On an altar without antependium and consisting of the mensa resting on columns or made after the fashion of a tomb the topmost linen did not have to overhang the edges at the sides.
32.
In this volume of stories she has conceived the ingenious idea of setting her two amateur detectives . . . to work out their problems after the fashion of various heroes of detective fiction.
33.
At the very height of the French Revolution, there was a well-known actor called Baptiste Aine who dared to walk through Paris with his hair still powdered white, after the fashion of the ancien regime.
34.
Llanelwy is among the best documented of Celtic monasteries : the church was described as built " of smoothed wood, after the fashion of the Britons, seeing that they could not yet build of stone ".
35.
In 1985, Umbral began a series of novels about the most important events in the history of twentieth-century Spain, after the fashion of the " Episodios nacionales " of Benito P�rez Gald�s for the nineteenth century.
36.
Bruce seemingly lacked public relations skills and the ability to promote his work, after the fashion of Scott and Shackleton; a lifelong friend described him as being " as prickly as the Scottish thistle itself ".
37.
In contrast to " The Lord of the Rings ", to which mythopoeia is central, Eddison makes few references either to actual mythology or to an invented mythology after the fashion of the " Silmarillion ".
38.
In an extended accompanied cadenza filled with extremely detailed performance instructions by Strauss, after the fashion of an operatic recitative, the violin presents new motivic material, alternating with brief interjections in low strings, winds, and brass.
39.
In 1601 a government spy described Blackwell as " about 50 years of age, his head brownish, his beard more black, cut after the fashion of a spade, of stature indifferent, and somewhat thick, decently attired"
40.
Similarly, the melancholic Jaques in " As You Like It " ( 1599 1600 ) asserts, after the fashion of Heraclitus, that " All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players ."