Significados de waxen figure en inglés

He stood looking thoughtfully at the waxen figure.

Another popular method was to fashion a waxen figure of the patient and prevail upon the disease demon to enter it.

He led her to a settee by the high oak fireplace, and there-white ,inanimateas a waxen figure-shefound Vera Fielding.

Jacqueline sat looking at him like a young sorceress engaged in sticking pins into the heart of a waxen figure of her enemy.

She stood as still as a waxen figure, if waxen figure could ever be true to the power of will which her pose betrayed.

An enemy might thus secure occult power over one; any indignity practised upon the waxen figure would result in like injury to its human prototype.

Each of us bowed in passing the little chapel near the door, which is a glass case, containing a waxen figure of the infant Jesus.

Readers of Thalaba (Southey) will remember the fine scene in which Khawla procures this plant to form part of the waxen figure of the Destroyer.

The presence of those curious, still, waxen figures which suggest so strangely death in life, seemed to surprise and affright him.

But quickly it dawned on my mind, that, instead of real, living Mormon wives, I had been looking on waxen figures, models for show windows!

'When the wise woman has told me who has bewitched Trilium, we will make a waxen figure and stick pins in it.'