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  • The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scale replicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls.†   (source)
  • I spent the last afternoon of Before constructing a 1/10,000-scale replica of the Empire State Building from boxes of adult diapers.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's a replica.†   (source)
  • The only buildings here were tiny log-and-mortar cabins, replicas of the army's shelters.†   (source)
  • She must be about nine and is almost an exact replica of Rue, down to the way she stands with her arms slightly extended.†   (source)
  • The street she was looking for was three turnings past the tube station, itself another replica.†   (source)
  • His present turned out to be a box of intricate plastic parts; the instructions on the box proclaimed that when they were properly assembled he would have an authentic miniature replica of a World War II submarine.†   (source)
  • They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.†   (source)
  • So Len called the man who sold them for him, and who took commissions from select stores, and the wealthy people who ordered replicas of their own homes.†   (source)
  • Everything looked like a painted replica of itself, fragile and distorted, like I was caught in a fun house hall of mirrors reflecting my regular world back to me.†   (source)
  • To drive home the point, its facade had been designed as a cement replica of a curved CinemaScope screen.†   (source)
  • Nigel had come to stand next to the man, and I realized as I spoke that the two looked much alike, the boy a smaller replica of the man.†   (source)
  • In the town square a replica tent pole, cracked and splintered, now stands cast in concrete.†   (source)
  • Two slides, a big swing set with half a dozen swings set at varying heights, a jungle gym, a tunnel made of cement rings, a sandbox, and a playhouse that was an exact replica of the Overlook itself.†   (source)
  • The elephant is a replica of a drawing her father had done for Gogol over twenty-seven years ago, in the margins of an aerogramme.†   (source)
  • The glass balls are a replica of our solar system.†   (source)
  • Why has the TechnoCore built a replica of Rome in the Hercules Cluster?†   (source)
  • The dog could not have been more thrilled had I built him an exact replica of Splash Mountain.†   (source)
  • Nothing to distinguish this house from the replicas of it on either side.†   (source)
  • I've been partial to Old West firearms ever since, and after getting out of the Navy, I've started collecting some very fine-looking replicas.†   (source)
  • The Queen Redd statue stood at the city's western edge, where, from the observation deck, Dodge could gaze out through the eyes of this enormous agate replica at the city spread below.†   (source)
  • Some of the guys who had been in Afghanistan said it was just about a direct replica of the camp the United States destroyed after 9/11.†   (source)
  • Great Britain delivered locomotives and ship models, including an exquisite thirty-foot replica of Britain's latest warship, Victoria, so detailed that even the links of chain in its handrails were to scale.†   (source)
  • She had a dollmaker's craft from making with her old lover over and over the replica of her dead child, which I was to understand crowded the shelves of this shop we were soon to visit.†   (source)
  • Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up.†   (source)
  • Apparently, he liked to tell stories in weird voices and spent years scratching out a replica of New York City's skyline on the converted classroom's blackboards.†   (source)
  • For a minute I thought it was the replica of a lounge in a guest house I visited once on an island off the coast of Maine.†   (source)
  • This man, a friend of Jean de Satigny, had transformed his humble raw materials—flour, eggs, and sugar—into a replica of the Acropolis crowned with a cloud of meringue on which rested two mythological lovers, Venus and Adonis, fashioned out of almond paste colored to imitate the rosy tones of their flesh, their blond hair, and the cobalt blue of their eyes; with them was a pudgy Cupid, also edible, which was sliced in half with a silver knife by the proud groom and the dejected bridle.†   (source)
  • She was a perfect replica of the beautiful dancers, dressed in a long, glittery gown with a pretty tortoise shell comb in her hair, from which cascaded a tiny, lacy mantilla.†   (source)
  • In the barn, the replica looked like a giant, crooked version of a barbed-wire and plywood chicken.†   (source)
  • The guard points to the gym floor, where someone spray painted a very poor replica of the Latino Blood symbol.†   (source)
  • The white cottages around the hospital were replicas of those at Saranac, with the same airy porches and trundle beds.†   (source)
  • The other two black boys come two years later, coming to work only about a month apart and both looking so much alike I think she had a replica made of the one who came first.†   (source)
  • The wondrous touch, the outlandish and surpassing fancy was the large construction along the far wall, a replica of the old Polo Grounds Scoreboard and clubhouse facade.†   (source)
  • From a small glass box, he removed what appeared to be a minute replica of a dragon-prowed Viking ship whose tiny oars and striped sail were rendered in exquisite detail.†   (source)
  • It was a modified ti kay, a replica of the better sort of peasant house, with a metal roof and concrete floors and exceptional in that it had a bathroom, though without hot water.†   (source)
  • Here the Pakistani army produced replicas of aging Soviet tanks.†   (source)
  • The images would appear to be perfect living, breathing, thinking replicas of Eragon and Saphira, but their minds would be empty, and if anyone peered into them, the ruse would be discovered.†   (source)
  • Except for the putrid color of the walls and the name on the sign, it's an exact replica of the last one I attended.†   (source)
  • Rain cascading down white marble; not a cold, light rain, but a downpour, pounding against the wall of a glistening white surface ...and columns ...rows of columns on all sides, a miniature replica of an ancient treasure.†   (source)
  • "We made the replica arm out of biogenetic matrix," the Director explained.†   (source)
  • Before a great window stood a large aquarium containing colored stones and a small replica of a feudal castle surrounded by goldfish that seemed to remain motionless despite the fluttering of their lacy fins, a momentary motionful suspension of time.†   (source)
  • In an attempt to make the Chinese care for people outside the family, Chairman Mao encourages us now to give our paper replicas to the spirits of outstanding soldiers and workers, no matter whose ancestors they may be.†   (source)
  • A smaller replica hung from its crest inside.†   (source)
  • He's a replica of a typical twentieth-century thug.†   (source)
  • Except for its larger size to accommodate both age and portliness of better living, it was a replica of the shirt he had worn in 1957.†   (source)
  • Errtu took the replica of the relic and bowed low.†   (source)
  • A full-sized replica is being built at the Mystic Seaport Museum and supported by Amistad America.†   (source)
  • —and transforms once more, becoming an exact replica of Felicity, with the same full mouth and pale blond hair.†   (source)
  • In his hand he carried an iron replica of a skeptron, tipped by a circular metal ornament, into which a red jewel had been set.†   (source)
  • "What we are doing is a replica of that," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • The devices were exact replicas of the massive bomb that had devastated London's Canary Wharf in February 1996.†   (source)
  • The boys put on dry clean clothes, which were exact replicas of the sopping clothes they were taking off.†   (source)
  • The table contains equipment for teaching the blind by touch—a small replica of the human skeleton, stuffed animals, models of flowers and plants, piles of books.†   (source)
  • If it did, however, it would have continued with its own, plus replicas of the four operators', at least for a while.†   (source)
  • The replica was in eighteen-carat gold, and its presence struck the only note of bad taste in the house.†   (source)
  • He had illuminated the little fir tree in their garden with a string of coloured lights with a long lead to the plug beside the fireplace in the lounge, a small replica of the great illuminated tree a mile away outside the town hall of Falmouth.†   (source)
  • When Randy examined his two guns he was surprised to find that they were only .22 caliber, lightweight replicas, except in bore, of the big frontier .45's.†   (source)
  • In the pouch of the female he found a tiny replica of herself: a frightened, blinking pup, whose quills were soft as chickens' down.†   (source)
  • All the evidence we have—fragments, representations, clay replicas, even literary evidence—indicates that the Babylonian gods were conceived as actually residing in their images, effective only within the substance of their images.†   (source)
  • She fretted about her appearance, thin and dark and foreign-looking at a time when every little girl was supposed to look or thought she should look a chubby blonde replica of Shirley Temple.†   (source)
  • He was opposite the replica Statue of Liberty, twin to the one that had stood for a century where now was Bedloe Crater.†   (source)
  • The interior of the giant terminal was a replica of the mighty Baths of Caracalla in ancient Rome.†   (source)
  • A twelve-inch-tall replica of Leopardon appeared on top of the Black Tiger cabinet.   (source)
    replica = copy or model
  • Inside Halliday's bedroom was a replica of his first computer, a TRS-80 Color Computer 2.   (source)
  • And I knew exactly where to find a replica of that computer in the OASIS.   (source)
  • Next to it was a replica of an ancient PDP-1 computer running a copy of Spacewar!   (source)
  • This is an OASIS replica of the real KM towers located in downtown Columbus, right?   (source)
  • Looking at the replica Halliday had created of his old house, I tried to imagine what it had been like for him to grow up there.   (source)
  • It was called Happytime Pizza, and it was a replica of a small family-run pizza joint that had existed in Halliday's hometown in the mid-1980s.   (source)
  • I took a quick glance around and saw a detailed replica of 20 Grand Palace, the combination arcade/pizza joint featured in the film.   (source)
  • Since the dawn of the OASIS, thousands of elderly users had come here and painstakingly coded virtual replicas of local arcades they remembered from their childhood, thus making them a permanent part of the museum.   (source)
    replicas = copies or models
  • They've got a replica of the Golden Fleece.†   (source)
  • Nico laid out a bunch of figurines in the snow—little battle replicas of Greek gods and heroes.†   (source)
  • First a single store, then two, then four— exact replicas spreading across the country?†   (source)
  • A red holograph of Ra appeared—a miniature replica of the statue in the practice room.†   (source)
  • At the top of the trophy was a tiny golden replica of the hammer Mjolnir.†   (source)
  • Maybe they were replicas for tourists to look at or something.†   (source)
  • The Templars honored Baphomet by encircling a stone replica of his head and chanting prayers.†   (source)
  • My favorite is an 1861 Colt Navy Revolver replica manufactured on the old lathes.†   (source)
  • He prepares his questions: Did you make other replicas?†   (source)
  • Everything we'd shared had crumbled with her ceramic replica.†   (source)
  • I do not believe that it is a replica of the city of Rome alone.†   (source)
  • Apollo's talking about the big replica of Nero that stood outside the amphitheater in Rome, right?†   (source)
  • The replica must not be to scale because in reality Lorien is far smaller than our sun.†   (source)
  • For once, the boy looked like a smaller replica of his father.†   (source)
  • Saunière had created a life-sized replica of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous sketch.†   (source)
  • We tried our best to make a miniature replica of the rubble collection blocking the doorway.†   (source)
  • In its hands were massive holographic replicas of the crook and flail.†   (source)
  • Those two pillars are exact replicas of the two pillars that stood at the head of Solomon's Temple.†   (source)
  • On his head was an exact replica of the old hat.†   (source)
  • It's a replica of a famous dagger—the Topkapi Dagger, given as a gift to the shah of Persia.†   (source)
  • Mostly replicas, harmless simulations, but some of the genuine article.†   (source)
  • So ...you made an exact replica of my favorite outfit.†   (source)
  • Ahead of them stood a frozen Roman camp like a giant-sized ghastly replica of Camp Jupiter.†   (source)
  • Inside, it seems a perfect replica of those far-off temples.†   (source)
  • Seconds later, David held a perfect replica of the silver armillary sphere.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the replica seemed vulnerable to the wizard.†   (source)
  • Sarah dashed past Max, smoothly exchanging the real Key for the replica.†   (source)
  • "You promised us a share," she says, shifting into a perfect replica of me and back again.†   (source)
  • It was an exact replica of Camp Jupiter, except three times as big.†   (source)
  • Hoisted into the air by his ankle, Harry hit a suit of armor and replicas burst out of it like white-hot bodies, filling the cramped space.†   (source)
  • Imagine seeing yourself as a hundred-foot-tall bronze statue—a replica of your own magnificence, gleaming in the late afternoon light.†   (source)
  • A leather-bound Bible sat on Vetra's desk beside a plastic Bohr model of an atom and a miniature replica of Michelangelo's Moses.†   (source)
  • Messalla proves most valuable because he lived in a near replica of this apartment and knows where people would be most likely to stash food.†   (source)
  • In the fading pink light the pigoons waiting for him down below look like miniature plastic figurines, bucolic replicas from a child's playbox.†   (source)
  • This colossal edifice, located at 1733 Sixteenth Street NW in Washington, D.C., was a replica of a pre-Christian temple—the temple of King Mausolus, the original mausoleum ....a place to be taken after death.†   (source)
  • He replaces his lost aspirin and candles, and throws in six small boxes of matches and a paring knife, and his authentic-replica Red Sox baseball cap.†   (source)
  • This was true, though only because Harry, Ron, and Hermione had found Myrtle's out-of-order toilets a convenient place to brew Polyjuice Potion in secret — a forbidden potion that had turned him and Ron into living replicas of Crabbe and Goyle for an hour, so that they could sneak into the Slytherin common room.†   (source)
  • It took a moment before I realized that it was a leafy replica of Michelangelo's fresco of Adam from the Sistine Chapel.†   (source)
  • Hawkers in the market offered to sell me ambrosia-on-a-stick, and a new shield, and a genuine glitter-weave replica of the Golden Fleece, as seen on Hephaestus-TV The nine muses were tuning their instruments for a concert in the park while a small crowd gathered-satyrs and naiads and a bunch of good-looking teenagers who might've been minor gods and goddesses.†   (source)
  • You were a wanted child, God knows, she would say at other moments, lingering over the photo albums in which she had me framed; these albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit by some plague.†   (source)
  • To attract visitors for the close, Frank Millet planned a day-long celebration with music, speeches, fireworks, and a landing by "Columbus" himself from the exposition's full-sized replicas of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, built in Spain for the fair.†   (source)
  • She built a big house in an exclusive part of town, a replica of a famous Louisiana plantation house with huge white columns and curved stairs.†   (source)
  • Rain, especially, falling past the double doors of the kennel, where he'd waited through so many storms, each drop throwing a dozen replicas into the air as it struck the waterlogged earth.†   (source)
  • Among the treasures housed within these spaces are over twenty thousand volumes of Masonic writings, a dazzling replica of the Ark of the Covenant, and even a scale model of the throne room in King Solomon's Temple.†   (source)
  • For a Lawrence of Arabia deli called Tray Sheik, I was the one who thought the place should have a bazaar effect, and I found the replicas of cobras lying on fake Hollywood boulders.†   (source)
  • The place was a near perfect replica of the Bull & Finch Pub, the inspiration for the old TV show Cheers.†   (source)
  • With a sweep of her hand, the miniature replicas launched themselves into the vulnerable spot of every single card soldier, each of which folded, no longer a menace.†   (source)
  • If I dropped it, it would break into a million little replicas of itself, and if I pushed them near each other, they would fuse, without a crack, into one whole again.†   (source)
  • He's hung his authentic-replica Red Sox baseball cap on a branch overnight for safekeeping; lie checks inside it, flicks out a spider, puts it on.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew the forefathers' "new Rome" had been renamed Washington early in her history, and yet vestiges of their original dream remained: the Tiber's waters still flowed into the Potomac; senators still convened beneath a replica of St. Peter's dome; and Vulcan and Minerva still watched over the Rotunda's long-extinguished flame.†   (source)
  • In the two months leading up to the invasion of France, Dupont fashioned three replicas for the museum.†   (source)
  • It's an exact replica of the sheet in my pocket except for the paper that it's printed on, which is thicker than the fax.†   (source)
  • For that, it would be useful to grow a young, plump skin cell that would eat up the worn cells in the skins of those on whom it was planted and replace them with replicas of itself, like algae growing on a pond.†   (source)
  • Dupont, after all, would not have known who had been given the replicas of the diamond; he had no insight into the last-second safeguards of the museum.†   (source)
  • So the Zia I'd known was a replica, but I had to believe the shabti and the real Zia had shared thoughts.†   (source)
  • Three replicas.†   (source)
  • Replicas of Rosslyn?†   (source)
  • The rocks in our replica pile came from the collapsed tunnel, so our pile and the original were already connected in substance, which should have made it easy to establish a link.†   (source)
  • And it's not a replica?†   (source)
  • In reality, the only thing that interested him on the drive was the pink marble Parthenon half hidden among leafy banana and mango trees, a luckless replica of the idyllic mansions on Louisiana cotton plantations.†   (source)
  • It was a clear, glassine chalice—an exact replica of the Mortal Cup, except that instead of being gold, it was carved of silvery-white adamas.†   (source)
  • Early archaeologists had poured plaster into the holes and made these casts—creepy replicas of Ancient Romans.†   (source)
  • I begin to wonder if everything in this world, the world I'm stuck in, is just a replica, a cheap imitation of the real thing.†   (source)
  • She seemed content to stay quiet as they passed a massive ocean tank, home to a smaller replica of a sunken German submarine from World War II.†   (source)
  • Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus the OCD border god.†   (source)
  • She was standing by the statue of an angry lion on that extraordinary Avenue of Animals where huge stone replicas of large cats, horses, elephants and ferocious mythical beasts lined the road, guarding the final way to the tombs of the Ming Dynasty.†   (source)
  • Complete with mountains, forests, bridges and stations, it is to be an exact replica of the Seattle area and to utilize some nine hundred feet of toy railroad track, a quarter ton of modeling clay, a dozen gallons of paint and six thousand toothpicks-in one bridge alone.†   (source)
  • At one time he wrapped pieces of colored tape around tree trunks and took photographs of them, at another he made a replica of a mold-covered loaf of bread that breathed in and out with the aid of a small electric motor.†   (source)
  • There were mocked-up versions of MAC-10 and Uzi machine pistols, steel-framed missile launchers and antitank bazookas, and, finally, a frightening replica of a flamethrower spewing out harsh, straight beams of light through billowing clouds of dark smoke.†   (source)
  • The phantasm was a perfect replica of Max, down to its wavy black hair and the sharp, dark features that peered cautiously from a high perch in a nearby tree.†   (source)
  • The feathers twirled like gymnasts, growing larger, sprouting arms and legs, until they touched the ground as four metallic, human-sized replicas of the goddess, each armed with a golden spear and a Celestial bronze laurel wreath that looked suspiciously like a barbed wire Frisbee.†   (source)
  • He raced through the narrow replica of the Kurfürstendamm to the Budapesterstrasse, where he slowed down and pulled out the petcock release.†   (source)
  • He and his family of Kashmiri masons spearheaded the assault on the school in their village of Ranga, constructing a replica of the Korphe School in only ten weeks.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the concourse stood a life-size replica of an Ancient Egyptian boat made from glowing display cases—a sales counter for perfume and jewelry.†   (source)
  • A gargantuan pyramid served as the base of the palace, its shape blending gradually into something akin to an enormous replica of the Coliseum.†   (source)
  • Jumpy, who'd always had a couple of screws loose, had long claimed to be nearly finished with the replica, but when he opened the barn doors to proudly show how far he'd gotten, the reporter realized that Jumpy didn't have the slightest clue about what he was doing.†   (source)
  • By his reckoning, folks around here hadn't been this excited about the town's prospects since the Raleigh News & Observer had sent a reporter to do a story about Jumpy Walton, who was attempting to build a replica of the Wright Brothers' plane, one he planned to fly in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of aviation at Kitty Hawk.†   (source)
  • Jason accelerated, and saw in a matter of moments, bathed in floodlights, a three-story replica of the Eiffel Tower.†   (source)
  • It was several football fields across, surrounded by row upon row of seats and private boxes that rose up and up toward the twisting replica of Notre Dame, whose spires stretched toward the moon.†   (source)
  • Drizzt recognized it as a miniature replica of the tower he stood in, though it was barely a foot long.†   (source)
  • The first to plunge into flames, the sound of its detonation delayed only by milliseconds, was the wooden duplicate of the Capitol dome; it blew into the yellowed sky like the thin, hollow replica it was.†   (source)
  • David handed Max the replica sphere.†   (source)
  • Scaled-down replicas of towns and cities, waterfronts and airports, military and scientific installations from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, north to the Baltic and up the Gulf of Bothnia, were represented within its boundaries, all in addition to the American acreage.†   (source)
  • He had been so filled with anxiety on their way to the crossing into "Spain" that he barely recalled the diminutive replicas of the "American" cities and towns, much less the fastest routes that led to the tunnel.†   (source)
  • —ohmyohmy, did some weird self-inflicted Schadenfreude cause me to be attracted to such a perfect replica of Irma Griese?†   (source)
  • Then, relaxing his grasp, he blurted out something which, in its overlay of ethnic anxiety, she perceived to be a ludicrous replica of Wilhelmine's own squeamish concern that morning.†   (source)
  • In the window I caught a glimpse of my reflected face, pale from too much indoor literary endeavor, and behind that face I thought for an instant I saw a younger replica—my little-boy self over ten years before.†   (source)
  • And she goes on and on, those moist and precious Jewish lips, forever lost to me, driving home the sudden awareness that my poor dear joint for the first time in many hours is as shrunken and as small as that Worm whose replica hangs behind me, there in the papal bathroom.†   (source)
  • I want to tell you about this little side trip I've got planned—" The voice broke in with its ingratiating molasses pokiness and warmth, still an uncanny replica of the speech of my Carolina forebears, lilting, lulling: "I'm sho' lookin' forward to that trip with you an' Miz Sophie.†   (source)
  • The room was a replica of an illustration she had once seen in a Polish edition of The Old Curiosity Shop: festering with French, Italian, Russian and Polish antiques, of all periods and styles, it looked the work of some crazed interior decorator who had dumped out onto the shining parquet floors and sofas, chairs, tables, escritoires, love seats, chaises longues and stuffed ottomans of an embryonic palazzo—shoving into a single large, lofty but finite space the furniture suitable for a dozen rooms.†   (source)
  • She also knows that she has been dragooned into this outing for two purposes of display—because she is a knockout, as they say in the American movies that year, but also because by her presence, poise and language she can demonstrate to this distinguished guest, this dynamic helmsman of commerce, how fidelity to the principles of German culture and German breeding is capable of producing (and in such a quaint Slavic outback) the bewitching replica of a fraulein of whom not even the most committed racial purist in the Reich could disapprove.†   (source)
  • But now here was his counterpart, almost his replica, standing in his slightly askew SS uniform on the dusty concrete platform at five in the afternoon, flushed with wine or brandy or schnapps and mouthing his unpatrician words in an indolently patrician, Berlin-accented voice: "I'd like to get you into bed with me."†   (source)
  • She began to giggle, for he had gone into a very low-key comedy routine, his accent all of a sudden profoundly and luxuriously Yiddish as he catalogued the bottles and cans and cardboard cartons pouring forth from the bag, his face furrowed in a perfect replica of some elderly harassed, purblind, nervously parsimonious Flatbush storekeeper.†   (source)
  • For someone of my age it was not a totally worthless ambition, save for the fact that even on the more modest level of attainment I sought, there seemed no way to invent Dixieland replicas of Stephen Dedalus and the imperishable Blooms.†   (source)
  • It would help your story if you could turn it into a bungalow with fifty replicas alongside of it.†   (source)
  • Today, dressed in dull black silk over unfashionably narrow hoops, she still looked as though in her habit, for the dress was as severely tailored as her riding costume and the small black hat with its long black plume perched over one warm, twinkling, brown eye was a replica of the battered old hat she used for hunting.†   (source)
  • his own clairvoyant will tempered to amoral evil's undeviating absolute by the black willing blood with which be had crossed it) replica of his own which he had created and decreed to preside upon his absence, as you might watch a wild distracted nightbound bird flutter into the brazen and fatal lamp.†   (source)
  • Only the small boy looked somewhat different; dressed in black like his sister, a little more shrunken than before, he now seemed a miniature replica of his father.†   (source)
  • He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself-creatures, whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His.†   (source)
  • U.S.A.; Guy Francon, knight of the Legion of Honor of France, decorated by the governments of Great Britain, Belgium, Monaco and Siam; Guy Francon, Stanton's greatest alumnus, who had designed the famous Frink National Bank Building of New York City, on the top of which, twenty-five floors above the pavements, there burned in a miniature replica of the Hadrian Mausoleum a wind-blown torch made of glass and the best General Electric bulbs.†   (source)
  • An exact papier-mâché replica of his famous structure covered him from head to knees; one could not see his face, but his bright eyes peered from behind the windows of the top floor, and the crowning pyramid of the roof rose over his head; the colonnade hit him somewhere about the diaphragm, and he wagged a finger through the portals of the great entrance door.†   (source)
  • They were to be a stupendous replica of the tea party.†   (source)
  • It was a replica of the bungalow she had left.†   (source)
  • There, in the bondestue, the replica of a Norse farm kitchen, pale women in scarlet jackets embroidered with gold thread and colored beads, in black skirts with a line of blue, green-striped aprons, and ridged caps very pretty to set off a fresh face, had served rommegrod og lefse—sweet cakes and sour milk pudding spiced with cinnamon.†   (source)
  • It was a ghostlike replica, in fact, of that fashionable gathering upstairs; a ghost that haunts every house where balls and good suppers are given; a picture drawn with white chalk on grey cardboard, dull and colourless, now that the bright silk dresses and gorgeously embroidered coats were no longer there to fill in the foreground, and now that the candles flickered sleepily in their sockets.†   (source)
  • And so very different from the smaller, mud-colored replica I remembered, adorning the fifth-floor diorama in the British Museum.†   (source)
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