 |
"Torso" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... room, and not very far from the portrait of the judge, there was a sketch of Nicolas Arabian's head, neck and shoulders. No collar or clothes were shown. Garstin had told Arabian flatly that he wasn't going to paint a magnificent torso like his concealed by infernal linen and serge, and Arabian had been quite willing that his neck and shoulders should be ...
— December Love • Robert Hichens
... which penetrates the universe lost none of its hold upon his imagination; and it inspired some of the greatest achievements of the Men and Women. It was under this impulse that he now, at some time during the early Italian years, completed the splendid torso of Saul. David's Vision of the Christ that is to be has as little apparent relation to the quiet pastoralism of the earlier stanzas as the Easter Vision to the common-sense reflections that preceded it. But while this Vision abruptly bursts ...
— Robert Browning • C. H. Herford
... halls where poets read their verses aloud, arenas for gladiators, and even theatres. Let us not forget that the Bull and the Farnese Hercules, now so greatly admired at Naples, and the masterpieces of the Vatican, the Torso at the Belvidere, and the Laocoon were found ...
— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier
... looked at the muscular torso, and his face expressed pity, regret, embarrassment, and, perhaps, a ...
— The New Book Of Martyrs • Georges Duhamel
... rather mysteriously to have shed that personality; become an awkward, ingratiating, rather too exuberant, ordinary man with a marked German accent. From time to time I found myself speculating uneasily on this phenomenon as I glanced down the table at his great torso, white waist-coated for the occasion. He was plainly "making up" to Nancy, and to Mrs. Ogilvy, who sat opposite him. On the whole, the atmosphere of our entertainment was rather electric. "Hilda" was chiefly responsible for this; ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill |
Words linked to "Torso" : rump, side, hind end, rear end, seat, serratus, prat, ass, stern, hip, body, nates, tooshie, fundament, tush, chest, loins, back, stomach, belly, waistline, keister, trunk, buttock, buns, arse, articulatio humeri, backside, organic structure, tail, hindquarters, cheek, love handle, middle, physical structure, waist, behind, posterior, serratus muscles, derriere, haunch, body part, venter, shoulder, spare tire, thorax, bum, midriff, pectus, paunch, abdomen, shoulder joint, can, dorsum, buttocks, diaphragm, midsection |
Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org
|
