Yorktown, and which he always swore that Washington coveted--a miniature painted by a wandering artist of the day, which entirely justifies the French officer in his abandonment of the trade of a soldier. [4]
More example sentences with the word miniature in them
- The miniature was wrapped now in a silk handkerchief which Polly Ann had bought for me in Lexington. [9]
- This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
- We fancied that we were going on, as an English writer on "Down-Easters" used to say, as "slick as ile," when this miniature tempest suddenly burst out in a revival of the language and methods used in the redoubtable old English periodicals forty years ago. [4]
- It seemed almost too steep to climb, but a practised eye could see from a distance the zigzag lines of the sheep-paths which scaled it like miniature Alpine roads. [6]
- I was about to say, Mr. Ritchie, when my son called to pay his respects, that the miniature of which we were speaking is one of the most remarkable paintings I have ever seen. [9]
- What a contrast, this frantic luxuriance of vegetation, with the arid plains of India; these architecturally picturesque crags and knobs and miniature mountains, with the monotony of the Indian dead-levels. [5]
- The lady in the miniature might have been eighteen, or thirty-five. [9]
- Mr. Ritchie bought the miniature from that most estimable of my relations, Monsieur Auguste de St. [9]
- Then I had the miniature again, which had travelled to her, as it were, and come back to me. [9]
- Then there was the evening promenading on the broad verandas and out upon the miniature pier, or at sunset by the water-batteries of the old fort --such a peaceful old fortress as it is. [4]
- But I have something more," he added quickly--" something more for you;" and he drew from his pocket a miniature set in rubies and diamonds. [11]
- It is a solemn city of winding streets and of miniature marble temples and mansions of the dead gleaming white from out a wilderness of foliage and fresh flowers. [5]
- The islands where she was born were in themselves so miniature that the minds of their people, however small, were not made to feel insignificant. [11]
- He bowed carelessly, sat him down, and began to shuffle the cards, while I picked up the miniature and walked out of the room. [9]
- Ha, Monsieur, you remember--the miniature you were so kin' as to borrow me four hundred livres? [9]
- There was a remarkable resemblance between the features of Ann Holyoake, as shown in the portrait, and the miniature likeness of Myrtle's mother. [6]
- Venters, with tingling pulse, with something growing on him, recognized in the faded miniature portrait the eyes of Milly Erne. [13]
- The box was priceless, the spreading trees in the miniature park no less so, and time, the unbribeable, alone could now have produced the wide, carefully cherished Victorian mansion. [9]
- The band was playing in the kiosk; the dew still lay on the flowers and the green turf; the miniature lake sparkled in the sun. [4]
- Grease-wood is a perfect --most perfect imitation in miniature of a live oak tree-barring the color of it. [5]
- The oaks shook off long tresses of their mossy beards to the tugging of the wind, and the bayou in its ambition put on miniature waves in mocking of much larger bodies of water. [5]
- Once--perhaps a score of times, I cannot tell--was limned on the ceiling, where the cracks were, her miniature, and I knew what was coming and shuddered and cried aloud because I could not stop it. [9]
- The miniature forests of ferns came down to the edge of the stream, their tall, bending plumes swaying in the night breeze. [6]
- The day marched nobly on towards evening, growing out of its blue and silver into a pervasive golden gleam; the bare, greyish houses on the prairie were transformed into miniature palaces of light. [11]
- But I have no doubt that you will not object to keeping the miniature a while longer. [9]
- Just outside the mosque is a miniature temple, which marks the spot where David and Goliah used to sit and judge the people.--[A pilgrim informs me that it was not David and Goliah, but David and Saul. [5]
- It is the miniature of Mademoiselle Helene de Saint-Gre, the daughter of the Marquis, sent to Mamselle 'Toinette, his sister, from France. [9]
- The only known miniature of his face, in the possession of the lady to whom he was betrothed at the time of his death, disappeared many years ago. [4]
- She thrust the miniature in her gown, turned, and walked in silence awhile. [9]
- It is a miniature castle, such as might serve for an opera scene. [4]
- They now gave me a pair of wooden clogs--benches in miniature, with leather straps over them to confine my feet (which they would have done, only I do not wear No. [5]
- I did not look upon them with the eye of an expert, but the great number and variety of these beautiful miniature ships and boats excited my admiration. [6]
- It was almost like a mockery to see them opened and closed, without having the time to study their wonderful miniature paintings. [6]
- He had various kinds of colored and colorless wines and brandies, with unpronouncable names, imported from China in little crockery jugs, and which he offered to us in dainty little miniature wash-basins of porcelain. [5]
- So said the interpreters, as the chiefs one after another tore the miniature British flags which had been given them into bits. [9]
- That for one instant she had been caught unawares and so had put herself at a disadvantage angered her; but she had been embarrassed and confounded by this miniature goddess, and her reply was a vague echo of talk she heard around her every day. [11]
- But I find, in dissecting a pea-blossom, that hidden in the center of it is a perfect miniature pea-pod, with the peas all in it,--as perfect a pea-pod as it will ever be, only it is as tiny as a chatelaine ornament. [4]
- It is an imposing monarch of the forest in exquisite miniature, is the "sage-brush. [5]
- On retiring to her own room, she sat in an armchair, her eyes fixed on a miniature portrait of her son on the lid of a snuffbox, while the tears kept coming into her eyes. [2]
- There flashed over her face that expression of the miniature, the mouth repressing the laughter in the brown eyes. [9]
- My cousin, Mademoiselle Helene de Saint-Gre, has just sent me from France such a beautiful miniature, and Auguste fell in love with it. [9]
- At the landing he was met by a woman, as much a miniature of the days of Orleanist France as himself. [11]
- In his lap he cuddled a miniature greyhound that snarled, lifting its lip and showing its white teeth whenever any slight movement disturbed it. [5]
- Once I felt for the miniature, took it out, and put it back without looking at it. [9]
- I remembered the first long, yearning look I had given the miniature at Madame Bouvet's. [9]
- A ring of emerald hills is broken by a little gap to seaward, and in the centre is a miniature emerald isle. [9]
- One of its doors opens directly upon the green, always called the Common; the other, facing the south, a few steps from it, over a paved foot-walk, on the other side of which is the miniature front yard, bordered with lilacs and syringas. [6]
- The miniature avalanche cracked and roared, and rattled itself into an inert mass at the base of the incline. [13]
- I will not conceal the fact that miniature figures of the Lion of Lucerne are to be had in them. [5]
- The man you chased with such futility was her brother, and he stole from her the miniature of which I am now the fortunate possessor. [9]
- Duelling was a battle in miniature, to kill one's foe no crime, but a victory. [10]
- She sat down at her writing table, on which stood miniature portraits and which was littered with books and papers. [2]
- Entering my room and closing the door after me, I drew the miniature from my pocket and stood gazing at it for I know not how long. [9]
- They showed us a miniature cemetery there--a copy of the first graveyard that was ever in Marseilles, no doubt. [5]
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