catagraph

Example Sentences

• "till to A picture's first rude catagraph, the art Of an ingenious pencil doth impart Each complement of skill;"
• "Somewhat maye this catagraph or portrature following serve to expresse the presentment of this great king Powhatan."
• "A score or more of bold, daedal strokes upon paper, and the corner-stone was laid of the edifice destined to contain George Weldon's brightest dreams, his "all of life," though it was only with the exultation of an artist, gloating over the acquisition of so fair a specimen, that he safely stowed away the catagraph which promised him so much, casting but little thought upon the fact that often "the things we make no account of have in them the seeds of life;""
• "We have yet another to describe in our catagraph of the genus—the Snout. This is a nose concerning which there can be no mistake."
• "Reader, in this little volume— a catagraph— the career of Lafayette from early boyhood to his lamented death has been traced."
• "These pages are only a catagraph after all."