whole-length
Example Sentences
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It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knightley’s, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Few vestiges remain of this structure; but some of its springing arches, rising from grotesque heads, are imperfectly visible; and two whole-length figures, coarsely executed, appear through the thick-woven ivy.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.
There is a small whole-length in the frontispiece of Vertumnus, a poem on that garden.
From Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Against the pillars that support these arches, were affixed whole-length figures, or cariatides, in alto-relievo.
From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Turner, Dawson
A whole-length picture of the governor was hung up in the working-rooms of the house.
