Sentence examples for old illustrations from inspiring English sources

The houses had the pitched roofs one sees in old illustrations.

Genius or charlatan, Psalmanazar is a fascinating character, and the weird old illustrations that accompany the piece are themselves reason enough to give it a look.

On the surrounding walls hang old illustrations of that which they seek: cloven hooves, a horselike face, a wing span perhaps too wide for browsing the aisles at the Super Foodtown a few doors down.

Using GIS mapping tools — with landmarks such as church spires and old city walls as his guide — he overlaid the antique drawings from Münster's book over modern satellite maps of German cities. Surprisingly, the old illustrations were fairly accurate, van Putten says.

The triangular shape may have been influenced by old illustrations of Haman, in which he wore a three-cornered hat.

You know those old illustrations where it looks like the entire Earth was a flat plate sitting in a snow globe?

For the sketch, we used an old illustration that I had archived on my desktop.

He also took inspiration from an "old illustration from the great Patrick Woodroffe of a Jules Verne-shipe ship under a balloon".

Check out this old illustration about urban loneliness.

Skyscrapers pushed into view, a cloud city rising to life out of some old illustration of the future.

He pauses and admires the jammed shelves of his studio, stuffed with comic books, old illustration manuals and compilations of obscure photography.