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n. (context legal English) (abbreviation of article English)

Usage examples of "art.".

He was willing to bet she would never offer to share it with him, which was fine with Art. He would make polite gestures of lust at her, whether or not she had the good manners to reciprocate, but in truth she aroused him not at all.

Fortunately they were a little too far off to be concerned with Art. He would bet that they meant trouble for someone, though.

Steve looked at Ilma and Art. They were silent within this cosmic shrine.

Eoin is a weapon-man among those who serve the lord Art. A brave man and a loyal warrior, Eoin.

The quick, bird-bright eyes stared blue at Cormac mac Art. And the gaunt old face with its lines from nostrils to the corners of his wide mouth was drawn with anguish and.

Never had Fedelm mac Conain had words of command from mac Art. Yet there was that about the grim young face, the way the words were spoken.

It goes along with all the conceits and fantastic unrest of the decorative art. Indeed, but for the discovery of the capacities of the chrysanthemum, modern life would have experienced a fatal hitch in its development.

This is not only a fashion, it is an art. People have to train for it, and as it is a unique amusement, it is worth some trouble to be able to succeed in it.

We do not say that there is not such a thing as dramatic art, and that there are not persons who need as severe training before they attempt to personate nature in art as the painter must undergo who attempts to transfer its features to his canvas.

All the arts and science and literature are benefited, but one of the chief purposes that should be in view is unattained if the young women are not made more interesting, both to themselves and to others.

The world must have seemed very ancient to the Egyptians fifteen hundred years before Christ, when the Pyramid of Cheops was a relic of antiquity, when almost the whole circle of arts, sciences, and literature had been run through, when every nation within reach had been conquered, when woman had been developed into one of the most fascinating of beings, and even reigned more absolutely than Elizabeth or Victoria has reigned since: it was a pretty tired old world at that time.

The cold American is insensible to art, and shivers in the presence of the warmest historical associations.

Of course the reader sees that the difficulty in considering this subject is whether woman is to be estimated as a work of nature or of art. And here comes in the everlasting question of what is the highest beauty, and what is most to be desired.

The Romans copied the Greek art. The Greek in his best days created the ideal figure, which we love to accept as nature.

To be idle gracefully and contentedly and picturesquely is an art. It is one in which the Americans, who do so many things well, do not excel.