Inscription for a bas-relief in wax of Benedict the— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
As they are in bas-relief, too, they are feelable, and that is a material circumstance to her.— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
Before us went the plumed hearse, a stately affair, with a bas-relief of funereal figures upon its sides.— Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
I have an old bas-relief on the walls which I would like you to see, -- you, especially, Dr. Dean!— Ziska
I saw upon a snuffer-stand in bas-relief, "A heart, a cross under it, and roses under both."— George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God

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