His drum and the paper lanterns hanging up have painted on them an ornament which is also the crest of the house of "Arima.
There are a great many large dogs in the streets of Tokio; some are very tame, and will let children comb their hair and ornament them and pull them about.
A grotesque ornament projected six feet beyond the head, and it had a sort of stern-post that rose to a height of about fourteen feet.
The ornament at the stern was fixed upon that end as the stern-post of a ship is fixed upon its keel, and was about fourteen feet high, two feet broad, and an inch and a half thick.
The ornament at the head projected five or six feet beyond the body, and was about four feet and a half high.
Surely these are two chiefe Masterworks, that of these two great luminaries, which are not of small ornament and commodity, for the life of man, as Saint Chrysostome puts it, upon the 135.
It is a low, squat, prison-like circus of stone, stuccoed and whitewashed, with no pretence of ornament or architectural effect.
It has the lightness and the strength, the absence ofornament and the essential beauty, the vastness and the perfection, of a work of nature.
Mrs. Vivian occupied a diminutive apartment at the summit of one of the tall white houses which ornament the neighborhood of the Arc de Triomphe.
Is it for that such outward ornament 1025 Was lavished on their sex, that inward gifts Were left for haste unfinished, judgment scant, Capacity not raised to apprehend Or value what is best In choice, but oftest to affect the wrong?
This desire to ornament even the most apparently insignificant objects of domestic use was universal.
A seated figure with expanded wings forms a centre for numerous bands of ornament in which the open flower of the lotus is combined with its buds and circular leaves.
Lotus-leaf ornamentin its elongated form; drawn by Bourgoin.
In the latter, however, the ornament is carried farther than in the former.
A curious variation of the same ornament exists in one of the royal tombs at Thebes (Fig.
This system of ornament went through a continual process of enrichment and complication.
The splendid breast ornament figured on the opposite page (Fig.
Our Figures 38 and 39 are taken from another tomb, and show varieties of that ornament which is universally employed as a finial to the panels we have mentioned.
At first, the artisan does not look beyond fulfilling these wants, but a time comes, and comes very soon, when he feels impelled to ornament the furniture or pottery upon which he is at work.
The design of the ornament is quite similar to those produced to this day by the basket or mat-maker.
In the representations of architecture on the painted walls the upper member of the cornice as usually constituted, is often surmounted by an ornament composed of the uræus and the solar disk, the latter being upon the head of the former (Fig.
Oriental cabinetmakers to this day ornamentceilings and wainscots in the same fashion.
The artist, too, who wishes toornament a column, is sure to borrow motives from any particular form of art or industry in which the race to which he belongs may have earned distinction.
But don't set them to starve in your smoke-drenched scrap of ground amongst the bricks, for they will be no ornament to it.
You also know what one of our poets says upon this subject, 'That silence is the ornament and safe-guard of life'; That our speech ought not to be like a storm of hail that spoils all.
To obtain possession of an ornament so rare and costly was a natural desire on the part of Mrs. Quinlan, and to her husband was a bagatelle.
Each was the ornament of his country and his age, and each was cruelly neglected by the men of power, who, in truth, were incapable to judge of their merit, or to relish their writings.
That great poet, the ornament of Italy, has also testified his approbation by several imitations of the Lusiad.
Gonzalo Silvestre who commanded on this enterprise, got this rarity to his share, which was supposed to be some ensign of war, or some ornament for their dances.
The men had one of their nipples bored, wearing a piece of reed in the hole, and a similar ornament in their under lip.
Their only head-dress is a fillet or bandage of embroidered wool, which they ornament in time of war with a number of beautiful feathers.
This celebrated dramatist, the delight andornament of the Roman stage, was born at Carthage, about the 560th year of Rome.
But the pride andornament of Tivoli are still, as anciently, the falls and the windings of the Anio, now Teverone.
Indeed, the poems of both these eminent men consist of a string of enigmas, whereas the principal and almost onlyornament of philosophy is perspicuity.
The ornament it assumes is dignified; no grinning faces, or unmeaning notched planks, but well-proportioned arches, or tastefully sculptured columns.
We shall see hereafter that ornament in Grecian architecture, while, when well managed, it always adds to its grace, invariably takes away from its majesty; and that these two attributes never can exist together in their highest degrees.
There is not one fragment of ornament on any of them.
Every inch of ornament short of a certain quantity will render the whole effect poor and ridiculous; while the pure perpendicular lines of this architecture will always look well if left entirely alone.
These are seldom actually large, always proportionably small, and destitute of ornament or relief.
Not a single line of any other kind of ornament should be admitted, and there should be more leafage than flower-work, as it is the more easy in its flow and outline.
Fitness in ornament was one of his fundamental principles, and he made his designs for the place in which they were to be seen and with direct reference to the limitations of opportunities of that place.
He argued that the ornament to be ornament must submit to certain limitations and become "architectural," and also that it should be used with exuberance or restraint according to the matter of the book decorated.
In accordance with these opinions, but with a fulness and richness of ornament not suggested by the simplicity of their expression, the pleasant building at Upton gradually took on great beauty and individuality.
The ornament indeed was too profuse to be wholly satisfactory, especially as much of it was repeated; nevertheless, the book was one of great magnificence and the glee with which Morris beheld it is not to be wondered at.
It was to have been in two volumes folio, with new cusped initials and heraldic ornament throughout.
A novel and pretty window ornament can be made in this way: Take a white sponge of large size, and sow it full of rice, oats and wheat.
The most perfect harmony subsisted between Grotius and his consort: we shall find that she was an ornament to him in prosperity, his comfort and aid in adverse fortune.
Proven by the awful curses and loud blows of a drunken husband upon a wife, once an ornament of society, and exemplary member of a Christian church, that came up out of one of the low cellars, which human beings call by the holy name of home!
That granite pile is a creditable ornament to the city.
The oeil de perdrix was at a later period a favourite ornament for the grounds of vases.
The two species are very like in appearance, the most noticeable difference being in the shape of the crest; that of the Indian species is like an expanded fan, while the cranial ornament of the Javan species resembles a closed fan.
Apollodorus in short says that Bactriana is theornament of all Ariana.
Hence, partly by means of Pompey, partly by his own exertions, he became an ornament to his country, and rendered himself the most illustrious of all the Grecians.
I came here to see if every thing was in readiness, and ordered the steward to ornament the doors and corridors with garlands of flowers; he has had the boldness to tell me he dares not do it!
In oratory, as in architecture, I require ornament as well as use.
In fact, the clavi were purple galloons, with which the Romans bordered the fore part of the tunic, on both sides, and when drawn close together, they formed an ornament in the middle of the vestment.
As for Secundus, he has been long a shining ornament of the forum, and by his own experience knows how to distinguish genuine eloquence from the corrupt and vicious.
