Ecclesiastical writers appear to make a great mistake in thus adorning the lives of their heroes, and only mentioning their edifying features.
The lunettes of the arches above the great cornice, wherein are two windows, are in stucco-work, with two children that appear to be adorning the windows.
Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill; 'Tis like the poisoning of a dart, Too apt before to kill.
He did so, and stood looking at a David Cox adorning the cream-panelled wall close by.
His mother Commonwealth found him adorning the highest walks of literature and law, and she bade him go and grace somewhat the rough character of political life.
I was sorry to observe many of the fairer part of these pilgrims spend too much of their heaps in adorning and beautifying their tenements of clay, in painting, whitewashing, and enameling them.
The story goes that the warriors of the cloister laid hand to their granite swords one night and gave plenty of occupation to those merry fellows who had amused themselves byadorning them with charcoal mustaches.
Rattray offered her, sitting in her father's study, with his hair very much brushed up on one side and very much flattened down on the other, a white tie and light-yellow duster adorning his spare person.
Jansoulet adorning himself with Jenkins's ribbon might very well have been guilty of illegality.
Another thing that bespeaks a man or woman inclining to wantonness and uncleanness, it is an adorningthemselves in light and wanton apparel.
The bas-reliefs adorning his palace, like those at Khorsabad, appear to have been accompanied by a complete series of his annals.
It is my hope that through the life of the spirit you may all become as one soul, as one tree adorning the rose garden of the Kingdom.
This is the bestowal of divine idealism, the crown adorning human heads.
Others substitute, or wear in addition, the many coloured feathers of birds, sewed together with singular art; but this is more for the sake of adorning than of covering the body.
Many Europeans spoil their beauty by eagerly imitating foreign customs, and always seeking new methods of adorning their persons.
While it thus discoursed of itself, a pearl-shell received it in its bosom, and fortune so favored it that it became a magnificent and precious pearl, worthy of adorning the diadem of kings.
Well, my son, I must use my poor art for you; and as for gold, we of our convent take it not except for the adorning of holy things, such as this shrine.
Their coats are narrow with figures of lions, birds, and other creatures, adorning them with curious ducks' feathers, which they call Xilotepec.
Young Kadiak wives secure the affectionate admiration of their husbands by tattooing the breast and adorning the face with black lines; while the Kuskoquim women sew into their chin two parallel blue lines.
Much time is spent by them in painting and adorning their person--red being a favorite color; feathers also form a necessary adjunct to their toilet.
Old Spanish writers tell us that the natives of Michoacan made much use of feathers for wearing-apparel and for adorning their bodies and heads.
Nearer to Christmas is a New Year's custom found in some |270| Alsatian villages: the adorning of the fountain with a "May.
The practice of adorning houses with evergreens at the January Kalends was common throughout the Empire, as we learn from Libanius, Tertullian, and Chrysostom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adorning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
