Decorated

Examples

• There was a public holiday; the streets were decorated by gay banners and made glad with music. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You will be decorated. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I would have had the town-house newly furnished and decorated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In one picture a still more astonishing appearance was produced, by the change of the interior of a beautifully painted and decorated church into a mass of charred ruins. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The fat turkey was a sight to behold, when Hannah sent him up, stuffed, browned, and decorated. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He said that if the thing went well he would see that I was decorated. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The bare walls had been coloured green, evidently by an unskilled hand, and were poorly decorated with a few prints. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That way you'll be decorated. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• With his new knowledge he had soon fashioned pottery, decorated with rustic scenes, and exquisitely enameled, that all lovers of works of art desired at any price. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The book ceased to be a highly decorated toy or a scholar's mystery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They quarried the clay, manipulated it, constructed and decorated the ware, burned it in a rude furnace and wore it out in a hundred uses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Here the hero is decorated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He has just been decorated and awarded high honors by the French Government. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The corridors at Hurlstone have their walls largely decorated with trophies of old weapons. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Haroun-al-Raschid himself was a wine-bibber, and his palace was decorated with graven images of birds and beasts and men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On the cheap grades there are no blind rails, the bolts being decorated with brass caps. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The room was decorated with the busts of many of them, and he described their characters to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Ten men had been so decorated when the aide called out, John Carter, air scout! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• When the work was completed it was exposed for some days in the sun, and while still soft the shoes were decorated as the fancy or taste of the maker suggested. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He decorated his court with poets, playwrights, philosophers, and scientific men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You should have seen the dining-room that day--how richly it was decorated, how brilliantly lit up! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Emma had not to listen to such paradings againto any so exclusively addressed to herselfso disgustingly decorated with a dear Miss Woodhouse. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mr. Pumblechook's own room was given up to me to dress in, and was decorated with clean towels expressly for the event. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You decorated our towns with edifices, you bestowed on us useful establishments, you gifted the soil with abundant fertility. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Hideous coloured diagrams of the ravages of hideous diseases decorated the barren buff-coloured walls. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The chariots themselves were large, commodious, and gorgeously decorated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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