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Though the No Stars half dime was a more faithful rendition of the cameo-like Liberty Seated design as implemented by Christian Gobrecht, objections were voiced about the “missing” stars.

Liberty Seated Half Dime, Stars, No Drapery 1838-1840 : Coin Guide 2009

The hood of her squirrel-skin parka was tossed back, revealing the cameo-like oval of her face outlined against her heavily-massed hair.

THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

The room is crowded with trinkets -- a clutch of Wedgwood's cameo-like jasperware on a tabletop, a vitrine filled with mouse figures, a selection of fans mounted on the wall.

Falls Church house is Victorian through and through 2010

The room is crowded with trinkets -- a clutch of Wedgwood's cameo-like jasperware on a tabletop, a vitrine filled with mouse figures, a selection of fans mounted on the wall.

Falls Church house is Victorian through and through 2010

Then, as he gazed even deeper, he glimpsed in first one pupil and then the other, the cameo-like, perfect reflection of his own strange and familiar face.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

Though the No Stars half dime was a more faithful rendition of the cameo-like Liberty Seated design as implemented by Christian Gobrecht, objections were voiced about the “missing” stars.

Liberty Seated Half Dime, Stars, No Drapery 1838-1840 : Coin Guide 2009

The hood of her squirrel-skin parka was tossed back, revealing the cameo-like oval of her face outlined against her heavily-massed hair.

THE RACE FOR NUMBER THREE 1993

Thus the left hip and left breast present (cameo-like) a layer different and higher than the one which forms the corresponding parts on the right side of the body.

The American Goliah Anonymous

Sully Prudhomme's _tours de force_ of philosophic poetry -- when he unfolds his ideas upon 'Justice' or 'Happiness', for instance, under the form of a debate where masterly resources of phrase and image are compelled to the service of a rigorous logic; or in the brief cameo-like pieces on 'Memory', 'Habit', 'Forms', and similar unpromising abstractions, most nearly paralleled in English by the quatrains of Mr. William Watson.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

She had inherited the fine, cameo-like profile of her mother, but her hair was fair and very abundant.

Virgilia or, out of the Lion's Mouth Felicia Buttz Clark