From the top I can touch the elaborately decorated, corbeled ceiling without stretching. |
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He picked up an elaborately patterned backgammon board in Damascus and a Rajasthani oil light that would originally have been used for hunting. |
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The title refers to battledores that were often elaborately decorated, sometimes with images made out of pieces of cut coloured-cloth. |
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The musical style of these songs varies from simple, syllabic melodies to elaborately flowing compositions modelled on melismatic plainchant. |
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These women fought the new restriction by wearing elaborately designed and brilliantly colored tignons. |
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The cavernous space pays homage to Moorish decor with its elaborately motifed terracotta plasterwork, ceramic tiling and large earthenware pots. |
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In one striking image, a porch is shown elaborately decorated for Christmas with tinsel, stockings, ornaments and toys. |
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We peeked inside some of rooms, which were furnished elaborately and the brass bedsteads were still covered with old white sheets. |
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Regularly they were embellished with crease moldings and decorative scribing and punching, and in some regions the skirt was elaborately shaped. |
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No other prelate wears elaborately embroidered stoles over the mozetta as a normal part of choir dress. |
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The example is simple, but the uses of the object can be elaborately, multifariously clever. |
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Bewildered, she bent down to look for whatever it was she had dropped, thinking it likely a bobby pin from her elaborately pinned hair. |
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Depending on the purpose of the boubou, it may be elaborately embroidered and could cost two to three hundred dollars. |
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Male bowerbirds construct elaborately decorated bowers and females prefer builders of higher quality bowers as mates. |
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For those unable to afford elaborately carved items or high-quality cabinetry, there was nevertheless much practical, utilitarian furniture. |
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A high wall in an elegant London park is covered in drawings, photographs cut out of magazines and elaborately crafted votives. |
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Dragon boats are long, elaborately decorated canoes with a dragon head and tail. |
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The images are grouped in several large circles on the gallery walls, each picture elaborately framed in hand-painted glass. |
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Both feature elaborately chased gold scrolls enhanced with enamel framing the painted enamel reserves. |
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And the hotel's opulent dining rooms, with elaborately decorated gold columns and mirrored walls, serve good food. |
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A waiter wheeled up a trolley of elaborately bedized scraps, orts and broken meats. |
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The music swings and the professionals perform elaborately energetic movements. |
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The gods are brought out of their temples and paraded down the streets in elaborately carved palanquins rolled along by four men. |
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From its white colonnades to its elaborately pleated and ruched swags of ivory canvas overhead, Brio looks great. |
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It is attributed to Joseph Henry Remmey, who is known for similar elaborately incised cobalt blue decoration, especially of stylized birds. |
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The collage elements intricately play off the metaphoric conceits or evocative turns of phrase of the elaborately lettered texts. |
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A colourful crystal flower is elaborately inlaid inside the transparent crystal. |
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The diminutive figurine is broken at the waist but preserves the torso and head of a lady and the high back of her elaborately decorated chair. |
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Interestingly the plain case holds the elaborately decorated cutlery while the filigree case houses the more restrained pieces. |
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The first version, set inside her living room as they discuss her plans, is elaborately mounted but plainly incomplete. |
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The main action is elaborately Italianate, the commentary inveterately English. |
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In the background is an elaborately decorated miniature floral royal Thai boat. |
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Many feature elaborately costumed models posing in carefully orchestrated, dramatically lit tableaux. |
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With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of a tropical vine. |
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Some of the images, such as local Web cam cuties frolicking against a colourful backdrop, look elaborately directed. |
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On this rug are four elaborately carved wooden chairs upholstered with luxuriously patterned damask. |
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Console tables had elaborately carved supports incorporating tritons, putti, and mermaids set amid scrolling vegetation. |
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Rather than sketch an elaborately realistic background, Bainbridge provides glimpses of odd, unexplained snippets of daily life. |
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Certainly she's very blonde and elaborately made-up, but she's also disarmingly polite and articulate. |
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For the wealthier merchants, the exposed wood beams would be elaborately carved or shaped. |
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Rice can be as simple as steamed rice to a very elaborately prepared, richly flavoured and spiced biryani. |
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The novel has two wildly different narrators, and two elaborately intertwined stories. |
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But he also makes elaborately costumed and staged studio photos that are based on Chinese myths and legends. |
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This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs. |
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You can see their feet sticking out from beneath an elaborately embroidered cloth. |
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The caisson ceiling was elaborately decorated with exquisitely enchased mosaic frescos. |
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The palace comprises tall, elaborately decorated rooms where the Khan held his divans, or council meetings. |
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These elaborately painted masks represent a pair of horned animals, each with a porcupine quill sprouting from its head. |
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They create beautiful spears, clubs, ceremonial bowls for kava drinking, and elaborately decorated seagoing canoes. |
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Recent surface excavation and conservation have recuperated a substantial portion of Structure 16's elaborately carved facade. |
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The elaborately carved oak Sanctuary lamp is very ornate with acorn and vine leaf laurelling about the pedestal. |
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It's a traditional race with rowers competing in long, elaborately decorated Chinese boats. |
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It reads rather like a candidate's essay for entry to membership of the US academic inner clerisy via an elaborately obscure text on an almost impenetrably dull topic. |
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At the same time, in nearby Philadelphia, dishonest cabinetmakers were making elaborately carved scrolled top highboys and chests-on-chests from plain flat top ones. |
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The screens of scrim are elaborately constructed, held away from the dance studio's glass walls, offering protection from the elements and shade from the brutal desert sun. |
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What, indeed, would be the point of establishing elaborately protective rules of criminal procedure if they could be evaded by simply relying on administrative detention? |
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Biblical manuscripts, Gospels and psalters, were the most elaborately illuminated products of insular, Carolingian, Ottonian, and Anglo-Saxon art. |
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Nonetheless, the movie has great, elaborately choreographed fight scenes. |
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The tables were elaborately decorated with beautiful flower arrangements. |
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The elaborately carved rows or monumental crowns admired in the wooden sculptures of the Mende or Yoruba people in West Africa mirror the hairstyles worn today. |
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Today her blonde hair is plaited into French braids elaborately tied with huge dark blue and white ribbons, and she's wearing a short, dark blue denim skirt with her tan Uggs. |
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Most magic shows these days are elaborately planned and executed events that feature well-choreographed dances that add glitter and glamour to the programme. |
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I realize you've always been in on our game, that you've been vaguely aware that each crisis call is an elaborately staged sham, and I appreciate you never calling us on it. |
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A nice copy in full tree calf with elaborately gilt backstrip. |
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Bess was in the process of elaborately braiding her long golden tresses. |
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A brawl ensues, elaborately described in the author's mock-heroic style. |
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The Websters established their marble works nearby, using the canal to ship in foreign marble and export heavy goods such as elaborately carved chimney pieces. |
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The only function of plaster on walls and ceilings, unless it is itself elaborately decorative, is to serve as a smooth surface on which to place decorative paper or paint. |
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The food was elaborately catered, usually from some Mughlai restaurant. |
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Aquinas's philosophical theology is an elaborately developed, sophisticated system of knowledge modeled more or less closely on Aristotelian demonstrative science. |
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The lone watchman belies the archaeological importance of the site, surrounded by ancient dolmens and sacred groves with enormous and elaborately decorated terracotta horses. |
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Since pipes played an important role in the lives of the Indians, many are elaborately carved or decorated wood, with bowls of finely engraved soapstone. |
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Stage pillars are elaborately painted to resemble marble columns and, like other painted decorative embellishments, are in accordance with the sketchy historical evidence. |
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It's a good time to go exploring the maze of narrow alleys, spying the old Arabian houses with overhanging balconies and brass-studded, elaborately carved teak doors. |
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Over many pages, Proust vividly mimics the elaborately circumlocutious mode of speech of the elderly diplomat. |
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Like the elaborately choreographed escape from default, it was a signal moment of Washington unreality, more farce than tragedy. |
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He lay in his elaborately curtained bed dying of the fever and from the leeches the doctors attached to various parts of his body to suck his blood. |
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Certainly there's a picaresque or roguish quality to many of the characters and elaborately exaggerated situations presented here, but that only tells part of the tale. |
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He gave the monumental facades along K Street and 15th Street elaborately detailed copper window architraves, stringcourses, cornices, and escutcheons. |
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The first is a page of elaborately curlicued and unintelligible script. |
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One wall is taken up with an elaborately tooled wine display, and another is covered in an intricately curving leather design, like reptile scales. |
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Her hair was far less elaborately coiffured and her toilette less magnificent than the toilettes of the women by whom she was surrounded. |
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Furniture has been traditionally elaborately carved and in many Alpine countries carpentry skills are passed from generation to generation. |
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In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets. |
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He was one of several Song poets who wrote elaborately punning herb-name songs and birdcall verses. |
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The style was affected by the labour shortages caused by the plague as architects designed less elaborately to cope. |
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The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. |
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From the early Middle Ages there are elaborately carved Pictish stones and impressive metalwork. |
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The Protestant reformer John Knox preached against Mary, condemning her for hearing Mass, dancing, and dressing too elaborately. |
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Its most distinctive feature is the parish close, which displays an elaborately decorated church surrounded by an entirely walled churchyard. |
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Many villages still have their closes, they date from the 16th and 17th centuries and sometimes include an elaborately carved calvary sculpture. |
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The elaborately carved canopies of the choir stalls are considered to be one of the finest in the country. |
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The ambition of Russia is most elaborately exposed in an essay highly poeticized. |
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Adjoining the palace are the Boboli Gardens, elaborately landscaped and with numerous sculptures. |
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It was raised above a large and elaborately decorated crypt. |
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The current castle is an elaborately decorated Victorian folly designed by William Burges for the Marquess and built in the 1870s, as an occasional retreat. |
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A collection of elaborately decorated skulls with the deceased's name, profession, date of death inscribed on them is on display at the local chapel. |
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At the rich end of the scale the manor houses and palaces were awash with large, elaborately prepared meals, usually for many people and often accompanied by entertainment. |
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