death-masks

Smiling feebly, you trip over the extended feet of the man next to you, and stagger into the delivery-room, where, amid a ghastly array of death-masks of teeth, blue flames waving eerily from Bunsen burners, and the drowning sound of perpetually running water which chokes and gurgles at intervals, you sink into the chair and close your eyes.

Tuesday, Sept. 22 – The Bleat. 2009

This gallery of death-masks -- castings taken from the phizzes of famous corpses -- is completely captivating, if a little poorly presented (captions on the thumbnail pages would really help!).

Boing Boing 2004

Smiling feebly, you trip over the extended feet of the man next to you, and stagger into the delivery-room, where, amid a ghastly array of death-masks of teeth, blue flames waving eerily from Bunsen burners, and the drowning sound of perpetually running water which chokes and gurgles at intervals, you sink into the chair and close your eyes.

Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

Even she guessed that these strange, pathetic, staring faces were the death-masks of those men and women who had fulfilled the awful law which ordains that the murderer shall be, in his turn, done to death.

The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

She listened to all they had to say about their interesting visit to the Black Museum, and did not snub either of them -- no, not even when Bunting told of the dreadful, haunting, silly-looking death-masks taken from the hanged.

The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes 1907

The custom of making death-masks is described by Polybius: in Donatello's time it became very popular, and Verrocchio became one of the foremost men in this branch of trade, which combined expedition and accuracy with cheapness.

Donatello, by Lord Balcarres David Lindsay Crawford 1905

Mamercus led Drusus and Cornelia through the old villa, through the atrium where the fountain tinkled, and the smoky, waxen death-masks of

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Up Behm Canal the ships were visited by warriors wearing death-masks, who refused everything in exchange for their sea-otter except firearms.

Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903

He took Gyp the round of his treasures, scarabs, Rops drawings, death-masks, Chinese pictures, and queer old flutes, with an air of displaying them for the first time to one who could truly appreciate.

Beyond John Galsworthy 1900

He took Gyp the round of his treasures, scarabs, Rops drawings, death-masks, Chinese pictures, and queer old flutes, with an air of displaying them for the first time to one who could truly appreciate.

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900