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wax figure

n. an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: waxwork]

Usage examples of "wax figure".

Goon carefully placed him behind the curtain, and then creaked back to the place where the wax figure had stood.

For Will stood in the entrance of the Maze, like the wax figure that he almost was.

The wax figure was filled with Thero's spell, needing only a key word spoken over it to release it—.

Imagination, with such a stimulus, could find an active menace in the devilish wax figure that lurked unseen just beyond the heavy planking.

Imagination, such a stimulus, could find an active menace in the devilish wax figure that lurked unseen just beyond the heavy planking.

He reached down to the small wax figure at his side and deftly drew the lips apart in a ghoulish grin.

If in your bedroom instead of a little wax figure you had had your stepmother bound and helpless and a dagger in your hand instead of a pin, you would not have pushed it into her heart!

Lights flickered green over the access console, tinting Jaric like a wax figure while programs designed for complex navigational mathematics exhaustively mapped his potential.

In the commotion, Kiukiu saw the tripod knocked to the floor, the ashes spilled over the glowing wax figure.