One might have imagined it to be a great British festival, for the streets were bedecked everywhere with the British colours displayed by the Chinese who were under British protection.
A special police force was appointed to keep order on this occasion, each member of which was gorgeously painted and bedecked with eagle feathers, and carried in his hand a long switch with which to threaten the encroaching throng.
All the people came out of the teepees, and sitting by twos and threes upon the ground, bedecked with savage finery, they watched and listened.
Soon the chief priest, hideously painted, bedecked with feathers, and hung with skins of snakes and weasels, came skipping in, followed by six others similarly arrayed.
Then was the faire Dodonian tree far seene Upon seaven hills to spread his gladsome gleame, And conquerours bedecked with his greene, Along the bancks of the Ausonian streame.
A short time later White Bear was back at Pierre's side with the feather-bedecked calumet and a lit candle protected by a glass chimney.
They trudged out the door with it and slid it on the bed of a flower-bedecked farm wagon.
The lean, veined neck, bedecked with diamonds, was still poised proudly on the bent shoulders.
They were still further bedecked with a profusion of false jewellery, cotton lace and fringe, ribbons streaming from every curve and angle, and shoes as gaudy as the flowers on their bonnets.
Unsuspicious of evil, and bridling at gratified vanity at this attention from a stranger of such distinguished mien, the spoil-bedecked fair one replied to him as she had done to others.
Her firlgers were bedecked with costly rings, and upon her head she wore an ornament of singular device, which soon attracted universal attention.
He looked like a victim bedecked by the priestesses of some old fane of Hellenic loveliness, and proud of his impending fate.
After crossing the line and entering "the land of cotton and the corn," a new and strange panorama began to open, and continued to enfold the vast fields bedecked in the snowy whiteness of their fruitage.
Yet gallantly bedecked was the cave, as any old armorial hall hung round with banners and arras.
This seclusion is repeated at her second and third monthly periods, but when the third is over she is brought to her husband bedecked with savage finery.
Next day she flaunts before the public in her gayest attire, her head bedecked with ornaments and her face mottled with red paint.
But, at any rate, one day a fat, podgy lady, vulgarlybedecked in satin and gold, goes up to Tell and points her splendid white parasol right at his chest.
He could climb hills now fast enough; and he was never tired wandering in the dark pine forests, or over the mountains that were now bedecked in the glorious purple of the heather's bloom.
At her place near here, Bath Easton Villa, she has set up a Roman vase bedecked with myrtle, and into this we drop our bouts-rimes.
More than one pedestrian paused to look back at the tall man carrying the beautiful child, bedecked like a young princess, and more than one passenger in the street cars smiled at them both.
The unsightly sagebrush was transformed into every conceivable shape, and its stubby, unyielding branches bedecked with soft, fleecy snow that completely hid their identity and brought their grotesque forms out in cameo like relief.
One slumbering form was bedecked with feathers and frills.
Despite the gaudy garments, the paint, the fringed and beaded buckskin leggins--all the Indian accouterments and garments which bedecked this person, he would have been known anywhere as a white man.
If his circumstances permit he is royally seated, it may be, upon a gaudily bedecked elephant, and she is conveyed in a closely covered palanquin.
With the flowers of rhetoric My song is ornamented: like the breast Of some fair virgin all bedecked with stones Which shine like bright stars in the firmament.
