Before lifting the cover of the mirror she reads that it is long since many of the gay inhabitants of the town have decorated themselves before it, and then, lifting the cover, discovers the word "Humility" on the glass.
The interior is being decorated with brilliant paintings representing scenes in the life of St. James.
An altar was raised on a pleasant spot near at hand; and Mademoiselle Mance, with Madame de la Peltrie, aided by her servant Charlotte Barre, decorated it with a taste which was the admiration of the beholders.
It occupies the place of the first church built by Champlain, is not very large, but is magnificently decorated and contains fine paintings.
I can even now recall the youths and maidens decorated with ribbons, and their gestures.
Wearied of the crimes of this man, (which are not even decorated by ability,) the shout of the people day and night along the streets is for 'Rienzi the Tribune.
Heavily swung back the massive gates at his approach; he ascended the broad staircase, and bore his charge into an apartment which his tastes haddecorated in a fashion not as yet common in that age.
Ancient statues and busts were arranged around; the pictured arras of Lombardy decorated the walls, and covered the massive seats.
They were the largest and most comfortable, even as they were the most expensively decorated rooms in San Francisco.
The same experience met him with the other rooms on that floor--the dining-room displaying an already set, exquisitely furnished and decorated table, with chairs for twenty guests!
This book is illustrated and decorated with unusually attractive pictures by Charles D.
The sight of her amazed and disgusted face generously decorated with mud, was too much for Katy.
We decided on a Guinness to begin with, and then he ordered some Welsh Rarebits, while I inspected the walls of the saloon, which are decorated with nothing but originals, many of them bearing resounding names.
You stroll into the little gaslit room (enamelled in white and decorated with tables set in the simplest fashion, yet clean and sufficient) as though you are dropping in at the Savoy or Dieudonné's.
He supped with us himself in the little upper room, lit by gas, and decorated with bead curtains and English Christmas-number supplements.
You may buy a gaudily decorated barrow and freezing-plant for the manufacture and sale of ice-cream.
His "studio" is a tiny shop, with a gaudy chintz curtain for door, the window decorated with prints of the tattooed bodies of his clients.
Its horizon is a few grotto-like dust-shoots, decoratedwith old bottles and condensed-milk tins.
You will see beards and silk hats which are surely those which decorated the Hebrew in Eugène Sue's romance.
The drawing-room is a snug little concern, decorated in a commonplace way, but usually a corner where you can be at ease.
But my friend Sam Tai Ling will give us better welcome, I think; so we slip into the Causeway, with its lousy shop-fronts decorated with Chinese signs, among them the Sign of the Foreign Drug Open Lamp.
Couches lay about the walls; strange men decorated them and three young girls in socks, idiotically drunk.
The hall was tastefully decorated with white flowers and palms.
Georgie told me of the crowd that decorated the place in the nineties: that company of feverish, foolish verbal confectioners who set themselves Byronically to ruin their healths and to write self-pitiful songs about the ruins.
Even to the glistening nickel star, that decorated his left breast, was this representative of law and order, gotten up to shame one of those stage sheriffs at whose antics youngsters in the cheap "movies" scream with laughter.
It looks like a barrackdecorated with the discoloured trimmings of a bride-cake.
Decorated curtains above the beds kept off any drops of rain which might come through the smoke-hole in rainy weather.
If it were allowable that Rome should be decorated with the ornaments of Syracuse, and other conquered places, then the laws of war must lose their force in the case of Ambracia alone, among conquered towns.
He also decorated the temple of AEsculapius with pictures taken from among the spoils.
The walls were, in the houses of chieftains, decorated with finely wrought weapons and hangings of colored cloth.
All shops except those dealing in refreshments were closed, and the town was gaily decorated with flags and flowers, often festooned into words or emblems proper for the occasion.
Turning down a side street that led into the main square of the town, he found himself opposite the south end of the temple, with its two lofty towers that flanked the richly decorated main entrance.
The man replied with a thrust of his sword, and Marius publicly thanked and decorated him.
They decorated their porticos and their saloons with the plunder of the East.
Even Caesar, after being decorated by the Senate for his victories, might have been brought to a better judgment, and wicked citizens would have had no opening to make disturbances.
On the parade were two little boys, sons of Prince Paul, who were decorated with stars.
It is when seen from one of the bridges, that Paris appears to most advantage, as many of the quays are unquestionably very handsome, and decoratedwith many elegant edifices.
At Brunnen I met some persons going on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Notre Dame des Ermites, at Einsiedlen, one of whom was a Frenchman, decoratedwith the Lys.
There are many buildings at Antwerp, which are justly admired for their magnificence, particularly the cathedral, which, like many other churches here, was decoratedby the pencil of Rubens.
Its rear was decorated with three or four curly feathers, making a pretence of a tail, whilst in front it presented an enormous curved bill, which occupied nearly the whole of the head.
A barren district devastated by a forest fire, contains the disused pits of ancient tin-mines, but these unsightly hollows have been decorated by Nature's hand with a luxuriant growth of the frilled pink lotus.
The walls were hung with the finest Irish poplin and decorated by the most noted artists of the time.
The cathedral is decorated with relics and trophies, including a bombshell which came over the wall, containing the terms of capitulation offered by King James.
The tomb of Sir Edward Villiers, brother of the great Duke of Buckingham, is decorated with his lance and his banner.
It has an old church, with beautiful pointed arches, which dates back to the sixteenth century, and contains a richly decorated monument to Sir Christopher Barnwell and his beloved wife, who died in 1607.
His vessel was decorated with fifty flags of different nations, in honour of the commemoration of the jubilee.
Nevertheless she thought it would be improper for her to kneel down on the decorated cushions around the chancel.
After the muster of Leech’s militia at the county seat the companies had been dismissed and the members had straggled to their homes, taking with them their arms and accoutrements, with all the pride and pomp of newly decorated children.
The next morning, when Major Welch and his guest came to breakfast, the table was already decorated with jonquils, which were lighting it up with their golden glow; and one or two of them were pinned on Miss Ruth’s dainty white dress.
She wore a pretentious dress, an apron like a stage-servant, and a cap profusely decorated with flowers and ribbons.
