英语词汇“lay figure”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Animated lay figures, as if out of a "how to draw" book, skip and jump and ingeniously draw themselves. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z

They are never wax-work, or lay figures, or skeletons clothed in words, or purple rags of description stuffed out with straw into an awkward likeness to the human form. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z

They were within twenty paces of the silent watcher when he moved--up to that time he might have been a lay figure. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z

The lay figure or type is one all through. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z

The process by which the “gentiles” have been robbed of their legitimate history was the inevitable result of a religion whose sacred books make them lay figures for the history of the Jews. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

But paganism and Puritanism are nothing but terms, almost meaningless from much repetition, and "The Great Divide" is a play of terms, of symbols, of lay figures. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z

Finally, in this book Prescott shows a power of depicting character that is far beyond his wont, so that his heroes are not lay figures but living men. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z

There is not a lay figure in the book; all are flesh and blood creations.... Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z

"George, what an armful!" said the youth, in a sort of half undertone, as he tenderly lifted the little lay figure, and bore it to a crib. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z

They stand in the show-windows of history, lay figures, on which fine goods are shown, but inside the raiment there is nothing, and never was. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z

His eyes closed, and he slipped into the dreamless, motionless sleep of tired childhood, the lay figure and the other Strange Bedfellows keeping watch and ward by his pillow. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z

She was amazed to find such gowns actually being worn instead of remaining as an unattainable ideal on smiling lay figures in the shop windows. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z

Saint or sinner, the Shelley of Trelawny is no lay figure, no statue even, no hero of romance; it is Shelley, the man, the boy, the poet. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z

So, at first from the lay figure, and then from Henson's model, she began to draw Drapery with special reference to the thing draped. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z

Do you think that because I have adopted art as a profession that I have turned into a lay figure and have no heart at all? The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z

On the floor, the older people were resolving themselves into lay figures against the wall. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z

All this turns the husband in this scene from a mere lay figure into a character, and greatly lessens the artificiality of the original. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z

And in the swing of his narrative his glance, wandering, flickered across Joan's face and on without in the least comprehending her as anything more than a lay figure in a familiar setting. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z

Hers was not the disposition to act the r�le of a lay figure, it will be easily imagined. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z

“I’m bigger, of course; but I’d be better than a lay figure, and I don’t mind posing for you a bit.” The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z

M'Caskey, fortunately, is a fine lay figure for such humbug, and being already in part known through 'Tony Butler,' needs no introduction. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z

Here she was supreme; even Horus the elder and the younger,119 when compelled to form with her a trinity, remained lay figures and nothing more. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z

So I had to treat him like a lay figure and liberate each limb and rub it until the circulation was restored. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z

He never used him as a lay figure on which he might display the drapery of a pedant. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z

Even the doctor in A Fair Quarrel, who takes an unusually large part in the plot, can hardly be said to be more than a carefully drawn lay figure. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z

Wolff will do for what artists call the 'lay figure,' and I'll put any drapery on him that I fancy. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z

Helen, to a mature mind so full of interest ethical and artistic, is beyond the comprehension of the children as anything more than a lay figure. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z

‘The seeming reality of a lay figure,’ I think, would be about the nearest phrase one could properly use.” The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z

And all this time she had sat like a statue, like a milliner's lay figure, to be dressed, unheeding, unnoticing it all, until Susan had finished. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z

Matilda's character is drawn well at the start; in the latter part she rather tends to become a lay figure. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z

There is no doubt that we have outgrown the art which relies on picturesque lay figures grouped against a romantic background.... The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z

The mere mention of the rival's name sufficed to reduce Lilly to the position of nothing but a lay figure. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z

In the earlier poems he is practically a lay figure, his court the point of departure and return for the knights whose adventures are related in detail, but he himself a passive spectator. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"

Dress him up as a lord in waiting, he'll be a dainty lay figure, but for anything more he's not as fit as this setter! Beatrice Boville and Other Stories

The statue is darkened, and the lay figure of the statue is replaced by the living Jeanne. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors

But one must not speak of her as a lay figure: that is crude, elementary ... containing a grain of truth, one admits, but likely to be misinterpreted by the vulgar herd. The Gay Adventure A Romance

In Dryasdust he gives us lay figures, bedizened at times with shallow paradoxes; but Carlyle always deals in genuine human nature. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII

Here and there were broken statues and isolated lead-bound panes of colored glass, with an easel and a model's throne and the trunk of a lay figure. Carnival

Without a sympathetic audience the orator is only a lay figure, without a sympathetic circle of readers the writer is a wasted force. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde

The lay figure to support the drapery suffices for the artist, the Venus herself is in his brain. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance

I must tell you that my father hit upon the novel idea of introducing a kind of dummy, or lay figure, on which this idiotic Nathalie lavishes all her caresses. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections

Never permit yourself to be the lay figure of a photographer’s ideal landscapes. Maids Wives and Bachelors

Jenny compared it with the lay figure in the studio and smiled, thinking how funny they would look together. Carnival

The woman is only a lay figure whom we invest with the vague splendours of our snobbish and inexperienced imagination. Captain Macedoine's Daughter

In the third stage—that of humanitarianism—he finds that the gods are but lay figures on which the robes of righteousness have been displayed that man alone can wear—when he is perfect. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion

Angela might have been a lay figure for all they seemed to care. The "Genius"

Why should we have to learn to be musicians, and expend our poetical powers, merely to produce a sort of block, or lay figure, for him to give life and motion to? The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.

This good, insipid, incapable lady was 292 not a person to uphold any one, and answered Francezka’s requirement for a lay figure perfectly. Francezka

He felt for a moment as if he were talking to a sort of lay figure that represented her and could not answer him. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome

The moment a girl marries, in New England, she is apt to become a drudge or a lay figure on which to exhibit the latest fashions. Household Papers and Stories

In fact, wherever the "Latin race" is, the popular taste runs to blocks of the Virgin and Child resembling the lay figures in a tailor's shop. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877

How if, though he was not affianced to the dummy, or any other lay figure she might provide, his was a widowed heart left barren by the hand of Death? When Ghost Meets Ghost

You can hardly have a lay figure of full size, because of its cost. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

But in the short-story of action, on the other hand, the plot may be sufficient unto itself, and the characters may be the merest lay figures. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews

It is a kind of lay figure, of which he seems to have been fond; its clasped hands are here shockingly painted—I should think unfinished. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3)

The Madonna in the church of the Frari is a mere lay figure, introduced to form a link of connexion between the portraits of various members of the Pesaro family who surround her. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)

And this need for overt action and lay figures testifies to a defect in the child’s imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the privacy of his own heart. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25)

The use of a lay figure will help you somewhat if you can get one which is true in proportion. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

They have no rich blood in their veins; and are little better than lay figures taking up positions as it may happen, in order to form an effective tableau illustrative of an unexceptionable moral. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)

They do not move or talk like human beings, but like lay figures into which certain specified sins have been poured. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865

Maud is a lay figure, and the heroine of "The Princess" is purely fantastic. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

"They are married, absolutely married; my par and that painted lay figure you introduced to him, that Mrs. Harrington." A Noble Woman

A lay figure is expensive, costing about three hundred dollars in this country. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

We have too much picture-manufacturing, too much making up of lay figures � 22. Modern Painters Volume I (of V)

A sort of lay figure, draped in calico, was in one corner. Not Like Other Girls

It was limp and heavy, it was swathed in sheets, like a lay figure or a mummy. The Slave of Silence

I cannot typewrite, my three stories are still wandering round, two milliners have refused me as a lay figure because business was so bad. Anna the Adventuress

The accessories of your picture must befit the character you wish to paint; otherwise your model becomes no more than a lay figure. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

On a raised square platform in a corner stood a draped lay figure, not, apparently, quite sober. Love at Paddington

Perhaps Dickens avoided this episode because it was too literally near the truth in the life of the person who, all unconsciously, stood as the lay figure of David Copperfield's incomparable friend. Faces and Places

But the bits of glass made dazzling reflections, the clapper of the wind-mill woke them during the night, and the sparrows perched on the lay figure. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

But if it were worked by machinery, with lay figures, we should think nothing of it. Gossamer 1915

"Bill presented to Lords as a sort of lay figure, which they may, in accordance with taste and conviction, suitably clothe." Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914

We who succeeded Stedman by some years loved all the beauty of Tennyson while we were not especially struck by those mediæval lay figures which he labelled "King Arthur" and "Sir Galahad" and "Sir Percival." Confessions of a Book-Lover

He filled the lay figures with life, clothed them with garments, and then made them talk to each other in the English language as it is to-day accented in some of the American States. Faces and Places

The peddler lay at full length, a bundle of strange travel-wrecked clothes, suggesting a lay figure in his limp inertness and the loose sprawl of his limbs. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories

The distinguished artist repeated his unusual experience in the Almanac for 1865, when in a technically exquisite drawing he showed a couple of children in a studio assaulting the lay figure. The History of "Punch"

Bill presented to Lords as sort of lay figure, which they may, in accordance with taste and conviction, suitably clothe. Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914

Meeting it, I must become to her as any other man she knew—a formal creature, a lay figure for the barber's and tailor's art, with a gift of talking inanities. David Malcolm

He is a lay figure, but not necessarily a lay figure of speech. The Perfect Gentleman

When you paint a picture for the court, you do not put your whole soul into it; to courtiers you sell lay figures duly colored. The Unknown Masterpiece 1845

These people on the stage at Ober-Ammergau are not lay figures, mere abstract representations of the virtues or the opposite. King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth

"Come, my dear Etienne," said poor mama, trying hard to arrange everything peaceably, "could you not out of respect for your wife's feelings, replace this creature by a dummy, a lay figure?" Artists' Wives

Yet she is no lay figure, and one is not surprised that Comus should twice show his consciousness that she has within her some holy, some more than mortal power. Milton

The advance is one from positive weakness to positive strength, from ignorance to knowledge, from incapacity to mastery, from the manufacture of lay figures to the creation of human beings. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation

Sending the Goat away from the Village Eventually, amidst firing of guns, howls, yells and deafening hissing of the assembled crowd, the animal to be sacrificed is dragged before the lay figure. In the Forbidden Land

Of all lay figures there is none on earth so useful as a wooden husband. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida

The night after I had set up this lay figure in the yard a policeman came along Clarendon Avenue for the first time in his professional career. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice

She, however having begun her sketch, continued drawing, regarding the Indian much as if he had been a lay figure dressed up to copy. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America

I never saw a man sleep more soundly—not a limb stirred the whole night through; he looked more like a dead person, or a lay figure, than a being with life. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins

During the intervals of dancing the relatives go round and round the lay figure, dusting and fanning it with their white cloths. In the Forbidden Land

It was like the creation of a man from a lay figure. Doom Castle

Having expended all his ammunition upon the lay figure, the policeman had no means of interchanging compliments with his assailant, and was therefore compelled to spend the night in a willow. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice

The moment a girl marries in New England she is apt to become a drudge, or a lay figure on which to exhibit the latest fashions. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866

There was, however, another purpose connected with Mrs Turner's pursuits to which small jointed images, like artists' lay figures, were used. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852

Finally the lay figures waxed so disputatious that Professor O'Reilley consigned them to the darkness of the trunk from which they came. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life

Instantly the lay figure showed a spot of white on its black coat, which, after all, was only made of a kind of paste or varnish, which chipped off when struck by the bullet. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series

The scene was illuminated by the blazing figures of the archers, for these were old armour and weapons, lay figures stuffed with straw and meant but to gain precious moments of respite. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

He was great in the management of draperies, for the better study of which he is said to have invented the lay figure. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art

He walked round Fergus as if he were examining a lay figure, closely scrutinizing every article of his appointment, and then gave a nod of approbation. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War

The editor and the lay figure sat facing in opposite directions at a distance of about ten feet. The Patient Observer And His Friends

The Government is daily becoming more and more military, and the Parisian Deputies are becoming little more than lay figures. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

He made Cromwell and Frederick men of blood and iron, not mere historical lay figures. Modern English Books of Power

"Is my part an important one or am I only a lay figure?" Lady Larkspur

I believe he thinks them baggage—lay figures, as they've turned aside their heads. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes

The mountaineers originally borrowed this lay figure of Nazr-Eddin from the Turks, but they have clothed it in an entirely new suit of blunders, witticisms and absurdities of their own manufacture. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

Britz might as well have appealed to a lay figure for all the response he received. The Substitute Prisoner

The King was hung in effigy and his lay figure cremated in the public kiln at Lincoln's Inn Fields. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow

It is only by letting your personality animate your costume that you make yourself superior to the lay figure or the sawdust doll. Woman as Decoration

The consequence was that the original spirit evaporated long before the completion of the great tame painting, where his men and women too often look like wooden lay figures covered with drapery.” Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath

Homer's fictions will always be preferred to historical truth, Rubens' fabulous magnificence to all the frippery copied exactly from the lay figure. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art

Closing in on her, they forced her against the door of the office as though she were a lay figure. The Substitute Prisoner

It is furrowed into small and rather fussy folds, almost suggesting, like the figures of the Parthenon pediment, the pleats of wetted linen on a lay figure. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres

The general store had a gaily dressed lay figure in its window,—a female figure,—and its gown was labelled 'The Latest Parisian Novelty.' A Dozen Ways Of Love

She smiled down into his face, as he looked slowly up at her, huddled like a lay figure between the arms of the big chair. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories

Often a sick mother was introduced to claim emotional attention, or to use as a lay figure upon which to drape Scripture texts as fearful warnings to the black sheep of the family. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book

So that these artless little self-revelations are very sweet and precious to me among all the lay figures, tragedy and comedy. Certain Personal Matters

I am to be a sort of lay figure for your poetry, as well as your painting; the Laura of this new Petrarch. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts

She was cunningly playing him off against the New Yorker, using him as a lay figure in her despicable game, bestowing endearments to anger Gretzinger and arouse his jealousy. The Iron Furrow

I think this must be because almost all the characters are such human and kindly folk, not the lay figures of galvanic farce that one had only too much reason to expect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08

The Lost Leader is a purely ideal conception, developed by the process of idealization from an individual who serves as a "lay figure." Browning's Shorter Poems

"What do you do with a sitter who won't let you bring out her best points, but insists on making herself into the stiffest sort of a lay figure?" Mrs. Red Pepper

In front of us an elderly female with short hair is chatting to a very plain young woman draped like a lay figure. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology

In figure painting they were to work, if possible, from a living model and not from a lay figure. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

He failed, however, to discern in the bland presence of the lay figure, upon which they were disposed to such advantage, the companion of one of the most varied adventures in his long career. New Faces

Her husband had long viewed her as a lay figure on these occasions. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement

His bitterness was no medium through which to recapture her magic and without it he would merely be forcing a lay figure to perform vulgar and meaningless antics. Balloons

At a certain cue she was required to fall upon her face, concealed from the audience by an intercepting rock, and then the lay figure took its flight through the air. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character

But all the Pre-Raphaelites painted from the lay figure as well as from the living model, and Rossetti, in particular, relied quite as much on memory and imagination as upon the object before him. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

He was interesting, but very unhuman, and he paraded his ideas and his sneers as the lay figures did the mail-armour on the castle stairway. Muslin

As suddenly and swiftly as the House had filled, the limp lay figure of the Debate throbbed with life. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892

We know he cannot sink; he is a lay figure with a pneumatic body. Aspects of Literature

The third Ariadne was a most lifelike lay figure, which, on a given signal, was hurled from the cliff, and seen to fall into the abyss below. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character

He looked more like a shabby lay figure stuffed with sawdust than like a living man. The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story

I didn't have to take you by the chin and twist your head as though you were a lay figure; I didn't have to pull you about and flex and bend and twist you. The Common Law

It made him only a lay figure of romance. The Last Shot

Dickens was a great humorist, and understood the nature of the poor because he had been one of them; but his gentlemen and ladies are lay figures. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6

He looks extremely like one of those lay figures employed by ventriloquists. The Bed-Book of Happiness

He pointed to an object I had only partially observed: a broad-faced burly woman, of about forty-five years of age, in an eccentric dress of Japanese silks, standing on the model-throne between two lay figures. Aylwin

His studio was a confusion of silks, cut velvets, tapestries, embroideries, carpets of the East, lay figures glittering with replicas of priceless armour. The Common Law

In each case he imagines a lay figure rather than a human being. The Pleasures of Ignorance

The men and women who pass through the whirl of a London season cannot help regarding their fellow-creatures rather as lay figures than as human beings. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

It is fatal to regard historical personages as lay figures and not as human beings. The "Goldfish"

On another part of the field Dave Darrin was handling a squad of new football men, teaching how to rush in and tackle the swinging lay figure. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard

Unconscious that she was at once my lay figure and my mirror, she loaded me with presents, and announced to all her coterie, that I was the most delightful young man of her acquaintance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832

It was Austin Turold who caused a diversion in this group of lay figures by walking to the table and helping himself to a whisky-and-soda. The Moon Rock

I can put it on the lay figure and sketch it into the horror over the old lines. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections

But you guess wrong, honey, if you imagine custom and formality of official life have so overcome these high-born ladies as to make them lay figures who dare not raise their eyes except by rule. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration

Stupid people move like lay figures, while every joint of intellectual people speaks for itself. Essays of Schopenhauer

But the heroine of Billy McCoy makes hardly a pretence of being other than a lay figure; without her it would be just as entertaining and exciting, if perhaps less completely furnished for Romance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919

In the gloom he might have been taken for a piece of furniture, of machinery, an extraordinary lay figure, perhaps, for the trying on of the boots he made. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

She was vital—in the best sense; the lay figure had come to life. The Damned

This woman died in 1885, and the four limbs, mounted on a lay figure, were placed in the Royal College of Surgeons, in London. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

She became impersonal and forgot her husband, only using him as a lay figure to give point to her tale. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life

And this need for overt action and lay figures testifies to a defect in the child's imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the privacy of his own heart. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

The only function of a toy, as someone has well said, is "to serve as lay figures upon which the child's imagination can weave and drape its fancy." Your Child: Today and Tomorrow

The pastor was a ginger-haired caricature imitated from the northern stage, quite a lay figure. Twilight in Italy

Nero is an academic tyrant, Seneca an academic adviser, Poppaea is little more than a lay figure. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

I am of no more account in her eyes than an artist's lay figure, which is put away in a dark closet when it isn't in use. The Golden Calf

Chamberlain further urged Dilke to lay stress on the determination of his party not to be 'mere lay figures in a Cabinet of Goschens.' The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2

In the Acts of the Apostles he is a mere lay figure; his name is only mentioned in the catalogue at the beginning, and here again in the brief notice of his death. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts

"Nicer than lay figures to work with, eh? all those pretty young women." A Fountain Sealed

It was a gay lay figure, red and yellow and white and black and purple and pink. Purgatory

They have not the life-like reality of those of Aesop; they are mere lay figures. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

No doubt Albertinelli was often deputed to the study of the lay figure and its drapery. Fra Bartolommeo

"These are my best suits," he said, pointing to a score of lay figures in armour ranged along the wall. A March on London

I don't use lay figures, at any time. A Fountain Sealed

They are generally unindividualized, lay figures swayed by the passions of the moment, or at best mere "humour" characters representing love's epitome, extravagant jealousy, or eternal constancy. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood

The very cloak, made of light cloth showily faced with scarlet, was draped over a lay figure in one corner of the room. Bits about Home Matters

The properties—amongst which were the lay figures, easels, casts, sketches, blocks of porphyry to grind colours on, &c. Fra Bartolommeo

In haste to reach the front, he stepped from bench to bench, knocking the gowned Churchmen right and left as if they were but so many lay figures. The Prince of India — Volume 02

"The next time you arrest a lay figure," suggested Greg, "at least be good enough to capture one that's stuffed with lemons." Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point

Had she been able to make him more than a lay figure distorted by various passions, she might have produced a real character. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood

Even archbishops will do these things, to say nothing of such small fry as deans, or stout and prominent lay figures of the Church. The Ancient Allan

For lay figures like myself, the only interest about these receptions, which were practically got up for effect, lay in watching the personages we saw pass. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville

The lay figure that he had set in his place had proved to be flesh and blood—had usurped his life, his position, his very personality, by sheer right of strength. The Masquerader

The hearing proceeded so smoothly and quickly that it seemed naught but an empty rite, with Daniel as a lay figure in it. The Old Wives' Tale

It really was an artistic pleasure to deal with such beautiful hair, and such a lovely lay figure as Esther's. Magnum Bonum

B. B. takes the easel chair and places it for Jennifer at Dubedat's side, next the dais, from which the lay figure ogles the dying artist. The Doctor's Dilemma

"For Heaven's sake!" shouted Harrison, who had been singing "With All Thy Faults I Love Thee Still," to Pettingill's lay figure. Brewster's Millions

Bevis's image stood in that already distant past like a lay figure, the mere semblance of a man. The Odd Women

Her aunt asked her to stand as a sort of lay figure on which to display them, as Edith was still asleep. North and South

She knew it was very foolish, but she could never be happy in encountering shop people, and she wanted strong support and protection to prevent herself from being made a lay figure by urgent dressmakers. Magnum Bonum

He says he wants bones and sinews, not an artist's lay figure dressed in stage bushman's clothes. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life

On a dais at the chief table, laid with gold and silver plate, the Prince Regent sits like a lay figure, in a state chair of crimson and gold, with six servants at his back. The Dynasts

He was like a lay figure, without strength for anything, and if he were to hear that an earthquake was shaking Dublin into ruins he would not care. The Untilled Field

Antiope stands in the background, a mere lay figure, and scattered about are numerous small symbolical figures. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable

In her foragings and depredations she usually puts forward the Mother-Church—a lay figure—and hides behind it. Christian Science

No little boy would want to play with dolls for instance; but what little boy would not be fascinated by a small wooden lay figure, capable of unheard-of contortions. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)

He scrutinized certain glass showcases containing wax lay figures of pink-cheeked youngsters attired as for the stage, and boomed his first caution into his companion's ear. Red Pepper Burns

He fell into a chair, and sat helpless like his own lay figure. The Untilled Field

A half dozen lay figures on springs stood in the center in a low row, and before these perspiring youths thrust and parried. Long Live the King!

From that day the Saints were adopted as historical lay figures, and entered at once into possession of uninterrupted gratuities and endowment. Drift from Two Shores

Idolatry and Faith stood on two lofty pillars, and after Faith, represented by a beautiful girl, had uttered her welcome, the other column fell to pieces with the lay figure upon it. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

He is a lay figure, very cleverly, but somewhat conventionally made and painted. Adventures Among Books

He had been a presentable tool, a lay figure to give the organization front, and they had over-rated him, at that. A Poor Wise Man

The room stilled on the instant; it was as if every man of them had turned to lay figures. Rowdy of the Cross L

Ivy clasped the walls with its nervous tendrils, showing stems amid its foliage like the veins in a lay figure. The Village Rector

This I secured myself against by getting a lay figure of Korinski's height, dressing it to resemble him, placing a pistol in its hand, and then practising at this mark in the woods. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English

Its lessons are conveyed concretely and not abstractly; and its characters are not mere lay figures, but living poetical conceptions. The Unseen World and Other Essays

Marriage is thus a species of investment contracted by the existing family for the sake of the prospective one, the actual participants being only lay figures in the affair. The Soul of the Far East

Chicherin speaks as if he were a dead man or a ventriloquist's lay figure. Russia in 1919

I will buy myself a first-class lay figure, I will order a plaster torso, and some model feet, I will have a Venus. Taras Bulba and Other Tales

His particular trick of speaking of any third person as of a lay figure was exasperating. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes

His body was knotty and so reduced in size that his blue jacket with its white sleeves looked as if it had been thrown over a lay figure. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

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例句	lay figure Animated lay figures, as if out of a "how to draw" book, skip and jump and ingeniously draw themselves. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z They are never wax-work, or lay figures, or skeletons clothed in words, or purple rags of description stuffed out with straw into an awkward likeness to the human form. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z They were within twenty paces of the silent watcher when he moved--up to that time he might have been a lay figure. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The lay figure or type is one all through. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The process by which the “gentiles” have been robbed of their legitimate history was the inevitable result of a religion whose sacred books make them lay figures for the history of the Jews. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z But paganism and Puritanism are nothing but terms, almost meaningless from much repetition, and "The Great Divide" is a play of terms, of symbols, of lay figures. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Finally, in this book Prescott shows a power of depicting character that is far beyond his wont, so that his heroes are not lay figures but living men. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z There is not a lay figure in the book; all are flesh and blood creations.... Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z "George, what an armful!" said the youth, in a sort of half undertone, as he tenderly lifted the little lay figure, and bore it to a crib. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z They stand in the show-windows of history, lay figures, on which fine goods are shown, but inside the raiment there is nothing, and never was. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z His eyes closed, and he slipped into the dreamless, motionless sleep of tired childhood, the lay figure and the other Strange Bedfellows keeping watch and ward by his pillow. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z She was amazed to find such gowns actually being worn instead of remaining as an unattainable ideal on smiling lay figures in the shop windows. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Saint or sinner, the Shelley of Trelawny is no lay figure, no statue even, no hero of romance; it is Shelley, the man, the boy, the poet. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z So, at first from the lay figure, and then from Henson's model, she began to draw Drapery with special reference to the thing draped. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Do you think that because I have adopted art as a profession that I have turned into a lay figure and have no heart at all? The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z On the floor, the older people were resolving themselves into lay figures against the wall. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z All this turns the husband in this scene from a mere lay figure into a character, and greatly lessens the artificiality of the original. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z And in the swing of his narrative his glance, wandering, flickered across Joan's face and on without in the least comprehending her as anything more than a lay figure in a familiar setting. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Hers was not the disposition to act the r�le of a lay figure, it will be easily imagined. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z “I’m bigger, of course; but I’d be better than a lay figure, and I don’t mind posing for you a bit.” The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z M'Caskey, fortunately, is a fine lay figure for such humbug, and being already in part known through 'Tony Butler,' needs no introduction. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Here she was supreme; even Horus the elder and the younger,119 when compelled to form with her a trinity, remained lay figures and nothing more. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z So I had to treat him like a lay figure and liberate each limb and rub it until the circulation was restored. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z He never used him as a lay figure on which he might display the drapery of a pedant. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Even the doctor in A Fair Quarrel, who takes an unusually large part in the plot, can hardly be said to be more than a carefully drawn lay figure. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Wolff will do for what artists call the 'lay figure,' and I'll put any drapery on him that I fancy. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Helen, to a mature mind so full of interest ethical and artistic, is beyond the comprehension of the children as anything more than a lay figure. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z ‘The seeming reality of a lay figure,’ I think, would be about the nearest phrase one could properly use.” The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z And all this time she had sat like a statue, like a milliner's lay figure, to be dressed, unheeding, unnoticing it all, until Susan had finished. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Matilda's character is drawn well at the start; in the latter part she rather tends to become a lay figure. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z There is no doubt that we have outgrown the art which relies on picturesque lay figures grouped against a romantic background.... The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The mere mention of the rival's name sufficed to reduce Lilly to the position of nothing but a lay figure. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z In the earlier poems he is practically a lay figure, his court the point of departure and return for the knights whose adventures are related in detail, but he himself a passive spectator. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Dress him up as a lord in waiting, he'll be a dainty lay figure, but for anything more he's not as fit as this setter! Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The statue is darkened, and the lay figure of the statue is replaced by the living Jeanne. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors But one must not speak of her as a lay figure: that is crude, elementary ... containing a grain of truth, one admits, but likely to be misinterpreted by the vulgar herd. The Gay Adventure A Romance In Dryasdust he gives us lay figures, bedizened at times with shallow paradoxes; but Carlyle always deals in genuine human nature. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Here and there were broken statues and isolated lead-bound panes of colored glass, with an easel and a model's throne and the trunk of a lay figure. Carnival Without a sympathetic audience the orator is only a lay figure, without a sympathetic circle of readers the writer is a wasted force. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde The lay figure to support the drapery suffices for the artist, the Venus herself is in his brain. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance I must tell you that my father hit upon the novel idea of introducing a kind of dummy, or lay figure, on which this idiotic Nathalie lavishes all her caresses. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Never permit yourself to be the lay figure of a photographer’s ideal landscapes. Maids Wives and Bachelors Jenny compared it with the lay figure in the studio and smiled, thinking how funny they would look together. Carnival The woman is only a lay figure whom we invest with the vague splendours of our snobbish and inexperienced imagination. Captain Macedoine's Daughter In the third stage—that of humanitarianism—he finds that the gods are but lay figures on which the robes of righteousness have been displayed that man alone can wear—when he is perfect. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion Angela might have been a lay figure for all they seemed to care. The "Genius" Why should we have to learn to be musicians, and expend our poetical powers, merely to produce a sort of block, or lay figure, for him to give life and motion to? The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. This good, insipid, incapable lady was 292 not a person to uphold any one, and answered Francezka’s requirement for a lay figure perfectly. Francezka He felt for a moment as if he were talking to a sort of lay figure that represented her and could not answer him. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome The moment a girl marries, in New England, she is apt to become a drudge or a lay figure on which to exhibit the latest fashions. Household Papers and Stories In fact, wherever the "Latin race" is, the popular taste runs to blocks of the Virgin and Child resembling the lay figures in a tailor's shop. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 How if, though he was not affianced to the dummy, or any other lay figure she might provide, his was a widowed heart left barren by the hand of Death? When Ghost Meets Ghost You can hardly have a lay figure of full size, because of its cost. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors But in the short-story of action, on the other hand, the plot may be sufficient unto itself, and the characters may be the merest lay figures. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews It is a kind of lay figure, of which he seems to have been fond; its clasped hands are here shockingly painted—I should think unfinished. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The Madonna in the church of the Frari is a mere lay figure, introduced to form a link of connexion between the portraits of various members of the Pesaro family who surround her. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) And this need for overt action and lay figures testifies to a defect in the child’s imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the privacy of his own heart. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) The use of a lay figure will help you somewhat if you can get one which is true in proportion. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors They have no rich blood in their veins; and are little better than lay figures taking up positions as it may happen, in order to form an effective tableau illustrative of an unexceptionable moral. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) They do not move or talk like human beings, but like lay figures into which certain specified sins have been poured. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Maud is a lay figure, and the heroine of "The Princess" is purely fantastic. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) "They are married, absolutely married; my par and that painted lay figure you introduced to him, that Mrs. Harrington." A Noble Woman A lay figure is expensive, costing about three hundred dollars in this country. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors We have too much picture-manufacturing, too much making up of lay figures � 22. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) A sort of lay figure, draped in calico, was in one corner. Not Like Other Girls It was limp and heavy, it was swathed in sheets, like a lay figure or a mummy. The Slave of Silence I cannot typewrite, my three stories are still wandering round, two milliners have refused me as a lay figure because business was so bad. Anna the Adventuress The accessories of your picture must befit the character you wish to paint; otherwise your model becomes no more than a lay figure. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors On a raised square platform in a corner stood a draped lay figure, not, apparently, quite sober. Love at Paddington Perhaps Dickens avoided this episode because it was too literally near the truth in the life of the person who, all unconsciously, stood as the lay figure of David Copperfield's incomparable friend. Faces and Places But the bits of glass made dazzling reflections, the clapper of the wind-mill woke them during the night, and the sparrows perched on the lay figure. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life But if it were worked by machinery, with lay figures, we should think nothing of it. Gossamer 1915 "Bill presented to Lords as a sort of lay figure, which they may, in accordance with taste and conviction, suitably clothe." Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 We who succeeded Stedman by some years loved all the beauty of Tennyson while we were not especially struck by those mediæval lay figures which he labelled "King Arthur" and "Sir Galahad" and "Sir Percival." Confessions of a Book-Lover He filled the lay figures with life, clothed them with garments, and then made them talk to each other in the English language as it is to-day accented in some of the American States. Faces and Places The peddler lay at full length, a bundle of strange travel-wrecked clothes, suggesting a lay figure in his limp inertness and the loose sprawl of his limbs. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The distinguished artist repeated his unusual experience in the Almanac for 1865, when in a technically exquisite drawing he showed a couple of children in a studio assaulting the lay figure. The History of "Punch" Bill presented to Lords as sort of lay figure, which they may, in accordance with taste and conviction, suitably clothe. Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 Meeting it, I must become to her as any other man she knew—a formal creature, a lay figure for the barber's and tailor's art, with a gift of talking inanities. David Malcolm He is a lay figure, but not necessarily a lay figure of speech. The Perfect Gentleman When you paint a picture for the court, you do not put your whole soul into it; to courtiers you sell lay figures duly colored. The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 These people on the stage at Ober-Ammergau are not lay figures, mere abstract representations of the virtues or the opposite. King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth "Come, my dear Etienne," said poor mama, trying hard to arrange everything peaceably, "could you not out of respect for your wife's feelings, replace this creature by a dummy, a lay figure?" Artists' Wives Yet she is no lay figure, and one is not surprised that Comus should twice show his consciousness that she has within her some holy, some more than mortal power. Milton The advance is one from positive weakness to positive strength, from ignorance to knowledge, from incapacity to mastery, from the manufacture of lay figures to the creation of human beings. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Sending the Goat away from the Village Eventually, amidst firing of guns, howls, yells and deafening hissing of the assembled crowd, the animal to be sacrificed is dragged before the lay figure. In the Forbidden Land Of all lay figures there is none on earth so useful as a wooden husband. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida The night after I had set up this lay figure in the yard a policeman came along Clarendon Avenue for the first time in his professional career. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice She, however having begun her sketch, continued drawing, regarding the Indian much as if he had been a lay figure dressed up to copy. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America I never saw a man sleep more soundly—not a limb stirred the whole night through; he looked more like a dead person, or a lay figure, than a being with life. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins During the intervals of dancing the relatives go round and round the lay figure, dusting and fanning it with their white cloths. In the Forbidden Land It was like the creation of a man from a lay figure. Doom Castle Having expended all his ammunition upon the lay figure, the policeman had no means of interchanging compliments with his assailant, and was therefore compelled to spend the night in a willow. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice The moment a girl marries in New England she is apt to become a drudge, or a lay figure on which to exhibit the latest fashions. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 There was, however, another purpose connected with Mrs Turner's pursuits to which small jointed images, like artists' lay figures, were used. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852 Finally the lay figures waxed so disputatious that Professor O'Reilley consigned them to the darkness of the trunk from which they came. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Instantly the lay figure showed a spot of white on its black coat, which, after all, was only made of a kind of paste or varnish, which chipped off when struck by the bullet. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series The scene was illuminated by the blazing figures of the archers, for these were old armour and weapons, lay figures stuffed with straw and meant but to gain precious moments of respite. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 He was great in the management of draperies, for the better study of which he is said to have invented the lay figure. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art He walked round Fergus as if he were examining a lay figure, closely scrutinizing every article of his appointment, and then gave a nod of approbation. With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War The editor and the lay figure sat facing in opposite directions at a distance of about ten feet. The Patient Observer And His Friends The Government is daily becoming more and more military, and the Parisian Deputies are becoming little more than lay figures. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris He made Cromwell and Frederick men of blood and iron, not mere historical lay figures. Modern English Books of Power "Is my part an important one or am I only a lay figure?" Lady Larkspur I believe he thinks them baggage—lay figures, as they've turned aside their heads. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes The mountaineers originally borrowed this lay figure of Nazr-Eddin from the Turks, but they have clothed it in an entirely new suit of blunders, witticisms and absurdities of their own manufacture. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Britz might as well have appealed to a lay figure for all the response he received. The Substitute Prisoner The King was hung in effigy and his lay figure cremated in the public kiln at Lincoln's Inn Fields. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow It is only by letting your personality animate your costume that you make yourself superior to the lay figure or the sawdust doll. Woman as Decoration The consequence was that the original spirit evaporated long before the completion of the great tame painting, where his men and women too often look like wooden lay figures covered with drapery.” Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath Homer's fictions will always be preferred to historical truth, Rubens' fabulous magnificence to all the frippery copied exactly from the lay figure. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Closing in on her, they forced her against the door of the office as though she were a lay figure. The Substitute Prisoner It is furrowed into small and rather fussy folds, almost suggesting, like the figures of the Parthenon pediment, the pleats of wetted linen on a lay figure. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres The general store had a gaily dressed lay figure in its window,—a female figure,—and its gown was labelled 'The Latest Parisian Novelty.' A Dozen Ways Of Love She smiled down into his face, as he looked slowly up at her, huddled like a lay figure between the arms of the big chair. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Often a sick mother was introduced to claim emotional attention, or to use as a lay figure upon which to drape Scripture texts as fearful warnings to the black sheep of the family. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book So that these artless little self-revelations are very sweet and precious to me among all the lay figures, tragedy and comedy. Certain Personal Matters I am to be a sort of lay figure for your poetry, as well as your painting; the Laura of this new Petrarch. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts She was cunningly playing him off against the New Yorker, using him as a lay figure in her despicable game, bestowing endearments to anger Gretzinger and arouse his jealousy. The Iron Furrow I think this must be because almost all the characters are such human and kindly folk, not the lay figures of galvanic farce that one had only too much reason to expect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08 The Lost Leader is a purely ideal conception, developed by the process of idealization from an individual who serves as a "lay figure." Browning's Shorter Poems "What do you do with a sitter who won't let you bring out her best points, but insists on making herself into the stiffest sort of a lay figure?" Mrs. Red Pepper In front of us an elderly female with short hair is chatting to a very plain young woman draped like a lay figure. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology In figure painting they were to work, if possible, from a living model and not from a lay figure. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He failed, however, to discern in the bland presence of the lay figure, upon which they were disposed to such advantage, the companion of one of the most varied adventures in his long career. New Faces Her husband had long viewed her as a lay figure on these occasions. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement His bitterness was no medium through which to recapture her magic and without it he would merely be forcing a lay figure to perform vulgar and meaningless antics. Balloons At a certain cue she was required to fall upon her face, concealed from the audience by an intercepting rock, and then the lay figure took its flight through the air. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character But all the Pre-Raphaelites painted from the lay figure as well as from the living model, and Rossetti, in particular, relied quite as much on memory and imagination as upon the object before him. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century He was interesting, but very unhuman, and he paraded his ideas and his sneers as the lay figures did the mail-armour on the castle stairway. Muslin As suddenly and swiftly as the House had filled, the limp lay figure of the Debate throbbed with life. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 We know he cannot sink; he is a lay figure with a pneumatic body. Aspects of Literature The third Ariadne was a most lifelike lay figure, which, on a given signal, was hurled from the cliff, and seen to fall into the abyss below. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He looked more like a shabby lay figure stuffed with sawdust than like a living man. The Little City of Hope A Christmas Story I didn't have to take you by the chin and twist your head as though you were a lay figure; I didn't have to pull you about and flex and bend and twist you. The Common Law It made him only a lay figure of romance. The Last Shot Dickens was a great humorist, and understood the nature of the poor because he had been one of them; but his gentlemen and ladies are lay figures. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 He looks extremely like one of those lay figures employed by ventriloquists. The Bed-Book of Happiness He pointed to an object I had only partially observed: a broad-faced burly woman, of about forty-five years of age, in an eccentric dress of Japanese silks, standing on the model-throne between two lay figures. Aylwin His studio was a confusion of silks, cut velvets, tapestries, embroideries, carpets of the East, lay figures glittering with replicas of priceless armour. The Common Law In each case he imagines a lay figure rather than a human being. The Pleasures of Ignorance The men and women who pass through the whirl of a London season cannot help regarding their fellow-creatures rather as lay figures than as human beings. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour It is fatal to regard historical personages as lay figures and not as human beings. The "Goldfish" On another part of the field Dave Darrin was handling a squad of new football men, teaching how to rush in and tackle the swinging lay figure. The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard Unconscious that she was at once my lay figure and my mirror, she loaded me with presents, and announced to all her coterie, that I was the most delightful young man of her acquaintance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 It was Austin Turold who caused a diversion in this group of lay figures by walking to the table and helping himself to a whisky-and-soda. The Moon Rock I can put it on the lay figure and sketch it into the horror over the old lines. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections But you guess wrong, honey, if you imagine custom and formality of official life have so overcome these high-born ladies as to make them lay figures who dare not raise their eyes except by rule. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration Stupid people move like lay figures, while every joint of intellectual people speaks for itself. Essays of Schopenhauer But the heroine of Billy McCoy makes hardly a pretence of being other than a lay figure; without her it would be just as entertaining and exciting, if perhaps less completely furnished for Romance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 In the gloom he might have been taken for a piece of furniture, of machinery, an extraordinary lay figure, perhaps, for the trying on of the boots he made. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 She was vital—in the best sense; the lay figure had come to life. The Damned This woman died in 1885, and the four limbs, mounted on a lay figure, were placed in the Royal College of Surgeons, in London. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine She became impersonal and forgot her husband, only using him as a lay figure to give point to her tale. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life And this need for overt action and lay figures testifies to a defect in the child's imagination which prevents him from carrying out his novels in the privacy of his own heart. Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers The only function of a toy, as someone has well said, is "to serve as lay figures upon which the child's imagination can weave and drape its fancy." Your Child: Today and Tomorrow The pastor was a ginger-haired caricature imitated from the northern stage, quite a lay figure. Twilight in Italy Nero is an academic tyrant, Seneca an academic adviser, Poppaea is little more than a lay figure. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal I am of no more account in her eyes than an artist's lay figure, which is put away in a dark closet when it isn't in use. The Golden Calf Chamberlain further urged Dilke to lay stress on the determination of his party not to be 'mere lay figures in a Cabinet of Goschens.' The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 In the Acts of the Apostles he is a mere lay figure; his name is only mentioned in the catalogue at the beginning, and here again in the brief notice of his death. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts "Nicer than lay figures to work with, eh? all those pretty young women." A Fountain Sealed It was a gay lay figure, red and yellow and white and black and purple and pink. Purgatory They have not the life-like reality of those of Aesop; they are mere lay figures. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius No doubt Albertinelli was often deputed to the study of the lay figure and its drapery. Fra Bartolommeo "These are my best suits," he said, pointing to a score of lay figures in armour ranged along the wall. A March on London I don't use lay figures, at any time. A Fountain Sealed They are generally unindividualized, lay figures swayed by the passions of the moment, or at best mere "humour" characters representing love's epitome, extravagant jealousy, or eternal constancy. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood The very cloak, made of light cloth showily faced with scarlet, was draped over a lay figure in one corner of the room. Bits about Home Matters The properties—amongst which were the lay figures, easels, casts, sketches, blocks of porphyry to grind colours on, &c. Fra Bartolommeo In haste to reach the front, he stepped from bench to bench, knocking the gowned Churchmen right and left as if they were but so many lay figures. The Prince of India — Volume 02 "The next time you arrest a lay figure," suggested Greg, "at least be good enough to capture one that's stuffed with lemons." Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point Had she been able to make him more than a lay figure distorted by various passions, she might have produced a real character. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood Even archbishops will do these things, to say nothing of such small fry as deans, or stout and prominent lay figures of the Church. The Ancient Allan For lay figures like myself, the only interest about these receptions, which were practically got up for effect, lay in watching the personages we saw pass. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville The lay figure that he had set in his place had proved to be flesh and blood—had usurped his life, his position, his very personality, by sheer right of strength. The Masquerader The hearing proceeded so smoothly and quickly that it seemed naught but an empty rite, with Daniel as a lay figure in it. The Old Wives' Tale It really was an artistic pleasure to deal with such beautiful hair, and such a lovely lay figure as Esther's. Magnum Bonum B. B. takes the easel chair and places it for Jennifer at Dubedat's side, next the dais, from which the lay figure ogles the dying artist. The Doctor's Dilemma "For Heaven's sake!" shouted Harrison, who had been singing "With All Thy Faults I Love Thee Still," to Pettingill's lay figure. Brewster's Millions Bevis's image stood in that already distant past like a lay figure, the mere semblance of a man. The Odd Women Her aunt asked her to stand as a sort of lay figure on which to display them, as Edith was still asleep. North and South She knew it was very foolish, but she could never be happy in encountering shop people, and she wanted strong support and protection to prevent herself from being made a lay figure by urgent dressmakers. Magnum Bonum He says he wants bones and sinews, not an artist's lay figure dressed in stage bushman's clothes. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life On a dais at the chief table, laid with gold and silver plate, the Prince Regent sits like a lay figure, in a state chair of crimson and gold, with six servants at his back. The Dynasts He was like a lay figure, without strength for anything, and if he were to hear that an earthquake was shaking Dublin into ruins he would not care. The Untilled Field Antiope stands in the background, a mere lay figure, and scattered about are numerous small symbolical figures. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable In her foragings and depredations she usually puts forward the Mother-Church—a lay figure—and hides behind it. Christian Science No little boy would want to play with dolls for instance; but what little boy would not be fascinated by a small wooden lay figure, capable of unheard-of contortions. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) He scrutinized certain glass showcases containing wax lay figures of pink-cheeked youngsters attired as for the stage, and boomed his first caution into his companion's ear. Red Pepper Burns He fell into a chair, and sat helpless like his own lay figure. The Untilled Field A half dozen lay figures on springs stood in the center in a low row, and before these perspiring youths thrust and parried. Long Live the King! From that day the Saints were adopted as historical lay figures, and entered at once into possession of uninterrupted gratuities and endowment. Drift from Two Shores Idolatry and Faith stood on two lofty pillars, and after Faith, represented by a beautiful girl, had uttered her welcome, the other column fell to pieces with the lay figure upon it. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy He is a lay figure, very cleverly, but somewhat conventionally made and painted. Adventures Among Books He had been a presentable tool, a lay figure to give the organization front, and they had over-rated him, at that. A Poor Wise Man The room stilled on the instant; it was as if every man of them had turned to lay figures. Rowdy of the Cross L Ivy clasped the walls with its nervous tendrils, showing stems amid its foliage like the veins in a lay figure. The Village Rector This I secured myself against by getting a lay figure of Korinski's height, dressing it to resemble him, placing a pistol in its hand, and then practising at this mark in the woods. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Its lessons are conveyed concretely and not abstractly; and its characters are not mere lay figures, but living poetical conceptions. The Unseen World and Other Essays Marriage is thus a species of investment contracted by the existing family for the sake of the prospective one, the actual participants being only lay figures in the affair. The Soul of the Far East Chicherin speaks as if he were a dead man or a ventriloquist's lay figure. Russia in 1919 I will buy myself a first-class lay figure, I will order a plaster torso, and some model feet, I will have a Venus. Taras Bulba and Other Tales His particular trick of speaking of any third person as of a lay figure was exasperating. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes His body was knotty and so reduced in size that his blue jacket with its white sleeves looked as if it had been thrown over a lay figure. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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