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  • Paris Match had run a cartoon recently depicting Fache as a police dog, trying to bite an American criminal, but unable to reach because it was chained to the U.S. Embassy.†   (source)
  • Large paintings hung on the walls, depicting the kings of the past and a few renderings of old American and Canadian leaders.†   (source)
  • He's very much involved with depicting his neighborhood and environment in a positive manner.†   (source)
  • There were mountains of cakes and flagons of pumpkin juice and butterbeer on every surface; Lee Jordan had let off some Filibuster's Fireworks, so that the air was thick with stars and sparks; and Dean Thomas, who was very good at drawing, had put up some impressive new banners, most of which depicted Harry zooming around the Horntail's head on his Firebolt, though a couple showed Cedric with his head on fire.†   (source)
  • It seemed to depict a mound of spaghetti with numbered meatballs.†   (source)
  • Around the room, the wainscoting panels have been painted to depict scenes of pre-Civil War times, happy Negroes picking cotton, horses pulling wagons, white-bearded statesmen on the steps of our capitol.†   (source)
  • WE HAVE A WALL POSTER DEPICTING ALL THE MEDALS THE ARMY OFFERS.†   (source)
  • Crimson flags depicting gold wyverns flapped in the wind above the capital city, the cobblestone streets were cleared of traffic, and Celaena, unchained, dressed, painted, and seated in front of Chaol, frowned as the odor of the city met her nose.†   (source)
  • They were escorted across the entry hall, where a mosaic of colored glass depicted the Doom of Valyria.†   (source)
  • Each painting is worse than the last, depicting Silver strength and Red weakness in every brushstroke.†   (source)
  • But the majority, who are in the clutches of drink or morphling or illness, look grotesque in their costumes, depicting cows and trees and loaves of bread.†   (source)
  • I went with black because it best depicts my mood today.†   (source)
  • This book, the first part of the trilogy, depicts language that was developed from a child's viewpoint.†   (source)
  • The pleebland inhabitants didn't look like the mental deficients the Compounders were fond of depicting, or most of them didn't.†   (source)
  • Demeaning posters appeared in both Polish and German, depicting us as grotesque, filthy creatures, with large, crooked noses.†   (source)
  • In all, the mural was about 120 feet long, and it sought to depict the entire history of Louisiana in particular and the United States generally.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be around fifty or sixty, poorly shaven, with a shy, pleasant, large-featured face neither handsome nor plain— a man who would always be bigger than most of the other men in the room, though he also seemed unhealthy in some clammy, ill-defined way, with black-circled eyes and a pallor that made me think of the Jesuit martyrs depicted in the church murals I'd seen on our school trip to Montreal: large, capable, death-pale Europeans, staked and bound in the camps of the Hurons.†   (source)
  • I witnessed some of the scenes depicted of Maraa Isabel's life with her daughter.†   (source)
  • Stained-glass windows depicting scenes of anger, hate, and remorse pierced the walls, while spectral beams of light washed sections of the granite pews with transparent hues, leaving the rest in shadow.†   (source)
  • This one did not stand out among the bigger and brighter pieces; painted in varying tones of sepia, it depicted a miniature city full of steeply slanted roofs, with thin spires atop a few scattered towers.†   (source)
  • The door swung wide and ...The old fairy tale book had depicted her discovery in ghastly, loving detail.†   (source)
  • Published a few months after the assassination, this work of fiction was filled with exaggerations and lies, but its cover was an accurate depiction of the shooting.†   (source)
  • How does this striking depiction of Christ affect your faith?†   (source)
  • Khnum had been depicted as a potter sculpting a human from clay.†   (source)
  • Gang members were interviewed and news photographers worked the Hills to depict the poverty — usually of children playing in mud next to rusted cars, trash cans and pregnant mothers peering out of makeshift sheds.†   (source)
  • If this was a place you came from, and you knew these people like you know your own family, you'd want to depict the jealousies and resentments and adventure and danger, as well as capturing their dignity and their life in a way that conveys all that has escaped the notice of tourists and white property owners.†   (source)
  • If oxen, horses, and lions could draw, they would depict gods that looked like oxen, horses, and lions!†   (source)
  • He was working on a magnificent cycle of drawings depicting life inside the ghetto walls, not knowing that he would be murdered and most of the drawings lost.†   (source)
  • It made him the most visible and memorable person at every gathering, and cartoonists had fastened onto the theatricality of his white hair and big black mustache whenever they depicted local political antagonism.†   (source)
  • NOTICE: The following chapter contains terribly naughty scenes depicting a giant toilet getting its shiny hiney kicked.†   (source)
  • "All human beings are born with rights derived from God that no earthly power can take away" The sun was shining through the stained glass window of John the Evangelist, depicted in a loincloth some church ladies had complained was inappropriate, even in our tropical heat.†   (source)
  • We saw every one of these things—the tapestries depicting violent acts and the swords and knives and even a throne with human skulls attached to the bottoms of all four legs, plated with bronze like keepsake baby shoes!†   (source)
  • Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive "set pieces," fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus.†   (source)
  • The merchantmen were white, with flags to identify their nationality; the Soviet ships were red, and their shapes depicted their ship type; the American and allied ships were blue.†   (source)
  • She chose a simple little tattoo depicting a narrow band and asked to have it put on her ankle.†   (source)
  • A photograph depicting hydrotherapy turned Dan's stomach.†   (source)
  • It's a powerful video depicting children imitating their parents or other adults: smoking, displaying road rage, being racist, and perpetuating domestic violence.†   (source)
  • The most crudely touched-up photographs were circulated, depicting him dressed as Bacchus with a garland of grapes around his head, cavorting with opulent matrons and athletes of his own sex in a perpetual orgy.†   (source)
  • Next some etchings from the Bizarie by Giovan-batista Bracelli, depicting a set of curious toys, humanlike robots engaged in various alchemical rites.†   (source)
  • A renowned artist who happened to be stopping here on his way to Europe painted, with pathos-laden realism, a gigantic canvas in which Dr. Urbino was depicted on the ladder at the fatal moment when he stretched out his hand to capture the parrot.†   (source)
  • The postcard depicted not only Boone Creek's way of life half a century before but also the way that Gherkin hoped the town could be again.†   (source)
  • Spotlight expands: Imagine marble floors and marble pillars, gilt ornamentation, drapes descending forty-foot walls, an arched ceiling, an enormous Louis XIV tapestry depicting birds in flight.†   (source)
  • The first depicted a mob of horned demons ripping the wings off a screaming male angel.†   (source)
  • He greatly admired Henry Ford and introduced an assembly line and a rigorous division of labor at the Disney Studio, which was soon depicted as a "fun factory."†   (source)
  • Mkentane's depiction of Lincoln was stately and formal, and his recitation of one of the greatest of all speeches, the Gettysburg Address, won a standing ovation.†   (source)
  • One (1) map, up to date and carefully drawn by master cartographers, depicting natural and man-made features.†   (source)
  • His tools were distant cousins of the ones depicted in the book, but clearly designed for the same sinister purpose.†   (source)
  • The only thing that even remotely reflected Don's taste in their bedroom, in fact, was a large Moroccan tapestry depicting various biblical tableaus.†   (source)
  • The quite remarkable thing about this cave is that there are depictions of all sorts of goddesses here.†   (source)
  • He patted the pale leather of the horse's saddle, emblazoned with a crest of arms that depicted a water serpent rising out of a lake in a series of coils.†   (source)
  • Are you familiar with the person depicted in those photographs?†   (source)
  • Then they dissolved their kick line and formed a star, clearly depicted in the high-angle shot on the screen above them, and the footlights painted them solid red.†   (source)
  • We walked through dingy halls, past a huge picture of the scowling ayatollah, and countless posters depicting the glories of war.†   (source)
  • The artist had depicted him with pale cat's eyes that shone like a pair of gemstones against his dark, handsome features.†   (source)
  • There have been many Southerners in the job before, of course, but it was a little odd, being the offspring of poor, white Southerners, working for the newspaper that had been so unpopular among my people for its often unflattering depictions of them.†   (source)
  • Patients created the script, which depicted a truck driver and a soldier romancing several female victims.†   (source)
  • As the road worsened, the laminated 3D card depicting the great black-shrouded cube, the Kaaba of Mecca, that hung from the Toyota's rearview mirror, repeatedly smacked the windshield with the fervency of prayer.†   (source)
  • When it did spring into the nation's consciousness on that Sunday morning, the photograph fused with the accumulated myth, and seemed to depict a final triumph in the very teeth of battle.†   (source)
  • The movie depicts their damaged relationship, how Lorenzo never felt loved by his father.†   (source)
  • The events depicted in No Easy Day are based on my own memory.†   (source)
  • "It's to the east of the lands depicted," John said.†   (source)
  • Chalice made from silver, Dutch, 16th century Plaque depicting Holy Trinity, Italian mid-15th century Blue and white earthenware bowl, early 17th century That bowl's really nice, I find myself thinking in sudden interest, and wonder how much it is.†   (source)
  • I have accurately described your individual situations and accurately depicted the inferiority of your superiors.†   (source)
  • It is a vivid depiction of a group living in peace with its diversity, yet not exploring it.†   (source)
  • The maps depicted Sounis and the islands off the coast.†   (source)
  • Kessell recognized the area depicted as a valley he had passed a short distance down the trail when Eldulac, Dendybar the Mottled, and the others had left him to die.†   (source)
  • His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel.†   (source)
  • It was a great and unusual storm, as he has depicted it.†   (source)
  • Not in the God depicted in the Judeo-Christian Bible, but I do believe that nature's essence is a spirit that—†   (source)
  • To Booth, the map is much more than a detailed depiction of contours and boundaries.†   (source)
  • At the edge of the maps the scrolled mantling depicts ferocious slipper-footed elephants, a white queen offering a necklace to natives who carry tusks and a conch, a Moorish king who stands amidst the power of books and armour.†   (source)
  • The depicted acts were crudely staged, but seemed actual enough, and the style of the photography, if this could be said, was documentary, almost clinical, as though the overexposed frames were meant for some textbook of human coitus.†   (source)
  • The faces were blacked out because it was haram to depict humans or animals, God's creations, and hang them on a wall.†   (source)
  • The green neon sign outside ingeniously depicted the face of an oscilloscope tube, over which flowed an ever-changing dance of Lissajous figures.†   (source)
  • These stamps depicted local scenes and local things; there was one called "Arab Dhow."†   (source)
  • Communication was practically impossible, J and Jan realized bitterly that getting in touch with an alien race was not so easy as it was so often depicted in fiction.†   (source)
  • That question, I knew, was a part of the answer to the terrible sense of distance and removal that I felt from all the persons depicted on the playing cards.†   (source)
  • Bright pearls he saw rising from the deep, quiet bubbles of air floating on the reflecting surface, the blue of the sky being depicted in it.†   (source)
  • As he goes, lights come up and a screen is lowered depicting Hampton Court.†   (source)
  • If there is a lesson from the lives of the men John Kennedy depicts in this book, if there is a lesson from his life and from his death, it is that in this world of ours none of us can afford to be lookers-on, the critics standing on the sidelines.†   (source)
  • Gods are almost always depicted as nude, because we are flawless beings.†   (source)
  • But why, Simon has asked himself, was the soul depicted as unconscious?†   (source)
  • And it clearly depicts George Washington being transformed into a god.†   (source)
  • I will make a beautiful tapestry depicting your death.†   (source)
  • My tapestries depicted the gods in rather unflattering ways, you see.†   (source)
  • Once again it became usual for works of art to depict the nude.†   (source)
  • Celaena left the window, but stopped before the tapestry and its depiction of Queen Elena.†   (source)
  • He was holding a photocopy of an ancient schematic diagram, which depicted a rudimentary machine.†   (source)
  • The diagram itself depicted a long U with forty-six names inscribed around its periphery.†   (source)
  • The mind-boggling collage above her appeared to depict the celestial sky.†   (source)
  • A second sarcophagus had been placed beside the woman, depicting a man.†   (source)
  • The hall was lined with eight pairs of statues—all depicting the goddess Minerva.†   (source)
  • A contest for kids to carve a gargoyle that depicted the face of evil.†   (source)
  • Mercury: as depicted by its most ancient alchemical symbol.†   (source)
  • The tiny section depicting the subbasement was marked with an X to show the location of SBB13.†   (source)
  • They are depicted with animal heads to show that they exist in two different worlds at once.†   (source)
  • Inked in red, it depicted an upraised hand wrapped with a slender cord.†   (source)
  • One depicted Eragon, one depicted Roran, and both labeled them traitors to the Crown.†   (source)
  • So all of those women depicted on the stones...†   (source)
  • It's just so bothersome because it's the most shallow, base depiction of the female experience.†   (source)
  • It was a stylized depiction of the Medusa, from Greek myth.†   (source)
  • Colorful murals depicting the gods covered the walls.†   (source)
  • The demon was depicted smashing the skull of an elf with a black rod, its symbol.†   (source)
  • The fairth depicted Arya's head and shoulders against a dark, indistinct background.†   (source)
  • Are there any lights there that weren't depicted in this photograph?†   (source)
  • I imagine you're not surprised that Hollywood is depicting you for the fourth time.†   (source)
  • I don't have a lot at stake in how you depict me.†   (source)
  • To depict it merely as combat would be a great mistake.†   (source)
  • Editorial illustrations depicting the assassination of President Lincoln†   (source)
  • "And what about them?" asked Mina, turning to a page depicting Mum and Bellagrog.†   (source)
  • They've always been depicted in their great art, the great silks.†   (source)
  • The area outside of the cave, as depicted in exhibit five, for about fifteen minutes?†   (source)
  • The map of the United States, by contrast, would depict a healthy nation speckled with disease.†   (source)
  • Do you know to this day who that depicted?†   (source)
  • I spread them before me and I came across the one depicting Eric.†   (source)
  • It was the card depicting my brother Bleys.†   (source)
  • As they walked, he thought about the fax in his jacket pocket, still unable to believe the image it depicted.†   (source)
  • It was coming — as the Prime Minister had known at the first cough — from the froglike little man wearing a long silver wig who was depicted in a small, dirty oil painting in the far corner of the room.†   (source)
  • They hurried along the corridor to the place Dobby had described to Harry, a stretch of blank wall opposite an enormous tapestry depicting Barnabas the Barmy's foolish attempt to train trolls for the ballet.†   (source)
  • Praised Fulvia for what is, in fact, a really good idea, and cleared the way to continue her own on-air depiction of the Mockingjay.†   (source)
  • Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four-color poster titled "Himalayan Trilogy," depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse-the planet's highest, second highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively Superimposed against the images of these peaks, the poster showed a grinning, bearded man in full alpine regalia.†   (source)
  • And there is often a sense of transcendent claustrophobia, of a shortening horizon, and always a sense of struggle against the tyranny of circumstance—often depicted as a never named sinister male figure who looms.†   (source)
  • Do we have to accept the values of a three-thousand-year-old blood culture as depicted in the Homeric epics?†   (source)
  • The map depicted the southern half of Alagaesia, but unlike Eragon's, it showed the entire Beor Mountain range in detail.†   (source)
  • What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture—for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden.†   (source)
  • This would, bien sib-, be most effectively depicted by a judicious scattering of topless models in the background.†   (source)
  • So as the little girl began to tell her stories of heaven, then depict them first in drawings, then paintings, her mother knew she couldn't have heard these things from another person.†   (source)
  • The last one depicts a gray-and-silver figure, quite like a ghost, and the crown on his brow bleeds crimson.†   (source)
  • The reluctance to help Central Americans was depicted by Raymundo Ramos Vasquez, director of Comite de Derechos Humanos, Grupo 5 de Febrero, a human rights group in Nuevo Laredo, and Marco Antonio Valdez, a resident.†   (source)
  • Sneering up at them from the floor was the image of a skeleton-an intricately detailed, marble mosaic depicting "death in flight."†   (source)
  • Would you be Jon, then?" he inquired in a lilting New Zealand accent, glancing at a sheet of photocopied passport photos depicting Rob Hall's clients.†   (source)
  • That Holmes would use an alias seemed beyond doubt, so Geyer brought along his photographs, even a depiction of the children's distinctive "flat-top" trunk.†   (source)
  • In art, a painting could depict an extremely luxurious lifestyle, with a little skull painted in one corner.†   (source)
  • The relief was elliptical, about three feet long, and carved with a rudimentary face-a depiction of the West Wind as an angel-like countenance.†   (source)
  • The massive orb protruding from the face of the pyramid was carved in basso-relievo and depicted all kinds of heavenly bodies—constellations, signs of the zodiac, comets, stars, and planets.†   (source)
  • For the depiction of Enrique's life in North Carolina with Lourdes between 2000 and 2005, I spoke with Enrique, a fellow painter and friend, Enrique's boss, Lourdes, her boyfriend, the boyfriend's son, the boyfriend's brother, Lourdes's daughter Diana, and her sister Mirian.†   (source)
  • I showed up complete with my books in Persian, a doll depicting a villager weaving a Persian rug, several Persian miniatures, and some stuffed grape leaves, courtesy of my mother.†   (source)
  • Each sculpture depicted a dwarf king crowned and sitting on a throne; their sightless eyes gazed sternly into the distance, their lined faces set in fierce expressions.†   (source)
  • Besides, he admits in a famous essay on the crafting of the novel that hereally has no knowledge of nineteenth-century lovemaking, and in depicting sex between a Victorian man and woman what he's really writing is "science fiction.†   (source)
  • Upon landing, Columbus was to thrust his sword into the ground and claim the New World for Spain, while his men assumed positions that mimicked those depicted on a two-cent postage stamp commemorating Columbus's discovery.†   (source)
  • In the rear of the nave, rendered even more insignificant than usual by his proximity to the giant painting of "The Call of the Twelve," pudgy Harold Crosby sat diminished by the depiction of Jesus appointing his disciples; all eyes rarely feasted on fat Harold Crosby, who was not grotesque enough to be teased—or even noticed—but who was enough of a slob to be rejected whenever he caused the slightest attention to be drawn to himself.†   (source)
  • As daylight flooded the cavern, Arachne's tapestries along the walls crumbled to dust, which Annabeth could hardly bear to watch—especially the tapestry depicting her and Percy.†   (source)
  • From one to the next, they seemed to depict an America in which corruption and cruelty lounged on the couch; in which justice was a beggar and kindness a fool; in which loyalties were fashioned from paper, and self-interest was fashioned from steel.†   (source)
  • At the end of the hallway rested two colossal black doors, accented by shimmering silver lines that depicted a seven-pointed crown that spanned both sides.†   (source)
  • And the ceiling depicted the earth.†   (source)
  • Though brilliantly rendered, the statue depicted St. Teresa on her back in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm.†   (source)
  • Painted at Idlehour in the month of August, it depicted his sister at the dining room table before a plate of peaches.†   (source)
  • The knights were depicted wearing full armor, shields, and swords, and the tombs gave Langdon the uneasy sensation that someone had snuck in and poured plaster over the knights while they were sleeping.†   (source)
  • If one of these holograms depicts a car, for example, and the hologram is fragmented, we will see a picture of the whole car even though we only have the part of the hologram that showed the bumper.†   (source)
  • The banner depicted the Christian "fish" modified with four little feet-a tribute, Aaronian claimed, to the African lungfishes ' evolution onto dry land.†   (source)
  • Then rising from his chair, he approached the engravings, which upon closer inspection depicted three phases of a foxhunt: "The Scent,"†   (source)
  • Not only did Saunière have a personal passion for relics relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Saunière had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth—labrys axes from the priestesses' oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.†   (source)
  • Ibsen depicts this in Peer Gynt.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a blue paramedic's jumpsuit that zipped up the front and was adorned with cloth badges that apparently depicted his numerous qualifications.†   (source)
  • Quickly, the Count returned to the wall with the etchings and counted two panels beyond the depiction of "The Chase."†   (source)
  • Carlo had, for some unknown reason, only moments before the blast, left his mother's side and ventured into a protected alcove to ponder a tapestry depicting the story of St. Francis.†   (source)
  • Flags of the fifty states hung above the quire, which was ornately appointed with several carved reredos depicting biblical events.†   (source)
  • As the Count approached one of the two empty chairs that faced the desk, he noted that hanging above the burgundy chaise was a lovely series of hand-tinted engravings depicting hunting scenes in the English style.†   (source)
  • She paused before a large canvas depicting the Three Graces, whose nude bodies were spectacularly rendered in vivid colors.†   (source)
  • I tell you that not only will every European child of the twentieth century know the melodies of The Nutcracker, they will imagine their Christmas just as it is depicted in the ballet; and on the Christmas Eves of their dotage, Tchaikovsky's tree will grow from the floor of their memories until they are gazing up in wonder once again.†   (source)
  • The medallion depicted a frightening cloaked figure holding a scythe and kneeling beside an hourglass.†   (source)
  • Langdon said, "This Rotunda was once dominated by a massive sculpture of a bare-chested George Washington ....depicted as a god.†   (source)
  • "As you may know," Langdon said, sounding excited, "Melencolia I depicts mankind's struggle to comprehend the Ancient Mysteries.†   (source)
  • From that moment on, artists and sculptors, fearing reprisals if they were not true to the Gospels, began depicting Moses with horns.†   (source)
  • It was believed to be the exact knife used by Abraham at the Akedah—the near sacrifice of his son Isaac on Mount Moriah—as depicted in Genesis.†   (source)
  • The photo depicted a handsome blond gentleman wearing a blue blazer, a necktie, and a satin pocket square.†   (source)
  • Well, I looked at it earlier, and, in simple terms, I see that this grid is a picture ....depicting heaven and earth.†   (source)
  • She motioned to a stained-glass window depicting the familiar image of the "Luminous Jesus," that of Christ with rays of light flowing from his head and hands.†   (source)
  • Located at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Thirteenth Street, the plaza's vast surface of inlaid stone depicts the streets of Washington as they were originally envisioned by Pierre L'Enfant.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, the carving depicted the number 1514, followed by an unusual stylization of the letters A and D. "This date," Katherine was saying, sounding suddenly hopeful, "maybe it's the link we're missing?†   (source)
  • The slide was a famous mural depicting George Washington dressed in full Masonic regalia standing before an odd-looking contraption—a giant wooden tripod that supported a rope-and-pulley system from which was suspended a massive block of stone.†   (source)
  • A new slide appeared—a black-and-white interior shot, depicting a massive vaulted ballroom, furnished with animal skeletons, scientific display cases, glass jars with biological samples, archaeological artifacts, and plaster casts of prehistoric reptiles.†   (source)
  • Depicted as Zeus.†   (source)
  • What you see here is a simplified depiction of a particular DNA sequence in Tris's genetic material," he says.†   (source)
  • "Swan ships," the great vessels from the Summer Isles were called in the Seven Kingdoms, for their billowing white sails and for their figureheads, most of which depicted birds.†   (source)
  • One cartoon from the era depicted a wealthy couple standing on a roadside next to its dearly departed vehicle.†   (source)
  • Two floodlights converged on the high green metal gate beneath huge panels depicting brightly coloured birds; the gate was closed.†   (source)
  • David retrieved two posters from his desk: one was a Vermeer of a girl reading a letter; the other was a Rembrandt depicting Abraham's sacrifice of his son, Isaac.†   (source)
  • While careful to say that no single factor can explain each country's violence, he tries to depict the essential settings of the slaughters — that is, the lives of the peasant majorities.†   (source)
  • Higher up, near where the old fishing nets drooped down from the rafters, the surface of the sea had been depicted.†   (source)
  • He pressed another button beneath the table, and the wall panels slid back to reveal an enormous screen depicting a score of separate images from around the Workshop.†   (source)
  • It is forbidden to publish child pornography and the depiction of certain violent sexual acts, regardless of how artistic the originator believes the depiction to be.†   (source)
  • With black-and-white photographs along the wall that depicted life in the Outer Banks during the 1920s and a long shelf of thumbed-through books, this had always been her favorite room in the Inn.†   (source)
  • And yet here, backlit by the full moon as it is, the sound of my daughter's voice swirling through the rotunda, so clear, and crisp and young, this multicolored window does not depict a rose at all.†   (source)
  • The walls were smooth stone, lined with tapestries that depicted various glorious scenes from Shadowhunter history.†   (source)
  • Intact, the building would have been one of the largest on the island, and certainly one of the most ornate, for among the square blocks of stone that had formed the walls, Eragon spotted dozens of fluted pillars, as well as carved panels depicting vines and flowers, and a whole host of statues, most of which were missing some combination of body parts, as if they too had participated in the battle.†   (source)
  • In their absence, the dwarves had carved a profusion of statues, many depicting monsters and deities locked in epic battles.†   (source)
  • It resembled the magnificent one depicted in the brochure, but the bronze monsignor who was the centerpiece leaned precariously forward.†   (source)
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