When she came to the filagree box, she opened that too.
Her body was incased in a kind of closely clinging filagree of shining armor studded with great gems--which, however, left considerable of the concrete, natural Isabel exposed.
Close inspection reveals imitations of coral and seaweed, curved stalactites, and filagree work of the most intricate design.
It is ornamented with filagree work and stalactites of the most curious and beautiful kinds, and on the upper surface are some handsome stalagmites.
There is filagree work of the most recherche kind.
With this she drew forth from her pocket, and laid on the table, the filagree bracelet.
It was a tiny bottle full of some sort of perfume, and set in a socket of plated filagree shaped like a caster, with a filagree handle.
A handsome boy took away the little filagree holders at last, and the old trader, setting his huge calpack firmly on his shaven head, began to reach down his costly wares.
The small china-cups, with thin gold filagree sockets, were soon emptied and taken away, and the officer in waiting introduced a soldier to go through the manual exercise by way of amusing us.
Under the jacket the men always wear a vest, usually of fine white cloth, with a single row of filagree buttons, buttoning close to the body and at the neck like a shirt.
The stones had all the brilliancy of valuable gems, and then there were others in the finest filagree settings--goldsmith's work which bore the stamp of an Eastern world.
The retreat itself was more suggestive of beauty gaining in power by seclusion; and Lesley's lip curled with more disdain as she looked at the finnikin filagree cage.
The others had entered it, and Lesley paused to look contemptuously at its filagree pretence of protection ere she, too, stooped under its low arch.
Fine though the filagree of marble was that shut them off from the garden, it interrupted the light, so that their figures showed dimly to each other.
The Genoese jewellery is very beautiful, particularly the gold and silver filagree work.
The whole is overlaid with funiform wire ornaments and granulated work; on the bezel are four curves of beaded filagree radiating from the centre ornament, and having smaller bosses of similar work between.
On the back of the seat, below the filagree work, is a Latin inscription, in raised letters.
The chair has a filagree scroll-work back On the left is a small * The Rotunda is under the dome, in the middle of the center building.
The 'jewels turned out to be paste on close inspection, but the gold filagree work, and the other ornaments, were old, and some very valuable and rare.
Next door to a bonnet-shop there is certainly the name of Mustapha over the door, and in the window are pipes, coral, and filagree work exposed for sale; but most of the goods come from France.
The dasher swelled forward like a swan's breast, and then curved deeply backward; from either corner of the band of iron filagree at the top, dangled a red horsetail.
Might not this filagree have caught in her dress as she was tearing down the cross from the wall and so have started the thread which had given him this exquisite clew?
I acknowledge it, and caught my dress in the filagree of the cross.
In one of these dancing saloons, adorned in the most marvellous manner, a sort of altar rose in the background, richly hung with gold filagree work and stained cut-glass, and fringed with singular representations of the god.
The image was placed on a dais thickly overspread with flowers, filagree work, and small mirrors, approached by steps, and with a parasol outspread overhead; in a vehicle in front was a sort of figure dressed up in flowers.
In these stores laces, gold and silver filagree work, jewelry, and embroidered muslins were the principal wares sought by the tourists.
Government proposes to spend three laks of rupees in restoring the original marvels that existed of gold and silver filagree work, the pillars having been plated with sheets of gold, and the ceiling covered with silver.
Quite young boys were employed on this and on the kincob work, the gold and filagree embroidery on cloth for which Benares is also famous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filagree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
