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  • From a distance she looked like a teenager, a colorful cap adorning long hair that blew in the wind.†   (source)
  • And, I knew, that same emblematic letter adorned the front gates of Castle Anorak, his avatar's impregnable stronghold.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Ornate bows adorned the backs of chairs.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 photograph adorned full-page cigarette ads in Life magazine.†   (source)
  • Swags of green velvet have been hung around the windows, adorned with bouquets of real holly berries.†   (source)
  • My eyes were on a level with his enormous belt buckle adorned with a large Nazi swastika.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Flower boxes adorn the windows, foaming over with geraniums.†   (source)
  • There were also precious stones, gold masks adorned with red and white feathers, and stone statues embedded with jewels.†   (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)
  • Adornments.†   (source)
  • Considering their slovenliness, their casual approach to personal hygiene and adornment, they ought to have fainted at the attention.†   (source)
  • Kit curtsied, noting with satisfaction that this was one woman who did not despise vain adornment.†   (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)
  • Though it is from Ashima's father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers.†   (source)
  • Garnets and amethysts and black pearls adorned the metalwork, and here and there an emerald or ruby.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Chicharron was among them, his shirt adorned with blood stains.†   (source)
  • Tall, slender cypresses adorned the driveway, along with a densely packed array of bushes of a flower I did not recognize.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • To my right there was a side table adorned with photographs in frames.†   (source)
  • I gaze at the tops of buildings adorned with gargoyles and grand cornices.†   (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)
  • It was a metal flower, one of the roses that adorned the wrought iron posts and canopy of his bed frame.†   (source)
  • The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel.†   (source)
  • Sophia appeared to her in a vision, dressed in a golden tunic adorned with costly jewels …†   (source)
  • The comb, in the shape of a half-circle, was a showy red color adorned with bright flowers.†   (source)
  • Now and then one saw another kind of import, meant strictly for 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)
  • A narrow wedding band adorns the third finger of his left hand.†   (source)
  • I pointed at the medical paraphernalia adorning her.†   (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)
  • The park was an oasis of green lawns adorned with flower gardens.†   (source)
  • Nothing adorns the wall by the third bed, as if the person who sleeps here is a visitor.†   (source)
  • His shoes were polished, his nails were clean, his hat was well brushed, and a white handkerchief adorned his breast pocket.†   (source)
  • Wide silver bands that mark me as a slave adorn each wrist.†   (source)
  • A modest gold rectangular sign reading mayor adorned the door frame.†   (source)
  • May baskets, woven of paper and filled with spring flowers, adorned each plate.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Then he worked three more years to adorn them with uniforms and equipment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I stared up at the lush restaurant philodendrons that adorned and softened the high shelves separating each booth.†   (source)
  • You can still see the shapes of noble towers and cities that once adorned the islands here.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Back then a simple garland of leaves adorned the upper edge and only one message trickled down the first fold.†   (source)
  • The box was modest by any standard, the only adornment a tiny crescent moon carved on its lid.†   (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)
  • She wore a long, white satin gown, with embroidered black snowflakes adorning the bodice.†   (source)
  • A return after long wanderingswas the inscription adorning the stone above Franz's grave.†   (source)
  • Her only adornment was the St. Bridget's cross hanging from her neck.†   (source)
  • The streetlamps around the square were adorned with Christmas wreaths and silver bells.†   (source)
  • Adorning oneself with flowers was the one Forest Dweller practice that Chelise enjoyed adopting more than perhaps any other.†   (source)
  • Petite yellow flowers adorned the lightweight fabric, and over her shoulders was draped a wool shawl made by her sister.†   (source)
  • And since Sam had died I'd been in the one shapeless smock of rough serge, Puritan black, innocent of any adornment.†   (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)
  • 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 presidential seal seems to adorn every fixture.†   (source)
  • ELESIN [slows down a bit, laughing] A tryst where the cockerel needs no adornment.†   (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)
  • It was an extravagant adornment for the evening.†   (source)
  • Of course, all of the silver jewelry was adorned with glaze.†   (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)
  • 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 only adornment was a bit of lace at the neck and jet buttons down the front.†   (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)
  • He offered a hand adorned with a wide ring studded with onyx.†   (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)
  • Automobiles were plentiful here, mostly bulky Ford and Chrysler sedans, and hefty trucks of various makes adorned with mud.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • A faint mist of perspiration clung to her skin like aphrodisia, little blisters of sweat adorned the dark hair of her mound.†   (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)
  • Black Santa candles adorned the dining room table.†   (source)
  • Kohler took a sharp left and entered a wide hallway adorned with awards and commendations.†   (source)
  • His key ring, she had noticed, included an electronic fob adorned with four letters—USBG.†   (source)
  • The altar was a great slab of stone devoid of adornment.†   (source)
  • Simple makeup adorns her face, and her hair is flawless in its high ponytail.†   (source)
  • At the Village we stride down a long, shiny-clean hallway adorned with paintings by the residents.†   (source)
  • The walls are adorned with prints of roosters and herbs and an arrangement of copper skillets.†   (source)
  • Red marble floors sprawled out in all directions to walls adorned with vivid frescoes.†   (source)
  • Today her turban was neon yellow, adorned with a stuffed canary and rickrack trim.†   (source)
  • Da Vinci… Botticelli… Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.†   (source)
  • An ornate gold-framed mirror adorned the far wall, between two oil portraits in heavy frames.†   (source)
  • Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies.†   (source)
  • Overhead, the archway was adorned with a tiny carved cherub.†   (source)
  • Adorned with the Lost Word of the ages, I offer myself by the left hand of my father.†   (source)
  • Then she saw a photo of his bare body …. adorned with the first traces of tattoos.†   (source)
  • Some other sculptor did the interior adornments.†   (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)
  • All interior adornments are those of Gianlorenzo Bernini.†   (source)
  • Max gazed up at the Grecian masks and statues that adorned the temple space.†   (source)
  • It was adorned with various small domes and minarets.†   (source)
  • Not a single photograph adorned the walls.†   (source)
  • It is topped off by a hat of butterscotch velvet adorned with a single plume.†   (source)
  • The big square-cut gem that adorned his iron cuff glimmered redly.†   (source)
  • A silver diadem adorned with jade and topaz rested upon her head.†   (source)
  • It was a fantasy, but no more so than the mythical birds that adorned Snow Flower's shoes.†   (source)
  • Crystals adorned the pommels of their longswords and the crests of their greathelms.†   (source)
  • For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves.†   (source)
  • Carvings of lush-hipped women and sensual men adorn its walls.†   (source)
  • Strong, bold carvings, usually of animals, adorned the houses and shops.†   (source)
  • One misstep and our heads will adorn the walls as did your father's."†   (source)
  • They ate fruit with their bread and adorned their tents with wild-flowers.†   (source)
  • A stand of thick oak trees adorned the central hill.†   (source)
  • It has a corsage of silk roses along one shoulder and short, high sleeves adorned with bows.†   (source)
  • The golden circlet of kingship adorned his battle helm.†   (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)
  • She remembered those great wooden beams and the carved animal faces that adorned them.†   (source)
  • It was tall and square and adorned with numerous towers of differing height.†   (source)
  • A line of glyphs adorned the crossguard.†   (source)
  • Hacked out by men, dressed, painted, adorned by human hands.†   (source)
  • And he dropped his eyes to the mantelpiece, lifting one by one the objects that adorned it.†   (source)
  • His khaki shirt was drenched in sweat, a multitude of tiny sweat blisters adorned his face.†   (source)
  • Adorning this monkish cell, it might have been the portrait of Christ.†   (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)
  • And then I found myself atop a slender wedge of ice, adorned with a discarded oxygen cylinder and a battered aluminum survey pole, with nowhere higher to climb.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The assembly of brothers encircling him all were adorned in their full regalia of lambskin aprons, sashes, and white gloves.†   (source)
  • It is the room's only adornment.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Unimaginable headdresses adorned astonishing bodies so eager for more life, they frolicked as though caught in a circus tent, not a single bead of water.†   (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)
  • 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…†   (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)
  • The windows were adorned with ruched curtains, and plastic flowers added a touch of color to the balconies.†   (source)
  • They were meant to sit at the feet of their master before a fire in a manor house—not adorn the hands of a willow in the lobby of a grand hotel….†   (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)
  • The long colonnades filled up quickly with gods in their glory, clattering their adornments, laughing, casting glances to see who else had been invited.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Were one to ask Larousse to define the word cabinet, the acclaimed lexicographer might reply: A piece of furniture often adorned with decorative detail in which items may be stowed away from sight.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • A priest walked around on it, chanting blessings and shaking his sacred wand adorned with folded paper strips.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The following day, workmen and trucks laden down with flowers arrived at the Palace of Unions on Theatre Square, and within a matter of hours the building's facade was adorned with a portrait of Stalin three stories high.†   (source)
  • The butler guided them through a lush marble foyer into an exquisitely adorned drawing room, softly lit by tassel-draped Victorian lamps.†   (source)
  • The walls of this antique-adorned living room were covered with classical art, primarily paintings with strange mythical themes.†   (source)
  • Saunière's ancient spelling of Roslin… the blade and chalice… the tomb adorned with masters' art.†   (source)
  • Sophie's grandfather's final verse made direct reference to the Master Masons who adorned Rosslyn with their carved artistic offerings.†   (source)
  • Adorned with 140 statues of saints, martyrs, and angels, the Herculean edifice stretched two football fields wide and a staggering six long.†   (source)
  • Adorning her altars, vestments, spires, and Scripture was the singular image of Christianity—that of a precious, sacrificed human being.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Sure enough, seated around the altar, adorned in their long silk gloves, Masonic aprons, and glistening jewels, were some of the country's most powerful men.†   (source)
  • The room was a lushly adorned Renaissance library complete with inlaid bookshelves, oriental carpets, and colorful tapestries …. and yet the room bristled with high-tech gear-banks of computers, faxes, electronic maps of the Vatican complex, and televisions tuned to CNN.†   (source)
  • If he could find it and inscribe it on the top of his head—a sacred location in itself—then he would no doubt consider himself perfectly adorned and ritualistically prepared to ….†   (source)
  • Abruptly, Mal'akh drew his gaze upward, past the double-headed phoenix on his chest, past the collage of ancient sigils adorning his face, and directly to the top of his head.†   (source)
  • And as if that were not enough, leading solely and directly to the castle's main entrance stood the famous Bridge of Angels …. a dramatic approachway adorned by twelve towering angels carved by none other than Bernini himself.†   (source)
  • From this rare vantage point, the fifteen-foot-tall figures that adorned the nearly five thousand square feet of the Capitol Dome were visible in astonishing detail.†   (source)
  • The massive square room was adorned with symbols and bathed in moonlight, which shone down through the oculus at the pinnacle of the ceiling high above.†   (source)
  • Adorning every one-dollar bill in circulation, the Unfinished Pyramid waited patiently for its shining capstone, which hovered above it as a reminder of America's yet-unfulfilled destiny and the work yet to be done, both as a country and as individuals.†   (source)
  • They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†   (source)
  • This city had been conceived and designed by Master Masons—George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Pierre L'Enfant—powerful minds who adorned their new capital with Masonic symbolism, architecture, and art.†   (source)
  • As was tradition, he had begun this journey adorned in the ritualistic garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows, his loose-fitting shirt gaping open to reveal his pale chest, his left pant leg rolled up to the knee, and his right sleeve rolled up to the elbow.†   (source)
  • It was thus essential to adorn the office of the President, the highest office, with commensurate "dignity and splendor."†   (source)
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