| Cloth and feather adornments were painted bright red to bracket the people's nakedness, and to expose their bodies more fully. |
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| These are the many jewellery makers who turn gold into beautifully crafted adornments. |
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| They produce quantities of small adornments of hammered sheet gold, including spiral ear and twisted nose ornaments. |
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| The father immediately took off his necklaces, his soft fine garments and his other adornments and put on clothes that were ragged and soiled. |
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| The adornments are severe and simple, but beautifully moulded and always in exquisite taste. |
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| As the torch was applied to the base of the pyre, men in the surrounding crowd cast their adornments into the flames. |
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| Some of the fans claim to have had their cars keyed or received verbal abuse for having Steeler adornments on their vehicles. |
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| Have students create a contemporary commemorative sculpture with the accoutrements and adornments appropriate for today. |
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| Their red locks and adornments of coral and pearls flounder on the pitch and whirl of the waves which augment the writhe of their seasnake legs. |
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| People who need the adornments of authority to testify to their importance are soon forgotten. |
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| They were first made in Egypt as early as 4000 BC and were essential adornments for both the living and the dead. |
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| This was considered very sensuous at the time, as filth and animal feces were considered adornments, like sexy lingerie is to modern women. |
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| Its only adornments are the wooden lintels above the windows and entrance door. |
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| The handsome edifice has such Federal style adornments as stone lintels over the windows and a cornice with mutules and cable molding. |
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| There is something vaguely creepy in virtually hairless toddlers sporting ribbony hair adornments. |
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| The elaborateness of their adornments and the skill of their depiction has scholars intrigued and visitors like us entranced. |
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| Gold and silver were made into exquisite adornments, and beautiful objects were created from indigenous turquoise, marble, and other stones. |
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| Neck adornments have been worn since ancient times to signify title or wealth or even just to sop up sweat. |
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| Presenters approached the theme from several distinct positions, creating multilayered biographies of African body adornments. |
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| Her house truck with its zany adornments can be quickly converted to fit in with our image of a gypsy fortune teller's tent. |
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| The passage offers a poetic description of the Buddhas and their former adornments of painted robes and balas rubies. |
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| Some men wore red tartan skirts and adornments of beads, leopard skin head bands and bangles. |
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| In the States, wool mittens and socks are sometimes used as adornments in wedding ceremonies. |
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| Boots and half-boots often had fur adornments and were extremely colourful, but comfort was equally as important. |
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| We marvel at the internal intricacy of a well-decorated carrier shell and its adornments. |
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| Ensure the textile adornments on your children's wear are securely attached and do not pose a choking hazard to babies and young children. |
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| He holds up a mask of an African-American with no adornments at all on it. |
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| Remove all metallic personal adornments from the hands, wrists and neck before commencing work on a live unit. |
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| In the parlor, the principal adornments are two saddles, each in a corner on a sawhorse. |
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| In the late nineteenth century white bird feathers were in great demand as adornments for hats and gowns of fashionable ladies. |
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| They refined the design, added spectacular adornments and included religious artwork. |
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| Other adornments, including small animals, occur along the straps that hold the headstall on the horse's face. |
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| Rowe's yard in Vinings, Georgia, has indisputable African antecedents, as manifested in its topiary, fruit trees, swept-dirt grounds, and highly varied adornments. |
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| I hope you will quickly finish your adornments as the brides of the Lord, keeping your whole spirit, soul, and body blameless, and give the best praise to God all the time. |
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| I pray in the name of the Lord that not just your singing, dancing, and playing but also each of your hairstyles and adornments will be acceptable to God. |
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| During this period the castle was amplified with the addition of two drawbridges, another tower, Ghibelline battlements, still present today, and many other adornments including ornate brickwork and graffito frescoes. |
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| The coral necklet, the locket on a chain, the string of seed pearls and, finally, the sparkling diamond ring — such adornments traditionally have been rights of female passage. |
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| It is considered the most important archeological discovery of the century by the elegance of its adornments and the high degree of its cultural and technological development. |
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| This is obviously a very limited market and it would be unwise to base profitability calculations of your snail farm on a niche market like snail shells as adornments or souvenirs. |
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| Stripped of its verbal adornments, Mr. Adams' claim is little more than an invitation to the Arbitration Panel to substitute its own wisdom and judgement for that of the NSO's experts. |
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| What's most fun during these explorations is to encounter the unusual, the flourishes, or the adornments to life or artistic expression, which when added to one's work make for a truly exiting finished look. |
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| With the building itself taking shape, it was time to think about its internal adornments. |
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| Mr. Shorncliffe, as he now appeared was a person of small stature, particularly neatly and compactly built, with a face that was particularly neat and compact also, and the same character belonged to his hirsute adornments. |
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| If in the end the answer is negative, the world would at least have learned something useful: that these groups' extreme claims are not just rhetorical adornments. |
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| Moons, which Earthlings tend to see merely as adornments to the night sky, are just as good a place to look for life as planets are, perhaps even better. |
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| If you wish to adorn yourselves, let it be with adornments of sincerity. |
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| She currently splits her research between incorporating reclaimed materials into objects and adornments and using precious metals in sculptures and jewellery. |
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| Throughout history, humans have altered their appearance by wearing clothing and adornments, by trimming or shaving hair or by means of body modifications. |
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| Each ROM reproduction comes with a description that tells the story of the object's history-making these works not only unique adornments but conversation pieces as well. |
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| Nor shall adornments of rhetoric beglare or beguile our solemn debate. |
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| Included are colossal heads, a large-scale throne, and monumental stelae in addition to precious small-scale vessels, figures, adornments, and masks. |
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| Further votive treasures were added to the adornments of the chest over the years, while others were placed on pedestals or beams nearby, or attached to hanging drapery. |
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| The manner of production is a solid continuation of the Mousterian but the ivory adornments found in association are similar to those made by the Aurignacian. |
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| During the 10th and 11th centuries the Cathedral was regularly raided by Vikings, who removed the shrine from the church and stripped off the precious metal adornments. |
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