| 单词 | waxlike |
| 例句 | The pale, waxlike body was wearing nothing but a pair of blue underpants, and his blond hair was frozen to the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was wrapped in a waxlike paper and clear plastic wrap and was hidden in the lining of the baggage. Passenger Checked Bag With Explosive at Pennsylvania Airport, F.B.I. Says 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z "The film presents familiar figures as waxlike caricatures," she wrote, adding: "When it comes to Trump, the movie is oddly unspecific about the role Fox News played in the election." Why Charlize wrestled with playing Fox News anchor 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z In the case of a matte finish, that clear coat contains many microscopic hills and valleys rather than a smooth waxlike surface, deflecting light in many directions and making the finish look dull. Dull Car Finish Now Shines 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The stamens of the flower—waxlike with red tips—make mock illuminating matches. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z I took my husband's hand and it dropped back from my clasp, waxlike and nerveless. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Her calm, waxlike face was faintly flushed at the fulfilment of her ardent longings. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The late violets bloomed here and there, side by side with those waxlike yellow blossoms, called by the country folk "butter and eggs." Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z It has a large, soft stem, very thick, round, succulent leaves, and its clusters of star-shaped, waxlike flowers are white, sometimes slightly tinged with pink. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z His pale, inscrutable face was as waxlike as ever; his eyes were as cold, as penetrating, as old in their look of supreme wisdom. The Gambler A Novel His face was narrow and also waxlike in hue and the flickering candle-light threw quaint, distorted shadows around his long hooked nose. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel His head was twisted upon his shoulders in a peculiar way, and his mask, having slipped to the back, stared upward with a placid, waxlike smile that was horrible under the circumstances. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure "My daughters, Herr Schubert," said the tall lady, with a circumflex wave of her white hand that included the waxlike figures on each side the stove. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists After a short interval the insects emerge from the scales and secrete a waxlike substance, covering the boughs and twigs with a white deposit about a quarter of an inch thick. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Sometimes the gray blankets came up to the chin, and the man looked dead already, he was so dreadfully still, with his closed eyes and waxlike face. Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 She fairly trembled with joy as she uncovered the waxlike flowers of dainty pink and white. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' There were a dozen of the lovely waxlike blooms amongst them, uninjured. Despair's Last Journey The grand lady forgot her sentiment, and the little waxlike figures gave way. Unfinished Portraits Stories of Musicians and Artists The children were allowed to look at the beautiful waxlike white blossoms, with their glossy green leaves, and then Mother Brown carried them upstairs to immerse them in the bathtub full of water. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Sunny South The writing on these "books" is the cuneiform, and was done by impressing the "style" on the clay while in a waxlike condition. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 As he had observed, the waxlike figures moved, sat upright, and stared. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Several months later Florrie arrived, gay, brilliant, and beautiful, with her waxlike complexion as unlined by care as if it had been on the face of a doll. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage He certainly looked ill, and he had grown thinner and whiter within the past month, and the lines in his waxlike face seemed to be deeper scored. Jason Pushing up through the wet soil, already showed early snowplants, those strange, waxlike towers of crimson. The Rules of the Game The waxlike finish of the finely chiselled marble alone betrays that delicacy which with Mino verged on insipidity. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts He was a worn-looking, negative person, with a waxlike complexion, a furtive manner, and a marvellous head for the figures with which he juggled. The Profiteers Far overhead was a square, black shadow in the waxlike crust which they had left; it was the shadow of the cube. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Long want of exercise stunts her bodily growth, and when at last she becomes a woman, and emerges from her prison, her complexion has grown wan and pale and waxlike. The British Barbarians Hat in hand, Garnache took a step forward in that bare, scantily furnished little room, permeated by the faint, waxlike odour that is peculiar to the abode of conventuals. Saint Martin's Summer It was no longer a waxlike mask, but Henrietta, girlish and pathetically at rest. An Unsocial Socialist |
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