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Definition of effigy:

  • (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture);

Sentence Examples:

The effigy is of alabaster.

The effigy is clothed in mail.

Effigies burnt in the Midsummer fires.

Prominent loyalists were hung in effigy.

An effigy vase of the dark ware.

He asked gruffly, pointing at the effigies.

The effigy reclines on a high base.

His effigy was nailed to the gallows.

The walls are studded with their effigies.

Street rowdies had burned him in effigy.

The recumbent effigies in it are of considerable interest.

The recumbent effigy in bronze rests upon this.

It is a fine alabaster effigy with accompanying figures.

His residence was assailed and his effigy burnt.

There are similar small effigies of knights and courtiers.

Dangling from a rope he beheld his own effigy.

"One would have more success in pressing an alabaster effigy."

This effigy is remarkable for the anachronisms it shows.

The effigy, of alabaster, is headless and much weather-worn.

Asked the effigy, with the suspicion of a yawn.

Turn him round slowly like a hairdresser's waxen effigy.

No dross, no rust covers their effigy and inscription.

Stuffed effigies of soldiers were then stuck about the barracks.

You will see my simulacrum, a plastered effigy of me.

The white turbans of these effigies are ablaze with jewels.

Mobs burned Jay in effigy, and pelted Alexander Hamilton.

The effigy itself has been much praised, and deservedly.

It consisted of a gold medallion bearing the Sultan's effigy.

The effigies are in alabaster, and retain considerable traces of color.

Since kingly rule is at an end, why retain its effigy?

It is a recumbent effigy of bog-oak, covered with wire network.

Are we craven crows to be scared by such windy effigies?

Have I not under my sandals the effigies of conquered nations?

The effigies on the altar-tombs have been singularly preserved from mutilation.

The effigy is unfortunately headless and has lost its hands.

No one dared take the effigy away for fear of being implicated.

Beginning with the remarkable rood-screen, we find three ecclesiastical effigies.

His effigy rests upon it, with old and wrinkled face.

On an alabaster tomb are effigies of Jeremiah Ravens and his wife.

Effigies of two women in oriental costume stand on either side of it.

After the effigies comes that which would correspond to our hearse.

The others can do that, while you contrive your rough effigies.

One day these "middles" decided to hang their prefect in effigy.

Effigy fish and a decorated spoon (fragmentary) made of mussel shells.

Disappointed in this, the inquisitors proceeded to burn him in effigy.

The effigy is a good study of ecclesiastical dress of the period.

The effigy is the earliest of an English king in this country.

Several bright, crude effigies flaunted their crimson and blue in one aisle.

Louis his effigy was decorated with a halter round the neck.

An alabaster tomb, with effigies, remember Jeremiah Ravens and his wife.

What end these effigies were intended to serve remains an unsettled question.

Immediately afterward it was again hoisted over the effigy of an enormous shark!

The figure on the heather lay still as an effigy on a tomb.

As we have already stated, there is no special signification in crossed-legged effigies.

The figure on the heather lay still as an effigy upon a tomb.

In a few minutes I had gained a gate surmounted by stone effigies.

The other inscription and the effigy, it is feared, are irrevocably lost.

I have the diploma, and the medal bearing the effigy of Napoleon.

The same altar-tomb also contains the recumbent effigy of Ann his wife.

At its back is a Decorated recess, but the effigy has gone.

The recumbent effigies of the Judge and his lady are very fine.

She was standing before an effigy that bore a coronet; Betty beside her.

The effigy is of alabaster, and is surmounted by a beautiful sculptured canopy.

We shall be assailed in pamphlets and papers; caricatured, hooted, burned in effigy.

Daybreak disclosed hanging on a tree an effigy of the Stamp Officer Oliver.

It contains a fine altar-tomb of 1146, bearing the recumbent effigy of St.

Two dogs are at the feet of the effigy draped in flowing mantle.

She tapped the alabaster effigy of a recumbent lady with her parasol.

It is surmounted by the effigy of a pelican, a bird dear to Corpus.

Beneath was a low arch surmounting the tomb of a knight in effigy.

Oliver lived, they made a bonfire, and burnt the effigy before his door.

The effigy is a sort of trolley car, and this is the wire.

Then a smile, a grim effigy of merriment, dawned in his somber face.

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

The other effigies are lost, and this is partly covered by a pew.

The figure we give of this important effigy is different from any heretofore presented.

She took the showy effigy of a man, in place of the real man.

They buried my effigy, but smuggled me off in a vessel late at night.

His effigy, hanged on a miniature gallows, was afterwards paraded through the streets.

I'm sorry about the effigy, but I won't stand that kind of favoritism.

That night the village had a bonfire, and burned the Kaiser in effigy.

The dark figure loomed stern and still as the marble effigy of some crusader.

Two are effigy tail lugs one of which was riveted to the vessel rim.

He was pleased to have wrung one cry of anguish from this lovely effigy.

When strange dogs catch sight of the effigy they generally run away terrified.

They set fire to the effigy, which was hollow and filled with gunpowder.

He was hooted and mobbed in the streets, and hanged and burnt in effigy.

An effigy of the deceased is made, and stuck up on the roof of the house.

The monument is of marble and alabaster, and the three effigies of striking interest.

From the peculiarity of the robe being thrown back, this effigy is probably unique.

Out of sight of these effigies and paintings, however, the oppression was at once lightened.

Each rank has its insignia, sometimes human effigies, usually, but wrongly, called "idols."

She was like nothing so much as the effigy of Britannia on an English penny.

No miner ever leaves or enters the mine without prostrating himself before this dirty effigy.

With, I think, the slightest encouragement, the late millionaire would have been burned in effigy.

The lady, indeed, bore a very fair likeness to a reverend effigy in some idolatrous shrine.

His armed effigy surmounts the tomb, and the inscription says he died on St.

There are also effigy types in which the outline of the palette is in a life-form.

Then, with a flash and a bang, every vestige of the effigy has disappeared!

He hated their pagodas, and their hideous effigies of their ancestors, looking like dumb idols.