This morning she showed me some of the most beautiful designs for decorating our altar on Christmas, which the prisoner sketched for her.
I have furnished several designs for the 'Society of Decorative Art', and have sold a number of painted articles at the Woman's Exchange.
She showed great distress, and informed me that she hoped to receive very soon a considerable sum of money, from some artistic designs that she felt sure would secure the prize.
You mean those etchings; or the designs for the Christmas cards?
The Queen desired me to write to you yesterday in returning the private letters you sent her with reference to what you said in one of your letters of the probable designs of France in Belgium.
With 20 Folding Plates of Designs for Yachts, and numerous black and white Illustrations.
The designing and building of new craft are also dealt with at some length, and designs and descriptions of a number of up-to-date small cruisers are given.
Some bosses are decorated with raised designs while others are plain.
The plasterwork was done in raised ornamental designs used for enhancing the beauty of both the interior and exterior of a building.
Some small Spanish jugs in the collection bear very crude dark-red floral designs painted against a cream-colored background.
The reddish-brown floral and geometricdesigns which decorate the vessels are unusually attractive against colorful yellow backgrounds.
All currycombs found are handwrought, and many have pleasing designs on the backs, formed by the curved iron strips which extend from the handle prong to the back of the comb.
A few examples of maiolica found at Jamestown are believed to have been made in Lisbon, and these usually have designs in blues and dark purples against a white background.
Attractive designs on the outside of the folder create interest and put the consumer's mind in a receptive condition for considering the sales arguments embodied in the personal letter feature of the folder.
Copper or steel engravings are made from designs furnished either by the engraver or by some other designer.
The following is from his first communication after the visit to Sancta Sophia: "I cast myself at your feet, O my Lord, praying Allah to keep you in health, and strengthen the wise designs which occupy you incessantly.
What time he was not mourning the loss of his royal father, he was studying designs for a palace, probably the Watch Tower of the World (Jehan Numa), which he subsequently built in Adrianople.
He designs to throw as little discredit on him by the phrase, victum et vestitum nactus est.
For the nobleness of thesedesigns is not more in what is done than in what is not done in them.
The symptoms of Russia's alleged designs on Norway and Sweden are as fantastic as the sweeping statements by which they are heralded.
Falsehoods were concocted, imaginary dangers conjured up and described as real, and sinister Russian designs against the independence of Sweden and Norway were invoked as motives for energetic action.
It is the Monroe doctrine that is commonly credited with thwarting these designs on South America.
And as thoroughness marks his action whenever it is quite free, the mystery that enwraps the schemes and designs of King Victor's Government is become impenetrable.
These are among his most valuable assets, and unless we have solid advantages of our own to set against and outweigh them, our appeals to the justice of our cause and our denunciations of his wicked designs will avail us nothing.
Has she her own designs as she secretly prepares those volcanic eruptions to which, perhaps, we owe great men?
As far as the relics of the old designs allow us to judge, it was done by an artist of the great Venetian school of the thirteenth century.
The entire inner surface of the four walls was covered with bright red designs on a white background.
The designs are similar to those found on cliff-dweller pottery.
The energy and activity of our civil and military authorities have frustrated the designs of those who meditated expeditions of this character except in two instances.
As a matter of fact the whole alphabet can be formed with them, and so many other unique designs that this game fully merits its name.
As the designs should be original, no one must look over his neighbor’s shoulder.
I liked the designsof Crawford better than those of Gibson, who is estimated as highest in the profession now.
But we dare not hope the designs of such will not always be frustrated by barbarous selfishness, as they were in Georgia.
Woe to human pride, if to the fault or merit of any man whatsoever it refer these wonderful changes, instead of adoring the mysterious designs of Providence.
The latter went to Sviatapolk, Grand Prince of Kief—for Vladimir Monomakh had not yet come to his throne—and represented that Vasilko had designs upon Sviatapolk’s lands and life.
But the designs of France were soon manifested in a form which, to the veteran soldier and statesman of Mount Vernon, appeared to be too dangerous as well as unequivocal, to admit the preservation of this equanimity.
That those who were charged with these designs were as destitute of the means, as of the will to effect them, did not shake the firm belief of their existence.
Whatever capacity any one may be endowed with, it is entirely useless to him, if he be not acquainted with it, and form not designs suitable to it.
The bedstead was of gold and set with many brilliant diamonds, and the coverlet had designs of pearls and rubies sewed upon it.
He is and will be wicked, and designs me a victim to his lawless attempts, if the God in whom I trust, and to whom I hourly pray, prevent it not.
Sure they can't all have designs against me, because they are civil!
This was very good in Mrs. Jervis; but it intimated, that she thought as ill of his designs as I; and as she knew his mind more than I, it convinced me that I ought to get away as fast as I could.
Nothing, however, for me to do, calculated to prevent or impede the designs of Montreuil and the danger of Gerald, occurred to me.
And if I wanted surer proof of hisdesigns than inference, his oath--it rings in my ears now--is sufficient.
He had some designs in hand which brought him from France into the neighbourhood, but which made him desirous of concealment.
Another work of art, more nearly approaching the obelisk form, but equally far from the Egyptian model both in its shape and in the designs which decorate it, stands in the market-place, in front of the town hall.
Not one Fox sack of such pattern was to be found, though many elaborate and beautiful geometrical designs were shown me.
The alligator and serpent of Ohio are different in location and structure from the Wisconsin mounds, and are of designs peculiar.
Here are people of two tribes living side by side, with the same mode of life and the same arts, but in their art designs so diverse.
The range of designs is quite great: horses, bears, mammoths, reindeer, are among the figures.
Mercier, Rene Kieffer, and the fascinating execution of the designs on vellum by Andre Mare.
The designs of the letters closely follow those of the handwritten model, yet avoid the inevitable slight irregularity of such work, which would prove unpleasant in a printed page.
Adding to these the designs of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, engraved on wood by W.
Rogers of the original designs by Tory, in which the retention of the designer's spirit is admirably accomplished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "designs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
