Sixtine
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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It is so easy in pose, so splendid in its, perhaps excessive, length of limb, that our thoughts turn involuntarily to the Ignudi in the Sixtine Chapel.
From The Venetian School of Painting by Phillipps, Evelyn March
Oswald repaired to the Sixtine Chapel to hear the celebrated miserere, so much talked of all over Europe.
From Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy by Greig, R. S.
Also that she wrote an article about the Sixtine Chapel for the Revue du Monde Catholique—"a brilliant article: all fireworks, like her speech"; finally, that "she is writing an essay on friendship."
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
Although hardly a book of permanent value, Sixtine had a lasting effect on the career of its author.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
They are not in the Sixtine edition of 1590.380 A council at Florence in 1441 had set the example which was followed at Trent.
From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel
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