Rosy-cheeked angels

Usage examples of cherubs.

In the middle of the snowy white damask cloth stood a centrepiece of gilded silver, consisting of two cherubs holding up a great dish on which reclined a pair of lovers in classical dress.

The other was thrust into a nanomanipulator, and it was made obvious, through glorious overuse of radiant tromp l'oeil, that the atom-humping cherubs were all dancing to his tune, naiads to the Engineer's Neptune.

She ran down the helical gauntlet of plaster cherubs, muses, and Trojans, across the lobby where a couple of bleary-eyed apprentice ractors were cleaning up the debris from this evening's live performance, and out the front doors.

The beauty, the power, the persuasive sense of motion in the figure of the Madonna, which seemed divinely upborne,--the loveliness of the infant cherubs, the group of the Apostles solemnly attesting the mysterious event,--were singularly and inimitably impressive, full of aspiration and faith, compelling the serious recognition of the sacredness and greatness of the Christian mystery.

So far he'd seen or heard no other intelligent beings save his two cherubs, although oc- 96 THE RIVER OF DANCING GODS casionally in the distance, either from the river or from across the plains, he could hear the sounds of humans calling or yelling or doing something or other.

The cherubs were merely a small nuisance, but they'd already shown how impotent he was against such as they.