What is "eyck"

Usage examples of "eyck".

When they took the hoodwink off me, the first man I saw, standing in front of me dressed in the symbols of his office and wearing an expression of almost inhuman dignity, was Captain Peter van Eyck, the fat ubiquitous warden of my watch-Master of this lodge!

My old regiment was drawn up in two frozen ranks, helmets shining, spears aligned like the teeth of a comb, I made out Peter van Eyck, Master of my home lodge, his belly corseted up, motionless before his platoon.

It would have gone unnoticed at dress parade, even in the presence of the Prophet, but tonight the Officer of the Day bawled him out at once and Captain van Eyck noted down his name.

If I had the least feeling that this thing in The Hague was a genuine Hubertus van Eyck I would be on my knees before it, but the chances are ten thousand to one that it's a fake, and the fake must be exposed.

That's to say, I met him in The Hague when he made that astonishing judgement on a fake Van Eyck.

There was one in particular outside her room by Jan van Eyck, of a dark-haired man and his wife.

Around him, period weapons, heraldic coats-of-arms, and the canvases of great Dutch and Flemish painterseveryone from Jan van Eyck to Peter Brueghelhung from the dark, paneled walls.

On the left Stephen’s Flemings drove the Welshmen back: but you know their way, they went but far enough and easily enough to mass again without loss, and back they came, archers almost to a man, able to pick their ground and their prey, and when the Flemish footmen ran, so did their captains—William of Ypres and Ten Eyck and all.