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In an elaborate festival held on the anniversary of the revolt that brought the monarchy to its knees, David's Hercules figure was revealed in a procession following the lady Liberty ( Marianne ).
The central apex figure of Truth is popularly known as Glasgow's Statue of Liberty, because of its close resemblance to the similarly posed, but very much larger, statue in New York harbour.
A Liberty figure adorned most American coins of the time, and representations of Liberty appeared in popular and civic art, including Thomas Crawford's Statue of Freedom ( 1863 ) atop the dome of the United States Capitol Building.
The supporters were a female figure representing Liberty holding an anchor of hope and a spear with a cap, and on the other side an American soldier holding a rifle and tomahawk.
The figure of Liberty on some of the coins of Antoninus Pius, struck A. D. 145, holds this cap in the right hand.
In the autumn of 2009 there were street demonstrations and other signs of public anger after it was discovered that Tea Tutberidze, a former activist in the Kmara protest group at the time of the Rose Revolution and now a leading figure in the libertarian Liberty Institute, had been distributing videos that insulted Patriarch Ilia II.
" Delacroix felt his composition more vividly as a whole, thought of his figures and crowds as types, and dominated them by the symbolic figure of Republican Liberty which is one of his finest plastic inventions …"
The figure of Liberty proper, her hair disheveled and decorated with pearls, vested azure, sandaled gules, about the waist a cincture or, fringed gules, a mantle of the last depending from the shoulders behind to the feet, in the dexter hand a staff ensigned with a Phrygian cap or, the sinister arm embowed, the hand supporting the shield at the dexter chief point, a royal crown by her sinister foot dejected.
The figure of Justice proper, her hair disheveled and decorated with pearls, vested or, about the waist a cincture azure, fringed gules, sandaled and mantled as Liberty, bound about the eyes with a fillet proper, in the dexter hand a straight sword hilted or, erect, resting on the sinister chief point of the shield, the sinister arm embowed, holding before her her scales proper.
This was most evident during the so called Age of Liberty from 1718 to 1772, when powers of the Monarch were greatly reduced and the President of the Privy Council became the most powerful political figure in Sweden.
Walter's drawing showed the outline of a statue representing the goddess Liberty ; Crawford proposed an allegorical figure of Freedom Triumphant in War and Peace.
The obverse figure is a depiction of the mythological goddess Liberty wearing a Phrygian cap, a classic Western symbol of liberty and freedom, with its wings intended to symbolize freedom of thought.
This figure does not include the 45 % acceptance rate for new Liberty University Online students.
* 1874: Another new $ 50 United States Note was issued with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the left and allegorical figure of Lady Liberty on the right of the obverse.
Wellington wrote that " While Géricault carried his interest in actual detail to the point of searching for more survivors from the wreck as models, Delacroix felt his composition more vividly as a whole, thought of his figures and crowds as types, and dominated them by the symbolic figure of Republican Liberty which is one of his finest plastic inventions.
Often, his graphics also carry a political message, as for example the drawing of the Statue of Liberty, except the figure is holding a molotov cocktail and a sign with the question " Free?
It was the first circulating U. S. coin with the portrait of an actual woman rather than an allegorical female figure such as ' Liberty '.
For the city of Paris he executed his most elaborate and splendid achievement, the vast monument, The Triumph of the Republic ( detail, left ), erected, after twenty years work, in the Place de la Nation, showing a symbolical figure of the Republic, aloft on her car, drawn by lions led by Liberty, attended by Labour and Justice, and followed by Abundance.
It was designed by Mike Doud and depicted Kate Murtagh, dressed as a waitress named " Libby " from a diner, as a Statue of Liberty figure holding up a glass of orange juice on a small plate in one hand ( in place of the torch on the Statue ), and a foldable restaurant menu in the other hand, on which " Breakfast In America " is written.
The obverse of the 10, 20, 50 centavo, and peso coins are similar, but they show the figure of Liberty, a standing female figure ( considered by many to be the daughter of the designer ' Blanca ') in the act of striking the anvil with a hammer.
Each pair includes a " Goddess of Liberty " ( bearing some resemblance to the Statue of Liberty ) and an Seonyeo or Korean spirit figure holding a Korean national symbol: a Taegeuk symbol, a branch of rose of Sharon, a branch of laurel, and a dove.

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The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
I must say the figure was well made up.
And so when Miss Langford came to teach at the one-room Chestnut school, where Jack was a pupil in the eighth grade, the Woman of Jack's mind assumed the teacher's face and figure.
The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.
Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.
In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.
It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.
He was all of these rolled into one sturdy figure ; ;
According to one report, however, Mr. Hammarskjold was considered `` too controversial '' a figure to warrant bestowal of the coveted honor last spring.
The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.
The figure was wreathed in an extraordinary luminescence.
The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there.
The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.
Soon he was ready to go into a three-dimensional figure in clay.
The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.
But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.
But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.
I was also publicly reprimanded, dragged through the mud by the radical press and made a figure of fun by such leftist publications as The New Republic, The New Yorker, Time and The Christian Science Monitor.
From what I was able to gauge in a swift, greedy glance, the figure inside the coral-colored boucle dress was stupefying.
The anode in figure 2 was mounted by means of the anode holder which was attached to a steel plug and disk.

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