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Meanings of waxen mask in English
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Usage of waxen mask in English
1
The thin, waxen mask of assumed kindness has melted from her face!
2
The waxen mask of the Church hides the inner soul of the man.
3
The waxen mask was life-like, the attitude effective, and the cell excellently arranged.
4
The waxen mask of Italian smoothness fits him like a glove.
5
Her fine eyes blazed, but otherwise her face might have been a waxen mask.
6
All the life and expression had gone out of his face; it was like a waxen mask.
7
Then he recalled Poppæa; and that most famous Poppæa also seemed to him soulless, a waxen mask.
8
Was not the perfect waxen mask of the first Napoleon shivered in that terrible abdication-night at Fontainebleau?
9
His face was a waxen mask.
10
The waxen mask, supported on the arm of the chair, remained motionless and gazed with gloomy eyes into space.
11
He knelt on the prostrate form as he worked, and the Frenchman's face showed like a waxen mask on the ground.
12
I saw Alec no more; I would remember him as he was in life, not the stiffened waxen mask of my beloved.
13
To a careful observer the general impression given by this face was such as is left by the sudden sight of a waxen mask.
14
He looked back at the face turned upward like a waxen mask and finally saw that the woman on the bed was not his mother.
15
His face was black, and resembled those waxen masks kept in lararia.
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