Grotesques Sentence Examples

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  • Its high tower has four stages, each adorned with grotesques; and Greenway's chapel, built in 1517 by John Greenway, a wool merchant of Tiverton, is ornamented with figures minutely carved in stone.

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  • In addition to Alleaume's edition, a delightful article in Theophile Gautier's Grotesques should be consulted respecting him.

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  • The latter are hewn perpendicularly in the rock, while the Roman tombs are chambers excavated horizontally._ In the lagoon itself were found a large number of terra cottas, made of local clay, some being masks of both divinities and men (among them grotesques) others representing hands and feet, others various animals, and of amphorae of various sizes and other vases.

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  • Like strange mechanical grotesques, making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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  • Tommy Rag is a fine addition to Spall's gallery of comic grotesques.

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  • Yet they have blind arches as decoration at their heads and these are accompanied by what appear to be original medieval grotesques.

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