Ballet position - sea barque

Usage examples of arabesque.

The passage let into a circular sanctorum, its albescent walls worked in intricate arabesques, its high vaulted ceiling held aloft by fluted alabaster columns.

The length of her middle finger, its thorax black, yellow-striped, its lower wings elongated into frilled arabesques like those of a festoon, deep yellow, charcoal black, with indigo eyespots, its upper wings a chiaroscuro of black and white stripes.

Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.

He wore the costume of the Patagonians on the frontiers, consisting of a splendid cloak, ornamented with scarlet arabesques, made of the skins of the guanaco, sewed together with ostrich tendons, and with the silky wool turned up on the edge.

Moorish, ogive windows full of night, gilt arabesque friezes dimly picked out of shadow by the flames in a single candelabrum.

Naked boy in the middle of the room twang a two-string ouad, trace an arabesque on the floor.

It consists of a horse-shoe arch, the face of which is ornamented with gilded glass mosaic, forming the entrance to a semi-circular recess beautifully adorned with arabesques and inscriptions, the top of the dome being a large white marble slab hollowed out in the form of a pecten shell.

Statues, vitraux, rosaces, arabesques, dentelures, chapiteaux, bas-reliefs, elle combine toutes ces imaginations selon le logarithme qui lui convient.

He turned toward his visitor that kingly countenance, with the sore, writhen mouth and the pale little eyes under the arabesque of lines on the brow.

The porcelain ballerina also thrusts her horizontal leg, frozen in its arabesque, into the cone of green light.

He poured more tea and gave Matern photographs to look at: in a stiff tutu stood Jenny doing an arabesque, like the porcelain ballerina except that her leg was all in one piece.

Uneasily I looked from Joel to Bart and found his admiring gaze again riveted on Melodic, who was in arabesque position, waiting for Jory to sweep her up in his arms.

But his hands rested on patterned arabesques, and he concentrated on the portation codes.

The duchess presented me with a snuff-box in pale tortoise-shell with arabesque incrustations in gold, and she invited us to dine with her on the morrow, promising to take us after dinner to the Convent of St.

She has edited the Arabesque anthologies and is a coeditor for the Sisters in Fantasy anthology series.