Nothing is more conceivable than that the Bible story may spuriously embellish the real life of Jesus as much as the mythical accounts of Buddha, for instance, spuriously embellish the real life of Prince Siddartha.
People exclaim against certain fashions as ridiculous; but they adopt them as long as they last, to adorn and embellish themselves, and they derive from them all the advantages they can expect, namely, to please.
Machines increase and embellish poetical fiction and maintain among the spectators that gentle illusion in which the entire pleasure of a theatre consists, to which it also adds a feeling of wonder.
Rumour did not fail to embellish and pervert them, until the real character, and even name, of the individual were confounded with the actors of other atrocities.
Wilder, who rarely paid much attention to the amplifications with which Fid so often saw fit to embellish the discourse.
First—Religious paintings embellish the house of God.
And what is more appropriate than that we should on special occasions embellish our sanctuary, the place which He has chosen for His habitation among us?
To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.
To work in, as lace; to embellishwith work resembling lace; also, to lace or enlace.
To embellishwith the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
The vignette in my title-page, and that at page 84, are two of those neat decorations which so profusely embellish the Encyclopædia of Gardening.
The animal conveniencies and pleasures sink gradually in their value; while every inward beauty and moral grace is studiously acquired, and the mind is accomplished in every perfection, which can adorn or embellish a rational creature.
This circumstance surely must embellish the whole; nor can we easily forbear reflecting, with pleasure, on the satisfaction which results to every one from his intercourse and good-offices.
Accordingly there would have been no incentive to embellishhis story with an apocryphal essay, and for this reason most authorities think it is authentic.
On the other hand, the Men observing how the Women's Hearts were set upon Finery, begun to Embellish themselves and look as agreeably as they could in the Eyes of their Associates.
I might embellish this Subject with Roses and Rain-bows, and several other ingenious Conceits, which I may possibly reserve for another Opportunity.
The enormous expense which people have incurred to possess accurate copies of and to adorn and embellish his works, is no small proof of the great estimation in which they were held by the literati of the East.
Their business was to embellish the manuscript writings of those times.
Mrs. Kearny was always fond of writing epitaphs to embellish the tombstones of departed Amboyites, but as the years progressed she developed a very morbid strain.
Lines to a Lady's Singing-Bird" are scribbled over a copper print of a placid shepherdess, and words ready for rhyming embellish some of the margins.
Some young ones, reared in confinement, will, if placed beside a fine singing bird, learn enough of its song to embellishtheir own.
There are also some that cannot give one song without a fault, and we find others that will add to it, perfect it, and embellish it.
He invents whatever he can to improve his food, embellish his table; and the very manner of taking food, as at dinner-parties, becomes a matter of vanity and pride.
Certain words of Otto's which he used to remember long after they were spoken, and to embellish by the way, used to make him tremble with emotion.
Under Augustus, and the following Roman Emperors, to meet the demand for Greek statues to embellish their houses and villas, several copies and imitations of celebrated Greek works were manufactured by the sculptors of the age.
If this be true of the Good in life, is not a way clearly traced for art, whose mission is to embellish existence?
That he embellish it, whatever it may be, by his artistic interpretation and execution, is all that we should expect.
Before delivering up a suite of rooms, we are wont to embellish them with rich decorations.
Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow," says Richter.
Clym started up, and Susan smiled in an expectant way which did not embellish her face; it seemed to mean, "Something sinister is coming!
Has long observed the virtues thatembellish the commander of this ship resembling a mountain, and desired to imitate them---- Tickell.
She accepted her place in society, reserving the right to embellish it with the graces she had gathered in a higher sphere.
