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Meanings of waxen image in English

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Usage of waxen image in English
1
I was obliged to look within, and to touch the waxen image there.
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
2
She lay there, with her eyes closed, like a waxen image.
The Captives
3
What do you suppose will happen to that waxen image on the Judgment Day, Polycarp?
Hugo: A Fantasia on Modern Themes
4
The "Real Robes" of the dead George give value to his waxen image!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841
5
At one corner was a startling policeman, standing in a doorway quite motionless, like a waxen image.
The History of Mr. Polly
6
At last the waxen image is again deposited in the church, and the same lugubrious chants echo anew.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
7
It was as if a waxen image had been laid out in the coffin, and strewed with innocent flowers.
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
8
Like a waxen image!
The Captives
9
After the mass the priest held out a small waxen image of the infant Jesus, and all approached and kissed it.
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
10
She passed between them, and as she went she stamped with her sandalled foot upon the waxen image and brake it.
The World's Desire
11
Even her eyelids had ceased to quiver, and the very pallor of her face seemed fixed like that of a waxen image.
The People of the Mist
12
They therefore had a waxen image of him made, which they resolved to surround with all the pomp and circumstances of royalty.
Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II
13
She looked like a waxen image, and her parents, who thought she was dead, had placed a palm leaf on her breast.
Thais
14
Such sicknesses they could cause by keeping a waxen image, and sticking pins or nails into it, or melting it before the fire.
The Book of Hallowe'en
15
He is a child, he is a German, he ought to be stuffed and put in a glass case like a waxen image.
Poor Relations
16
But he gave Rowland an odd sense of looking at a little waxen image, adjusted to perform certain gestures and emit certain sounds.
Roderick Hudson
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