whole-length
Example Sentences
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It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knightley’s, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
The figure, which was whole-length, and of the size of life, was painted; and might be of the fourteenth century.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
There is a small whole-length in the frontispiece of Vertumnus, a poem on that garden.
From Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
To the pillars that support the same arches, are attached whole-length figures, in high relief, of less than the natural size.
From Architectural Antiquities of Normandy by Cotman, John Sell
A whole-length picture of the governor was hung up in the working-rooms of the house.
