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  • But there were too many other rulers on the long road to Persia, who would not let the master-artist of Yakkagala slip through their greedy fingers.

    The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

  • The rushing stream, whose music is like some far-off echo; the strange deserted village; the narrow line of dark rails up the mountain-side through the snow; the gloomy, cavernous tunnels; the setting sun in the west gilding all with its transfiguring touch -- these give a scene worthy the brush of a master-artist, who has never yet found his way over the Pine Mountain trail to the South Fork and Wright's Cove Mine.

    The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

  • The picture with its graceful feminine forms and twining lines has the same quality of rhythmical exaltation as Plates 19 and 35, a quality typical of the Garwhal master-artist in his greatest phase.

    The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry W. G. Archer 1943

  • And within the box was a small bronze placque exquisitely engraved by a master-artist ... bearing a message of appreciation exquisitely phrased ... the names of all his friends.

    The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

  • Naturally it was never made a matter of record, [128] but was transmitted by oral tradition within the order; and it was also natural, if not inevitable, that the legend, of the master-artist of the Temple should be "the Master's Part" among Masons who were temple-builders.

    The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

  • While allusion is made to the master-artist of the temple, his name is not mentioned, _except in disguise_.

    The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

  • For this once, by your leave, we won't "can" the sentiment, -- to use an idiom in which you are the master-artist on this continent, -- but I, at least, will luxuriate in retrospect, as I write your name by way of dedication to this volume of essays, for some of which your quick-firing mind is somewhat more than editorially responsible.

    Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

  • Each of these three compositions must, of course, have been designed by one master-artist and executed by or with the help of subordinate artists or workmen.

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • If I have renounced this idea, if I have declined an undertaking which had obtained the approbation of a master-artist, [4] my excuse may be found in the extreme difficulty of assigning a proper measure to such a catalogue.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • If I have renounced this idea, if I have declined an undertaking which had obtained the approbation of a master-artist, * my excuse may be found in the extreme difficulty of assigning a proper measure to such a catalogue.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

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