Half Relief

Word HALF RELIEF
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The word "half-relief" in example sentences

All round the circumference of each bowl were figures in half-relief, representing a woman dancing. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

Some unseen hand drew a blind over the great window and an eerie green-and-golden light began to play from one end of the room, throwing the dancers into half-relief and deepening the mystery. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

The whole piece reposed upon a base of ebony, properly proportioned, but with a projecting cornice, upon which I introduced four golden figures in rather more than half-relief. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Everyone had been at stretch, till the half-relief of borrowed time. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

On the left face of the column, partly turned toward us, was a figure in half-relief. ❋ Norton, Andre (1970)

The Barrocco museum of Rome has a very lifelike replica [9] of this type in half-relief. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)

Upon this I want you to represent a God the Father in half-relief, and in the middle to set that magnificent big diamond, which you remember, together with several other gems of the greatest value. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

One of them, in the middle, was in full relief, the other two in half-relief. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

The first of these was in somewhat more than half-relief, lifting one hand to support the cornice, and holding a thick club in the other; his face was fiery and menacing, instilling fear into the beholders. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

All round the circumference of each bowl were figures in half-relief, representing ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)

It seemed to him as if a spirit hostile and evil had threatened him from beneath those shining eyes; and he was amused to experience, for all his interest, a sense of half-relief when the four beautiful wings hurtled crisply and the creature darted away. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

This Lady's sanctuary, where she is still "enchanting" in her "eagle in half-relief," stands out prominently on the hill above the town of Taal, plainly visible from Balayan Bay. ❋ Jos�� Rizal (1878)

And they were great brass-founders, surely, who at that early day modelled and cast the tombs of the Bishops Evrard and Geoffrey, vast plates of massive black bronze in half-relief, like abstract thoughts of those grand old prelatic persons. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

In half-relief at not being clapped in handcuffs for aiding and abetting an imaginary intruder, Bill trudges back to his wife. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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