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Green uniformed prisoners paced bare concrete cages with not a blade of grass or a single ornament in sight.
Like other arts in Mexico, Talavera ware reflects the confluence of cultures in form and ornament to create a distinctive Puebla style.
On the back of each of the pair of vases is a frieze of dancing bacchantes framed at the sides and bottom by a scroll ornament all in grisaille.
The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur.
The crowd whooped and cheered when Sliwa bedecked the hood ornament of the mayor's Lincoln with a big yellow bow.
The singer has an even, rounded tone, an apposite feeling for ornament and an ability to phrase with sprightly elegance.
And in her armchair there is a design of Ru Yi, an L-shaped jade ornament originally symbolizing the male organ.
It is accepted that much of the ornament on Irish and Pictish sculpture represents stone skeuomorphs of jewelled, metal-encased wooden crosses.
Another Milton scholar present announced that while rhyme was no ornament to verse, the return of odes and sonnets was inevitable.
I just stared at an ornament on her desk, a glass paperweight riddled with air bubbles.
The canne is an instrument of support, defense or parade, without even mentioning the vestimentary object of ornament when it is manufactured.
In a fit of fury Calvert who was known to be a violent and irrational person burst into Smedleys home and hurled a heavy stone ornament at him.
Three explosions rocked a business park as a huge fire destroyed a garden ornament factory.
Local lords and trade guilds made great donations of riches to ornament the cathedral, most notably, its unrivalled stained-glass windows.
Stones of deep red color like glowing carbuncles are let into gilded woodwork, and Limoges enamels ornament the walls.
Although the cast feet and applied rim ornament are in an ornate rococo revival style, the details are not chased.
In most cases, however, the brick, carved stone, or terra-cotta ornament would survive far longer than decoration executed in wood.
The relationship between Gothic ornament and literature can be quite striking.
Here designers take unbridled pleasure in old-fashioned commodities like ornament and decoration without slipping decisively into reverse gear.
Spacious squares with regular boundaries were needed to facilitate the traffic and they were decorous and an ornament to the entire city.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The convoluted and basket-work ornament may also have been derived from the same source.
Both the Greek fret and the fylfot appear to have been unknown to the Semitic nations as an ornament or as a symbol.
The Ashburners and Sedgwicks continue your tradition and even ornament or variegate it with their own original force.
Red is, indeed, the chief element of beauty in floral nature, the prime ornament of the green garb of the vegetal kingdom.
Nothing more surely preserves any form of ornament from vulgarization than a general sense of fitness.
A variety of colors was the only ornament of their wooden or osier shields.
If this window seat is well made and finished, it will be an ornament to any home.
It has an incised maeander, as in No. 29, 7, and a palmette ornament painted in red.
Its portability will render it as available for travelling, as its beauty will render it an ornament to the drawing-room.
If they are not mere lumps, their ornament is hideously heavy and protrusive.
The only ornament which he allowed himself was the white wing of a ptarmigan.
The polygonal vesicles give a reticulate appearance to the dark-brown patches which ornament the surface of the wall.
He had a most marvelous power of invention and lavished ornament on everything, carrying the rocaille style to its utmost limit.
He may have it of scarlet, if he is fond of ornament, of webbing bis Afro murice tincta, or of scarlet and gold if he likes.
With due consideration for thy rank, alcade, thou shalt ornament a topping branch of your own beech tree.
The finish will be the same as the finish on the andiron, without any attempt at ornament.
I saw but one woman whose under lip was split and disfigured with an appendant ornament.
He placed it neatly on the crown-shaped ornament in the centre of the baldachin.
They are built of wood, balloon frame, with a plain pitch roof, without ornament.
Religion is the brightest ornament with which the young can bedeck themselves.
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