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  • His account of the statues, bustos, bronzes, manuscripts, and other exquisite remains of antiquity, which then perished, cannot be read by any lover of arts and learning without emotion.

    Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

  • The church within is all of black and white marble alternately; the roof blue and gold, with a profusion of silken banners hanging from it; and a cornice running above the principal arcade, composed entirely of bustos representing the whole series of sovereign pontiffs, from the first Bishop of Rome to Adrian the Fourth.

    Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891

  • She had never seen that Bold Bad Man (the splendour of whose mighty achievements must for ever remain tarnished by his blood-guiltiness in the matter of the King's Murther); but from descriptions of his person, for which she eagerly sought, and from bustos, pictures, and prints cut in brass, which she obtained from Bristol and elsewhere, she produced some surprising resemblances of him who was now the Greatest Man in England.

    The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

  • The church within is all of black and white marble alternately; the roof blue and gold, with a profusion of silken banners hanging from it; and a cornice running above the principal arcade, composed entirely of bustos representing the whole series of sovereign pontiffs, from the first Bishop of Rome to Adrian the Fourth.

    Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford 1801

  • [40] 'Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone:' the poet ridicules the wretched taste of carving large periwigs on bustos, of which there are several vile examples in the tombs at Westminster and elsewhere.

    The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716

  • Penes lanza misíles y bustos como campos minados Ann Coulter le prohíben una conferencia en Otawa por aconsejarle a una pañueluda que viaje en camello.

    NUEVA EUROPA- Nueva Eurabia Augusto 2010

  • Penes lanza misíles y bustos como campos minados Ann Coulter le prohíben una conferencia en Otawa por aconsejarle a una pañueluda que viaje en camello.

    NUEVA EUROPA- Nueva Eurabia Augusto 2010

  • Penes lanza misíles y bustos como campos minados Ann Coulter le prohíben una conferencia en Otawa por aconsejarle a una pañueluda que viaje en camello.

    NUEVA EUROPA- Nueva Eurabia Augusto 2010

  • Penes lanza misíles y bustos como campos minados Ann Coulter le prohíben una conferencia en Otawa por aconsejarle a una pañueluda que viaje en camello.

    NUEVA EUROPA- Nueva Eurabia Augusto 2010

  • (which hath been so richly decorated and painted by Mr. Kent), and then passed through several rooms, richly hung with tapestry and adorned with pictures and bustos, until they came to the King's great drawing-room, where that famous "Venus" by Titian is, and, amongst other masterpieces, the picture of "St. Francis adoring the infant Saviour," performed by Sir

    The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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