statuary
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"Egypt and Rome, the Faces of Fayum", opening Wednesday at Rome's Ara Pacis museum, also includes mummies, masks, shrouds, jewellery, marble busts and statuary.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Along with furniture, clothing and religious statuary, kitchen utensils, Le Creuset pans and cigarette lighters are on offer.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
A year later and you’re still trying to cast me as anti-Noah when all I want is for Gary Oldman to get a bit of statuary for his phenomenal performance in “Slow Horses.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
It adorns an elaborate “Altar of Sin,” surrounded by classical statuary and shells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
So the Lords of the Eyrie planted grass and scattered statuary amidst low, flowering shrubs.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Poets and statuaries and painters give us an adorned imitation of the object, so skilfully treated that we receive it for a correct one.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
My Lord Dives's remains are in the family vault: the statuaries are cutting an inscription veraciously commemorating his virtues, and the sorrows of his heir, who is disposing of his goods.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Tho on other occasions we often find the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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