Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 4, 2025
"Come, sir!" said Rodin, with a horrid smile; "this is a natural waxwork exhibition, that is all. My calmness proves my innocence and we had best come at once to business. I have an appointment at two o'clock. So let us carry down this casket." He advanced towards the marble slab.
The lamp at her feet painted the tensely poised young body and bloodless face with quaint, stagey shadows. Victor's glance ranged the cheerless room. "I think you understand me," he said. She might have been a waxwork dummy out of Madame Tussaud's. A white blaze of madness transfigured Victor's countenance. He took one step toward Sofia.
Such a ducky little mouth! Such blue eyes blue as the bluebells in the cemet'ry. She's as pretty as a waxwork, she really is, and any woman in the world might be proud to nurse her." Oliver's husband came downstairs.
Our fathers talked of their last journey to London, their visit to the Tower, to Westminster Abbey, the Monument, Madame Tussauds; how they mistook the waxwork policeman for a real member of the force; how they shuddered in the Chamber of Horrors; how they travelled on the new Underground Railway; and saw the wonders of the Crystal Palace, especially on fireworks night.
From a music-hall illusionist, who came to grief during a South American tour, they acquired the oriental waxwork figure which subsequently mystified so many thousands of dupes. It was the work of a famous French artist in wax, and had originally been made to represent the Pharaoh, Rameses II., for a Paris exhibition.
This is about as much like our dear, old, real Tommy Atkins as Kipling's portrait was. Such a likeness does no honour to the man. It is simply lifeless. Whatever Tommy is, he is a man; not a round-eyed, pink-cheeked waxwork stuffed with bran. The truth is coarse and strong, but he can stand having the truth told about him. They simply ignore it. This, no doubt, is why civilians fight shy of them.
"I think that waxwork butler, and the 'feetmen, as Rosamond calls them, will arrange our lives for us, and we'll be simply under orders." "What an exciting experience," exclaimed Patty; "to think of us three American girls, alone except for the servants, in a gorgeous old French Chateau! I feel as if I must do something to live up to my privileges."
Melcombe indeed! She's fat, she's three times too old for me." "Why did you write it, then?" persisted Valentine. "I think this line, "'Lovely as waxwork is thy brow, "does you great credit. But what avails it! She is now another's. I got her wedding cards this morning. She is married to one Josiah Fothergill, and he lives in Warwick Square. "Six 'The Black Eye, a Study from Life."
The whole plant has a yellow hue, and the roots have a peculiar reddish colour, and very unlike those of the Ailanthus, which are white. CELASTRUS SCANDENS. Climbing Waxwork, or Bitter Sweet. North America, 1736. When planted in rich, moist soil, this soon forms an attractive mass of twisting and twining growths, with distinct glossy foliage in summer and brilliant scarlet fruit in autumn.
He looked like a figure out of a waxwork, with glassy clear meaningless eyes: he always spoke with a grin; he knew what you had for dinner the day before he met you, and what everybody had had for dinner for a century back almost.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking