Was it for her sake that Caesar had thus decked himself and looked in the mirror?
The reserve of her calm and maidenly nature broke down; in her ecstasy she snatched from her shoulder the wreath of ivy with which Diodoros had decked her, and waved it aloft.
All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys.
I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I leave that false splendor to badly organized souls.
The bourgeois decked out in their Sunday finery who passed the elephant of the Bastille, were fond of saying as they scanned it disdainfully with their prominent eyes: "What's the good of that?
Fourth Section Tragedies, Comedies, and Dreams Our Guardian Angels and Their Children Where a river roars in rapids And doves in maples fret, Where peace has decked the pastures Our guardian angels met.
The May-pole is brought home, garlanded, and decked with ribbons, to the sound of pipe and tabor, surrounded by a laughing throng of sturdy yeomen and buxom maidens.
Louisa, the old woman presented in the first scene of our tale, decked the unfortunate girl in her bridal robes, and went with her to the chapel, where her father and Radetsky awaited her.
The great hall was decked for the wedding-feast, and the table glittered with silver.
Let all the people be gathered together to see the sight, and let the Princess be arrayed in her richest dress and decked with all her jewels.
Early that morning the lads and lasses of the village, gailydecked with flowers, would go merrily singing from house to house.
Come, sir, and you will see her presently, all dressed up and decked with jewels.
Eugenie looked at Danglars, much surprised that one flower of her crown of pride, with which she had so superblydecked herself, should be disputed.
A second hearse, decked with the same funereal pomp, was brought to M.
Andrea Cavalcanti, as deckedup and gay as if he were going to marry a princess.
He saw before him an officer delegated to enforce the law, and perfectly well knew that it would be as unavailing to seek pity from a magistrate decked with his official scarf, as to address a petition to some cold marble effigy.
Each was thoughtfully provided with an awning or wooden roof stretching across the road to give shade to travellers, who were lured to pause by bottles of bright-coloured syrups, wine, and beer displayed on flower-decked tables.
Every one who had armour wore it, flags and banners were carried, drums and trumpets were sounded; the horses were decked out in rich caparisons, and as glittering and formidable a show was made as possible.
I should better have liked to see you decked with flowers in the mansion of the Comte de la Fere.
Even garments and jewelry were lent on great occasions, and when that dear old soul Mrs. Simons went to a wedding she was decked out in contributions from a dozen wardrobes.
The chiefs on these occasions decked themselves with gorgeous cockatoo feathers, and painted their bodies with red and yellow ochre and other glaring pigments, each tribe having its own distinguishing marks.
Thou hast wrought me pain in stealing away the thoughts which were soaring in mid air decked in their brightest robes.
From the court it passed into circles of learning, and grave jurists and administrators, poets and scholars, set about the refining of language and literaturedecked out in all the fopperies of the fashionable craze.
There was the new yacht, already decked from bow to stern with the tiny flags which I had been collecting for weeks past.
Afterwards the bunch was plaited, decked with ribbons, and hung up in a conspicuous place on the wall of the kitchen till the next Maiden was brought in.
Thus in some places the last patch of standing rye was called the Waul-rye; a stick decked with flowers was inserted in it, and the ears were fastened to the stick.
At the close of the reaping the cat is again decked out with ribbons and ears of corn; then they dance and make merry.
Its horns are deckedwith a wreath of flowers and corn-ears, and its neck and body are also encircled with garlands and ribbons.
In other farms on the Gareloch the last handful of corn was called the Maidenhead or the Head; it was neatly plaited, sometimes decked with ribbons, and hung in the kitchen for a year, when the grain was given to the poultry.
In the neighbourhood of Balquhidder, Perthshire, the last handful of corn is cut by the youngest girl on the field, and is made into the rude form of a female doll, clad in a paper dress, and decked with ribbons.
It was then decked out with ribbons and brought home in triumph to the music of bagpipes and fiddles.
At Westerhuesen, in Saxony, the last corn cut is made in the shape of a woman decked with ribbons and cloth.
He is congratulated by his comrades and has the honour of carrying the nosegay or rather the small fir-tree decked with ribbons which marks the end of the haymaking or of the harvest.
The Old Man is a great bundle of corn decked with flowers and ribbons, and fashioned into a rude semblance of the human form.
For she who places the last sheaf on the waggon is called the Old Man, and is completely swathed in corn-stalks; she is also decked with flowers, and flowers and a helmet of straw are placed on her head.
A puppet is made out of the wheaten straw and ears in the likeness of a man and decked with flowers.
My informant (a woman) told me that she had seen it decked and placed at the head of the bed.
About Luneburg, also, the woman who binds the last corn is decked with a crown of corn-ears and is called the Corn-goat.
Formerly a Mell-doll was made out of a sheaf of corn decked with flowers and wrapped in such of the reapers' garments as could be spared.
Passing along a passage I noticed a little altar in a recess, with a statue of the Virgin decked with roses and wild flowers.
Another day I see this crier going round the town accompanied by a boy every available part of whose person is decked with ribbons, and all kinds of things ordinarily sold by drapers and haberdashers.
Within sounded a psalm; a coffin, decked with flowers, was borne forth.
And then he told about Christmas-eve, when he was deckedout with cakes and candles.
And he looked forward with joy to the morrow, when he hoped to be decked out again with lights, playthings, fruits, and tinsel.
But at the end, as they all crowded round the open grave to take their last look at the flower-decked coffin, Mat O'Brien stood for a moment by his wife's side.
She went with Michael to Highgate to choose his last resting-place, and no other hands but hers arranged the flowers that decked the chamber of death.
But the glory of the unlooked-for triumph seemed strangely lessened by the reflection that I had no just claim to the funereal plumage with which I had so happily decked myself.
It is as if God lighted His lamp and decked His altar behind those bronze doors, and waited for the incense and chant of Liberty to open them and enter His choir, instead of passing by.
It was a procession of children decked in uniform, and having nothing military about them but their apparel, nothing manly but the dress-sword at their side.
He could take refuge in the quiet, silent grave under the turf, which would soon be decked with flowers over his agonized breast.
The girl wore the omnipresent shirt waist (of pretty blue and white tints, with snowy cuffs and collar), and her green straw hat wasdecked with blue cornflowers, from which I inferred that she had an eye on the fashions.
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