Sentence examples for a fine miniature from inspiring English sources

My household also includes Martha, a fine miniature poodle.

The studio said he was a train enthusiast, with a fine miniature railroad at his former home in Flintridge, Calif., and a full-size antique locomotive that he ran for many years at a vacation home near San Diego.

A John Ramage portrait of George Washington, a fine miniature painted for Martha in 1789, sold for $1.2 million, a world auction record for a portrait miniature and for any portrait of Washington.

Their achievement was to invent a highly skillful method for fine miniature painting in enamel colours on a white-enamel ground.

INTERNATIONAL FINE MINIATURE ARTS SHOW, Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, Times Square.

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, enamellers used the technique of fine miniature painting in enamels in Germany, Holland, England, and Russia in order to produce the "toys" of the fashionable world of society.

Andrews's character soon finds that he has liberated more energy than he can control, and a rift opens in the seabed that threatens to split Earth in two, depicted in some fine miniature work (by Eugène Lourié) that unnervingly anticipates some of the video imagery currently coming from the Gulf of Mexico.

Christie's is also selling a fine three-quarter-length miniature portrait of George Washington that adorned a pendant made for Martha Washington in 1789.

With 17 large and 13 small miniatures in a fine fanfare binding.

Mrs Bustos backs calls from "Yes for Independent Maps", a campaign group, to put a (worthy but limited) anti-gerrymandering scheme on the Illinois ballot in 2014 though she has not endorsed the scheme itself.Once again Peoria is a fine place to view America in miniature.

When we first see the P.O.W. camp, we see it not in bits and pieces or in miniature, but in a fine, lofty, panoramic long shot, filled with prisoners going about the camp's business, set in a broad, lonely landscape that defines the isolation of the P.O.W.'s better than almost anything that comes after.