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Sentences starting with statues

Statues surrounded the hurriedly erected palaestra where the Ephebi every morning practised their nude, anointed bodies in racing, wrestling, and throwing the discus. [10]
Statues of them have been found to great quantities, and there is a particularly life-like picture of a Kynokephalos in relief on the left wall of the library of the temple of Isis at Philoe. [10]
Statues had been erected of himself, of his father, his mother, and even of his favorite heroes, above all of Alexander the Great; triumphal arches without number had been constructed. [10]

Sentences ending with statues

But they were waved aside with a right royal gesture, and they stopped stock still where they were, like so many statues. [5]
After our civil war there was a patriotic desire to commemorate the heroic sacrifices of our soldiers in monuments, and the deeds of our great captains in statues. [4]
But there is this difference between its view and that of a person looking at us:--we look from within, and see nothing but the mould formed by the elements in which we are incased; other observers look from without, and see us as living statues. [6]
At any rate, the architect could now avail himself of Caesarion's invitation to overlook from the appointed place of meeting--the lofty steps of the Temple of Isis--the Bruchium, and seek the best site for the twin statues. [10]
There was plenty of time to pack the statues. [10]
The two rows of men sat like statues. [5]
It is in its higher forms an artistic product, and admits the ideal element as much as pictures or statues. [6]
The Caesareum with its Egyptian gateway excited his admiration no less than the theatre, surrounded with pillared arcades in stories, and decorated with numerous statues. [10]
As he spoke he opened his eyes wide with the look of those hard, opaquely-glittering stones which his ancestors had been wont to set for eyes in their portrait statues. [10]
It is my business to choose the site for the statues. [10]

Short sentences using statues

Limbs from statues. [6]

Sentences containing statues two or more times

When the order to destroy the statues of Antony and Cleopatra was issued, Octavianus gave his contemporaries another proof of his disposition to be lenient, for he ordered that the numerous statues of the Queen in Alexandria and Egypt should be preserved. [10]
Their statues are set up in the streets; their works still live in the churches and city buildings,--pictures, and groups in stone and wood; and their statues, in all sorts of carving, are reproduced, big and little, in all the shop-windows, for sale. [4]
Cilo explained to me who had made the statues of the Romans who had served their country, who the artists and scholars were, whose statues and busts were carried by. [10]

More example sentences with the word statues in them

From sumptuous Versailles, with its palaces, its statues, its gardens, and its fountains, we journeyed back to Paris and sought its antipodes --the Faubourg St. Antoine. [5]
The statues, of which there were many, bore strange symbols, the mosaic flooring was covered with images intended to excite the fancy and the fears of the beholder. [10]
At Aelia Capitolina which Hadrian had decorated with several buildings, they refused to sacrifice to the statues of Zeus and Hera. [10]
But the statues which are ranked between the windows have suffered. [5]
In the antechamber, where Hermon waited for the King, Proclus mentioned one of the finest statues of Alexander by Lysippus, and an exquisite Eros by Praxiteles. [10]
Do you know what an exquisite effect gold and ivory statues produce in a full glow of lamplight? [10]
Among these images were two statues of Dexter himself, one of which held a label with a characteristic inscription. [6]
On either side were niches containing statues of Antony and Cleopatra cast in dark bronze, and above the cornice were brazen figures of Love and Death, Fame and Silence, ennobling the Egyptian forms with exquisite works of Hellenic art. [10]
Before the lamps were lighted along the Rue de Rivoli and in the great square of the Revolution, the garden was left to the silence of its statues and its thousand memories. [4]
In the same way the best of the statues were gone, with which a few centuries previously the art-loving Lagides had decorated this residence--besides which they had another, still larger, on the Bruchiom. [10]
This noble desire was not usually accompanied by artistic discrimination, and the land is filled with monuments and statues which express the gratitude of the people. [4]
A few braves usually stood like statues at the corner, and in front of the door another group of hunting shirts. [9]
Lancisi's figures show us how the great statues look when divested of their natural covering. [6]
It had its unwritten laws, and they were as clearly defined and as strict as any that could be found among the printed statues of the land. [5]
The monuments are unpretending in size, but there are many fine designs, and many finely executed busts and statues and allegorical figures, in both marble and bronze. [4]
As an artist, too, he did not approve Mardion's plan; for though, on Didymus's land, the statues would have faced the sea, which the Regent and the Keeper of the Seal regarded as very important, no fitting background could have been obtained. [10]
They were anxious to learn whether the rumour that Didymus's garden was to be taken for the twin statues had already spread abroad, and their first questions revealed that this was the case. [10]
When he was to guide the reed in the counting-house, he sketched; when he was sent to the harbour to direct the loading of the ships, he became absorbed in gazing at the statues placed there. [10]
Well then, farewell till we meet again on my boat; it is called the Euphrosyne, and lies out there, exactly opposite the two statues of the old king--who can remember these stiff barbarian names? [10]
The thought darted through his mind that his friend the architect desired to erect the luckless statues of the royal lovers in front of this stately building. [10]
And do you think we'd better have those life-size figures all round, mediaeval statues, with the incandescents? [4]
In later times the statues of the unfortunate Queen adorned the places where they had been erected. [10]
Between these is the old Residenz, adorned with fountain groups and statues in bronze. [4]
The statues of the gods had, before Caesar's arrival, been placed on the pedestals erected for them to prevent any risk of a demonstration at the appearance of the deified emperors. [10]
But on reaching the former place he learned that Gorgias had gone to remove the statues of Cleopatra and Antony from the house of Didymus, and erect them in front of the Theatre of Dionysus. [10]
We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. [5]
The wreathing of the Egyptian pylons and obelisks, the principal temple, and the favourite statues in the city had been commenced during the night. [10]
I could say that the Church of the Annunciation is a wilderness of beautiful columns, of statues, gilded moldings, and pictures almost countless, but that would give no one an entirely perfect idea of the thing, and so where is the use? [5]
The architect replied that Philostratus had endeavoured to make the crowd believe that the only appropriate site for the statues of which she had heard was her grandfather's garden, and he thought he knew in whose behalf the fellow was acting. [10]
I have often taken note of the resemblances of living persons to the portraits and statues of their remote ancestors. [6]
Couches and divans stood between the statues, and under a canopy at the upper end of the vast room stood a throne on which Hadrian sat when he held audience. [10]
The house is still standing, but the statues, the minarets, the arches, and the memory of the great Lord Timothy Dexter live chiefly in tradition, and in the work which he bequeathed to posterity, and of which I shall say a few words. [6]
Each, with his steady, unmoved gaze, his stiffly-curled false wig and beard, and his solemn, deliberate manner, resembled the two huge statues, which, the one precisely similar to the other, stood also motionless in their respective places, gazing calmly into the stream. [10]
There were no statues, as in the baths of the heathen; the walls were decorated with bible texts in gold letters, and above the divan, which was covered with a giraffe skin, there was a crucifix. [10]
When the twin statues were only waiting to be erected in front of the Theatre of Dionysus, Dion sought him. [10]
One of these statues stands in Alba. [10]
Now that the statues stand yonder, I can leave my post for half an hour and will go with you. [10]
These are life-size statues of old-time emperors, electors, and similar grandees, clad in mail and bearing ponderous swords. [5]
Temples and palaces, statues and columns appear everywhere in motley confusion. [10]
At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picturesque costumes, and bearing halberds. [5]
There are four staircases leading up to the main steeple, each of which cost a hundred thousand dollars, with the four hundred and eight statues which adorn them. [5]
It was long since any youthful figure had so vividly reminded him of the marble statues of the great Athenian masters. [10]
But when Pontius showed him, at the end of the rooms destined for the Emperor, the last of the statues to be restored, and which needed a new grin, Papias said decisively: "It cannot be done. [10]
She was delighted, she showed it to her brothers and sisters, and laid it by the statues of her ancestors; but I was miserable with shame and penitence, and at last I secretly took away the stone, and threw it into the water. [10]
While some were shattering his statues to carry away in sacks the gold and ivory which they contained, others were to force their way into Myrtilus's workroom, which was on the opposite side of the house. [10]
She wants to see the statues of Demeter which her father ordered from us. [10]
In order to secure the only suitable site for the statues to be erected to Cleopatra's honour and fame, I enter into judgment with her foes, expose myself to the insult with which boastful insolence is permitted to vent its wrath upon me. [10]
A hastily erected scaffold, which was to support the pulleys for raising the statues, had collapsed. [10]
Gold and ivory, purple sails, bronze and marble statues at the prow and stern, and in the little shrines on the after-deck, combined in a gorgeous display, made all the more brilliant by the low sun, which added vividness to every hue. [10]
If you can prevent the erection of the statues on Didymus's land, so much the better. [10]
It was a place of books and statues and tapestry, and the dark oak was nobly smutched of Time. [11]
Little Scherau, whom Pentaur had educated to be a sculptor, executed it, as well as many other statues of the great sovereign of Egypt. [10]
The storm had passed away and the rain had ceased; the sky was clear and cloudless, and the moon poured its silvery light in lavish splendor, as though revived, on the temple and on the statues round the square. [10]
Their new leader, our friend Aristomachus, stood with a few of his own officers apart from the Egyptians, by the colossal statues of Psamtik I., which had been erected on the space above the steps, their faces towards the river. [10]
Aelia rose up on the very soil where their ruined Jerusalem had stood, and the statues of which you speak stand in their holy places. [10]
At the back of this court, where it was as light as day, at the top of three steps, stood the statues of Alexander the Great and Caracalla. [10]
When she spoke of the statues just now, she asked in the same breath where I had seen him on the evening of the day before yesterday, and that was the very time he called on Barine. [10]
The clear surface of the perfumed water mirrored statues of nymphs fleeing from the pursuit of satyrs, and reflected the shimmering light of numbers of lamps suspended from the ceiling. [10]
Beyond is the Neckar, with the bridge, and white statues on it, and an old city gate at this end, with pointed towers. [4]
First, however, he must attend to the packing of the statues, and then try to appease Ledscha, and make Gula's husband understand that he was casting off his pretty wife unjustly. [10]
Great and noble masters formed those statues by the aid of the gods, and they--they, small and ignoble as they are, have destroyed them by the aid of evil daemons. [10]
It has 7,148 marble statues, and will have upwards of three thousand more when it is finished. [5]
Stone statues are made of harder material, but a soul dwells within them too. [10]
Muffled Indians stood like statues as we passed, but these raised not a hand against us. [9]
He knew that it was not to the great Galenus, but to the wealthy Serenus Samonicus, that she had spoken; for the physician's noble and thoughtful features were familiar to him from medals, statues, and busts. [10]
Yet they are intended, some as statues of aged monarchs, others to perpetuate the memory of young princes. [10]
The gilded statues in the prows of the large galleys shone and sparkled in the broad radiance of the day-star, and flashes of light also came from the low hills on the shore. [10]
So it was impossible to determine at present whether Chello had seen the finished statues or not, yet Hermon desired the former with actual fervour, that he might have positive certainty. [10]
In Drake's studio I saw statues, busts, and reliefs grow out of the rude mass of clay; I saw the plaster cast turned into marble, and the master, with his sure hand, evoking splendid forms from the primary limestone. [10]
He thinks that he only holds the true faith, and ought to fight for it; he calls all artistic work a heathen abomination; he never felt the purifying influence of the beautiful, and regards all pictures and statues as tending to idolatry. [10]
On the contrary, he offers, in the name of the Queen, any compensation you yourself may fix for the piece of land which is to be honoured by the statues of the highest personages in the country--Cleopatra and Antony, hand in hand. [10]
They said they had never seen anything that came reasonably near equaling its perfection except Greek statues, and they didn't surpass it. [5]
The master who had carved this stooping Nubian had also created the much-discussed statues of the royal lovers. [10]
The chief streets had been decked with ropes of flowers strung from mast to mast and from house to house, and by the harbor, close to the river shore, statues of Hadrian and his wife had been erected. [10]
Faithful to the habits of a long life, the astrologer raised his eyes and, after a glance at the double row of granite pillars, the colossal statues and obelisks in the fore-court, fixed them on the starlit skies. [10]
Everything up here greets her with rejoicing, and I could almost fancy that among those still marble statues even the stern face of Zeno had parted its lips, and spoken flattering words to her. [10]
Like the other great houses, it is a museum of paintings, statues, objects of interest of all sorts. [6]
The fountains were frozen, icicles hung from the locks of the marble statues in the Chiaia. [4]
The full unbroken force of the flood beat again and again on the promontory on which stood the statues of the Imperial couple. [10]
He doesn't care for that, except that it brings in cash for his statues and pictures. [11]
The priests now first marched solemnly round these statues, and Timotheus poured a libation on the sand to Serapis, while the priest of Alexandria did the same to the tutelary hero of the town. [10]
And those frozen figures stayed there like statues with that other crimson flag: until, one day, a great-bodied wind swept out of the north, and, in pity, carried them down a bottomless fissure. [11]
Finally, statues were erected to many. [10]
Has the monster dragged along there any connection with the twin statues of the Queen and her friend? [10]
On the balcony, decorated with statues which surrounded the colonnade of the Pantheon on which the cupola rested, she saw Caracalla, and at a respectful distance a superb escort of his friends, in red and white togas, bordered with purple stripes, and wearing armor. [10]
Look at the countless statues which have been erected during the last three thousand years, in all the temples and palaces from Naukratis up to the Cataracts. [10]
It bribes the common voice to praise it by presents of speeches, poems, statues, pictures, or whatever it can please with. [6]
The private garden, close to the imperial residence, was also closed to the public, who in vain looked across the sunken fence to the parterres, fountains, and statues, in the hope that the mysterious man would come out there and publicly enjoy himself. [4]
The statues and bust of Antinous which remain to us of that epoch, show that the drooping tree was still destined to put forth new leaves under Hadrian's rule. [10]
Here were four bronzed statues in a row across the street, the space in front of them clear that their partisans in the fort might look and consider. [9]
The ranks were broken up, and the cuirasses, helmets, and arms of the moving warriors caught the sun and sent bright beams of light crossing one another over the wide space surrounded with dazzling white marble statues. [10]
It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has been doing with the statues. [5]
The song of birds mingled with the plash of fountains, and even the marble statues, for all that they were dumb, seemed to be enjoying the sweet morning air and the stir and voice of nature. [10]
We might have been statues, we sat so motionless and still. [5]
Three bending statues bear up that gilded seat, which, in spite of the time-hallowed usurpations and consecrated wrongs so long associated with its history, is still venerated as the throne. [6]
But there won't be any time for your little pictures and statues. [11]
They folded their arms and waited like statues. [11]
On the outside are niches filled with statues. [4]
The statues, by Archias's orders, were to be executed in chryselephantine work, and the gold and ivory which this required might only too easily awaken the vice of cupidity in the honest and frugal Biamites. [10]
In the high arcade a colony of doves is domesticated; and I like to watch them circling about and wheeling round the spires of the over-decorated Theatine church opposite, and perching on the heads of the statues on the facade. [4]

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