The clock was of ormolu upon a painted stand, that was surmounted by a stout little gilt Cupid in a triumphal chariot, drawn by a pair of hard-working doves.
Adjoining the bed was the fireplace; near the fireplace stood a corner cupboard filled with crockery and surmounted by a grand ormolu clock, singularly at variance with the rest of the articles.
One wonders sometimes whether ornamental French Ormolu clocks have any works, or are solid throughout.
The other woman had turned away and was fingering the chains of an ormolu candlestick on the mantelpiece.
He leaned against the mantelpiece, glanced once at the ormolu timepiece with the address of a Paris maker below the winding-holes, and fell again to fingering his unshaven chin.
A cabinet of beautiful workmanship inlaid with painted china plaques, a desk of marquetry andormolu covered with rich articles, and an exquisite lute of ivory and ebony tied with jade green ribbons completed the furniture.
A great clear fire burnt on the hearth, and near it was an ormolu writing-desk, on which were a few papers and a number of extravagant articles of gold and precious stones.
He sat with his elbows on the elegant ormolu desk and his face hidden in his hands, shuddering, for his body bent and shivered with the power of the passions that drove through it.
Then, as Sophie leaned against the window, she heard the little ormolu clock, in the room below, faintly tinkle out the half-hour after eleven.
A small ormolu clock ticked rapidly upon the mantel-piece, the swing of the gilded pendulum being visible beneath.
Just then, a little ormolu clock, on the mantel-piece inside, gave a preliminary whirr, and hastily struck the hour of noon.
Nothing more was heard, after that, but the hasty ticking of the little ormolu clock, as its hands traveled steadily around the circle.
Every tick of the littleormolu clock marked away a large part of her life, and yet was wearisome to so much of it as remained.
Let her take her time with her," Laura declared; and they proceeded to hang the alarm clock around Miss Boggs' neck, the ormolu on one arm and the table clock on the other.
A little ormolu clock was ticking busily on the bureau, and an easel clock stood upon the work table.
Being of a susceptible nature, he fell in love with a great many things in the course of his investigations, and the ormolu inkpot was several times eclipsed.
Though nothing was further from his mind than putting his sadly reduced pocket-money into an ormolu inkpot, his tender heart could not bear to dash the stationer's hopes too rudely.
This is well exemplified by a large jardinière with rococo ormolu mounting, also in the Fitzhenry gift.
The rich ormolu mounting is characteristic French work of the period of Louis XVI.
The sense of fitness and proportion never absent from the best French work asserts itself as much in the painted ornament as in the rich ormolu mount with which the jar is embellished.
The amount of spirit imparted into the chasing of this ormoluis simply marvellous--it has never been equalled and could not be excelled.
The mounting of the furniture in ormolu of a rich and highly-finished character, completed the design.
These ormolu mountings were gilt by an old-fashioned process,[14] which left upon the metal a thick deposit of gold, and were cunningly chiselled by the skilful hands of Caffieri or his contemporaries.
The subject was generally a vase with fruits and flowers; the surface of the side panels inlaid with diamond-shaped lozenges, or a small diaper pattern in marqueterie; and then a framework of rich ormolu would separate the panels.
Another fine specimen illustrated on page 170 is the small cabinet made of kingwood, with fine ormolu mounts, and some beautiful Sêvres plaques.
Illustration: Secretaire, In King and Tulip Wood, with Sêvres Plaques and Ormolu Mountings.
Hindwood followed his direction and saw to his amazement that the tapestry, hanging behind the ormolu table, was agitated.
With panels of Japanese lacquer and ormolu mountings, in the style of Caffieri.
Of tulip and sycamore woods inlaid with other coloured woods, ormolu mounts.
With tortoise-shell panels inlaid with brass and other metals, and ormolu mountings.
So, although he had little real confidence that anything would happen at all, he drew a cheque, and slipped it behind the frivolous and rather incorrect little ormolu clock upon his chimneypiece.
The little ormolu clock on the chimney-piece struck the quarter after eleven while Lady Audley was employed in this manner; five minutes afterward she re-entered the room in which she had left Phoebe Marks.
Shall I sell my Marie Antoinette cabinet, or my pompadour china, Leroy's and Benson's ormolu clocks, or my Gobelin tapestried chairs and ottomans?
Ormolu ornaments, when applied to cabinets and other works in wood, are also never satisfactory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ormolu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
