statuary
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Under that water, buildings, statuary, coins and royal personal effects came to rest, and waited to be found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Thankfully what was saved made a much longer list - including all the stained-glass windows, most of the statuary and artwork, and the holy relic known as the Crown of Thorns.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
In the last few years, Harvey turned to sculpting imaginary but mythic-seeming artifacts that exist as both 3-D printed statuary and glossy virtual models.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
You can use plants, statuary, feathers and even bones to channel the mood — or spirits — you seek.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
For a long time, I wandered aimlessly—past ruined parks, blasted statuary, vacant lots overgrown with weeds and collapsed apartment houses with rusted girders poking out of their sides like ribs.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Lush landscaping, gardens and statuaries fill out the grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2020
Now I have a shelf in my office where all the statuaries are.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018
This sterility is somewhat mysterious; for painters and statuaries were by no means a despised or an ill paid class.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Witness that color of her hair, so resembling my father, from whence she is called the golden Venus; and lastly, ever laughing, if you give any credit to the poets, or their followers the statuaries.
From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John
And painters and statuaries, too, used to pray to these graces, and ask them to put beautiful fancies into their minds, that they might be able to paint beautiful pictures, and carve beautiful statues.
From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Kingsley, Charles
