The lamp is decorated in front with a floral design, and at the back by wing or feather-like ornaments, possibly meant to represent the tail and half-folded wings of a bird.
The freshness of many of the floral offerings showed that the memory of the departed was kept green in the hearts of those left behind.
Flowers are selected and arranged as only feminine taste could suggest, while the broad piazzas are simply floral bowers and gardens of placid delights.
The middle of the plaza is beautified by a bronze fountain with arboreal and floral surroundings.
The stirring interest taken by the public in the celebration was in no way made more apparent than by the large number of costly and beautiful floral offerings sent to decorate the monument.
Long grasses and stalks of grain were matted in many folds about her person, and served as a base for artistic decoration with every variety of floral beauty.
In the summer season these portions were covered with floral beauties, interspersed with water-jets, which tossed the light silver balls like fairy jugglers; broad basins sparkling with gold fish; and walks leading to little kiosks and arbors.
The Dodola thus appeared as the impersonation of floralnature athirst for the vivifying rains.
The faces of the pedestal on which the basin rests are in like manner appropriately ornamented with various floral decorations.
The old Romans had what they called Floralia, or Floral Games, which began on the twenty-eighth of April, and lasted several days.
Mrs. Maynard and Miss Hart were not so fancifully attired as the younger members of the party, but they wore pretty light gowns with more or less floral decoration.
But the capitals corbels, crockets, and finials were mostly composed of floral or foliage forms.
My fingers are stiff with cold, but as the air down below is thick with what Mrs. Chester calls "floral tributes.
He can think of nothing, talk of nothing, dream of nothing, read of nothing but the flying machine which he is going to try to-morrow in the Quarry at the great floral fete.
This man has invented a flying machine which he has arranged to show at Great Shropshire Floral Fete here on Monday.
I could discover nothing to help me more than one would find in the refectory of some large public college except this same beautiful statue I have spoken of, with its floral offerings and candles.
We have come on this flying machine trip from the floral fete at Shrewsbury, but, unfortunately, our leader got burned to death, and we have all had a terrible shock.
That floral trophy, I should explain, by the by, was exceptionally large because of Mrs. Pope's firm conviction that Aunt Plessington starved her husband.
I see among the floral tributes one bearing the letters 'Apostolic Zeal.
Time after time Hannah ascended to her bedroom to take a last look at the things she had grown so tired of--the little iron bed, the wardrobe, the framed lithographs, the jug and basin with their floral designs.
The Scotch-descended people of Belfast had outdone themselves in floral arches and decorations.
The city had been en fête all day with banners, floral arches, and at last an illumination.
They were in a deep, rutty lane by this time, a lane with banks rich in ferns andfloral growth, and here came Blanche and Eva and the youngest boy, released from Latin grammar and Greek delectus at an earlier hour than usual.
Another half hour was devoted to china; and thefloral arrangements indoors, even in this wintry season, occupied half an hour more.
It was a favorite of children in their floral games, and pretty in the housewife's vases, but its chief hold on favor was in its democracy and endurance.
This is a striking example of floral telepathy; you know what the Basil wishes, and the Basil knows and craves your affection, and repays your caress with her perfume and growth.
Andrew Marvell wrote two centuries ago of the floral sun-dials which were the height of the gardening mode of his day:-- "How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new.
He adds that the young women carried on this floral Sunday, as a companion flower, their first Rose.
Holmes was a minute observer of floral characteristics, as is shown in his poem on the Coming of Spring, and doubtless saw this curious growth of the Larkspur.
After the introduction to English folk of that wonder of the world, the Victoria Regia, it was cultivated by enthusiastic flower lovers in America, and was for a time the height of the floral fashion.
This floral clock of Linnaeus was calculated for Upsala, Sweden; De Candolle gave another for Paris, and one has been arranged for our Eastern states.
On the other hand, certain bowls and vases of deep blue glass, decorated with floral designs in a solid gilding, have an almost unpleasantly modern air.
This enamelled decoration, as on some little bottles at South Kensington, appears to be but a rude imitation of the floral patterns that we see, for example, on the lacquered bindings of Persian books.
I have before me an example from Cairo made of a nearly opaque white glass, decorated with floral designs rudely painted on and perhaps not fired.
The patterns on the Catalan glass are generally of a formal floral character, often built up of sprigs radiating from a centre.
In some cases, as on certain mosque lamps, these flowers, broadly treated, form the sole decoration; but more often the floral design passes into the formal schematised patterns so characteristic of Arab art at this time.
Late that afternoon Cope chanced upon Randolph among the fantastic basins andfloral parterres of the court in front of the Botany building: Randolph had had a small matter for one of the deans.
It may be said in general, however, that the same type of floral beadwork extends throughout the whole northeastern and Great Lakes area, in which the Mohegan work may be included.
The floral designs seem to be somewhat related to those found in the basket paintings, although they are not so aboriginal in appearance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: floral; florid; flowered; flowering; flowery; garden; horticultural
