My noble, proud mistress who smiles and is happy, seeing nothing, decking that other one in her best, and never weary of praising that one’s beauty and sweetness.
Mademoiselle de Monesthrol delighted in decking out her protégé in the best she had; nothing was too good to heighten the charm of the blonde beauty.
So becalm but to convulse so, Decking heads and breaking hearts?
Hence the practice in Italy of decking mangers at Christmas time with moss, sow-thistle, cypress, and holly.
And, in all probability, some other Christmas customs are adopted from the festivals of the ancients, as decking with evergreens and mistletoe (relics of Druidism) and the wassail bowl.
By "decking prime" he means they are the ornament of the morning.
This is the general interpretation, but "decking prime" may mean the ornament of spring.
In the second passage reference is made to the decking of the chief dish at high feasts with garlands of flowers and evergreens.
When Phœbe doth behold Her silver visage in the watery glass, Decking with liquid pearl the bladed Grass.
But she looked like a lily among poppies and sunflowers whether the "decking out" was ridiculous or not.
From this elevation we enjoyed extensive and still different views of the Himalayas, and their diadems of frosted silver flaked with gold, while close at hand were seen the hundreds of thrifty tea plantations decking the sloping hill-sides.
She holds a greave in her left hand, with which she was probably decking a trophy.
Some lead bulls to sacrifice, while others are erecting or decking trophies in the presence of Athene.
The right hand and all the left arm being broken away, the motive of this figure has not been ascertained, but probably the Victory was decking a trophy.
Then the Wanderer shouted from the high decking of the prow in the speech of the Sidonians: "Ye dogs, ye have sailed on your latest seafaring, and never again shall ye bring the hour of slavery on any man.
Then he bade some of them climb the decking at the further end of the ship, and throw spears at him thence; and he called others to bring up one of the long spears and charge him with that.
Then the Wanderer snatched from the mast his bow and his short sword, slung the quiver about his shoulders, and ran on to the raised decking of the prow.
By adding weather boards, and decking over a portion of the stern and head, he might form a boat of a size sufficient to venture on a long voyage.
By raising the gunwale two feet all round, and decking over the fore and after ends, we shall have plenty of room to stow away our provisions, and be able to go through a pretty heavy sea.
But the snow-romance followed, decking the sinking giants with white flags, powdering the young and fresh ones, and playing Christmas masquerade with the deformed ones.
Ah, to duty they had bid farewell, the lady remarked softly, as she busied herself in decking Magda's hat with flowers.
We need not detail it--the decking of the altar with flowers, the marking the forehead of the image with the sacred colours, the offerings of daily food and sacred elements with flowers, and the singing of mystic hymns.
Is that a widow who daily combs her hair, braids it, puts sweet flowers and oils into it, decking it for a lover?
Beholding, however, the garland that he had offered to the clay image of Bhava, decking the crown of the Kirata, that best of Pandu's sons became filled with joy and regained his ease.
Therefore, worship thou thy husband, deckingthyself in costly garlands and ornaments and smearing thyself with unguents and excellent perfumes.
I had the idea, on my own part, of decking out Musette when Medicis pays me, for it is with him I do business and not my models.
In decking out these ladies with the thousand caprices of fashion, we shall perhaps be guilty of a mistake.
The runners, too, sank till the decking rested on the snow, and it was as much as we could do to shift the sledge, with a series of jerks at every step.
The deck-rings holding the motor-launch drew, the launch itself was sprung and its decking stove-in.
A decking of bamboo slats secured by copper-wire to the crossbars was usually employed.
In Russia the custom of decking the houses with branches at Whitsuntide is universal.
Thus the ancient custom of burning incense before the tree, decking it with consecrated fillets, and honouring it with burnt offerings, survived long after the belief of which it was the natural development had decayed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
