Ornamental circlets round the upper arm, which are not infrequently met with in pictures, must be regarded as gold-embroidered edgings or bands.
HAIR-PINS Besides the enseigne worn occasionally by ladies, the jewelled aigrettes of more frequent use, and the gold circlets set with precious stones, more elaborate forms of head-decoration were employed.
Exquisite circlets set with these gems are worn by the choir of singing and music-making angels on the wings of the Van Eycks' famous "Ghent Altar-piece" in the Berlin Museum.
On her forearms she wears one or more sea-shell bracelets, circlets of black coral or of copper wire, and a close-fitting ringlet of plaited nito.
Should any of these circlets be found entwined or stuck together when they reach the ground the omen is considered unlucky, for it denotes that one or more of the enemy will engage in a hand-to-hand fight with the attacking party.
If we look at the upper surface of such a coral in the living state we shall see a mouth surrounded by circlets of tentacles, much as in a sea-anemone.
They are fixed by a long, jointed stalk bearing circlets of sensitive threads and terminating in a cup, in the center of which the mouth is situated.
The menores of those days, it should be remembered, were heavy, cumbersome circlets that were worn upon the head like a sort of crown, and one did not go so equipped unless in real need of the device.
Light as a dream your days their circlets ran, From all that teaches brotherhood to Man Far, far removed!
Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom world so fair Vanishes, and a thousandcirclets spread, And each mis-shape the other.
The third or dotted zone contains circlets which range from six to nine, while the dots, which have been counted in a few cases only, have a wide range, the total number in some cases reaching three hundred and forty.
The circles in the third or dotted zone are neatly made and evenly spaced, and inclose circlets and conical pits.
The central circlet having been counted with each arm of the cross, the total number of circlets in each specimen will be one less than the sum of the three columns.
Professor Jones, also represents in the same work, page 109, a large fragment of a similar ornament which has apparently had seven circlets in the dotted zone and thirteen marginal bosses.
The dotted zone has seven circles with inclosedcirclets and pits.
I have counted the number of circlets on all of the specimens with which I am acquainted.
The specimen illustrated is ornamented with a design in minute conical pits, arranged precisely as are the circlets in the crosses and encircling bands of the New York and Ohio specimens.
The circlets and bosses of the outer zones gives them a pretty close resemblance to the month and year zones of the southern calendars.
Their attire was of black satin embroidered with gold, and goldencirclets were on their brows.
These are broadcirclets of pure gold to be worn round the neck, all covered over with ornamental designs.
The plural form refers to the several circlets of which it was woven.
The gold circlets were gone already, her head was shaven, the coarse white shroud had replaced the crimson scarf.
The gleam of the water-pot matched the dead gold circlets on the brown wrists and ankles; for Tara wore her savings thus, though she had no right to do so, being a widow.
Curly grain" refers to the figure of circlets and islets and contours, often of great beauty, caused by cutting a flat surface in crooked-grained wood.
Suddenly he caught sight of the princess; his face darkened, he uttered a low growl, and one of the iron circlets gave way with a crash.
He wore a black robe, and instead of a belt three iron circlets clasped his waist.
They affect circlets manufactured of calamus fibre, very slender, and covering the ankles by hundreds.
The Watusi women wore necklaces of copper bells, and to their ankles were attached circlets of small iron bells.
The popular Elves, who dance their circlets on the green, were evidently here in Spenser's mind.
In the shade those curls were of midnight darkness, but in sunshine, red rings of fire shone through like tiny circlets of flame.
The bright morning sunshine, falling in a radiant shower through the waving boughs of the pines, gilded the crimson glow on her thin cheeks and lips, and brought fiery circlets of flame through all her short, crisp, jetty curls.
Summit behind summit rise its pyramidal ranges, or down to the very grass sweep the circlets of its boughs; so that there is nothing but green cone and green carpet.
Fragrant tissue of flowers, golden circlets of clouds, are only fair when they meet the fondness of human thoughts, and glorify human visions of heaven.
In addition to these three or four circlets of plates, two other elements were once supposed essential to the ideal crinoid: the dorso-central and the oro-central.
The cup, in its simplest form, consists of two circlets of five plates.
This crinoid has only two circlets of plates in the cup, but the cup analysed in the adjoining diagram has in addition infrabasals and a centrale C.
Young slaves in gay garments, and nimble female servants with glittering gold circlets round their upper arms and on their ankles, were passing from couch to couch, and from one guest to another, offering refreshments.
Across one broad shoulder there hung a small, snowy-white poncho or cape, made of fine tappa cloth, and round his wrists and ankles were circlets of pearl shell, enclosed in a netting of black coir cinnet.
Around his arms were two white circlets of shell, and depending from his bull-like neck a little basket containing betel-nut and lime.
Their faces were painted in stripes of white and yellow; down their backs hung snake-skins, and round their waists rattled circlets of human bones, while each held a small forked wand in her shrivelled hand.
About their waists and beneath the right knees were bound circlets of white ox tails, while in their left hands they carried round shields measuring about twenty inches across.
That is the sort of thing which will be appropriate if we have such strains at all; and let the apparel of the singers be, not circlets and ornaments of gold, but the reverse.
Such lamentations should be reserved for evil days, and should be uttered only by hired mourners; and let the singers not wear circletsor ornaments of gold.
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