Adornment

Examples

• Mr. Jobling is buttoned up closer than mere adornment might require. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Across all her imaginative adornment of those whom she loved, there darted now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching quality. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The estate had formerly belonged to a gentleman of opulence and taste, who had bestowed some considerable attention to the adornment of his grounds. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To-day she was on her best behavior, however, and was seated with Maurice in the court, weaving a coronal of flowers for her adornment at dinner. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Others contribute to the maintenance of life, and to its external adornment and display. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If the public have the benefit, and if the country have the adornment, of this great grasp, it must be paid for in money or money's worth, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This night, this splendid assembly, these sumptuous apartments, and this adornment of your tearful girl, are all united to celebrate your abdication. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But there was another adornment of the hotel which Mr Dorrit had not bargained for. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Vast vacant crowds presently choked the streets, and every house and shop that possessed such adornments hung out flags. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Simple as the furniture was, it was set off by so many little adornments, of no value but for their taste and fancy, that its effect was delightful. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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