| 单词 | cupid |
| 例句 | It was a passable likeness, and the artist perceived one not very obvious aspect of the sitter’s countenance—its mischief, an amused, babyish malice that suggested some unkind cupid aiming envenomed arrows. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke put out a tentative finger and touched the marble cupid gingerly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They upset a little china cupid who had hitherto stood alone on the desk except for the candlesticks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he came into the room, and she was kneeling on the floor, wrenching open the little crate in which the cupid was packed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Darkness lay in the corners, and the marble cupid smiled down on them with chubby good humor. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z “What a confounded nuisance,” said Maxim, “that cupid is worth a hell of a lot. How I loathe servants’ rows too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Luke was not still for a minute, but moved back and forth across the shadows, filling glasses, stirring the fire, touching the marble cupid; he was bright in the firelight, and restless. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z And she then would have plunged her hand down into the shavings and brought out the cupid who stood on one foot, his bow in his hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose the cupid was put there then?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all a mistake, Mrs. Danvers. Apparently Mrs. de Winter broke the cupid herself and forgot to say anything,” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The dresser in my room was covered with little porcelain white women holding parasols, china dogs, fat-bellied cupids and blown-glass animals of every persuasion. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the window, the bride and groom on the wedding cake point at me and laugh—the air becomes charged with laughter until I can’t stand it—and the two cupids wave their flaming arrows. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In the past experts have believed the image which he sculptured for his own pleasure to be a cupid. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the fountain, sculptures hid like tree sprites under the topiaries—cupids playing flutes and tambourines, or ladies dancing in their rain-worn stone gowns next to the huge pots of orange trees. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Hours before the parade started, several hundred people gathered to don fanciful costumes and makeup, including a skeleton cupid on rollerblades, a marching band wearing skeleton face paint, and women in traditional Mexican dresses. In burgeoning Day of the Dead parade, Mexico remembers earthquake casualties 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z With her new Christmas single “Santa Tell Me,” Ariana Grande continues pop music’s holiday tradition of conflating Santa with cupid. Listen to Ariana Grande’s New Christmas Single, “Santa Tell Me” 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The furniture is carved with crowns, thistles, cupids and the occasional winged dragon. A Collection of Dutch Artifacts 50 Years in the Making 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Look for porcelain vases, paper or fabric flowers, a small plaster cupid, and other items that turn up in his famous still lifes. The magic of France’s Aix-en-Provence 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Yet the mixing of Greek cupids and Chinese pastoral ornaments results in a strange and tasteless art, a bizarre, barbaric melange. The ghosts of ancient Afghanistan 2011-02-27T21:30:00Z Love has been squatted for too long by those false cupids with their "for sale" signs. Let's make love our alternative currency 2012-02-14T00:01:00Z Of course he or she doesn’t wear a cupid diaper – that would just be stupid. Ranking: Valentine’s Day Films From Worst to Best 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z All the main characters take part in a masque, in the course of which they are killed off by poisoned wine, poisoned incense, arrows shot by cupids, and so on. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z “All of the highpoints of the face, brow bone, cheekbone, cupids bow, down the bridge of the nose, tip of the nose and shoulders,” she says. Get the Look: Jennifer Lopez's radiant skin 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z A cupid with feathery wings rises on his knees from the heaped folds of a gold counterpane, arms raised in delight at the miraculous golden downpour. Art Review: Italian Paintings From the Feigen Collection, at Yale 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z Hours before the parade started, several hundred people gathered to don fanciful costumes and makeup, including a skeleton cupid on rollerblades, a marching band wearing skeleton face paint, and women in traditional Mexican dresses. In burgeoning Day of the Dead parade, Mexico remembers earthquake casualties 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z And a stele devoted mainly to sober scenes from Buddha’s life doubles as a playground for dozens of cupids. Art Review: When East Met West Under the Buddha?s Gaze 2011-08-10T23:20:02Z Taking its name from cupid's holiday with all the inspired creativity of a filing label, "Valentine's Day" crisscrosses endlessly -- endlessly -- among a Whitman's sampler of cutouts passing as characters. 2010-02-07T22:04:00Z Allegra asked, the question shaping the bow of her cupid’s mouth. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z A woman who is naked except for fancy stockings touches what the artist calls her “coynte” while a winged cupid teases her bottom with a powder puff. Too filthy to print – Aubrey Beardsley and his explosions of obscenity 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z I went to him in a barge and surrounded myself with handsome young men, dressed as cupids. Dear, Cleopatra: How women from history would answer our relationship questions | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It was the most clever of cupid's arrows that first brought the couple into each other's orbit as pen pals - the high-intelligence society Mensa, of which both were members. The Mensa pen pals who moved miles for love 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Publicly displayed for the first time, the tripod’s legs are adorned with carved ivory bas-reliefs of cupids cavorting around herms, boundary markers of stone pillars with human heads. Review: Getty Villa’s ‘Buried by Vesuvius’ is exquisite and, at times, explicit 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Friars at one of Italy’s most revered and beautiful churches are endeavouring to play cupid to hundreds of single people due to converge on the building in search of a soulmate. Love is in the prayer: Italian church to play host to singles' event 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z On Valentine’s Day, Connor was dressed up as a cupid, and on St. Patrick’s Day, he was a leprechaun. Baby born last year weighing less than a soda can heads home for the first time 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Other mythological figures, like cupids, maenads and satyrs, also appeared in the public part of the house “as though part of a Dionysian retinue,” he said, referring to the Greek god of wine and revelry. Archaeologists in Pompeii Find Fresco of Narcissus in ‘Extraordinary’ Condition 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z His pointer finger hovers just above his cupid’s bow as he continues. Long live Will Smith, king of vlogging 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Juxtaposing flirty cupids and boundary herms seems to say: “Pleasure Zone.” Review: Getty Villa’s ‘Buried by Vesuvius’ is exquisite and, at times, explicit 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z I felt strangely like some sort of acting cupid that I finally put those two people together. With the gay conversion therapy drama 'Boy Erased,' Joel Edgerton hopes to stir hearts and change minds 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z For a custom baby shower invitation, he drew a literal baby shower with chubby cupids getting sudsed up under a sprinkler. Autism is both ‘a tool and a gift’ for local young artist 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Rebecca, on the other hand, is finished: lacquered and exquisite as the priceless china cupid her clumsy replacement breaks. Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 years on 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z He said he decided to splurge on Florida-based Master Matchmakers because he knew he was being picky and figured a professional cupid might be able to expedite the process. He wanted Jewish, liberal and not so tall. The dating service gave him some, not all. Then the Yelp war began 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z An adjoining mosaic shows cupids and dancing male figures likely associated with Dionysus, the Greco-Roman god of wine, revelry, and the theater. Does This Mysterious Mosaic Depict Alexander the Great? Back in his studio, he quickly drew two pink cupids pointing to three security cameras, with the Forbidden City as a background. Cartoonists a casualty of China’s intolerance of dissent 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The cupids of commerce introduced a match-making service for business owners in Africa. Africa's Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs: Forbes Africa's 30 Under 30 For 2015 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Overhead is a mural with cupids and animals painted by two artists, and on one wall is one of the many family portraits, this one an Andy Warhol-style painting of Cynthia Bruno. Paradise in Potomac: Every inch of couple’s estate built for living lavishly 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z And it’s not just men shouldering the burden of playing cupid, either. Here's What Your Cupid Is Buying Online For Valentine's Day (Yes, Blue Roses) 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z If a supervisor and a subordinate just can’t resist each other, McKenna recommends that they sign what she calls a “cupid contract.” How To Have A Succcessful Office Romance 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z The protesters started in a festive mood, spraying pink glitter on passersby and dressing up as hula-hooping pixies and cupids to mark Brazilian Lovers' Day, which is also being celebrated today. Anti-World Cup protests in Brazilian cities mark countdown to kick-off 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z A minstrel and a damsel sing to them, while cupids flutter about and wave torches. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z You know the one with the jolly little cupids in pink and blue glass. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Little cupids in the air are shooting arrows at them. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Her nose is small and finely cut, and her mouth is a perfect cupid's bow…. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z They preferred light laughing cupids, kind towards the human frailties of both men and women. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z The men are all giants, and the women all amazons, and even his holy children, his seraphs and cupids, are fat Dutch babies. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z The ceiling was painted with white clouds against a blue sky, and fat little cupids danced or plied their art with miniature bows and arrows. The Twins in the South 2012-02-13T03:00:16.113Z A cupid steps on two sleeping children: a beautiful girl sits near her lover, "the holy feeling of youthful innocence and affection charmingly expressed in both:" an old man contemplates two skulls on the ground. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z "They are not cupids, but angels," said Joan, "which are much more adapted to Starling's tastes." The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z I know perfectly well there are even flying cupids in the big woodlands, and I fully expect to bring a couple home to lunch——” Cushions in one big bang stopped Treble. The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge Nora's Real Vacation 2012-01-20T03:00:14.427Z Next came the miniature painter, who sent a dainty pasteboard box on which he had painted a swarm of little cupids in exceedingly graceful attitudes. Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 2011-12-19T03:00:37.437Z On the north wall was the fireplace—wide, high, old-fashioned and warm—with a discoloured white marble mantelpiece, decorated with fat bewigged Georgian cupids. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z There was a new spinet, set at an angle to the rest of the furniture, in a case of light-coloured wood, painted with cupids, zephyrs and roses, all waxen-pale. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z "Well—cupids or angels—it cleaned us entirely out," concluded Nancy. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z But that afternoon she played with the cupids, and tired, fell asleep in the same place. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z We had tea in the long gallery with all Raphael's and Carracci's beautiful gods and cupids over our heads. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Father rose obediently to his lean height, and fumbled among the things on my dresser for the fat silver mirror, adorned with its charmingly ugly cupids, which had been my mother's. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Round it were large wardrobes of carved oak; between two windows stood a table and on it a large mirror in a china frame composed of cupids and flowers. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z "It took the form of a pair of silver-backed brushes with cupids' heads on them, and cost three pounds seventeen and sixpence," added Nancy. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Eros is a young prince; then there are the doves, the griffons, the cupids.... Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The house looked very handsome—the ball-room with its decoration of flowers, cupids, etc., had a decidedly festive appearance. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Wouldn't you like if your tails were—so— Curved in the shape of a cupid's bow? Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education 2011-10-05T02:00:19.377Z There were many Turks and Spaniards; several monks, women disguised as bats, many mythological goddesses and Venetians were to be distinguished among clowns, harlequins, and cupids with bows and arrows. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z What use, I'd like to know, is that cupid and rose cornish? Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z Between the shrubs, where May strewed fragrant snow-blossom, naked, chubby cupids with tender wings played or romped, hovering like little clouds in the air. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z I hope we shall, I should like to see the ball-room—they say all the decoration, painting, flowers, cupids, etc., has been done by Lady Paget herself. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z Then the merry Winny Weg caught hold of the cupids and incited them to dance a slow gavotte, and as they danced they warbled lusciously:— The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z But, see, he stirs, new knowledge fires his brain, And cupid's vision bids him wake again. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Skulls, skeletons of saints, chubby-cheeked cupids, cruel martyrdoms, and Arcadian shepherdesses, nude penitents and fiends dragging them down into the depths, lambs of heaven and dogs of hell were all in motley confusion! On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z It was always the sweet pleasure of flowers and birds, of spring and love, cupids and roses, music and dance. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Perhaps, also, the judge grew tired of the cupids. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z An hour later Waddles emerged from the shower room, looking very much like an overgrown cupid in his abbreviated underwear. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z She had the thoughtful brow and the words of wisdom for one class; the smile of the cupid and the laugh of the bacchante for another. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Instead of the medi�val representations of martyrs and emaciated saints appeared the nude gods and cupids of a Watteau and his school. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Psyche!” she woke the cupids, who dressed her in a moment, and went to meet her husband. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Nestling among the pointed branches of the fir was a winged cupid, with bow and arrow. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z She could not decorate a tea cup to save her life, nor hand-paint a clam shell, nor embellish a canvas with fleshy cupids and no less corpulent rosebuds. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z The Chapel bells chimed out their angelus across the fantasmal gloaming, tinkling through the girl's mood in utter harmony with the music of her soul, and the supernal smiles that lingered about her cupid lips. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Sounds like cupid is doing quite bit better than OK. Online Dating and Matchmaking 2011-04-11T04:00:00Z When she turned round she beheld the cupids; they were bringing her her crown. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z One represented a heavy surf upon an indeterminate but rather rockbound coast and the other showed a lady asleep with cupids hovering about her bed. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Instantly he saw the gallery flooded with summer sunshine, the glimmering floors, the mellow canvases, the figure of the beautiful girl, bending over the inscription at the foot of the marble cupid. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z A cupid's bow of red lips, through which shone white teeth that met in an even row, greeted him. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z It contains rough gods and smooth gods, gods of symmetry and gods of strength, gods great and terrible, gods middling and respectable, and little cupids and toy-gods. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z The cupids she drove away, and, crying, they hid themselves among the roses. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z A favourite decoration of Vincennes porcelain was flowers and birds, on a beautiful bleu de roi ground, and cupids painted in camaïeu of a single colour. The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods 2011-02-28T03:00:33.843Z Did the merry cupids take refuge in his flowers and lines of poetry, while he acted the part of grave invincibility? Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z Six cupids and a crouching lion guard the royal figure above; and the whole, in spite of its richness, is of great dignity. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Under the gilt wheel of Time a cupid balanced back and forth, in a Rhinestone swing—"Yes," "No," the seesaw motion seemed to say. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z He stayed by her, and all around was still, and the cupids appeared fluttering in the air. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Now there comes a thin cloud which turns it into a blindfolded cupid, or a bearded deputy. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z Her fancies rose in a whirling mist: she saw a white palace, with little cupids everywhere.... The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z A balding Californian self-confessed technology enthusiast dressed in a dull corporate suit, Waldorf, 42, appears an unlikely cupid. Dating site eHarmony aims to dominate British market 2010-08-24T05:59:00Z Ms. Irving went to AG Interactive, American Greetings’ e-card section, and browsed its 50 cupid messages, selecting one with kittens and other animals. Advertising: Like Texting, but With Video 2010-03-11T03:09:00Z The lark had not sung, the cupids were not fluttering about. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The walls had red panels painted on them, and on each panel one or two cupids danced and threw flowers: repulsive, stout cupids. Where the Path Breaks Her toilet-table was loaded with silver in a pattern of flamboyant, curly cupids,--I've often wondered who bought such things,--and there were gorgeous, gaudy garments lying about. The Preliminaries And Other Stories A true child of the Renaissance, he also painted a number of religious pictures, numerous mythological scenes, allegories, nymphs, cupids and subjects from Ovid’s fables, but he excelled as a portraitist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" The most popular was a blue-eyed cupid, rapping “lyrics silky-smoother than a thornless rose.” Advertising: Like Texting, but With Video 2010-03-11T03:09:00Z The cupids lay dead in the withered roses. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z It has a cupid's bow and it droops at the corners. With Edge Tools She had a cupid's bow mouth and her lips were very ruby. The Book of Gud Later, however, the composition becomes exceedingly light and complicated; every conceivable and often incongruous element of decoration is introduced, from cupids to dragons, from flowerets to Chinese pagodas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Perhaps the most characteristic paintings of Maestro Giorgio are the central medallions of cups and deep dishes enclosing a single figure of a child or a cupid in grisaille. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Mr. Peacock was a florid man with the face of a cupid, the guile of a fox and the voice of an ogre. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident This stern objective fragment of an epic, falling into their sentimental world of keepsakes, ribbons, roses and cupids, like a bas-relief conceived by a Titan and executed by a god, met with little appreciation. An Outline of Russian Literature Aunt Gainor rode in a riding-mask, and the Quaker bonnet was worn no longer, wherefore, the code of lovers' signals being ingeniously good, there needed no cupids old or young. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington Let us adore a cupid agonized, worshipping the goddess of hopeless, tender, romantic love. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar On the staircase, similarly decorated, stood at intervals little marble cupids, holding vases filled with roses. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun It had been, originally, a drawing-room, the cornice was elaborate, and painted on the ceiling were flying cupids and azure and cornucopias of spilling flowers. The Bright Shawl A white cupid spilled from a shell a stream of water like tender falling tear-drops, caught in an alabaster basin. Sónnica No winged cupid ever hid in Miss Penelope's ear, or played bo-peep in her virgin bosom, or nestled in her sandy locks: she is free from all taint of such wild frivolisms. Rossmoyne A beautifully varnished little cupid had leapt up out of the heart of the rose and was holding out a burning heart with both hands towards Rettel. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Pressing a bell, she gave her orders which were promptly obeyed by a nurse who entered with the baby, a lusty boy with grey-green eyes, and lips firmly locked in a cupid's bow. Banked Fires There was a rug on the floor, now thick with mould, and yet it was a rare Aubusson rug with sturdy cupids trailing flowery vines across its surface. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor She it was who gave me the name of Erotion, because when I was little I looked like a cupid. Sónnica On the broad marble mantelpiece were an Empire clock and some old china, and over it a long gilt mirror with a moulded device of lions drawing chariots and cupids flying above them. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons In the studio of Albini He became a colour-mixer; And from this most graceful master He found out with ready cunning How to paint both gods and heroes, And the airy little cupids. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. “Nor you these carven woods, where birds in bowers With twisting snakes and climbing cupids, play.” The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV One of these, in Bouguereau’s atelier, depicted their master caricatured as a cupid. The Real Latin Quarter Have the place cards in heart shapes with pen and ink sketches or watercolors of brides, or tiny cupids. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Billy Magee, the calm, the unsusceptible, who wrote of a popular cupid but had always steered clear of his shots. Seven Keys to Baldpate The bright autumn sunshine illuminated the ormulu brass of the First Empire, gilt eagles, crowns, cupids, and the only letter of the alphabet that always suggests one name. With the French in France and Salonika All the saints smiled before his closing eyes, sweet Marys and chubby little angels resembling cupids. The Son of His Mother Darts, flames, cupids, love graces and all that farrago are just ... a senseless rabble.' Robert Burns Famous Scots Series Ferocious gargoyles, highly excited dolphins, improper, pot-bellied little cupids, and mermaids without a shred of character, seemed about to pounce out from banister, alcove, bookcase, cozy corner and china closet. In the Heart of a Fool Mr. Magee saw that his face was very red, his neck very thick, but his mouth a cute little cupid's bow that might well have adorned a dainty baby in the park. Seven Keys to Baldpate Music, poetry, dancing, elves, graces and flirtations, cupids, seem to attend her steps. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen A negative shake of the golden head and ringleted curls was the answer, though the cupid mouth and the blue eyes smiled with tenderness. Orphans of the Storm Her eyes, weary of the meaningless, leering antics of the cupids, presently came to rest on the ceiling above her bed, which appeared to be a-flutter with small pieces of pasteboard. Kildares of Storm The seal a cupid writing on a tablet. Mabel's Mistake He could hammer out on a typewriter wild plots and counter-plots—with a boarding-school girl's cupid busy all over the place. Seven Keys to Baldpate For two hundred years Tiepolo has been stigmatised as extravagant, mannered, as just equal to painting cupids, nymphs, and parroquets. The Venetian School of Painting A grieved look began to grow around her expressive little cupid’s bow of a mouth, and her big eyes grew sorrowful as she watched the two. Cloudy Jewel You, with your great gray eyes, your charming little nose and cupid mouth. The Law-Breakers On the balustrade sit also Sweet coquettes among the cupids, And some messeigneurs in purple. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays As we walked back over the sands and grass-grown streets to the hotel, his heart got away from that cupid's lunch-counter, and he was almost cheerful. Seven Keys to Baldpate A bas-relief on the marble fountain represents nymphs whipping a sleeping Love to life, while a cupid teases the chaste unicorn. The Venetian School of Painting Dresden cupids, in pretty and artistic poses, held dishes filled with candied rose leaves and heart-shaped cakes covered with pink icing. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society I looked around at the pretty boudoir where I lay, at the silken curtains of the bed, at the clouds of cupids on the painted ceiling, flying through a haze of vermilion flecked with gold. The Maids of Paradise At that time the western wing was the ballroom, with domed ceiling circled by cupids and roses. A Portrait of Old George Town A child dressed like a cupid, with a chaplet of flowers in its hand, was handed to the Duchess d’Angoulême, who sat on the left hand of the King. A Sailor of King George Shape the160 upper lip into a cupid's bow and round out the lower lip. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession The outer case rests on a separate stand consisting of three gilt cupids and a floral garland. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries The shelves and floor were littered with porcelain cupids and nymphs, Chinese monkeys, vases of pale green enamel, cups of Dresden and old Sèvres. Humorous Ghost Stories But Bill arrived, with some of the worst tea in the world, and four cups tastefully done in cupids' heads and much gilt. Free Air If two be joined side by side they produce the beautiful curve of a mouth and the cupid's bow. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures When necessary the upper lip can be shortened in appearance by blending and putting the cupid's bow a little higher. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession In like manner you don't suppose, because I tolerate Roman architecture, that therefore I like naked cupids to stand for cherubs, and sprawling women for the cardinal virtues.... Cardinal Newman as a Musician If the door-lights are not stained glass, lace shades in designs of birds, cupids, and garlands of flowers are used; also, etchings in various colors and designs are worked on different fabrics. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Dressed in her pink tights, she looked like a blithe nymph playing with rollicking cupids. The Bill-Toppers No vase of fruit could ever uphold a cupid’s frolic, nor could an emblematic bird support a chalice, yet the artist makes it seem so. The Tapestry Book There was a beautiful wedding cake, frosted over and almond-iced underneath, and ornaments on it, too—cupids and doves and such-like. Girls of the Forest It had two windows opening upon the garden, the walls were decorated with a paper resembling brocatelle, and cupids were painted on the ceiling. The Comedienne A gloomy room with dingy frescoes of impossible cupids and still more impossible roses. The Secret Witness The conductor of the party in Egypt had called them both "cupids;" and this term became very popular for the time. Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing For the small pictures of pulpy babies photographed as cupids, the tin souvenirs and the pseudo-Turkish scarves draped over trunks rob the rooms of the simplicity which is their only merit. The Job An American Novel The last curtsy of a favourite "prima donna" brings down a shower of these poetical tributes from those upper regions, from which, in our theatres, nothing but cupids and snowstorms are accustomed to descend. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 But when the King of Italy took possession, a new canvas with cupids and putti was stretched over it, and the Pope's sitting room is now turned into Prince Humbert's bedroom. Overbeck For a center piece a wax cupid with bow and arrow in the midst of flowers and foliage, with various sized red paper hearts scattered around. Games For All Occasions His small mouth, with its full, red lips shaped like the traditional cupid’s bow, was colorless, and there was abject terror in his infantile blue eyes. The Man from the Bitter Roots It not only looked, it was—the very fluffiest, laciest one Jane had ever seen, with marvellous cupids and hearts, and forget-me-nots and true lover’s knots of blue ribbon. Chicken Little Jane The little book, bound in red, with golden cupids, lay open on the table. Old Valentines A Love Story When Antony entered Ephesus the women went out to meet him in the undress of bacchanals, while troops of naked boys representing cupids, and men clothed like satyrs danced at the head of the procession. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators A large white heart-shaped target having a small red heart for the bull's eye, a bow and cupid's dart are necessary for this game. Games For All Occasions Here was no pattern of scroll or blossom or cupids and hearts. The Thing from the Lake First see that there is love; secondly, that there is adaptation; thirdly, see that there are no physical defects; and if these conditions are properly considered, cupid will go with you. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage Elsewhere about the exterior are coloured designs of Chinese dragons, floral emblems, cupids, anchors, flags, and other devices with which your skin may be beautified at trifling cost—anything from sixpence to five shillings. Nights in London It was blue plates, covered with vines and roses, or nothing; and he even had visions of a tea-set covered with cupids and flying angels. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Here the man found another subject to rave about and dance round, in the shape of his own baby, a soft, smooth copy of himself, which lay sleeping like a cupid in its cradle. Chasing the Sun Daniel wrote his own valentine, but, despite its originality, that document gave him no such comfort as Billy got from twenty-five cents' worth of embossed paper, pink cupids, and doggerel. A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" And winged genii were common there, whether cupids or cherubs it would be hard to say. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield He goes to Sylvanus, and has the name of the lady, garnished with a heart or a floral cupid, engraved on his hands, arms, or chest. Nights in London I'm letting loose a whole flock of cupids. The Second Chance A clock and two vases are introduced, and a picture over the mirror representing a sleeping beauty with a cupid. Pickwickian Manners and Customs Our ebony cupid, though not indeed a Gaucho, but a negro infant, partook of the Gaucho spirit, and, although little more than four years of age, had succeeded in catching his first pig. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America The sides were decorated with two large garlands of carved flowers and fruit; and the four bed-posts, finely fluted and crowned with Corinthian capitals, supported a cornice of entwined roses and cupids. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories A decorated frontispiece offered a splendid garland composed of all these twenty-nine flowers; and on turning the page a cupid is painted to the life. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 The young artist thought she had never seen so perfect a "cupid" mouth in her life. The Angel of Terror If a young man loves a young lady, he does not ask his parents' consent to marriage, but tells his aunt or married sister about what cupid has done for him. Modern Persia As to the porcine yells, the whole of the almost superhuman skirling arose from one little pig, which the ebony cupid before mentioned had lassoed by the hind leg. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America Oh, Rosa knew her charms, and had practised many a day before her mirror till she had appraised the value of every curving eyelash, every hidden dimple, every cupid's curve of lip. A Voice in the Wilderness There’s a sweet little cupid who “sits up aloft,” like Jack’s guardian angel, to watch o’er the loves of poor laymen. She and I, Volume 1 Her face was light-bronze in colour, every feature clearly cut as a cameo, the forehead smooth and high, the nose delicately aquiline, the lips a perfect cupid's bow, the eyebrows high and arched. A Mating in the Wilds The stalls of the choir are elaborately carved with cherubs’ heads, medallions and figures of saints, cupids supporting shields, and free and graceful arabesques of the epoch of the Renaissance. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines But cupid was not to be balked of his prey. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America She likewise writes to him regarding family matters, and also asks him to find her an antique cupid in Rome. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Monstrosities of hearts, cupids, and entwining fretwork were embossed on each, but save for the intricacy of design, there was little difference between them. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Thou wilt sell thy pipes and cupids, and if they do not bring enough, I will give all my own things. The Argonauts Any student of physiognomy can see that those delicate little nostrils show passion, and that cupid's bow of a mouth will delight in kisses! Man and Maid A naked negro child—a sort of ebony cupid—lay asleep beside it, with its little head pillowed on the dog’s haunch. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America The calendar lying at his elbow was an ornamental cardboard trifle, embellished with cupids and simpering shepherdesses—such as girls send to each other at the New Year. Dross But not without retreating graces, and retiring cupids too. The Stranger A Drama, in Five Acts Then I saw him skulking like a cupid, in the shrubbery, his skirts bedraggled and soiled, his face downcast with guilt. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales The bed, copied after Marie Antoinette's couch in the Little Trianon was in sculptured Circassian walnut, upholstered in dull pink brocade, the broad canopy overhead being upheld by two flying cupids. The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure There were no chestnut puffs over her ears or pink spots on her cheeks, and her lips looked strange without their penciled cupid's bow. Quin It was made of wood more precious than gold, and at each corner stood four animated images, little cupids, who, as soon as the baby cried, began to rock it of their own accord. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew He stood there in the doorway, under a vulgar bevy of gilt and crimson cupids, his face dull paste in colour, his hands hanging like lead; he looked at us without seeing us. The Dark Forest Flowers, cupids, garlands, landscapes—never was such a diversity of decoration attempted as during the reigns of Louis XIV and XV. The Story of Porcelain Dare had an elegant taste, which he had never hitherto been able to gratify, for blue satin furniture and gilding; for large mirrors and painted ceilings of lovers and cupids, and similar small deer. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers These were decorated with panels and within the panels were representations of trailing vines, leaves, fruits, flowers, with birds and little genii or cupids. A Text-Book of the History of Painting The restaurant as it is with its white walls and bas-reliefs of cupids and flowers, its green Travertine panels let into the white pilasters, its chandeliers of cut glass, is very handsome. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe What could be happier than the cupids of the brush and comb on the frontispiece? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Look up at your ceiling; it's overrun with festoons of crude red and blue flowers, or it's covered with cupids and graces, or it bristles with arabesques and unmeaning phantasies. Post-Prandial Philosophy Little brown brothers, whose Filipino mothers worked in the laundry, found themselves possessors of strange toys; Navajo babies and Hopi cupids from the Hopi House were well supplied. I Married a Ranger The great bath, that indispensable feature of a Roman establishment, could still be seen, with its beautiful tesselated pavement, inlaid with mosaics of doves, cupids, and designs of fruit and flowers. A Popular Schoolgirl Darts, flames, cupids, loves, graces, and all that farrago, are just a Mauchline * * * * a senseless rabble. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Everything was unchanged in that chamber of the dead, except, perhaps, the sprawling cupids on the ceiling, which looked a shade dingier than of old, and more in need of soap and water than ever. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 There were cupids with garlands on the side walls, and faded blue brocade hangings. The Trumpeter Swan What is that little cupid about, who is groping in the cistern behind? why does Profane Love wear gloves? The Diary of an Ennuyée These reliefs in stucco represent cupids, chimeras, dolphins, does pursued by lions, etc. The Wonders of Pompeii He modelled little statuettes in wax, cupids and nymphs, and he designed covers for books. Mike Fletcher A Novel Every piece of the marble carving is worth study—the flowers and foliations, the birds and cupids and dolphins, and not least the saint with a book on the left ambone. A Wanderer in Venice It was not very red, but very tenderly curved, the lips short, flat in modelling and almost as wide at the ends as the centre, which just saved them from being a cupid's bow. Secret Bread Gila with eyes as wide and innocent as a baby's, cupid mouth curved sweetly in a gracious, shy smile, and dainty little prayer-book done in gray suède held devoutly in her little gloved hand. The Witness This time the latter's smile was a little brighter as she took out a handsome card covered with garlands and swinging cupids and inscribed "To my Valentine." Jewel's Story Book The table was of richly carved mahogany, and the Admiral, following an old custom, served the soup from a silver tureen, upheld by four fat cupids. The Gay Cockade High over the door by which we entered is a masterly aristocratic allegory by Paul Veronese—Venice with Hercules and Ceres—notable for the superb drawing and vivacity of the cupid with the wheat sheaf. A Wanderer in Venice In a quarter of an hour she was dreaming of cupids, and hearts, and arrows, and St. Valentine's Day, which was not so very far away. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life "One step farther, and my wax cupids will be ruined!" The Wharf by the Docks A Novel "It's the handsomest one I ever saw," she thought, lifting a rose here, and a group of cupids there, and reading the tender messages thus disclosed. Jewel's Story Book Her black cupid was at her side, tiny even for nine years. The Flower of the Chapdelaines After the Rio S. Angelo we come to a palace which I always admire: red brick and massive, with good Gothic windows and a bold relief of cupids at the top. A Wanderer in Venice The china cupid was almost beyond her reach, but by a desperate effort she managed to swing a fraction of an inch nearer, and seizing its head in her mouth came up gasping and purple. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware And his mother gave him a little jewel, a cupid in mosaic surrounded by tiny diamonds, which he remembered her to wear ever since he had first noticed the things she had worn. The Claverings There was a little Dresden clock on the mantel; two cupids holding up a flower basket, from which swung a spray of roses that formed the pendulum. The Little Colonel's House Party Curtains, held up by two little plump things, With golden bodies and golden wings,— Mere fins for such solidities— Two cupids, in short, Of the regular sort, But the housemaid call'd them "Cupidities." The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Daniel wrote his own valentine; but, despite its originality, that document gave him no such comfort as Billy got from twenty-five cents' worth of embossed paper, pink cupids, and doggerel. Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature But by the time the structure was completed and topped by a little china match-safe in the shape of a cupid, to represent the Blarney stone, she was ready for her part of the performance. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware He's a corker, wi' a face like yin o' they pented cupids that the lasses send to the young men on picture postcards. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner "Hurry up, you old slow-poke," she cried, catching up the fragile little timepiece and shaking it until the pendulum rattled against the cupids' plump legs. The Little Colonel's House Party They were adorned with cupids and roses and much gilt. The Girl from Montana On the middle of the floor was an oriental hassock in silver brocade; while a corner held a spinet-piano decorated in roseate cupids, flower sprays and gold leaf. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Mirrors were among the most charming articles designed by Adam, and had composition wreaths and cupids and medallions for ornament. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today It may be a beautiful expanse of creamy modeled plaster resting on a distinguished cornice, or it may be one of those ghastly skim-milk ceilings with distorted cupids and roses in relief. The House in Good Taste Eliot came and drew the curtains, and a glance at the little cupids told her it was time to dress for dinner. The Little Colonel's House Party She pretended to become interested in the Watteau cupids on her fan. The Goose Girl All had the appearance of little cupids or angels and looked so lifelike and happy that we almost wished we were young again and could join them in their play! From John O'Groats to Land's End Nymphs and cupids, flowers, wreaths, musical instruments, and poetical little scenes, but never the head of a living woman! Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today The subjects for these chiselled bronzes were taken from Greek and Roman mythology; gods, goddesses, and cupids the insignia of which were torches, quivers, arrows, and tridents. The Art of Interior Decoration She twined wreaths around the necks and arms and waists of the plaster cupids that sported over the alcove. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Italian, no doubt, the stucco work of the ceiling, with its embossed nymphs and cupids, its classical medallions. The Mating of Lydia Undines and satyrs, cupids and merry fauns, may spring laughing from under the artist's hand, but it is from the unyielding marble that these slender children of his mirthful hours are carved. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The ceilings were painted by Boucher and others in soft and charming colors, with cupids playing in the clouds, and other subjects of the kind. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today First see that there is love; secondly, that there is adaptation; thirdly, see that there are no physical defects, and if these conditions are properly considered, cupid will go with you. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics They began to laugh, but there was a nervous ring about their merriment as they glanced at the nude and frisking cupids which started to life again on all the panels. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The more voluptuous Venus or Danaë do not so stir your pulse as this immortal choir of cupids. Promenades of an Impressionist He had brought to New York six white horses of the finest Virginian breed, and a magnificent cream-coloured coach, ornamented with cupids and festoons. The Conqueror These fountains where cupids and dolphins disported themselves would be a most attractive feature to copy in some of our rooms, in country houses especially. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today On its pale rose covering lay her gold-backed brushes and comb, her gold hand-mirror with cupids playing on it, her little gold boxes of pins, and always vases of fresh geraniums, white and rose-pink. Five Nights Were all those lovers, all those impudent shameless cupids about to step down from their panels and crowd around them? Abbe Mouret's Transgression The hall is an immensely large one, with gleaming chandeliers, frescoed nymphs and cupids on the walls, a regular stage and a regular orchestra. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 And she lodged it among the gilt cupids that supported the clock on the fringed mantelpiece in the drawing-room. The Pretty Lady The room was lighted by a fairly large oil-lamp, with a paper shade hand-painted in a design of cupids—delightful personal design, rough, sketchy, adorable! The Roll-Call The pavement of a smaller room is perfect and shows a finely executed design; another is decorated with cupids fighting. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End At that supreme moment the plaster cupids suggested nothing impure to her; the amorous paintings disturbed her no more. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Leidesdorff, with his cherubic grin, his plump, comfortable body, the close-cropped hair, side whiskers and moustache, framing and embellishing his round face with an ornate symmetry, was like a bearded cupid. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts He was earnestly scrutinizing a lutestring picture depicting “The Origin of the Dimple”—a cupid poking his forefinger into the double chin of a fat languishing female—when the door opened and a woman entered. The Moon Rock One lady was evidently his wife—an altogether extensively constructed dame, gifted with a rubicund square mile of countenance, with dimples in her cheeks which looked like spittoons for cupids. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes In a room which opens out into the oleander bushes, the trickling fountains, and the sandstone cupids of that garden, the first four acts ripened during four weeks of work. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The pile of lace-paper cupids and hearts and arrows and roses slipped from her lap, down to the rug, as she clasped her hands around her knees and looked into the fire. Two Little Knights of Kentucky Architectural mouldings, wreaths of flowers, cupids, and an allegorical figure of Faith are harmoniously combined in the design, the size of the whole frame being 4 ft. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Three little cupids sit on dolphins, and listen to her music. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous We English are living upon their old gods and goddesses; I roll about in a chariot decorated with cupids, and look like the grandfather of Adonis. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II It lit upon the ewers, made of solid silver, on the fine lace hangings of the bed, and the priceless inlaid furniture, and played round the faces of the cupids on the frescoed ceiling. Mr. Meeson's Will Every sort of gilding and dreadful Louis XV., and gorged cupids sitting on cannon ball clouds, with here and there a good picture and bit of china, and crimson brocade edged with plush for curtains! Elizabeth Visits America I want to send that one about Instead of hearts and cupid's darts I'm sending you a wire, or whatever the hell it is; drawing. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June It was a canary-colored chariot, decorated with gilded nymphs and cupids, and emblazoned with the Washington arms. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism On the friezes were processions of cupids and tritons, between rustic and maritime emblems. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Hundreds upon hundreds of figures—statues of citizens, generals, emperors and gods—fauns, satyrs and nymphs—children, cupids and tritons—in fact, it seemed inexhaustible. Views a-foot The same full-curved, compact little figure, the same round face, the same cupid's bow mouth, the same appealing, large eyes, the same haze of doll's hair. Arizona Nights This work, called "The Vintage," is decorously inebriate, a vinous riot of little cupids. Stories from Everybody's Magazine Their lovely hair was fine as a spider's web; their eyes were kind and smiling, their cheeks soft and dimpled, their mouths shapely as a cupid's bow and tinted like the petals of a rose. The Enchanted Island of Yew It takes more than two people's pictures in a newspaper with a red heart around them and an overweight cupid above to make a love-match. Where There's a Will Sleep like a white mist on the rotting paintings of cupids and gods on the ceiling; Sleep on the carven shields and knots at the foot of the bed, Oozing, blurring outlines, obliterating colors, Death. Young Adventure, a Book of Poems On the walls were designs in colour, square spots of robin's-egg blue, set in ornate frames of gilt, whose corners were elaborate mouldings of fruit and flowers, with fat cupids hovering in angelic comfort. Sister Carrie: a Novel Caroline did better, but not well; and the prize was of course borne off by Miss Grimley, who was popularly reported to have arrows enough to stock the quivers of two or three cupids. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World Darts, flames, cupids, loves, graces, and all that farrago, are just a Mauchline—a senseless rabble. The Letters of Robert Burns When I awoke, I was lying on a couch and a screen bedecked with cupids was standing before me. City of Endless Night The full red mouth, not small, struck me as being determined also, rather than classic, despite the daintily drawn cupid's bow of the short upper lip. It Happened in Egypt It was about the size of a sovereign, and embossed upon it were several heads of chubby cupids—four sweet little faces. The Four Faces A Mystery There are cupids playing about a flour mill and cupids weaving garlands. Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii I must have a Cynthia, a Stella, a Sacharissa, as well as the best of them: darts and flames, and the devil knows what, must I give to my cupid. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Diablo's neck was arched like the half of a cupid's bow; his head, almost against his chest, hung heavy in the reins tight-drawn in Porter's strong hands. Thoroughbreds The dinner was laid on a table in the centre, and the table was covered with tuberoses and stephanotis, surrounding the cupid fountain of perfume. Three Weeks Sometimes they only took the round or square lace papers, and mounted them on cards, and added little scrap pictures of doves or cupids or flowers. Marjorie's New Friend In other panels plump little cupids—winged boys—are playing at being men. Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii There was soft music from concealed performers, which seemed to rise from the bottom of the lake, on which floated illuminated boats full of children disguised as cupids. The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise Chorus of women sing: Joyous the loving hearts That bleed from cupid's darts! Lucky Pehr And all the while a little fountain of her own perfume played from a group of sportive cupids in silver, while the table in the centre was piled with red roses. Three Weeks Then they took the boxes held out by the wax cupid, and admired the tufted satin and the painted garlands. Marjorie's New Friend The design was made in hammered silver, and showed centaurs talking to cupids that are sitting on their backs. Buried Cities, Volume 1 Pompeii "What a nuisance, that intruding cupid still there?" The King in Yellow The rooms were decorated with roses and pink ribbons, and gilt hearts and darts, and feathered doves and wax cupids. Patty Fairfield Your ladyship might be the mother of all the cupids, I am sure. The Virginians And indeed the room looked like a valentine shop, with its flowers and gifts and cupids and valentines, and the big heart standing in front of the mantel. Marjorie's New Friend The world's greatest tattoo artist bristles and glowers at the designs on the walls, frowns at the cupids, nymphs, anchors, dragons and butterflies. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Small, chubby cherubs, or cupids doing the work of men, weaving draperies, preparing food, chopping meat, plucking grapes and carrying them away in miniature wheelbarrows, were faithfully portrayed in rich colors. Virgilia or, out of the Lion's Mouth A thick white bearskin was spread by the canopied bed, an elaborate dressing table stood between long windows drawn with ruffled pink silk, while the ceiling bore a scaling ottocento frescoing of garlanded cupids. The Happy End The two who had worn the red bathing caps were evidently sisters, for they had the same clear-cut features, fair complexions, cupid mouths, and beautiful dark-fringed eyes. Monitress Merle Between and among these were little cupids and doves fastened on, also nosegays of flowers and fluttering ribbons, and hearts pierced with darts, and the whole effect was like one great big valentine. Marjorie's New Friend Dragons, scorpions, bulbous nymphs, crossed flags, wreathed anchors, cupids, butterflies, daggers and quaint decorations that seem the grotesque survivals of the mid-Victorian schools of fantasy. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago In her bed is an immense looking-glass, surmounted by stucco cupids: it is an alcove which some powdered Venus, before the Revolution, might have reposed in. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family It was a known fact that he never went to Congress when he was President unless he went in a coach and six, with a little cupid on the box bearing a wreath of flowers. Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way "How gay!" said Rose, looking at the startling cover, with its cupids and its greedy-looking maiden. Light O' the Morning In the centre was a waxen cupid with gilt wings, whose outstretched hands bore two large hearts suspended by ribbons. Marjorie's New Friend On the sides were carved two wide garlands of flowers and fruit, and four finely fluted columns, terminating in Corinthian capitals, supported a cornice of cupids with roses intertwined. Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Over her head a little cupid hovers, directing his arrow at Mercury, on the extreme left, beside the three Graces. A Wanderer in Florence The great door carved with cupids leading to the emperor's bedchamber opened inch by inch and Telamonion came out, closing it softly behind him. Caesar Dies There she lay upon a splendid couch, shaded by a spangled canopy; her attire was that of Venus; around her flitted attendant cupids and graces. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) For example, he made a statue of a sleeping cupid, which was buried in the ground for a time that it might assume the appearance of age, and pass for an antique. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People And he, as his blood tingled at coy cupid's whisperings, soliloquized: "She is the most intelligent and charming girl I ever saw." From Wealth to Poverty There is also a very charming little cupid carrying a huge peacock plume. A Wanderer in Florence Chubby-cheeked cupids ride on the arms of my chair and on my knees. Venus in Furs She herself lay all along, under a canopy of cloth of gold, dressed as Venus in a picture, and beautiful young boys, like painted cupids, stood on each side to fan her. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) Beneath awnings wrought of the richest manufactures of the East, the beautiful queen, attired to personate Venus, reclined amidst lovely attendants dressed to represent cupids and nereids. General History for Colleges and High Schools They who, in a short time, can make themselves known and admired now in London, must have their cupids, in Earl Dorset's phrase— Like blackguard boys, Who thrust their links full in your face. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 The ceiling was adorned with an oval of flowers and little plaster cupids in low relief which had also suffered and in places showed the laths. Three Soldiers Every so and so often she appeared before me like a vision among my leather-bound books and dead bones, lying on a bed of roses, surrounded by cupids. Venus in Furs Daniel wrote his own valentine; but, despite its originality, that document gave him no such comfort as Billy got from his twenty- five cents' worth of embossed paper, pink cupids and doggerel. Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor The picture, it will be remembered, represents seven female figures, a flying cupid, and a youth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists The timepiece in the arms of the fat cupid ticked loudly now in the darkness that was only faintly relieved by the glowing embers of the fire. Their Yesterdays His head was full of gold and green mouldings and silk and crimson velvet and intricate designs in which naked pink-fleshed cupids writhed indecently. Three Soldiers The little bronze clock on which stood a cupid who had just shot his bolt struck midnight. Venus in Furs Oh, Oh!" she murmured as she leaned across the stone sill, unmindful of the cold, to blow a tiny kiss to the fountain cupid, "How stupid I was not to see! Little Miss By-The-Day Her two little ones were to be as cupids by her side; while I in my gown and band, was to present her with my books on the Whistonian controversy. English Literature for Boys and Girls Then, looking at the clock in the chubby arms of the fat cupid on the mantle, she noticed the time with a start of dismay. Their Yesterdays The cafe was full of gold and green silks, and great brocaded beds with heavy carvings above them, beds in which writhed, pink- fleshed and indecent, intricate patterns of cupids. Three Soldiers Let me beseech you, madam," return'd I, "by all those cupids in your face and meen, not to scorn to admit a stranger into the number of your admirers. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter It was painted with innumerable plump little cupids, flying among pale clouds. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box On the walls were designs in color, square spots of robin's-egg blue, set in ornate frames of gilt, whose corners were elaborate moldings of fruit and flowers, with fat cupids hovering in angelic comfort. Sister Carrie There was no sound in the sleeping house—no sound save the steady tick, tick, tick, of the time piece in the chubby arms of the fat cupid on the mantle. Their Yesterdays Then there were patterns of flowers and fruits and cupids, all gilded, and a dark passage and stairs that smelt musty, where he and the man in Aviation fell down. Three Soldiers Two dimpled cupids strained at a marble cornucopia, out of which trickled a stream of water, its whisper drowned now by the noisy admiration of the guests. The Auction Block His master nodded condescendingly in response to his reluctant salute, and signed to him to take his place at a richly carved writing-table adorned with the climbing figures of winged cupids exquisitely wrought in ivory. Ardath Miss Barner went quickly, and there on the doorstep stood a tiny cupid in tears, tightly clasping his scanty wardrobe to his bosom. Sowing Seeds in Danny The fat little cupid on the mantle neglected his bow and arrows in vain; he could not do away with time. Their Yesterdays We must have cupids, billing doves, and wreaths of roses, mingled with orange-flowers. Prince Eugene and His Times At last, however, she succeeded, and joined her supper companion at the farther edge of the fountain, where the tireless cupids still poured water from the cornucopias. The Auction Block "The little raven have actually begun to sprout cupid wings," she said to herself as she went around the corner of the house toward the Doctor's office. The Road to Providence The ceiling rose in a segmental curve, and bore sprawling upon its face gilt figures of wanton goddesses, cupids, satyrs with tambourines, drums, and trumpets, the whole ceiling seeming alive with them. The Hand of Ethelberta Little purple clouds chased each other across the heavens like flying cupids, and here and there a star still faintly sparkling as if to tell of the Divine mysteries of creation. Mohammed Ali and His House The boys raced about, looking like circus-tumblers, and the babies were regular little cupids, running away from the waves that tried to kiss their flying feet. Jack and Jill Her mouth was no tiny cupid's bow, but generous enough for character. The Auction Block One says, "He's a victim to cupid;" Another, "His conduct's too bad;" A third, "He is awfully stupid;" A fourth, "He is perfectly mad!" Poems Her mouth was a perfect cupid's bow, the upper lip slightly drawn up over her dazzlingly white teeth. Okewood of the Secret Service On the clock there was a bronze cupid, who smirked as he bent his arm beneath a golden garland. Madame Bovary Our soldiers were not in the least alarmed at the sight of these semi-barbarous Asiatics, whom they nick-named cupids, because of their bows and arrows. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot "I could have set them quarreling just as well, but the role of cupid suits me to-night." The Auction Block There was a mirror beside the fireplace, the glass painted at the edge with slender flowers and cupids in the Caroline fashion. The Path of the King A number of cupids soar among wreaths of flowers, and surround three beautiful female figures. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North No cupid ever possessed so adorable a mouth. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West That if he be like his parents, as it is necessary he should, there is no doubt but a new cupid shall be borne. The Golden Asse |
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