1. A stele from Beaune museum shows him as the three-headed central figure of a triad of naked seated gods. 2. Among them was Christopher Hitchens, the Washington-based writer, a figure of magnetic charm and great volubility. 3. And then, for some reason, she thought of Miranda and the shadowy figure of Terence Patch. 4. Clarke had a passionate interest in calculating the figure of the Earth, another central problem for an accurate topographical survey. 5. Far down the inverted telescope he saw the faint white figure of May Welland-in New York. 6. Featuring prominently in the centre of this maelstrom was the towering figure of Richard Baxter. 7. Figures of religious observance are harder to come by. 8. Following Bagehot or modern functional sociology, the assertion is made that the figure of the sovereign binds together the national collective. 9. For a moment nothing happened except that the figure of Cesar seemed to grow larger and fill the doorway. |