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  • In the daylight it was obviously fake, a mock up building with nothing but plaster walls behind the broken plastic windows, brown, crumbly rust made of plaster-cast on the chairs, cracks in the wooden terrace made by paint and power tools.

    The Cold Pools « A Fly in Amber 2009

  • The exquisite aesthete was smitten with her plaster-cast palm trees, artful rugs by Marion Dorn, and whimsical ornamentation.

    Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc 2010

  • And I always find it fun to reproduce those plaster-cast surfaces — often with single lines of Mathematica code, usually centered on the function ParametricPlot3D.

    Wolfram Blog : 2008 : May 2008

  • And I always find it fun to reproduce those plaster-cast surfaces — often with single lines of Mathematica code, usually centered on the function ParametricPlot3D.

    Wolfram Blog : Differential Geometry Carved in Stone 2008

  • Soon afterward Ingrid walks out on him as he wears a plaster-cast.

    The Amnesiac-Sam Taylor « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

  • There's also a life-size, walk-through diorama of the St. Clair Cave in Jamaica, with its plaster-cast hanging bats, insects and stalagmites based on ROM scientists' work at the site.

    The Keeper of Curiosities Daniel Grant 2010

  • THE ENTIRE FRONT yard of the dilapidated house was a solid block of cement over which a collection of plaster-cast animals stalked.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • THE ENTIRE FRONT yard of the dilapidated house was a solid block of cement over which a collection of plaster-cast animals stalked.

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • I have ventured to use as a frontispiece a reproduction from a plaster-cast in the Ashmolean Museum, taken from an ivory diptych preserved in the Bibliotheca Quiriniana at Brescia, which represents Narius Manlius Boethius, the father of the philosopher.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

  • Dambergeac ruled; and facing the windows, on a wooden pedestal, stood a plaster-cast of the ‘Roi des Français.’

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

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