The roses in a bowl that served as a centerpiece were still fresh and were a pathetic reminder of the mistress of the house.
Dinner was announced immediately and they sat down at a round table whose centerpiece of sweet peas brought a coolness into the room.
The centerpiece of the upcoming celebration was an enormous balance, the scale on which Arangbar's yearly weight would be taken.
The centerpiece was an elaborately glazed wild boar the maharana had bagged personally from horseback with a spear.
The centerpiece is of flowers; for this never choose a strongly scented flower like hyacinths or narcissi.
At one long remembered shower, the centerpiece was a white linen parasol, beautifully embroidered and the gift of the hostess.
A centerpiece for table decoration, usually consisting of several dishes or receptacles of different sizes grouped together in an ornamental design.
An elaborate silver centerpiece given to Admiral Schley in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1902 consists of a bowl, vase, and candelabra made to be fitted into one unit (fig.
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It would instead be the centerpiece of this new memorial to Japanese technology.
I began yanking down swords, starting with the aforementioned centerpiece of the collection, scrutinizing them in the light.
See that centerpiece and doilies are laid at even distance.
I called it the centerpiece of my efforts to reform and reorganize the government.
Reemployment, not unemployment, must become the centerpiece of our economic renewal.
After looking at the centerpiece and studying the different stitches the girls went to a window and looked out.
This lovely autumn afternoon they were going to Sallie Davis's to look at a wonderful centerpiece done by her mother.
Poverty reduction will be the centerpiece of economic policy for the next few years.
In February 2001, Bahraini voters approved a referendum on the National Action Charter - the centerpiece of the amir's political liberalization program.
Between these stately guardians of the floral centerpiece may be placed small dishes containing preserved ginger, macaroons or bon-bons.
A big doll, literally covered with flowers, makes a pretty centerpiecefor the table.
Have for the centerpiece a huge bowl of jacque-minot roses.
At a typical Scotch tea the centerpiece is an oblong piece of satin in any preferred color edged with a ruffle of white lace.
The centerpiece is a large basket filled with tulips of different colors.
In the center of this is a tall vase holding a miscellaneous bouquet, and at the corners of the centerpiece are small vases of similar design holding similar bouquets.
The centerpiece will be in the form of a huge cake placed on a high glass dish.
The centerpiece is of moss and ferns with arbutus blossoms peeping out, with a border of green and white fairy lamps mushroom form.
Immediately the great, disheveled table, brilliantly littered with crystal, frumpled napkins, and a great centerpiece of fruits and flowers, was in the confusion of disorganization.
When I finish this centerpiece I start me a dozen doilies too.
Mrs. Shongut craned her neck round the centerpiece of pink carnations.
If the special-occasion cloth seems to be too costly, two short cloths of duplicate pattern can be substituted for it, the centerpiece and a clever arrangement of decorations hiding the joining.
The center of the table must be exactly under the chandelier, and covered with the pretty centerpiece with its dish of ferns, a vase of posies, or a potted plant in a white crinkled tissue-paper pinafore.
The centerpiece on the table was an arrangement of bachelors' buttons and at every place was a tiny toy wheelbarrow filled with candies, a wee dressed-up dolly dame perched atop of each load.
The dining-room table was lovely with pink candle-light and pink cosmos as a centerpiece on a mat of oak leaves.
The centerpiece may be a bowl of pink roses--to match in number the years of the guest of honor.
The centerpiece at the supper-table is a big bunch of daisies, and each child has a place-card on which is painted or drawn a daisy face, the petals forming a cap frill.
The table had as decorations a centerpiece of pussy willows and yellow tulips, and the candle shades were made of yellow parchment paper with black silhouettes of cats running around them.
In any case, arrange for the dining table a centerpiece of a shiny tin funnel filled with bright garden or wild flowers surrounded by a frill of lace paper to represent an old-fashioned, formal bouquet.
There was a centerpiece of red roses, red silk candle shades shading white candles in clear glass candlesticks, and tiny green Christmas ferns scattered on the white cloth.
Sprouted sweetpotato produced this attractive centerpiece for the home table] There is no more applicable situation for the old adage, "Practice what you preach," than in the teaching of art.
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In the center was a glowing centerpiece made of three scarlet paper hearts, each about eight inches high placed with the pointed ends up and the lower corners touching so that they made a three-sided cage over the electric light.
Half way between the centerpiece and the plates a line of dancing figures ran around the table linked to each other by chains made of wee golden hearts.
Pilaf-Stuffed Crown Roast With Herb Gravy could be the centerpiece to a Greek feast, including a classic Greek soup, artichoke casserole, and salad with feta cheese.
Have a centerpiece of scarlet geraniums, poppies or nasturtiums, white geraniums, daisies, sweet peas and blue cornflowers.
A charming centerpiece which smart florists are suggesting is of white hyacinths and violets.
A very effective centerpiece consists of a swinging basket supported by ribbons attached to the chandelier or the ceiling.
Either one-half of the centerpiece is formed of each with its own foliage, or large clusters of each are massed together.
Another pretty centerpiece is a massive silver bowl, or a fancy Indian basket piled high with pretty fruits, nuts, nut burrs and the vine and berries of the bittersweet.
Have table prettily decorated with a centerpieceof ice and ferns.
Or for thecenterpiece use a large toy cannon decorated with flags.
The centerpiece may consist of three wreaths joined together and laid along the "backbone" of the table.
According to the first steps of Cromwell's plan, after this centerpiece of the Caribbees had been subdued, part of the fleet was to continue on to any other of the settlements that remained defiant.
But for the Council and their wives, Briggs had dressed an expensive imported beef as the centerpiece of the table.
A windmill for a centerpiece and copies of the wooden shoes for bonbons and nuts.
Decorate the table with centerpiece and plate mats or large white cloth with bowl of flowers or fruits in the center.
Candles may be used for a centerpiece and also to outline the figures representing the number of years.
The housekeeper who cannot make changes in her table decoration finds that a mirror centerpiece is a background that multiplies the beauty of her flowers, fruit, leaves, or whatever may constitute the decoration.
The centerpiece and doilies may be embroidered with good effect in simple outline or rows of outline, known as the "Bulgarian stitch.
The instructions given for the clematiscenterpiece will be ample for working these doilies.
As a matter of fact no two needleworkers will use the same quantity of silk to work the same centerpiece or doily.
For a Christmas or New Year's present nothing is more appropriate than a centerpiece or doily embroidered with the handsome holly.
This remark applies well to this design, since it can be quickly worked, and it will prove very charming and effective for either a centerpieceor doily.
Full directions for working jewels are given in the instructions for the Jewel Centerpiece Design No.
If desired the entire work on the centerpiece may be done with Corticelli Etching Silk, and the effect will be really very beautiful, and novel as well, but the figures of the doilies are too small for such treatment.
Mrs. Wellborn, for instance, whose heirlooms are better than her income, rarely uses flowers, but has a wonderful oldcenterpiece that is ornament enough in itself.
Or if the table is a refectory one, instead of centerpiece and doilies, the table is set with a runner not reaching to the edge at the side, but falling over both ends.
The table is set with a rather coarse cream-colored linen drawn-work centerpiece (a tea cloth actually) big enough to cover all but three inches of table edge.
Next goes the centerpiece which is always the chief ornament.
The centerpiece is anywhere from 30 inches to a yard and a half square, on a square or round table, and from half a yard to a yard wide by length in proportion to the length of a rectangular table.
But there are a long centerpiece of hemstitched crash and crash doilies, and there are "real" napkins, and at each plate a birch bark napkin ring with a number on it.
Avoid a centerpiece that is so high as to obstruct the view across the table.
The table should be carefully set so that the centerpiece is exactly in the center and the guests’ places precisely opposite each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centerpiece" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
