Their horses were noble animals and of great value, their saddles richlyembossed with gold and silver.
It is probable that the main part of the tables, chairs, and so on were of wood, with the ornaments in embossed metals.
Large numbers of embossed bowls and dishes have been found, and this work was used for the end of sword-sheaths, the sides of chairs and stools, and various other ornamental purposes.
Embossed designs made chiefly with the hammer, but finished with the graver.
The embossed or hammered work, on the contrary, is artistic and very curious.
Altar tables were covered withembossed metal plates, which were extended down from the top of the table to the floor, forming antependiums, as they are called, in the same way that those of cloth are now used.
All this is made of fine embossed gold, and has some touches of enamel-work.
The figured or embossed India silks are not worth buying,--wearing rough and fuzzy, and fraying all over.
Embossed or bordered envelopes are not often used except in notes of ceremony--or when the acquaintance is slight.
Wickedness is no longer committed in secret: it flaunts before our eyes, and "The citron board, the bowlembossed with gems, .
The face of the cliff back of it, and on both sides, is smoothly covered and embossed with mosses, against which the white water shines out in showy relief, like a silver instrument in a velvet case.
Hannibal's cup was of plated copper, with a stem and two handles, and embossed with flowers and bunches of grapes.
Another gift that I selected was a drinking-cup of silver with two handles; it was raised upon a stem, and embossed with ornaments, worked in gold, representing fruit and flowers.
They are the cheapest of the solid colors and are used in various patterns, which are embossed on the surface during the process of manufacture.
Buckrams are sometimes embossed to imitate in part the appearance of an irregularly woven fabric called "crash.
Mulready’s postal wrapper having been killed by universal derision: in July was produced an envelope with an embossed head of the Queen thereon, and these could be bought until the close of her reign.
The sofa and the cushions that lay around were of crimson velvet, the centre cushions were embroidered with a sun in gold of highly embossed work, the rest were of gold and silver tissue.
The Judge of Israel In black, wearing the judicial robes of crimson silk, trimmed with ermine, and a richly embossed golden medal suspended from the neck.
John of Bologna, representing, embossed in different compartments, the history of the Old and New Testament.
They were clad in glittering array--their helmets, their shields, and even their greaves, richly embossed and gilded.
The table was of cedar wood, supported by pillars of ivory, and it sparkled with goblets of gold and silver embossed by Mys and Mentor, among which were scattered amber cups, and chrysendeta which were of silver rimmed with gold.
Mela, with a touch of envy, ‘your humble couches are inlaid with tortoise-shell; and your table shines with crystal and myrrhine vases embossed with gems.
Highly embossed work: a novel breech-loader; artistic design for cock; female figures with fishes' tails in scroll on to the tumbler.
Still the trees grew on, till their moss-cushioned roots upheaved above the earth, and their smooth trunks, becoming rugged, were embossed with globose wens.
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Full celluloid; top embossed flowers in natural colors, pipe and word 'Smoker'; satin lined.
Two photographs in silver frames stood upon it, flanking the rose-embossed calendar at either side.
Every morning she had taken down the rose-embossed calendar that stood on the top of her gold-and-white writing-desk and tallied off another of the days that intervened before her birthday.
I was seven my last birthday," she murmured, looking up at the rose-embossed calendar.
At eleven o'clock on that Monday morning he was seated upon his embossed leather throne, under his grandfather's portrait, immersed in an atmosphere of self-adoration.
But the women wore fluttering mantillas, and their prancing high-stepping horses were trapped with embossed leather and silver.
His saddle of embossed leather was heavily mounted with silver; the spurs were inlaid with gold and silver, and the straps of the latter were worked with gleaming metal threads.
Its heavily embossed ceiling, rich with tarnished gold, was a feature of antique magnificence, and the only one that it retained, the floor being paved with tiles and the furniture scanty or none.
We passed into the Piazza of the Grand Duke, and looked into the court of the Palazzo Vecchio, with its beautifully embossed pillars; and, seeing just beyond the court a staircase of broad and easy steps, we ascended it at a venture.
We next went to the Church of the Badia, which is built in the form of a Greek cross, with a flat roof embossed and once splendid with now tarnished gold.
Passing the threshold of the church, we were quite dazzled by the splendor that shone upon us from the ceiling of the nave, the great parallelograms of which, viewed from one end, look as if richly embossed all over with gold.
The Princess wore a mantua and petticoat, white damask with the finest embroidery of rich embossed gold.
The pole of this pavilion, or umbrella, was six feet long, richly embossed and gilded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embossed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
