Use "effigies" in a sentence
1. With the sky still aglow at 11 p. m. on Midsummer Eve, Danes build bonfires along the shore to burn effigies of witches, banishing evil spirits from the land.
2. Brasses, MONUMENTAL, a species of engraved sepulchral memorials which in the early part of the 13th century began to take the place of tombs and effigies carved in stone
3. Quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissime describuntur, sed et per effigies Adjunctis latinis germanicisque appellationibu ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint
4. Georgii Agricolae De re metallica libri XII : quibus officia, instrumenta, machinæ, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies suis locis insertas Adjunctis Latinis Germanicisq́
5. Interesting features include the woodwork of the screen, the 15th-century font, Elizabethan altar rails, Jacobean pulpit, and an early 17th-century monument to a man and his wife (recumbent effigies on a tomb-chest).
6. Some Kuman effigies were soaked in Nam Man Phrai, a kind of oil extracted by burning a candle close to the chin of a dead child or a person who died in violent circumstances or an unnatural death.
7. De re metallica libri XII.: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinæ, ac omnia denique ad metallicam spectantia, non modò luculentissimè describuntur; sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, Adjunctis latinis, germanicisq́ue appellationibus, ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clariùs tradi non possint.
8. This group includes the Flying Apsara (Hiten 飛天), the Celestial Maidens (Tennyo 天女), and the Bosatsu on Clouds (Unchuu Kuyou Bosatsu 雲中供養菩薩).Famous effigies of the latter, from the 11th century, can be found at Byōdōin Temple 平等院
9. There are pebbles from special rivers, seeds, nuts and dried fruits from distant jungles, tiny wooden effigies, carved bone figures to keep away evil, Buckbeans to nail over house-doors to keep off the evil eye, charms to ward off or provoke spells -- just about everything except aspirin or sticking-plaster.
10. On his right side of the soul figure is an incomplete, easily carved nude figure without the head and legs, but represented only with the breast and enlarged hips and two of such effigies are hung, on the left side, a full figure of a man with his head upside down, but basically carved with an Avowen intention to highlight the hands is hung.
11. On his right side of the soul figure is an incomplete, easily carved nude figure without the head and legs, but represented only with the breast and enlarged hips and two of such effigies are hung, on the left side, a full figure of a man with his head upside down, but basically carved with an Avowen intention to highlight the hands is hung.