The lower portions of the walls were often painted in imitation of short curtains, sometimes of but one colour, sometimes gorgeously decorated, but in either case reminiscent of the real draperies hung on festal days.
The only light in the room was admitted through the chequered panes of a gorgeously stained window, in which were emblazoned the arms of the former lords of Berry Pomeroy.
When we have admired the details of the court to our satisfaction, the guide conducts us through a labyrinth of gorgeously decorated rooms with many magnificent fireplaces and mantels but otherwise quite unfurnished.
He was wonderfully and gorgeously arrayed in a new suit of light check, patent leather shoes, a tie almost as bright as his complexion, and he had a carnation in his buttonhole.
The girl was slim, dainty, gorgeously arrayed, and her keen, fair face bore traces of paint wet by perspiration.
He was rather short, and too squarely built for his age, which might be twenty-eight or thirty at most; but his great dark eyes were splendid, so gorgeously bright and significant that they held mine for a second or two.
Just at the moment each caterpillar threw to her attendant her disguise, from the four corners of the vast room were released thousands of gorgeously tinted butterflies, imported from the tropics for the occasion.
The dark panelling, the massive furniture, and the rich leather-covered walls with their heavy ceilings, all accented the weird effects of the millions of gleaming coin and gorgeously tinted stocks and bonds.
They and their steeds were gorgeously decked out with strings of bright silk tassels.
The parley sounded, and a gorgeously dressed atabeg met the envoys at the Bridge Gate to lead them to Kerbogha.
At the head of it was another green baize door, before which stood a negro of Herculean proportions, gorgeously arrayed.
A gorgeously upholstered bed filled up one corner of the room; a gun hung on the wall.
Groups of slaves, more or less gorgeously dressed, some in rags where nothing better could be afforded, were sitting far back in little covered-in recesses which lined the square.
It is a sight to stir the blood--all the pageantry of war, without as yet its slaughter; the presence of gorgeously clad women in graceful attitudes; and the air charged with the excitement of brave deeds and of genuine perils to come.
The bed itself, a great mass of feather mattresses and gorgeously embroidered coverlets, projects its intricately carved footboard far into the room.
Nay, it must be, to visit India, That frantic pomp and hurrying forth of life, As if a man should enter at unawares The dreaming mind of Satan, gorgeously Imagining his eternal hell of lust.
The servant entered, bringing a note gorgeously crested and coroneted in gold.
Zabastes the Critic glided in also, almost unnoticed, and joined a group of courtiers at the furthest end of the long, gorgeously lighted room, while at sight of the Laureate the assembled officers saluted, and all conversation ceased.
She had a pair of the articles made, Of solid gold, gorgeously overlaid With every color of precious stone Which ever flashed in the Indian zone.
The morrow came, and with it Aunt Anniky, gorgeously arrayed in a flaming red calico, a bandanna handkerchief, and a string of carved yellow beads that glittered on her bosom like fresh buttercups on a hill-slope.
The sands were covered with a growth of weeds so gorgeously colored that one who had never peered beneath the surface of the sea would scarcely believe they were not the product of a dye shop.
Gorgeously illustrated with sixteen full color pages and numerous black-and-white pictures.
Their eroded edges stand as lines of massive, gorgeously coloured, and frequently fantastically sculptured cliffs.
On the uplands oak-trees grew in scattered park-like groves with gorgeously flower-decked hills and vales between.
I am splendidly red, like the thrush-berry and gorgeously speckled.
The doors of an adjoining room were suddenly thrown open and the empress, gorgeously but appropriately attired, advanced towards us.
When dinner was announced we entered the grand dining-hall and found a table most gorgeously prepared with gold and silver service and flowers.
Suddenly there came, as if by magic, a gondola from the other side of the lake; it was gorgeously decorated, shining brightly in the brilliant afternoon sun.
Ladies, gorgeously dressed, commenced to take their seats at the supper tables in the dining room, escorted by elegantly garbed gentlemen; some of them in full evening dress, others again in black cutaway.
Archduke Victor, leading the procession, sat in the stern of his boat, which was gorgeously arrayed to represent a bower of field roses.
While some describe them as gorgeously decked out in painted and embroidered garments of cotton and nequen, others say, that they went either wholly naked or were only partially covered with skins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gorgeously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blatantly; flagrantly; splendidly
