lay figure

It seemed to her as though a lay figure of a man were coming to life.

Inside the case is a crowd of small wooden lay figures.

This is not a lay figure, but a real man deep in a real book.

But the body was painted from a lay figure dressed in the uniform.

She had other things to do besides serving as a lay figure for the trials of a secret weapon.

The room stilled on the instant; it was as if every man of them had turned to lay figures.

Thereafter until his death he was the dominant lay figure in Galicia.

Lay figures were used to model the clothes.

But the mortal dust that these lay figures represent is lost, since they have been moved from their original positions.

His tomb with his laying figure is still inside.

Beside the pallid nudes, the lay figure, made of brown wood, seems almost alive.

In one corner a lay figure was extended on a couch, covered with a pall of black velvet.

She became impersonal and forgot her husband, only using him as a lay figure to give point to her tale.

His laying figure appears holding his sword and is guarded by a dog.

He has never met these people in real life-they are lay figures modeled on what he gets from newspapers.

Even archbishops will do these things, to say nothing of such small fry as deans, or stout and prominent lay figures of the Church.

As Kenneth Tynan pointed out, it is not so much a play as "a short story recited to a group of lay figures."

His body was knotty and so reduced in size that his blue jacket with its white sleeves looked as if it had been thrown over a lay figure.

Although there were notable exceptions, the most eminent philosophers of nature were not members of the clergy but were lay figures who developed their own theologies.

He had never felt anything like this - he was a lay figure, a lump of synthetic wax beside this man who had the humanity to cry.

Michèle Kahn Spike is an American lawyer, historian, and prominent lay figure in the Episcopalian church.

Under our very noses are three lay figures dressed in Nicholas Roerich's original costumes for "The Rite of Spring."

Bernarda Bryson Shahn takes her cue from one of the movement's ancestors, Giorgio de Chirico, by painting lay figures.

Less than seven weeks after the killing in Dumfries, along with a number of prominent lay figures they all witnessed the coronation of King Robert I on 25 March.