During the whole of that period Napoleon, who seems to us to have been the leader of all these movements- as the figurehead of a ship may seem to a savage to guide the vessel- acted like a child who, holding a couple of strings inside a carriage, thinks he is driving it.

The spectral figurehead, reversed in its position, glancing backwards, seemed to mock the impatient attitude of the warrior.

Now a bark is feminine beyond all other daughters of the sea, and this tall, hesitating creature, with her white and gilt figurehead, looked just like a bewildered woman half lifting her skirts to cross a muddy street under the jeers of bad little boys.

Arthur himself, in many of the romances, was degraded from his position of the bravest knight to be the inactive figurehead of a brilliant court; and the only really historical element in the story, his struggle against the Saxons, was thrust far into the background, while all the emphasis was laid on the romantic achievements of the single knights.

I looked up wildly to avoid the blow, and saw above us the great bulk of Britannia leaning outward like the figurehead of a ship.

The barge were red and yellow, with a green dragon for a figurehead, and a white horse towin' of it.

A carver in the neighborhood engaged to make the figurehead. He was a tolerably good workman, and had already carved several figure-heads, in what he intended for feminine shapes, and looking pretty much like those which we see nowadays stuck up under a vessel's bowsprit, with great staring eyes, that never wink at the dash of the spray.

I saw the most wonderful figureheads, that had all been far over the ocean.

A few Senators and legitimate capitalists were lifted up as the figureheads of the crusade.

A FORMER president of Shropshire County Cricket Club who passed away last week at the age of 90 has been heralded a 'great lady' and 'a real figurehead'.

It is not an operational role and appears akin to an expensive figurehead.