Sentence examples for plaster lions from inspiring English sources
Some have giant diamonds raised in bas-relief on the stucco facade, or plaster lions or a condor perched on a penthouse terrace railing.
More and more, the Cubans who left Havana after Castro's arrival are now leaving Little Havana, with its pink doll houses guarded by plaster lions, and its old shoebox-shaped apartment buildings hemmed in by sagging cyclone fences — Little Havana, which is nothing like big Havana.
Touring this theater while no audience is present heightens one's appreciation of how elaborate décor (like 29 lions embedded in the cast plaster friezes) is a vital element in theatrical magic.
THE hoardings along every main street of central Beijing look like an effort to promote a new safari park: billboards are plastered with giant photographs of elephants, giraffes, lions and zebras.
Beyro was tinting his dough brownish gray, so that the plaster would match the hue of the original lion, which is in the British Museum.
By that time, the Mildenberg collection was on tour in the US, but Dr Jennifer Neils, a museum curator in Ohio, made a plaster cast of the broken edge of the Swiss lion and sent it to the university.
In the Art Museum, pride of place is given to the immense plaster casts of classical and European statues and buildings like the lion gate at Mycenae and the facade of the French abbey church of St.-Gilles-du-Gard.
Signs reading "If the buffalos unite then the lions don't eat them," a reference to a popular YouTube clip, were plastered across storefronts.
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If the Lions were unfortunate on that occasion and approached the third Test held together by sticking plaster, and again in 2009 when suffering four crucial injuries - including O'Driscoll - in the second Test, the same cannot be said this time.
