Decorations
[dekə'reiʃəns]
Examples
- Did you ever get the decorations? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- For decorations already painted it suffices to apply it to the back and wooden frames. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dejah Thoris and I then fell to examining the architecture and decorations of the beautiful chambers of the building we were occupying. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The veins of this leaf in the decorations over your head, were his finger-joints, a hundred and fifty years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I shan't venture to say anything at all about it, seeing that I never heard the story,' observed the owner of the Mosaic decorations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Believe me, I got to work for my decorations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Not to mention decorations and kissing on both cheeks, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A large cabinet contains awards, decorations, and medals presented to Edison, accumulating in the course of a long career, some of which may be seen in the illustration opposite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The late repairs and decorations add both to the comeliness and the comfort of the Coliseum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Montague