Sentence Examples

1. It was thus a terrible thing for this lady to hear the painter speak of his desire to portray even his young bride.
2. But he, the painter, took glory in his work, which went on from hour to hour, and from day to day.
3. I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of Æneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.
4. But at length, as the labor drew nearer to its conclusion, there were admitted none into the turret for the painter had grown wild with the ardor of his work, and turned his eyes from canvas merely, even to regard the countenance of his wife.
5. The building had a glow, a new paint job probably, she had seen job adverts for painter.
6. And in sooth some who beheld the portrait spoke of its resemblance in low words, as of a mighty marvel, and a proof not less of the power of the painter than of his deep love for her whom he depicted so surpassingly well.
7. Here is the news of the village La Berrueca has married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might turn up.
8. About that time, the local mayor offered up an artist-in-residence position for an indigenous painter.
9. And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter.
10. It had the effect, however, of bringing out a translation undertaken and executed in a very different spirit, that of Charles Jervas, the portrait painter, and friend of Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Gay.