"Plaque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and seeks the man carrying a portfolio. At his distance, together with the lighted objects he easily balances the important group on the other side of the centre. Indeed, with the attractiveness of the clock, vase, plaque, mantel and chest, his face would have added a grain too much, and this the artist happily avoided by covering ...
— Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures • Henry Rankin Poore
... in scorn as she applied herself vigorously to her plaque, where the inevitable girl with muff and umbrella was stumbling ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... Quincy Marr monument was erected on June 1, 1904, by the Marr Camp, Confederate Veterans, commemorating the first Confederate officer killed in the Civil War. The second monument was erected under the auspices of the Fairfax County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. On a bronze plaque on one side are listed those Fairfax Countians who gave their lives in World War I and on the other, a plaque listing those who gave their lives in World War II and ...
— The Fairfax County Courthouse • Ross D. Netherton
... bell,' said Edith calmly, putting her hand over the white china plaque that held in its centre ...
— A Woman Intervenes • Robert Barr
... on either side an angel bows half-smiling, half-weeping, while without stand two youths of tender age, slender and full of grace, but strong enough to bear the great garland of fruits with lovely and splendid gestures of confidence and expectancy. Before the tomb in the pavement is a plaque of marble also from the hand of Desiderio, and here Gregorio Marsuppini, Carlo's father, lies: other similar works of his you may find here and there in ...
— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton
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