Sentence examples for little figures of from inspiring English sources

He looked at the label closely, as if studying the little figures of the Beefeater guards.

In "Liberation" a giant, kindly woman in a mountainous landscape oversees little figures of nude women climbing a stairway to a tabletop where they turn into vessels holding flaming candles.

It was also here, 150 years ago, that two Russian convicts taught their Turkish cellmates how to make model ships: little figures of freedom, to occupy the hands and mind.

A drawing from 1939, for example, shows Joseph Goebbels as an evil puppet master manipulating strings attached to the little figures of European leaders, including Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Neville Chamberlain.

The company offered to send us little figures of ourselves, but I found the prospect of staring at myself in paper craft form for hours on end akin to staring into the Nietzschean abyss but without the potential for self-discovery.

Unfortunately yes, because it's on the racks with a price tag, in between little figures of Carl Weathers and Dolph Lundgren.

Rendell gives me a wave: a little figure of friendliness under the graphite sky.

At the summit a little figure of Victory blows a trumpet.

Among the 50 full-page illustrations, the royal connections of the book are clear in one showing Henry VI as a saint – with a little figure of the owner of the book kneeling before him.

After a day immersed in its art and architecture, you wonder, uneasily, if someone in one of those workshops is carving a little figure of you – to place among the cribs that line the streets of this timeless baroque city.

His distinctive, frenetic minimalism, condensed lettering and rebuslike signature ("H. Kurtz," with a little figure of a "man" at the end) were developed during the course of this strip.