Sentence examples for miniature ship from inspiring English sources
Then he retreated to his study to show off his collection of "toys," or miniature ship models and cranes, some thousand in all, including a reproduction, to scale, of the West Side docks as they looked fifty-five yeago ago, when he used to ride the Hoboken ferry back and forth for hours, for a quarter.
At the opposite end of the size spectrum are two miniature ship's figureheads carved from cherry wood by an unknown 19th-century artisan, probably from Salem, Mass.
There were beautiful miniature ships — exactly like the shipwrecks but smaller and less wrecked.
Mr. Angleton cultivated orchids; Wilson builds the more prosaically symbolic miniature ships in bottles.
Rousmaniere made his way to the club's palatial model room, where rows of miniature ships perch in glass cases — part museum, part toy store.
In the seventeen-seventies, Parisian women went around with exquisitely constructed miniature ships nested in their hair, to celebrate the victory of the French frigate Belle Poule over Britain's H.M.S. Arethusa.
Peppered with symbols of repressed desire – miniature ships squeezed into bottles, their red sails flagging up an acquaintance with Jungian colour theory – Jonathan Kent's production of The Flying Dutchman opens with a dream and ends with a nightmare of splintered glass.
More than 40 miniature ships and 175 feet long Roman galleys, each of them seaworthy, were built for the live-action segment.
Here, that world seems to be near the sea, the sound of which resonates faintly as the piece begins with a miniature sailing ship rolling, dreamlike, across a darkened stage.
It is explicit in Radcliffe Bailey's "Storm at Sea" (2006), with its wavelike crescent of piano keys anchored at one end by a miniature black ship sparkling with glitter and at the other by a sculpture of the Yoruba god of war.
A Voss bottle daydreams of spending retirement filling the void water left with a miniature model ship, or an ornately scrolled haiku, as it bobs aimlessly upon the ocean.
