What is "caricatures"

Usage examples of "caricatures".

Old muskets, old swords, old shoes and old coats, trumpets, drums, guncarriages, wheels, helmets, cannon balls, grape-shot, and all the murderous rubbish which battles come to at last, with proclamations, autographs, caricatures and likenesses of Napoleon, and effigies of all the other generals engaged, and miniatures and jewels of their womenkind, filled room after room, through which their owner vaunted his way, with a loud pounding voice and a bad breath.

There were relics of the past: signed caricatures of Michael Foot and Nye Bevan.

His striking figure—he was six feet, three inches in height, with a massive head—had become familiar not only through his appearances on the platform but through the caricatures of himself that he had whimsically introduced into many of his drawings in “Punch” and elsewhere.

He had known the town was Lawrence because all of its inhabitants had looked like the caricatures he had seen of Senator Jim Lane and had worn red pants.

Lane was thinner, younger, and had more hair than Sam had guessed from the caricatures, but his fine house on the western edge of town was all that Sam had supposed.

Her teachers complained that instead of doing her sums she covered her slate with animals, the blank pages of her atlas were used to copy maps on, and caricatures of the most ludicrous description came fluttering out of all her books at unlucky moments.

This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.

Several other ludicrous caricatures were made of the Dominie and of the matron, all of which were consigned to Mr.

Knapps thinks to catch me napping, but the Plot is discovered, and Barnaby Bracegirdle is obliged to loosen his braces for the second time on my account —Drawing caricatures ends in drawing blood —The Usher is ushered out of the school, and I am nearly ushered into the next world, but instead of being bound on so long a journey, I am bound "'Prentice to a Waterman.

Knapps account for not producing those caricatures of mine, which he says he has collected for a whole month?

Fulkerson is right about aiming to please the women, but of course he caricatures the way of going about it.

As for the despicable Third Partyists—Ollivier, Gramont, Gambetta—and the uncouth street mobs agitating for republicanism, and the coarse caricatures of His Majesty—and of me—that constantly appear in comic papers like La Vie Parisienne, why, any other monarch would by now be greasing the guillotine.

Vicious caricatures of the emperor were drawn on walls, and caricatures of the Napoleonic eagle, clutching a bloody soldier in its talons, captioned "le dernier vol de l'aigle.

The good citizens of Paris immediately began daubing walls with caricatures of Louis Napoléon seated trouserless on a chamber pot.