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  • And, I knew, that same emblematic letter adorned the front gates of Castle Anorak, his avatar's impregnable stronghold.†   (source)
  • In the heart of the house, where we had gathered after supper, freshly cut branches of long-needled pines lay over the fireplace mantle adorned by winding vines of winter holly and bright red Christmas berries.†   (source)
  • I hated Al and always hoped he'd end up in jail, but he, like the decks of cards adorned with pictures of naked women, was a fixture at the Stardust.†   (source)
  • I REACH MY street five minutes before I usually do, according to my watch—which is the only adornment Abnegation allows, and only because it's practical.†   (source)
  • Her long tress, artfully folded back and attached to the back of her head, was adorned with a garland of fresh jasmine flowers.†   (source)
  • A block away was the state capitol, adorned with three banners: the American flag, the white and red state flag of Alabama, and the battle flag of the Confederacy.†   (source)
  • Unlike the waifish, cookie-cutter blondes that adorned Harvard dorm room walls, this woman was healthy with an unembellished beauty and genuineness that radiated a striking personal confidence.†   (source)
  • There were luminous rosettes — green for Ireland, red for Bulgaria — which were squealing the names of the players, pointed green hats bedecked with dancing shamrocks, Bulgarian scarves adorned with lions that really roared, flags from both countries that played their national anthems as they were waved; there were tiny models of Firebolts that really flew, and collectible figures of famous players, which strolled across the palm of your hand, preening themselves.†   (source)
  • Flower boxes adorn the windows, foaming over with geraniums.†   (source)
  • A full-length portrait of her hated mother-in-law hung in the dining room, just as her own Cecil Beaton photographs adorned the walls of her bedroom.†   (source)
  • Ornate bows adorned the backs of chairs.†   (source)
  • An old man with a tailor's measuring tape around his neck, and a tailor's many pins adorning the lapels of his vest, came into the storeroom.†   (source)
  • Swags of green velvet have been hung around the windows, adorned with bouquets of real holly berries.†   (source)
  • Garnets and amethysts and black pearls adorned the metalwork, and here and there an emerald or ruby.†   (source)
  • But once you passed through the Colonial doorways, with only an occasional fan window or low relief pillar to suggest that a certain muted adornment was permissible, you entered an extravaganza of Pompadour splendor.†   (source)
  • The Commander continues with the service: "I will that women adorn themselves in modest apparel," he says, "with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; "But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.†   (source)
  • I remember the panel that questioned me—a group of six psychiatrists—and the official who'd led them, the man named Chian, who had a uniform adorned with medals.†   (source)
  • But now she was adorned in a beautiful white sleeveless gown that went down to her ankles, with a V-neck so low it was totally embarrassing.†   (source)
  • Adornments.†   (source)
  • He looked up at the monstrous grey machine, easily a hundred tons, adorned with a small red, white, and blue logo, and knew that it would be with them, loud and unceasing, as long as they were held there.†   (source)
  • Black Santa candles adorned the dining room table.†   (source)
  • Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.†   (source)
  • If Mammachi had guests, relatives, or perhaps an old friend visiting from Delhi, Chacko would appear at her tastefully laid dining table—adorned with her exquisite orchid arrangements and best china—and worry an old scab, or scratch the large, black oblong calluses he had cultivated on his elbows.†   (source)
  • My eyes were on a level with his enormous belt buckle adorned with a large Nazi swastika.†   (source)
  • Everywhere I go, upstairs or down, they all cast admiring glances at my feet, which are adorned by a pair of exceptionally beautiful (for times like these!)†   (source)
  • They pass around donation envelopes adorned with a drawing of a freight train.†   (source)
  • The sheath was wine red and smooth as glass, adorned solely by a strange black symbol etched into it.†   (source)
  • Chicharron was among them, his shirt adorned with blood stains.†   (source)
  • As if in a last measure of ornamentation, a filigree of blood in many of the once occupied halls and rooms, arabesques of red spattered in almost recognizable patterns along walls and tunnel ceilings, bedclothes caked hard with rust-red substance, and a central dining hall filled with the stench of food rotting from a meal abandoned weeks earlier, the floor and table, chairs and wall adorned with blood, stained clothing and shredded robes lying in mute heaps.†   (source)
  • A priest walked around on it, chanting blessings and shaking his sacred wand adorned with folded paper strips.†   (source)
  • Though it is from Ashima's father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers.†   (source)
  • Tall, slender cypresses adorned the driveway, along with a densely packed array of bushes of a flower I did not recognize.†   (source)
  • I gaze at the tops of buildings adorned with gargoyles and grand cornices.†   (source)
  • The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel.†   (source)
  • The box was modest by any standard, the only adornment a tiny crescent moon carved on its lid.†   (source)
  • Sophia appeared to her in a vision, dressed in a golden tunic adorned with costly jewels ...†   (source)
  • It was a doll, the doll of a little girl with raven hair and green eyes, adorned with lace and ribbons, sweet-faced and wide-eyed, its porcelain feet tinkling as Claudia put it into Madeleine's arms.†   (source)
  • Clary saw a girl about her own age with a smoothly shaved bald head leaning against a brown-skinned boy with dreadlocks, his face adorned with a dozen piercings.†   (source)
  • It was a metal flower, one of the roses that adorned the wrought iron posts and canopy of his bed frame.†   (source)
  • The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.†   (source)
  • A modest gold rectangular sign reading mayor adorned the door frame.†   (source)
  • According to Rubinstein, who has documented the Micronesian epidemic in a series of brilliant papers, Suicide ideation among adolescents appears widespread in certain Micronesian communities and is popularly expressed in recent songs composed locally and aired on Micronesian radio stations, and in graffiti adorning T-shirts and high school walls.†   (source)
  • He needed Transito Ariza then as he never had before, he needed her wise words, her head of a mock queen adorned with paper flowers.†   (source)
  • I pointed at the medical paraphernalia adorning her.†   (source)
  • May baskets, woven of paper and filled with spring flowers, adorned each plate.†   (source)
  • A narrow wedding band adorns the third finger of his left hand.†   (source)
  • Nothing adorns the wall by the third bed, as if the person who sleeps here is a visitor.†   (source)
  • Her only adornment was the St. Bridget's cross hanging from her neck.†   (source)
  • But neither Dick's physique nor the inky gallery adorning it made as remarkable an impression as his face, which seemed composed of mismatching parts.†   (source)
  • His shoes were polished, his nails were clean, his hat was well brushed, and a white handkerchief adorned his breast pocket.†   (source)
  • I could drape it over the head of the china cat that adorned the mantelpiece, but if Hattie woke early, she could rescue it before anyone saw.†   (source)
  • She's compact, about five-foot-six, with a lean figure that's adorned artfully in a short leather skirt and turtleneck, wide belt, and midcalf boots.†   (source)
  • A return after long wanderingswas the inscription adorning the stone above Franz's grave.†   (source)
  • When she'd served all the Danes and the lesser Geats, she stood, red hair flowing, her neck and arms adorned in gold, by the leader of the strangers.†   (source)
  • His sport coat was draped over the back of his chair, too broad to fit snugly over the palmettes that adorned the top rail.†   (source)
  • Now and then one saw another kind of import, meant strictly for adornment.†   (source)
  • The soldier in white was constructed entirely of gauze, plaster and a thermometer, and the thermometer was merely an adornment left balanced in the empty dark hole in the bandages over his mouth early each morning and late each afternoon by Nurse Cramer and Nurse Duckett right up to the afternoon Nurse Cramer read the thermometer and discovered he was dead.†   (source)
  • Sarah had adorned hers with some colorful accessories from home: a copper coil around her wrist, a cowryshell necklace, and a small colorful pin of a lion on her lapel.†   (source)
  • The park was an oasis of green lawns adorned with flower gardens.†   (source)
  • I stand, mute, allowing her to adorn me in a necklace I have indeed always wanted, but now it weighs me down, a shiny, hateful thing.†   (source)
  • One evening I was sitting with Nina as the dinner hour was drawing to a close, when Pop sat down with us, clad in her customized burgundy kitchen smock adorned with POP over the heart in white yarn, a la Laverne and Shirley.†   (source)
  • Generic, plain, white, letter-sized, cheap paper, probably purchased in a box of a hundred for five bucks, adorned with a twenty-five-cent stamp honoring an astronaut, and thick enough to contain several sheets of paper.†   (source)
  • The presidential seal seems to adorn every fixture.†   (source)
  • You can still see the shapes of noble towers and cities that once adorned the islands here.†   (source)
  • I stared up at the lush restaurant philodendrons that adorned and softened the high shelves separating each booth.†   (source)
  • And since Sam had died I'd been in the one shapeless smock of rough serge, Puritan black, innocent of any adornment.†   (source)
  • He began dating her on her annual two-week visits home, and although she still moved like a thirteen-year-old boy and abjured most feminine adornment, he found something so intensely feminine about her that he fell in love.†   (source)
  • Then he worked three more years to adorn them with uniforms and equipment.†   (source)
  • She wore a long, white satin gown, with embroidered black snowflakes adorning the bodice.†   (source)
  • He offered a hand adorned with a wide ring studded with onyx.†   (source)
  • She wore her long hair elaborately braided in the Tibetan fashion, under an urdwa, a wool cap adorned with beads and shells and antique coins.†   (source)
  • Wide silver bands that mark me as a slave adorn each wrist.†   (source)
  • Adorning oneself with flowers was the one Forest Dweller practice that Chelise enjoyed adopting more than perhaps any other.†   (source)
  • I, for one, had a lot rather been hearing Loomis up at Grandpa's house than listening to the Presbyterian preacher saying what's go'n happen to you if you dance, play cards, or spend your money on "adorn-ments," like fur coats.†   (source)
  • Of course, all of the silver jewelry was adorned with glaze.†   (source)
  • Petite yellow flowers adorned the lightweight fabric, and over her shoulders was draped a wool shawl made by her sister.†   (source)
  • No adornments anywhere.†   (source)
  • Her bugs and beetles and other insects often go beyond her obvious intentions, devouring the leaves and buds with which she has adorned her countryside.†   (source)
  • Back then a simple garland of leaves adorned the upper edge and only one message trickled down the first fold.†   (source)
  • ELESIN [slows down a bit, laughing] A tryst where the cockerel needs no adornment.†   (source)
  • This was the largest and most luxurious building in all of Ten-Towns, with a columned front and bas-relief artwork adorning all of its walls.†   (source)
  • A three-layer cake with scratch fudge frosting, adorned with piles of shaved curls of dark chocolate, was probably overkill, but I'm hoping it does its job and that they'll notice the cake instead of me.†   (source)
  • Automobiles were plentiful here, mostly bulky Ford and Chrysler sedans, and hefty trucks of various makes adorned with mud.†   (source)
  • Soon the streetlights would come on and slowly the neighborhood would light up, Christmas trees and all the adornments that Mrs. Poole had called sheer tackiness.†   (source)
  • Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes.†   (source)
  • Or did it all happen by ordination, by the slight chance of Being, that Veronica and the rest of us have actually one strain of life, and one strain only, and that the seeming variations are but particular contours, the everyday adornments?†   (source)
  • The speech of the land is grass and trees; the adornment is beasts and birds.†   (source)
  • Carload after carload pulled up, driven by white men in their leisure suits with their wives and daughters adorned with puffed-out hairstyles.†   (source)
  • It was an extravagant adornment for the evening.†   (source)
  • The only adornment was a bit of lace at the neck and jet buttons down the front.†   (source)
  • A faint mist of perspiration clung to her skin like aphrodisia, little blisters of sweat adorned the dark hair of her mound.†   (source)
  • They were never seen without a belt adorned with complex mechanisms which, it was generally believed, controlled their weight and enabled them to communicate with each other.†   (source)
  • Her eyes descended slowly, as if adorned with flowers, from his light blowing hair and his gathering brows down, down him, past his clever hands that caught and trapped so delicately away from her side, softly down to the ground that was a sandy shore.†   (source)
  • Though all the old adornments were long mouldered or destroyed, and though all was befouled and blasted with the comings and goings of the monster, Thorin knew every passage and every turn.   (source)
    adornments = decorations
  • Kohler took a sharp left and entered a wide hallway adorned with awards and commendations.†   (source)
  • Strong, bold carvings, usually of animals, adorned the houses and shops.†   (source)
  • The altar was a great slab of stone devoid of adornment.†   (source)
  • Today her turban was neon yellow, adorned with a stuffed canary and rickrack trim.†   (source)
  • The walls are adorned with prints of roosters and herbs and an arrangement of copper skillets.†   (source)
  • At the Village we stride down a long, shiny-clean hallway adorned with paintings by the residents.†   (source)
  • 2 came out covered with a fisherman's net adorned with seashells and fake kelp.†   (source)
  • Red marble floors sprawled out in all directions to walls adorned with vivid frescoes.†   (source)
  • His key ring, she had noticed, included an electronic fob adorned with four letters—USBG.†   (source)
  • The comb, in the shape of a half-circle, was a showy red color adorned with bright flowers.†   (source)
  • Her photograph adorned full-page cigarette ads in Life magazine.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci...Botticelli...Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.†   (source)
  • Simple makeup adorns her face, and her hair is flawless in its high ponytail.†   (source)
  • Adorned with the Lost Word of the ages, I offer myself by the left hand of my father.†   (source)
  • Saunière's ancient spelling of Roslin...the blade and chalice...the tomb adorned with masters' art.†   (source)
  • An ornate gold-framed mirror adorned the far wall, between two oil portraits in heavy frames.†   (source)
  • All interior adornments are those of Gianlorenzo Bernini.†   (source)
  • Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the archway was adorned with a tiny carved cherub.†   (source)
  • Then she saw a photo of his bare body ....adorned with the first traces of tattoos.†   (source)
  • Today, the shrines to man's accomplishments adorned the National Mall.†   (source)
  • A powerful man adorned in lavish purple and yellow regalia stared down at him.†   (source)
  • Some other sculptor did the interior adornments.†   (source)
  • Not a single photograph adorned the walls.†   (source)
  • The big square-cut gem that adorned his iron cuff glimmered redly.†   (source)
  • Max gazed up at the Grecian masks and statues that adorned the temple space.†   (source)
  • It is topped off by a hat of butterscotch velvet adorned with a single plume.†   (source)
  • A line of glyphs adorned the crossguard.†   (source)
  • Carvings of lush-hipped women and sensual men adorn its walls.†   (source)
  • Crystals adorned the pommels of their longswords and the crests of their greathelms.†   (source)
  • They ate fruit with their bread and adorned their tents with wild-flowers.†   (source)
  • For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves.†   (source)
  • It was a fantasy, but no more so than the mythical birds that adorned Snow Flower's shoes.†   (source)
  • The streetlamps around the square were adorned with Christmas wreaths and silver bells.†   (source)
  • One misstep and our heads will adorn the walls as did your father's.†   (source)
  • It was tall and square and adorned with numerous towers of differing height.†   (source)
  • It has a corsage of silk roses along one shoulder and short, high sleeves adorned with bows.†   (source)
  • She remembered those great wooden beams and the carved animal faces that adorned them.†   (source)
  • Purple flecks of light adorned the walls, projected by her blue scales onto the red fabric.†   (source)
  • The entrance is adorned by giant statues of Isis and Osiris.†   (source)
  • The golden circlet of kingship adorned his battle helm.†   (source)
  • A silver diadem adorned with jade and topaz rested upon her head.†   (source)
  • A stand of thick oak trees adorned the central hill.†   (source)
  • And he dropped his eyes to the mantelpiece, lifting one by one the objects that adorned it.†   (source)
  • Hacked out by men, dressed, painted, adorned by human hands.†   (source)
  • Adorning this monkish cell, it might have been the portrait of Christ.†   (source)
  • His khaki shirt was drenched in sweat, a multitude of tiny sweat blisters adorned his face.†   (source)
  • Tilted slightly to the starboard, it had hanging from its intact masts the dirty rags of its sails in the midst of its rigging, which was adorned with orchids.†   (source)
  • It is the room's only adornment.†   (source)
  • Considering their slovenliness, their casual approach to personal hygiene and adornment, they ought to have fainted at the attention.†   (source)
  • At Le Madri, rare is the dish that is not "finished" in some way or adorned with some kind of "reduction†   (source)
  • I picked up a biography of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara—whose face adorned a poster on the wall—that Lara's roommate had on her bookshelf, then I lay down next to Lara on the bottom bunk.†   (source)
  • Close behind the body stood Nasuada-grave, sable-cloaked, and strong in stature, though tears adorned her countenance.†   (source)
  • She is so altered from the woman I knew in the Capitol, stripped of the gaudy clothing, the heavy makeup, the dyes and jewelry and knickknacks she adorned her hair with.†   (source)
  • It was white, gauzy, and light, adorned with one long stream of green and blue tulle running along the right side.†   (source)
  • The assembly of brothers encircling him all were adorned in their full regalia of lambskin aprons, sashes, and white gloves.†   (source)
  • Harry looked around at the stacked shoes and umbrellas remem-bering how he used to wake every morning looking up at the underside of the staircase, which was more often than not adorned with a spider or two.†   (source)
  • New pictures adorned the walls, many of them showing people who appeared to be in pain, sporting grisly injuries or strangely contorted body parts.†   (source)
  • Their likenesses were painted on the linen in meticulous detail—hands crossed over their chests, jewelry adorning their necks, Egyptian kilt and sandals, and a host of protective hieroglyphs and images of the gods in a border on each side.†   (source)
  • Well, I've had Quidditch practice, Professor," said Harry, who had indeed been scheduling practices every time Slughorn had sent him a little, violet ribbon-adorned invitation.†   (source)
  • She has spent part of the night in her kitchen, praying before a tall candle adorned with the image of San Judas Tadeo.†   (source)
  • He prayed to God that the lightning of divine justice would strike Fermina Daza as she was about to give her vow of love and obedience to a man who wanted her for his wife only as a social adornment, and he went into rapture at the vision of the bride, his bride or no one's, lying face up on the flagstones of the Cathedral, her orange blossoms laden with the dew of death, and the foaming torrent of her veil covering the funerary marbles of the fourteen bishops who were buried in front of the main altar.†   (source)
  • So that our creative assembly could gather out of sight of the congregation, a tripartite screen had been placed in front of the rude manger—a gold-brocade cross adorned each purple panel of the triptych.†   (source)
  • Seated on a chair before the only table in the room was a woman in a ragged robe adorned with an embroidered dragon on its front.†   (source)
  • Some passages were rustic, adorned with nothing but their modest masonry, while others were more like the hallways in a castle or museum, with tapestries, framed antique maps, and oil paintings hanging from the walls.†   (source)
  • Those wanderings led him to the prostrate redlight district, where in other times bundles of banknotes had been burned to liven up the revels, and which at that time was a maze of streets more afflicted and miserable than the others, with a few red lights still burning and with deserted dance halls adorned with the remnants of wreaths, where the pale, fat widows of no one, the French great-grandmothers and the Babylonian matriarchs, were still waiting beside their photographs.†   (source)
  • And in fact, we geisha are so well pampered by our maids that we scarcely know how to look after ourselves or keep our own rooms orderly, much less adorn a room in a teahouse with flowers.†   (source)
  • According to custom, the ladies would arrive a few minutes before four in the afternoon, wearing white gloves, long dresses, and huge hats adorned with flowers or feathers.†   (source)
  • There are twelve velvet chairs arranged in a circle, and in each sits an official in full black uniform, his or her shoulders adorned with shining gold epaulettes, sipping from delicate glasses.†   (source)
  • One week later the invitations were printed, and two weeks after that she was adorned and adjusted by countless aunts, countless cousins hovering around her.†   (source)
  • Unlike the other elves, they had swords belted at their waists-hilts studded with beryls and garnets-and circlets that adorned their brows.†   (source)
  • At five o'clock in the morning, Blanca awoke with an upset stomach from the cloyingly sweet smell of the flowers with which her father had adorned the nuptial chamber.†   (source)
  • She was cringing behind the door, near the jams and jellies—as many cobwebs in her hair as adorned the relishes and chutneys and the cans of overused, spongy tennis balls that dated back to the days when my mother saved old tennis balls for Sagamore.†   (source)
  • He led her by the hand to the huge Venetian mirror that adorned one wall of their secret room, shook the dust from the cracked glass, and lit all the candles they had and arranged them around her.†   (source)
  • Then he met a maiden fair, Who was tall and strong and wise, Her brow adorned with Geda's Light, Which shone upon her trailing gown.†   (source)
  • He at times played a see-through, glass-topped piano, and he was proud of mentioning the hundreds of thousands of dollars that his pianos cost; one of his diamond rings was piano-shaped, and he never played any piano that was not adorned with an ornate candelabrum.†   (source)
  • She teaches him to memorize a four-line children's poem by Tagore, and the names of the deities adorning the ten-handed goddess Durga during pujo: Saraswati with her swan and Kartik with his peacock to her left, Lakshmi with her owl and Ganesh with his mouse to her right.†   (source)
  • Alone on his bed, unable to concentrate on what he was reading, he would imagine how Amanda looked naked, wrapped in her long black hair with all her noisy adornments, like an idol.†   (source)
  • At last he lay to sleep, looking up past the towering pines at the haze of stars that adorned the night sky.†   (source)
  • When I retire, Vernet told himself, I will fill my cellar with rare Bordeaux, adorn my salon with a Fragonard and perhaps a Boucher, and spend my days hunting for antique furniture and rare books in the Quartier Latin.†   (source)
  • Eragon took advantage of their stop to store some of his energy in the ruby that adorned Zar'roc's pommel.†   (source)
  • The walls of this antique-adorned living room were covered with classical art, primarily paintings with strange mythical themes.†   (source)
  • They sat at opposite ends of the table, which was set with a long tablecloth, a full service of china and glassware, and adorned with artificial flowers, because no real ones grew in that inhospitable region.†   (source)
  • The butler guided them through a lush marble foyer into an exquisitely adorned drawing room, softly lit by tassel-draped Victorian lamps.†   (source)
  • Adorning her altars, vestments, spires, and Scripture was the singular image of Christianity—that of a precious, sacrificed human being.†   (source)
  • Sophie's grandfather's final verse made direct reference to the Master Masons who adorned Rosslyn with their carved artistic offerings.†   (source)
  • Through the windows of the Hotel Frances he had seen the waiters pass with trays held high above their heads on which lay these treasures: tall glass goblets crowned with towers of whipped cream and adorned with beautiful glazed maraschino cherries.†   (source)
  • She had abandoned the leather clothes she usually wore in favor of a soft green tunic cinched at the waist with a girdle adorned with moonstones.†   (source)
  • Adorned with 140 statues of saints, martyrs, and angels, the Herculean edifice stretched two football fields wide and a staggering six long.†   (source)
  • In another, creepers blanketed the entire room, except for the floor, in a leafy green pelt adorned with trumpet-shaped flowers with the most delicate pink and white colors.†   (source)
  • The streets of Paris, Langdon had learned years ago, were adorned with 135 of these bronze markers, embedded in sidewalks, courtyards, and streets, on a north-south axis across the city.†   (source)
  • Seventy-five feet overhead, stained-glass skylights glistened between paneled beams adorned with rare "aluminum leaf"—a metal that was considered to be more precious than gold at one time.†   (source)
  • Langdon turned to the plaque: ART OF THE CHIGI CHAPEL While the architecture is Raphael's, all interior adornments are those of Gianlorenzo Bernini.†   (source)
  • They decorated the forest with colored bunting and lanterns, especially around the Menoa tree, while the tree itself was adorned with a lantern upon the tip of each branch, where they hung like glowing teardrops.†   (source)
  • He was wearing a blue paramedic's jumpsuit that zipped up the front and was adorned with cloth badges that apparently depicted his numerous qualifications.†   (source)
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