"Papier-mache" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was young, tall, dark-skinned, with a black, pointed beard. He wore his national costume and over it many necklaces of strange stones, and of jewels more strange. He sat on a papier-mache throne with gilded elephants for supports, and in his hand held a crystal globe. His head was all but hidden in an enormous silken turban on which hung a single pearl. Jimmie made up his mind that if the prince was no more on the level than ...
— Somewhere in France • Richard Harding Davis
... the universe. The Virgin's feet were poised on clouds, and beneath them peeped the heads of winged cherubs. Then the right-hand altar, used for the masses for the dead, was surmounted by a crucifix of painted papier-mache—a pendant, as it were, to the Virgin's effigy. The figure of Christ, as large as a child of ten years old, showed Him in all the horror of His death-throes, with head thrown back, ribs projecting, abdomen hollowed in, and limbs distorted and splashed with blood. There ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... Panelling (oak) Papier-mache Work Passe, C. de Paxton, Sir Joseph Penshurst Place Pergolesi Perkins, Mr. C. translator of "Kunst im Hause" Persian Designs Pianoforte, the Picau, French carver Pietra-dura introduced Pinder, Sir Paul, house of Pollen, Mr. J. Hungerford, references to Portuguese Work Prie ...
— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield
... screen behind the witches appeared a map of the Suez Canal, and then a papier-mache model of the nose of a sub, and a dockside shanty, a gray pall ...
— Prologue to an Analogue • Leigh Richmond
... had consented—or offered—to help finance the Red Cross crusade. To achieve this was worthy of the Irish-Italian's talents. But the little dining room was littered with samples of the travellers' goods: clothing for repatriated refugees, hospital supplies; papier-mache splints, and even legs; shoes, stockings, medicines; soup-tablets, and chocolates. The O'Farrells might be doing evil, but good would apparently come from it for many. I could hardly advise the Becketts against giving money, even though I suspected that most of it would stick to O'Farrell's ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
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