"Plaster cast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... death the head of Kant was shaved; and, under the direction of Professor Knorr, a plaster cast was taken, not a masque merely, but a cast of the whole bead, designed (I believe) to enrich the craniological ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... mistaken ideas concerning the aims and purposes of art. If those errors were given up and if the right understanding of the moving pictures were to take hold of the community, nobody would doubt that the chromo print and the graphophone and the plaster cast are indeed nothing but inexpensive substitutes for art with many essential artistic elements left out, and therefore ultimately unsatisfactory to a truly artistic taste. But everybody would recognize at the same time that the relation of ...
— The Photoplay - A Psychological Study • Hugo Muensterberg
... of green brought lagging days of worry. Brian, said Kenny wistfully, was just—not Brian. He was an irritable convalescent in a plaster cast, too nervous to be patient. His pain had been intense, the shock disastrous to his self-control. The haggard mark of it upon his face Don read with scalding heart and brooded. When after a refractory week of undisciplined nerves and ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... I was in a plaster cast, and before I got out of that I was in a fever. I was some weeks ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis |
