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Sculptor

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sculptor (feminine), sculptress
a person who practises sculpture
Sculptor [′skəlp·tər]
(astronomy)
A southern constellation, right ascension 0 hours, declination 30° south. Also known as Sculptor's Apparatus; Workshop.
Sculptor 

a constellation in the southern sky; it contains no stars brighter than 4.0 visual stellar magnitude. The south galactic pole is located in Sculptor. The best conditions for observing Sculptor are in September and October, when the constellation is completely visible in the southern regions of the USSR and partially visible in the central regions.
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" The Sculptor replied, "Well, if you will buy these, I'll fling you that into the bargain.
Fables by Aesop View in context
She straightway ascended to ask Jove to restore him; but before this could be done a Sculptor and a Critic passed that way and espied him.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and all his followers lay in their trying to take music into the sphere of another art, just as poetry goes wrong when it tries to paint a face as the art of painting ought to do, and as an instance of this mistake he cited the sculptor who carved in marble certain poetic phantasms flitting round the figure of the poet on the pedestal.
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