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The forms which throng Asgard may not be so sculpturesquely beautiful, so definite, and fit to be copied in marble and bronze as those of Olympus.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

She was stylishly dressed, as Bartley saw, and her smooth, yellow hair was sculpturesquely waved over a low, white forehead.

From The Rise of Silas Lapham by Howells, William Dean

There were, indeed, no Greek heads; but the bronzed lithe figures, naked save for loin-cloth and sandals, and most sculpturesquely muscled, might well have inspired some vase-design of dancing fauns.

From Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation by Hearn, Lafcadio