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  • During pujos, scheduled for convenience on two Saturdays a year, Gogol and Sonia are dragged off to a high school or a Knights of Columbus hall overtaken by Bengalis, where they are required to throw marigold petals at a cardboard effigy of a goddess and eat bland vegetarian food.†   (source)
  • Very slowly the shapes of things return, the trees standing like ancient effigies whispering of the world that once was in some alternate realm where only shadows reside.†   (source)
  • Mr. Caruso wheeled Jason around so that both of them were staring down the length of the highway to the tall effigy of Uncle Enzo, standing above the intersection like the Statue of Liberty.†   (source)
  • If he feels like it, he can put up a thousand "No Smoking" signs, hang the Marlboro man in effigy, whatever.†   (source)
  • It was a cemetery of dead forms, of funereal effigy and stone angels.†   (source)
  • His need for her and his vulnerability to her screamed at him to back off, to placate her while there was still time if indeed there still was , as a tribe in one of ,those Rider Haggard stories would have placated their goddess when she was angry, by making sacrifice to her effigy.†   (source)
  • Deep down, the dude who gave me the Jell-O knees was an effigy, a mask over a faceless face that probably ten thousand years ago looked like a squid or something.†   (source)
  • The angel was silent, frozen, wings folded, a grieving effigy.†   (source)
  • Mobs in thestreets declared Jay a traitor and burned him in effigy.†   (source)
  • An animatronic effigy waves its hands and rolls its eyes as it tells some of the folksy anecdotes Johnson would use to underline political points.†   (source)
  • Like maybe a huge burning effigy of El Líder.†   (source)
  • The answer lay in the very question, and I stared at the mask as though I had unearthed an effigy of my own endangered soul.†   (source)
  • You were hanged in effigy from the center red-light wire downtown on Main Street this morning.†   (source)
  • I realized that it was the first time I had heard anyone made of flesh and blood (as opposed to some cinematic effigy) say "thirty" as a contraction for "thirty thousand."†   (source)
  • The cricket cherished what avaricious secret: patiently sculptured what effigy of dread?†   (source)
  • Throughout Tennessee, Johnson was hissed, hooted, and hanged in effigy.†   (source)
  • Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked.   (source)
    effigies = crude dummies or representations of people to mock or abuse
  • They're sitting in a semi-circle around a grotesque-looking figure, a scarecrowlike effigy.†   (source)
  • It has the worrying power of effigies, a lifeless life that fills me with creeping horror.†   (source)
  • What they dredged smoking out of the ground looked like some desiccated effigy from a tomb.†   (source)
  • My wife's mother said people in town thought the effigy-hanging was the work of "outsiders.†   (source)
  • He said they had sent a photographer out to take a picture of the effigy.†   (source)
  • Before I turn away I see her straighten her blue skirt, clench her legs together; she continues lying on the bed, gazing up at the canopy above her, stiff and straight as an effigy.†   (source)
  • She's really here, in the flesh, lying motionless beside him in the suddenly too-quiet bed, arms at her sides like an effigy; but she is not Grace Marks.†   (source)
  • Not an effigy.†   (source)
  • A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached.†   (source)
  • It was guilt-that shop of dolls Claudia had described to me, shelves and shelves of the effigy of that dead child.†   (source)
  • It was guilt-that shop of dolls Claudia had described to me, shelves and shelves of the effigy of that dead child.†   (source)
  • The tank beneath was filled with charcoal, pieces burned out of whole sticks and limbs in carbon effigies of the trees themselves.†   (source)
  • Statues of saints, and of crusaders on their biers, or those pretending to be crusaders; effigies of all kinds.†   (source)
  • I would rather be confined to planting cabbages the remainder of my days...Make up your mind, if need be, to hear me denounced a traitor and perhaps hanged in effigy.†   (source)
  • Bleared with sleep, her slab of a face looked monstrous yet ethereally placid and benign, like one of those Easter Island effigies.†   (source)
  • Denounced, threatened and burned in effigy in Missouri, he did not even bother to seek re-election to the Senate.†   (source)
  • For his action, the Governor was burned in effigy, excluded from customary ceremonies such as parades and commencements, and assaulted daily in the press with such epithets as "anarchist,"†   (source)
  • That evening the Star-Telegram carried a six-column banner front-page headline announcing the lynching in effigy.†   (source)
  • April 7 The Star-Telegram carried an excellent and accurate story as a follow-up to the effigy hanging.†   (source)
  • Burned in effigy, accused in the press of "idiocy and impotency," and repudiated by his state and friends, Grimes never recovered—but before he died he declared to a friend: I shall ever thank God that in that troubled hour of trial, when many privately confessed that they had sacrificed their judgment and their conscience at the behests of party newspapers an†   (source)
  • He told me that the Star-Telegram had received an anonymous call that racists had hanged my effigy on Main Street.†   (source)
  • The constable had taken it down and thrown it onto the town junk heap, but when the reporter and photographer got to Mansfield, someone had retrieved the effigy from the dump and hung it on a sign reading: $25.00 fine for dumping dead ANIMALS.†   (source)
  • The effigy of a young man was tied to the middle of the stem.†   (source)
  • She believed Mama, yet her eyes kept going back to the tormented effigy.†   (source)
  • Beside him he could feel the sick man's legs, stiff and hard as the limbs of an effigy on a tomb.†   (source)
  • Mama, however, had large feet, and around the house she wore men's shoes, usually without strings, and a dusting or mobcap like somebody's fanciful cotton effigy of the form of the brain.†   (source)
  • There, small, faultless, and gleaming, lay a diminutive effigy of a woman's leg on the dark velvet, an enchanting leg, with the knee a little bent and the foot pointing downwards to end in the daintiest of toes.†   (source)
  • That minute's exchanged look in a kitchen garden, that hand upon my head in his daughter's bedroom; a ukase, a decree, a serene and florid boast like a sentence (ay, and delivered in the same attitude) not to be spoken and heard but to be read carved in the bland stone which pediments a forgotten and nameless effigy.†   (source)
  • He was lying so, on his back, his hands crossed on his breast like a tomb effigy, when he heard again feet on the cramped stairs.†   (source)
  • All of this danced up and down, like a company of gnats, each separate but all marvellously controlled in an invisible elastic net—danced up and down in Lily's mind, in and about the branches of the pear tree, where still hung in effigy the scrubbed kitchen table, symbol of her profound respect for Mr. Ramsay's mind, until her thought which had spun quicker and quicker exploded of its own intensity; she felt released; a shot went off close at hand, and there came, flying from its fragments, frightened, effusive, tumultuous, a flock of starlings.†   (source)
  • In token of her appreciation the chief purser had been asked to our party and he, in token of his appreciation, had sent before him the life-size effigy of a swan, molded in ice and filled with caviar.†   (source)
  • The silent city was no more than an assemblage of huge, inert cubes, between which only the mute effigies of great men, carapaced in bronze, with their blank stone or metal faces, conjured up a sorry semblance of what the man had been.†   (source)
  • A hideous straw-Stuffed effigy of myself, Tom Finley, was hung and set fire to in the main quadrangle of the college.†   (source)
  • The shutters in the Moorish Corner are thrown open on the Palm Garden: scattered sounds a/disturbance are still heard: something burns in the Palm Garden: an effigy, an emblem?†   (source)
  • She produces a metal box and unlocks it with a key suspended about her neck and takes out a cloth sack which she opens and produces a small china effigy of a rooster with a slot in its back.†   (source)
  • Quentin did not answer him, did not pause, his voice level, curious, a little dreamy yet still with that overtone of sullen bemusement, of smoldering outrage: so that Shreve, still too, resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be stark naked) a baroque effigy created out of colored cake dough by someone with a faintly nightmarish affinity for the perverse, watched him with thoughtful and intent curiosity.)†   (source)
  • Until that baby was born and she found some means by which she could stand alone, as it were, she had been like an effigy with a mechanical voice being hauled about on a cart by that fellow Bunch and made to speak when he gave the signal, as when he took her last night to tell her story to Doctor Hightower.†   (source)
  • I have no doubt, for example, that the Fernworthy people will burn me in effigy to-night.†   (source)
  • See if you are not burnt in effigy this 5th of November coming.†   (source)
  • A procession—a scandal—an effigy of me, and him!†   (source)
  • The lady, indeed, bore a very fair likeness to a reverend effigy in some idolatrous shrine.†   (source)
  • The greatest of our Egyptian kings had his effigy cut-out of a hill of solid rock.†   (source)
  • Effigies, donkey, lanterns, band, all had disappeared like the crew of Comus.†   (source)
  • One branch sprang from this pair, which mounted to a third stage, where sat the effigy of Edward VI.†   (source)
  • He ...'Where did you get drink?' inquired the German, very savage; but motionless in the light of the binnacle, like a clumsy effigy of a man cut out of a block of fat.†   (source)
  • Not that he blamed her or this effigy of a man in a tail-coat with a carnation in his buttonhole coming towards him.†   (source)
  • Octavius gives Mrs Whitefield a chair next Ann, and himself takes the vacant one which Ramsden has placed under the nose of the effigy of Mr Herbert Spencer.†   (source)
  • At Kingsbere-sub-Greenhill: rows and rows of you in your vaults, with your effigies under Purbeck-marble canopies.†   (source)
  • But as Gerty lay with arms drawn down her side, in the motionless narrowness of an effigy, she felt a stir of sobs from the breathing warmth beside her, and Lily flung out her hand, groped for her friend's, and held it fast.†   (source)
  • son of the Fiend, as was reported, and one who had cheated his father at dice when gambling with him for his own soul; Giambattista Cibo, who in mockery took the name of Innocent, and into whose torpid veins the blood of three lads was infused by a Jewish doctor; Sigismondo Malatesta, the lover of Isotta, and the lord of Rimini, whose effigy was burned at Rome as the enemy of God and man, who strangled Polyssena with a napkin, and gave poison to Ginevra d'Este in a cup of emerald, and in honour of a shameful passion built a pagan church for Christian worship; Charles VI.†   (source)
  • a hidden flow of harmony, a prelude contained and concealed in the work itself would animate and elevate his style; and it was at such points as these, too, that he would begin to speak of the "vain dream of life," of the "inexhaustible torrent of fair forms," of the "sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving," of the "moving effigies which ennoble for all time the charming and venerable fronts of our cathedrals"; that he would express a whole system of philosophy, new to me, by the use of marvellous imagery, to the inspiration of which I would naturally have ascribed that sound of harping which began to chime and echo in my ears, an accompaniment to which that imagery adde†   (source)
  • For all they cared it might have been me, instead of my effigy, which these rascals burned at the stake.†   (source)
  • He next crossed a little hall which—just as certain rooms are arranged by their owners to serve as the setting for a single work of art (from which they take their name), and, in their studied bareness, contain nothing else besides—displayed to him as he entered it, like some priceless effigy by Benvenuto Cellini of an armed watchman, a young footman, his body slightly bent forward, rearing above his crimson gorget an even more crimson face, from which seemed to burst forth torrents of fire, timidity and zeal, who, as he pierced the Aubusson tapestries that screened the door of the room in which the music was being given with hi†   (source)
  • In the dusk she had not noticed it before, and would hardly have noticed it now but for an odd fancy that the effigy moved.†   (source)
  • 'He contemplated the wretched animal, that moved no more than an effigy: it sat with ears pricked and its sharp muzzle pointed into the doorway, and suddenly snapped at a fly like a piece of mechanism.†   (source)
  • He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit.†   (source)
  • to the English, a crime which his effigy, its face battered with stones and soiled with mud, expiated for three centuries at the corner of the Rue de la Harpe and the Rue de Buci, as in an eternal pillory.†   (source)
  • Whatever can have induced that transcendent woman to marry that effigy and figure-head of a baronet is one of the most impenetrable mysteries that ever baffled human inquiry.†   (source)
  • "Why should one made in the real image of God suffer his natur' to be provoked by a mere effigy of reason?" he said in English, and in tones much louder than those in which Weucha had chosen to pitch the conversation.†   (source)
  • Rather than have the bargain fall through, now, I'd throw in half a dozen of them effigy bow-and-arrow men, such as we've in plenty in the chist.†   (source)
  • His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed.†   (source)
  • Two objects fixed his attention—the eagle of the legion first—a gilded effigy perched on a tall shaft, with wings outspread until they met above its head.†   (source)
  • So Hepzibah put forth her lank arm, and, taking the effigy from the shop-window, delivered it to her first customer.†   (source)
  • Shadowy effigies in armor stood on either side, a dead silence reigned, the lamp burned blue, and the ghostly figure ever and anon turned its face toward him, showing the glitter of awful eyes through its white veil.†   (source)
  • Thou art not Being, as Truth is, as Justice is,—thou art not my soul, but a picture and effigy of that.†   (source)
  • He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.†   (source)
  • He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.†   (source)
  • To these, he applied himself with such steadiness and perseverance that, although he brought no greater amount of previous knowledge to the subject than certain dim recollections of two or three very long sums entered into a ciphering-book at school, and relieved for parental inspection by the effigy of a fat swan tastefully flourished by the writing-master's own hand, he found himself, at the end of a fortnight, in a condition to report his proficiency to Mr Linkinwater, and to claim his promise that he, Nicholas Nickleby, should now be allowed to assist him in his graver labours.†   (source)
  • VIII Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers While the effigy of Eustacia was melting to nothing, and the fair woman herself was standing on Rainbarrow, her soul in an abyss of desolation seldom plumbed by one so young, Yeobright sat lonely at Blooms-End.†   (source)
  • As judges cannot be dispensed with, at least the State is to select them, and always to hold them under its control; so that, between the government and private individuals, they place the effigy of justice rather than justice itself.†   (source)
  • , issuing from a red and white rose, with the effigy of the new King's mother, Jane Seymour, represented by his side.†   (source)
  • I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, — all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bulstrode asked, reprehensively, what the new police was doing; but a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have been too equivocal, since Hawley probably meant it to be pelted.†   (source)
  • It matters not whether the Father of All is called God, or Manitou, Deity or Great Spirit, he is none the less our common maker and master; nor does it count for much whether the souls of the just go to Paradise, or Happy Hunting Grounds, since He may send each his own way, as suits his own pleasure and wisdom; but it curdles my blood, when I find human mortals so bound up in darkness and consait, as to fashion the 'arth, or wood, or bones, things made by their own hands, into motionless, senseless effigies, and then fall down afore them, and worship 'em as a Deity!†   (source)
  • There were a thousand ingots of gold, each weighing from two to three pounds; then he piled up twenty-five thousand crowns, each worth about eighty francs of our money, and bearing the effigies of Alexander VI.†   (source)
  • "You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb," she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone.†   (source)
  • "Do you hear, what the chief has promised, dog?" demanded the trapper, making an effort to attract the notice of the insensible effigy of his hound.†   (source)
  • It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath.†   (source)
  • It lies another hundred years, a mouldering log, and then a mound of moss and 'arth; a sad effigy of a human grave.†   (source)
  • At one and the same moment there had risen above the shoulders of the crowd, nearly opposite Mr. Brooke, and within ten yards of him, the effigy of himself: buff-colored waistcoat, eye-glass, and neutral physiognomy, painted on rag; and there had arisen, apparently in the air, like the note of the cuckoo, a parrot-like, Punch-voiced echo of his words.†   (source)
  • Whithersoever Tom turned his happy young face, the people recognised the exactness of his effigy's likeness to himself, the flesh and blood counterpart; and new whirlwinds of applause burst forth.†   (source)
  • "The effigy," she answered hastily.†   (source)
  • There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the suicide.†   (source)
  • There is an embalmed body up in the royal tombs which once was his—an effigy not so fair to look at as the other out in the Desert.†   (source)
  • The next morning the fact turned out to be as Elizabeth-Jane had stated; the effigy was discovered by a cowherd, and that of Lucetta a little higher up in the same stream.†   (source)
  • Day after day he went with a host in chariots to see the work; at last it was finished, never effigy so grand, so enduring: it looked like him—the features were his, faithful even in expression.†   (source)
  • They slay the buck, and the moose, and the wild cat, and all the beasts that range the woods, and stuffing them with worthless rags, and placing eyes of glass into their heads, they set them up to be stared at, and call them the creatur's of the Lord; as if any mortal effigy could equal the works of his hand!†   (source)
  • The numerous lights round the two effigies threw them up into lurid distinctness; it was impossible to mistake the pair for other than the intended victims.†   (source)
  • The events of the day were told quietly and in the simplest words, and until he was through there was no interruption; nor did the listener in the chair so much as move a hand during the narration; but for his eyes, wide open and bright, and an occasional long-drawn breath, he might have been accounted an effigy.†   (source)
  • And inside, the guy, an effigy crouched in ash on his own hearthstone, ready to fall into black dust at the next blast of cold wind to sweep through the shell of his home.†   (source)
  • Child, man, effigy.†   (source)
  • A POLISHED PERIOD J. J. O'Molloy resumed, moulding his words: —He said of it: that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and terrible, of the human form divine, that eternal symbol of wisdom and of prophecy which, if aught that the imagination or the hand of sculptor has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live, deserves to live.†   (source)
  • He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson Carrasco!†   (source)
  • If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,— As you have whisper'd faithfully you were, And as mine eye doth his effigies witness Most truly limn'd and living in your face,— Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke That lov'd your father.†   (source)
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