caryatides

“You are not offended, Frank, are you, with me, for making you meet two caryatides of the Parisian temple of pleasure?”

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

But there is a pressure on these Italian soldiers, as if they were men caryatides, with a great weight on their heads, making their brain hard, asleep, stunned.

Twilight in Italy 2003

Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked down from corners of the building upon the grey confusion of the garden paths; but the faces seemed to be frost-bitten.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

They are like young, half-wild oxen, such strong, sturdy, dark lads, thickly built and with strange hard heads, like young male caryatides.

Twilight in Italy 2003

Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked down from corners of the building upon the grey confusion of the garden paths; but the faces seemed to be frost-bitten.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Even those dim and shapeless monsters of notions which I have not been able to describe, much less defend, stepped quietly into their places like colossal caryatides of the creed.

Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

First examine the caryatides who support the central structure.

Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 Edward S. Holden

Their beauty and fitness are not those of the grand columns of the temple; they are the sculptures upon the frieze, the caryatides, or the graceful interlacings of vines.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

The sunken rosettes, surrounded by raised arabesque borders, between the caryatides, are sculptured with such a careful reference to the distance at which they must be seen, that they appear as firm and delicate as if near the spectator's eye.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

He then ran off in search of a vehicle, while Irving and I stood close up, like a pair of male caryatides, under the very narrow protection of a hall-door ledge, and thought, at last, that we were quite forgotten by my patron.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various