wax-work

Which was your favourite wax-work at Madame Tussauds?

Sandro: 'Peter Crouch has the moves' | Small Talk | Paolo Bandini 2011

One well-known East Fourth- street belle wore a double-skirt of illusion, small puffs about half a yard up each side; berthe to match, trimmed with little forget-me-nots, which could not be distinguished from natural flowers; her hair was trimmed with the same shade of blue flowers, drooping down on her snowy neck, which made her look more like wax-work than a human being.

Never Bored - A Dress A Day 2008

One well-known East Fourth- street belle wore a double-skirt of illusion, small puffs about half a yard up each side; berthe to match, trimmed with little forget-me-nots, which could not be distinguished from natural flowers; her hair was trimmed with the same shade of blue flowers, drooping down on her snowy neck, which made her look more like wax-work than a human being.

January 2008 2008

We take more kindly to wax-work, especially if it moves; in which case it keeps much clearer of the second commandment than when it is still.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

They are all actual figures, as large as life, moulded in clay, with a resemblance to life ... greater than that of the finest wax-work figures.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

Tower, frowning ferociously out of their helmets, and wielding their dreadful swords; that superhuman Queen Elizabeth at the end of the room, a livid sovereign with glass eyes, a ruff, and a dirty satin petticoat, riding a horse covered with steel: who does not remember these sights in London in the consulship of Plancus? and the wax-work in Fleet Street, not like that of Madame

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

Musgrave advanced into the centre of the room towards her, almost like a beautifully dressed wax-work wound up to walk.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Musgrave advanced into the centre of the room towards her, almost like a beautifully dressed wax-work wound up to walk.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

I was asking him more concerning this bustle about the figures in wax-work of the Pope, and Devil, etc.

The Journal to Stella 2003

He was as motionless as a wax-work, and got on the nerves somewhat in the same way.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003