How To Use Burin In A Sentence
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He frequently spoiled his splendid point-work with the burin, and his reputation as an aquafortist depends, therefore, more on what he did than on how he did it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Since, Hollywood insiders claim Jolie has been 'bombarding' Depp with emails and 'buring up the phone lines' about her woes.
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On another occasion, at the same theatre, the prima donna was taken suddenly ill in the midst of a terzetto, in which Tamburini had the bass, and, while supporting her on the stage, this accomplished musician actually took the soprano in his falsetto, and performed the part of the indisposed lady in a manner which drew down universal applause.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
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A burin was a flaked rock tool with a chisel-like edge probably used to remove flesh from bone.
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Stone tools include delicately made blades, microburins, burins, scrapers, and adzes.
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None of them had noticed anything suspicious in regard to the theft of the burin.
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Stone tools of the tradition include triangular points made on flakes, racloirs, triangular bifacial handaxes, and burins and awls made on blades.
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Reproductive photography of this sort remains bound to its function as the artist's record, as the engraver's aide-memoire, and as the low-quality alternative to the burin.
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If you feel sad for buring it in your heart, then just smile and let it go.
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This is clear as soon as we reach the second chapter, in which the contrast drawn between lithography and fine burin engraving exposes aesthetic mythologies specific to each.
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When Bellori chose portraits for his Lives, by a still unidentified artist, he or his amanuensis decided to include such props as a book for Nicolas Poussin and a burin for Agostino Carracci.
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Tremendous physical force was required to push the metal burin into the flesh of the copper plate, digging out metal with metal, before ink flowed into the resulting grooves, and the plate was run through a press, and the image transferred onto wet paper.
The Art Thief
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If you feel sad for buring it in your heart, then just smile and let it go.
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[168] Qual Madama Sposa danzò molte danze al suono delli suoi Tamburini alla Romanesca e Spagnuola: report of Niccolò Gagnolo of Parma, who had accompanied the French ambassador to Ferrara.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
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Ravilious was an engraver; it is no wonder his brush takes on the character of a burin, or that he describes volumes with rows of parallel lines as engravers do.
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In the first section of this two-part exhibition, Brown's blunt strokes of dark pastel bristle at the edges of latent, embryonic forms and sweep across fields of grid-marked linen with the repetitive insistence of a burin cutting metal.
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At his first public showing in 1860, his prints were called laboured, soft, and flacid, more like dry-point etchings than burin work, and he was advised to adhere to the established rules of his art.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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When the blood was washed away, these are the marks left by the burin.
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These tools can be made on spans derived from burin blows or may occur on the ends of complete blades or blade segments.
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A fine burin was used to engrave the music on a copper plate, which was then etched with acid.
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There is a great deal of useful material here, such as how the Romans seem to have conducted an ‘amphibious assault ‘and the frequency that each type of warship (quinqueremes, biremes, liburinians, etc.) was found in the Roman fleets.’
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Early variants from the southernmost part feature long blades and woodworking tools such as burins.
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The graving tool, or burin, was of critical importance, for it enabled people to cut strips of fresh reindeer antler to manufacture specialized tools.
G. The Spread of Modern Humans in the Old World (100,000 to 12,000 Years Ago)
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An engraving is made by cutting lines in a metal plate with a sharp tool called a burin.
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By manipulating the plate with his left hand in harmony with the motions of the burin, the engraver can facilitate the direction of the lines, as well as steadying the plate.
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This will hold burins and small denticulate flints.
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But our perp didn't just happen to have a burin, he had to steal it.
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They may be beaten with the hammer, shaped by the chisel, or engraved by the burin; their surfaces may be either dead or polished; the variety of shades of which they are capable, and the brilliance of their reflections, are among the most valuable resources of the decorator, and the colouring principles they contain provide the painter and enameller with some of his richest and most solid tones.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
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He carried an engraving block and a burin in his pocket and would ask for work and produce required pictures on the spot.
Mexican lithographer Jose Guadalupe Posada: Past and present
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There is a great deal of useful material here, such as how the Romans seem to have conducted an ‘amphibious assault’ and the frequency that each type of warship (quinqueremes, biremes, liburinians, etc.) was found in the Roman fleets.
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They made entirely new types of tools; like spear throwers, antler straighteners, backed points, burins, shoulder points and borers.
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Stone tools include delicately made blades, microburins, burins, scrapers, and adzes.
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Lines are cut into a metal plate using a tool called burin or graver.
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Examples of some of the tools he used, such as brushes, pens, chalks, inks, needles, burins and handmade papers, will be on view.
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Three Trees of Rembrandt, black in shadow against the blaze of sunlight; and thou Rosy Cottager of Sir Joshua, -- thy roses hinted by the peppery burin of Bartolozzi; ye, too, of lower grades in nature, yet not unlovely nor unrenowned, Young Bull of Paulus Potter, and Sleeping Cat of Cornelius Visscher; welcome once more to my eyes!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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The knife or burin tells it where to go, and the same artist's drawings and prints can look quite different - the drawings freer, more timid, more shaky.
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As if all this weren't enough, the visitor-friendly show also offers wall-panel introductions to each segment in French, Spanish and English, and a small side gallery demonstrating the various techniques of copper-plate engraving -- etching, dry point, burin, aquatint -- and lithography.
In Paris, Goya's Engraved Visions
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They made entirely new types of tools, like spear throwers, antler straighteners, backed points, burins, shoulder points and borers.
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The champleve enamel differs from the cloisonné by the small cells intended to receive the enamel not being made in the Byzantine fashion by means of strips of flat gold wire soldered to the gold plate, but by being dug out of the plate with a burin.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Lines are cut into a metal plate using a tool called burin or graver.
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At times the essays appear to have been written with a burin.
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This will hold burins and small denticulate flints.
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The beryl crystals were presumably cut out of this rock with a sharp-pointed metal tool, perhaps an iron blade or burin.
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Seeing that in the Treatise on the Technique of Painting there was little said of copper-plate engraving, since it was enough at that time to describe the method of engraving silver with the burin, which is a square tool of iron, cut on the slant, with a sharp point, I shall use the occasion of this Life to say as much on that subject as I may consider to be sufficient.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
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“A burin probably helped engrave the models for the first pennies.”
The Wish Stealers
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He wields the knife much as the engraver guides his burin over the plate… Marsyas is… a martyr for art.
