White sea-shells found their way in huge quantities to Beluchistan, where the women use them fordecorating their persons.
The seventh day is busily spent in re-roofing and decorating the temples, and it is said to be essential that the work should be concluded before nightfall.
French knots decorating a leaf spray, and various other examples of their use can be found in the book.
Simple unaffected work decorating the things of every-day use can give a great deal of pleasure in its way.
Used for finishing or decorating the sides and back of a cover by a mechanical process.
A process of decorating sheets of paper and edges of books with variegated colors in irregular patterns.
The custom of decorating the arch soffit with panelling is a Roman application of the Greek roof ornament, which, whatever its intrinsic merit (compare Chap.
With this idea in view they would seem to have attempted to reproduce Roman features, such as are found decorating the fronts of the various amphitheatres of the Empire.
The temple priest gives a garland, and a quantity of ashes for decorating the corpse.
By God, Hamil, I can't see anything cheap in trying to spend a quarter of a million in decorating this infernal monotony of trees; can you?
If you haven’t note paper with a firecracker in the corner, why, you can get out your box of paints and do the decorating yourself.
By this time you will be ready for refreshments, and mother will not have any difficulty indecorating the table, with plenty of roses at hand.
When it is time for refreshments, the table can be set out under the trees, and if mother is willing, your girl friends will enjoy decorating it with buttercups.
The coral is used for coloring mayonnaise, and also butter, which is then used in decorating salmon and other dark fish, used in salads.
Garnishing or decorating salads presents an opportunity for displaying artistic taste and judgment.
The design was wholly unlike the fanciful figures of anchors, hearts, and cables, sometimes decorating small portions of seamen's bodies.
Mrs. White and Mrs. Brownlie advised the others to leave off the decorating until the next day, as it would be best to get the house quiet.
Besides a necessary rehearsal, the evening was to be spent in decorating for the play.
She had saved a little tree from the decorating greens, and had already gathered and bought enough trinkets to trim it.
Mould the mousse in small cups; turn out on to a slice of chilled tomato resting upon a lettuce leaf; garnish with mayonnaise dressing, decorating both the tomato and the mousse.
To make aspic for moulding or decorating a fish salad, use stock prepared from chicken or veal, or from fish.
She had put on the shoes and stockings, a plain georgette blouse of a soft, brownish wood-gray, with a bit of heavy brown silk embroidery decorating the front, and the jacket.
And while he glibly humored her in her vision of decorating his brook, in his own consciousness he was saying to himself: "Is there any reason why I should not try for her?
Yes, he was a Liberal, and furnishing and decoratingthe house in the stability of which he trusted.
She likened it to a coarse-featured country wench, whose cleaning and decorating of her countenance makes complexion grin and ruggedness yawn.
He was sensitive on the subject of palms and ferns--everlasting ones, furnished by the Everlasting Decorating Company.
In decorating a room, there is a very considerable range of choice in the styles available, some idea of which is given in the accompanying designs, from the purely ornamental ones of Figs.
In decorating your room, the first point to be decided is to what extent and where you will apply the work.
The origin of all attempts at decorating or beautifying objects lies in the universal love of mankind for the beautiful.
These are very fine eating, especially for a luncheon or tea party and also look very pretty if used in decorating your boxes.
Candied cherries are really the prettiest fruit that you can dip in this manner, as they show up very nicely in decorating a box.
Auguste did so well, displayed such energy and taste, that he soon fell to decorating blinds, and saved, in the course of four years, enough money to enable him to enter the atelier of Gleyre.
Fate was against him, and the position he might have had was won by the gentle Puvis de Chavannes, who exhibited a genius for decorating monumental spaces.
He was born at Belluno in the Venetian State, and before coming to England was employed by the Duke of Parma and at the Viennese court in decorating the palace of Schoenbrunn.
He left England in disgust on finding that the work of decorating the cupola of St. Paul's was to be entrusted to a native artist, Sir James Thornhill.
The expenses incurred by him in founding and decorating this family chapel had added seriously to his embarrassments.
He was employed with the two Bellini and Alvise Vivarini in decorating the hall of the Ducal Palace" (Layard's ed.
After his work of decorating the dome of the Manufacturers’ Building at Chicago came a series of commissions to embellish various homes of private individuals,--Collis P.
Then came the commission for decorating the Congressional Library at Washington.
Much paint is used in decorating the face and body.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decorating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
