All 3 Uses of
adorn
in
Hard Times
- No graceful little adornment, no fanciful little device, however trivial, anywhere expressed her influence.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- Cultivate in them, while there is yet time, the utmost graces of the fancies and affections, to adorn their lives so much in need of ornament; or, in the day of your triumph, when romance is utterly driven out of their souls, and they and a bare existence stand face to face, Reality will take a wolfish turn, and make an end of you.†
Chpt 2.6
- The dreams of childhood — its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown, for then the least among them rises to the stature of a great Charity in the heart, suffering little children to come into the midst of it, and to keep with their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of this world, wherein it were better for all the children of Adam that they should oftener sun…†
Chpt 2.9
Definition:
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(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person