A caryatid supporting a basket on her head is called a canephora ("basket-bearer"), representing one of the maidens who carried sacred objects used at feasts of the goddesses Athena and Artemis.    From LearnThat.org.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid]

The visitor had flopped onto the caryatid-pillared bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Of The Lion]

The porch on the left is supported by caryatid figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

No marble caryatid was as sleek and lovely as her PowerBook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gift of the Magi: The Sequel] Reference

I kissed Helena beside the caryatid porch of the Erechtheion.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

This was like acting as a caryatid to several sacks of soggy sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Body In The Bath House]

Observe beneath these rags those caryatid bodies, those austere faces!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

The famous caryatid porch faces the south, looking toward the Parthenon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 08, August 1895 Fragments of Greek Detail] Reference

He is a sort of caryatid upon whose shoulders nearly everything that is not grimy is supported.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

Having published independent research on Greek statuary, she is currently preparing a manuscript on Greek caryatid mirrors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Assos Journals of Francis H. Bacon] Reference

Eleusis, Athens (monument of Lysicrates), and Pergamon; also flowers from the calathos of a Greek caryatid in the Villa Albani near Rome, upon many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884] Reference

This was communicated with nary a glance at Sir Charles, who sat speechless, gazing at Basil as though he were Lord Elgin's caryatid suddenly come to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Witch]

"No, I will not: I do not wish to," returns the other softly, straightening herself; and leaning there in her close gown, she is as tearless as some caryatid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

Nor am I supporting any of the architecture (which, I also learn from Wikipedia, would then properly make me a telemon or atlas, the male version of a caryatid).    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm a caryatid!] Reference

The woman carrying this basket would have made a pretty caryatid, chickens and all, so straight was she, so robust her shoulders and so full and regular the oval of her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

A caryatid, Wikipedia informs me, is "a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head".    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm a caryatid!] Reference

This poor little caryatid has fallen under the load.    From Wordnik.com.  [A CAPITOL BLOG] Reference

With a concha on her head, she would look like a caryatid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth]

Greek put human life into his pillars and produced the caryatid; and an.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing but his revery, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

I have a little figure of a caryatid which acts upon my spirit like a magician's spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies] Reference

M. Joyeuse solemnly carried, as high, as straight as he could, with the gesture of a caryatid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nabob] Reference

This caryatid has the limpid, innocent eyes of a child, and is unsophisticated and sincere like one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Dogma] Reference

She upheaved the heavy flour-sack to the same secure shelf with the upraised palms of an Egyptian caryatid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

Laura, who, in the main, does not like her, hinted to me several times that the caryatid is in love with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Dogma] Reference

Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

These shapes have no angles: a caryatid in marble is almost as flexible; a Phidian goddess is not more perfect in a certain still and stately sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

There are two divisions, of which the lower contains the "practicable entrance," and is guarded by a caryatid on each side supporting two male figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Rouen] Reference

Whenever the third caryatid comes to life and walks from beneath its burden, the capitals of Europe will be filled with the broken furniture of palaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881] Reference

French only, the caryatid French of Victor Hugo, would have described it; so I mourned while I laughed, hastily shuffling and discarding inadequate adjectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference

I have not thought of her much lately, but I used to think of her when you told me the story, as standing on a platform in front of the public, calm as a caryatid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

As they stepped out into the darkness, a sheet of rain was driven in upon their faces, and the hall lamp, which dangled from the arm of a marble caryatid, went out with a fluff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the Red Lamp] Reference

I saw the coarse arm stretched by my shoulder arrested, -- motionless as the arm of a terra-cotta caryatid; she couldn't set the plate down while the old gentleman was speaking!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference

She has grown taller and somewhat stouter; her shoulders spread like those of a caryatid; the arm with which she props her head is as strong as a carter's and magnificently moulded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

My arms up, like the caryatid, sole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference

Probably he is thinking of a caryatid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc] Reference

I'm a caryatid!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'm a caryatid!] Reference

12: 04 am: I'm a caryatid!.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2007] Reference