wax-like

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Monsieur the King of Sicily seals his letters with yellow wax, like a king of France.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

It was a figure of yellow wax, about six inches high, clothed in a robe covered with golden stars also of wax, like the figure; and over this a royal mantle of the same material.

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre

The hornets make their walls, not of wax like the bees, but of a dry mass resembling porous grey paper.

From The Adventures of Maya the Bee by Guiterman, Arthur

Wax′en, made of wax, like wax, easily effaced.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Sara took no heed, but lay back, watching the dear youth--as white as wax, like one in a trance.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis