How To Use caryatid In A Sentence
- Their beauty and fitness are not those of the grand columns of the temple; they are the sculptures upon the frieze, the caryatides, or the graceful interlacings of vines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
- This spatial richness was supported by the increasing complexity of the decorative scheme, with the frieze above the first floor decorated with medallions beneath an attic storey supported on caryatids.
- Caryatids hold up the entrance to a barn and the former farmyard is littered with modern sculpture.
- Nor am I supporting any of the architecture (which, I also learn from Wikipedia, would then properly make me a telemon or atlas, the male version of a caryatid). I'm a caryatid!
- She entered the familiar vestibule, with its scarred stone caryatids and crumbling pillars, and walked down the short flight of iron-railed steps to the main chamber of Father's rooms.
- He then ran off in search of a vehicle, while Irving and I stood close up, like a pair of male caryatides, under the very narrow protection of a hall-door ledge, and thought, at last, that we were quite forgotten by my patron. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
- No marble caryatid was as sleek and lovely as her PowerBook. The Gift of the Magi: The Sequel
- The little room, extended in length, is decorated with a frieze which represents scenes with vintager Puttos, delimited by caryatids.
- “You are not offended, Frank, are you, with me, for making you meet two caryatides of the Parisian temple of pleasure?” Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
- But there is a pressure on these Italian soldiers, as if they were men caryatides, with a great weight on their heads, making their brain hard, asleep, stunned. Twilight in Italy
