Sixtine
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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For a year he had been working at the ceiling of the Sixtine chapel.
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock
The voices of the Sixtine choristers, who continued chanting the hymn, could not be heard.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
S. John Lateran's on account of the baptism of adults, and the Sixtine chapel, where the service is always beautiful, and particularly on this day.
From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Charles Michael Baggs
The historic interest of Sixtine rests in the fact that it led the reaction against the naturalism of Zola and the psychology of M. Paul Bourget.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
Gourmont now achieved a single English reader, for Sixtine was read by Henry James, but with more curiosity than approval.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
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