"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The books were lucid, funny (even silly) and outrageously padded with reproductions of old woodcuts, engravings, advertisements, movie stills and so forth.
- She notes that her wooden coffee table - with its narrow, pointed ends - reminds her of old woodcuts of the hulls of slave ships.
- "Good one," I said aloud, unable to fend off the mental image of those old woodcuts depicting a personified Death hovering over crying children as they watched their fathers' sore-covered bodies stacked onto a wheelbarrow.
- He was the dead image of the sun in old woodcuts, his hair and whiskers answering for rays all around him.
- Happily, though, the main narrative is supplemented by numerous old woodcuts and sidebar profiles of famous and obscure astronomers.
- The book turned out to be a facsimile edition of an eighteenth-century work, complete with antique spelling and clumsy old woodcuts that looked more quaint than scary.
- Beth Krommes's exquisite scratchboard artwork has the textured look of old woodcuts, and is rendered in a subtle, naturalistic palette of black and white, shaded with hues of ochre and soft moss green.
- The passenger cab has been altered, but old woodcuts and surviving details indicate that it rose in an open cage surrounded by the main staircase.
- Chase's illustrates this with an old woodcut that she said showed "a guy with rats hanging off his head."
- Their faces were harsh and angular, gouged with lines and shadows that made them look like something from a stark old woodcut.
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