lay figure

Inside the case is a crowd of small wooden lay figures.

This is not a lay figure, but a real man deep in a real book.

But the mortal dust that these lay figures represent is lost, since they have been moved from their original positions.

She became impersonal and forgot her husband, only using him as a lay figure to give point to her tale.

Thereafter until his death he was the dominant lay figure in Galicia.

She had other things to do besides serving as a lay figure for the trials of a secret weapon.

But the body was painted from a lay figure dressed in the uniform.

In one corner a lay figure was extended on a couch, covered with a pall of black velvet.

It seemed to her as though a lay figure of a man were coming to life.

Beside the pallid nudes, the lay figure, made of brown wood, seems almost alive.