He wore a silvered helm, whereon was inlaid a golden cross above a narrow gold circlet that was round its rim, and his hand rested on the hilt of such a priceless sword as is told of in the old tales of the heroes.
They seemed to have been made for giants; their innumerable deep drawers were inlaid in bright colors with representations of mythological scenes.
Venetian merchants sent their Majorcan friends ebony furniture delicately inlaid with ivory and lapis lazuli, or enormous, heavy plate-glass mirrors with bevelled edges.
The dome is supported by columns, which, in the case of the mosque of Sultan Achmet, represented in the illustration facing this chapter, are inlaid with coloured tiles, and decorated with verses from the Koran.
Then he entered the gate and found himself in a spacious courtyard, at the end whereof was a door vaulted over with hard stone, inlaid with vari-coloured marbles.
So I went up to the alcove and found therein a couch of juniper wood, inlaid with pearls and diamonds and set with bosses of emeralds, with silken coverings of bewildering richness and curtains of the same, looped up with pearls.
So he shouldered his load and followed her till she came to a tall handsome house, with a spacious court before it and a two-leaved door of ebony, inlaid with plates of glittering gold.
That was Ching Yan, who lost approval in the inlaid coffin raffle, Benign Head," prompted the noble.
Of late a company of grateful friends has given the Mandarin an inlaid coffin to mark the sense of their indebtedness, the critical nature of the times rendering the gift peculiarly appropriate.
Ditto, in alabaster, with carbonate of copper inlaid as eyes, and arrow-point placed at back.
Ditto, in blood-stained alabaster, inlaid at back, breast, and eyes with turquoise.
Ditto, in sandstone, inlaid with patches of green stone.
Produces a very white wood much sought after for inlaid and for cabinet work.
It is also used for butchers' skewers, and shuttle blocks and wheel stock, and is suitable for turnery and inlaid work.
The car flew like a circling bird round the wide curves, and dropped us in peaceful vales sheltered by cork forests, and rocky walls inlaid with the silver of trickling streams.
She was clad in white armour inlaidwith silver--all shining like her own Saint Michael himself.
Yolande, the Queen's mother, herself designed the armour for the warrior maiden, which was to be of steel inlaidwith silver, burnished to a shining whiteness symbolic of the purity of the Holy Enterprise.
She resolved to cast aside reflection, to dry her tears, and she took a thick folio volume placed upon a table inlaid with enamel and medallions; it was the 'Astree' of M.
Its beauty consists, however, less in movement of line than in richness and elegance of carved and inlaid ornament.
Inlaid and mosaic patterns and panelled veneering in colored marble are essential features of the exterior decoration of most Italian churches.
Internally the different stories were marked by horizontal bands and cornices of white or inlaid marble richly carved.
It is a very fine house, with noble alabaster chimney-pieces inlaid with precious marbles, but since the fire all has been too much overlaid with decoration, and in many respects indifferent decoration.
The old Duchess, stumping about with her inlaid ebony stick, seemed part of the place.
Gold and silver inlaid on iron, iron inlaid on copper and silver, are some of the forms of this beautiful work.
But, however, in these mud walls you find the gates and doors adorned with marble portals, carved and inlaid with great beauty and variety.
The tortoise-shell and mother of pearl are so exquisitely mingled and inlaid in each other, that the work far exceeds the materials.
Near the entrance are some glorious old cabinets, inlaid with ivory and lapis-lazuli.
Behind, in the tribune, are the inlaid mosaic pillars of a gothic tabernacle.
The pavement is of coloured marble, inlaid from designs of Giacomo della Porta and Bernini.
The splendid ambones in the nave, inlaid with serpentine and porphyry, are of the twelfth century.
It retains some fragments of inlaid pavements, some handsome inlaid marble panels on either side of the high altar, and an ancient sarcophagus.
It was adorned with pillars of Hymettian marble, with expensive vases, and triclinia inlaid with brass.
The chancel is raised and surrounded by an inlaid marble screen.
A small gothic ciborium, richly inlaid with mosaic, remains on the left of the tribune.
On each side of this sofa stood a little round writing-table inlaid with gold.
Two eunuchs brought mirrorsinlaid with emeralds, and the miri achorok held the reins of splendidly caparisoned chargers.
Before introducing the niello, he had cast proofs of his work in these zolfi (sulphurs), which were subsequentlyinlaid with great symmetry and taste in the altar-piece.
The first attempt of Beccafumi was to compose a picture of inlaid wood, which was long preserved in the studio of Vanni, and afterwards was in the possession of the Counts of the Delci family.
He cut the pieces of these marbles, which are all indigenous, andinlaid them so nicely that the joinings are not easily discernible.
It consists of a pointed, crocketed arch, terminating in an elaborate finial; with a flat slab below, originally inlaid with a brass.
All three are masterpieces of the Graeco-Byzantine style of inlaid tesserae.
The bases and pedestals are covered either with carving or inlaid chequer and lozenge patterns.
At the south end is one of the finest examples of intarsia, or inlaid wood-work, in Italy.
The topmost which forms the platform in front of the facade is inlaid with graffiti designs in black and other colours.
The choir is encircled with a most beautiful inlaid marble screen, in decoration similar to the two pulpits.
These arches are stilted and covered in an extremely rich manner with gorgeous mosaic, and their soffits inlaid with tesserae arranged in Moorish designs.
The corbels of the round-headed arches are composed of heads of animals and demons, and the arches themselves are beautifully inlaid with geometrical designs.
The walls of the aisles are lined with the richest marble slabs, beneath which a beautiful dado of inlaid Eastern pattern runs round the chapel.
The decoration of this fine basilica may be described as a coherent mass of superb mosaics and well selected slabs of grey and white marble inlaid with panels of Moorish design.
A few years ago the tribune was extended and beautifully inlaid with mosaic carrying out a design of the thirteenth century.
Some of the pillars of this gallery are covered with inlaid marble, others are twisted or decorated with chevrons.
The fine Gothic canopy of the tomb is supported by twisted columns inlaid with tesserae in the same style as the pillars in the portico of Lucca's cathedral.
The inlaid marble on the walls was done away with in the eighteenth century.
Arabesques cover some of them; all were at one time richly inlaid with mosaic.
Above the abacus of each capital is the simple Norman bowl capital inlaid with rich mosaic.
Old Italian furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was always either inlaid or carved and painted in gay colors: chiselled mounts are virtually unknown in Italy.
The inlaid doors of Houghton Hall, the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, were noted for their beauty and costliness.
The latter should be designed to match the piano, and painted or inlaid like its case.
The doors in Italian palaces were usually of inlaid wood, elaborate in composition and affording in many cases beautiful instances of that sense of material limitation that preserves one art from infringing upon another.
When laid in nicely, and the colors arranged to harmonize, they certainly look well, resembling the straw flower work, or inlaid straw work of Japan.
She rose as she spoke and advanced to where a box of ivory, inlaid with opals, stood, touched a spring and opened it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inlaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
