1 Streatfield; a piece of traditional church furniture; a corner cupboard; or the top beam of a gate, fashioned by generations of village carpenters after some lost-in-the-mists-of-antiquity model.
2 It was his school, and he intended it to be a model.
3 For it was to be seen with half an eye that he was a thorough gentleman, made to the model of the time; weary of everything, and putting no more faith in anything than Lucifer.
4 He would like me most of all to be a model for him to paint from.
5 But only on the condition that she'll come and pose as a model for me.
6 'Better have me as a model at the same time,' said Mellors.
7 He wished him to be a model of constancy; and fancied the best means of effecting it would be by not trying him too long.
8 'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
9 He thought her a most extraordinary young woman; in her temper, manners, mind, a model of female excellence.
10 She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 11 But they were regarded in the regiment as the very model of a middle-aged couple.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man 12 It was a wax-coloured model of my friend, so admirably done that it was a perfect facsimile.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 13 The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp, the bright light of which fell upon the model.
14 This little affair,' said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, 'is only a model.
15 So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.