Therefore I must be satisfied, and if I would not let my wife appear so as to be a disgrace to me, I should, out of my own means, provide her with dress and ornaments befitting a noble lady.
The chief ornaments are the two domes of the Holy Sepulchre, the mosque of Omar, and another large mosque with a smaller dome; but the white houses make a good show, and the walls are picturesque.
The Pasha of Damascus, who finds it a valuable article of commerce, purchases at a small price the fruit of their labours, or supplies them with food, clothing, and a few ornaments in return for it.
Each throws his martial ornaments aside, The crested helmets with their plumy pride; To humble thoughts their lofty hearts they bend, And down their cheeks the pious tears descend.
The usual ornaments of the manger are of blue satin, embroidered with silver.
This has a building over it with a pretty front, although the Grecian ornaments sculptured in marble are not in harmony with the pointed arch at the entrance.
A dusty hat-stand ornaments one side of the hall, a patched and somewhat deformed sofa the other.
Only privileged pilgrims were allowed to see the wealth of precious stones and costly ornaments with which this wondrous shrine was adorned.
In theornaments of the doorway we see the ammonite and medlar.
The triforium is peculiar, and has a series of pointed arches over three round-headed openings, the centre one being much higher than the rest, and the ornaments are the zigzag, lozenge and curious knots of carved leafage.
Ornaments usually consisting of four plain leaves, arranged so as to form a point.
In the time of Elizabeth the college had prolonged disputes with the town, the clergy were beaten by the populace, and one of them stabbed, and the plate and ornaments stolen.
Westwood, Facsimiles of Miniatures andOrnaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish MSS.
Bastard, Peintures et ornaments des manuscrits, a magnificent series of facsimiles, chiefly from Carolingian MSS.
In these volumes the aim was to produce illustrations and ornaments which were of their own nature akin to, and thus able to harmonize with the type, and to do this by pure handicraft work.
Details are multiplied, and ornaments bear little or no relation to the organic structure of the buildings which they adorn; yet that practice is an Italian trait, and even in excess has a picturesque merit.
Of the gold ornaments found in Cornwall the most remarkable are the two torques found near Harlyn; bronze fibulae have also been found here, but a good many of these finds are now in the Truro Museum.
Taking the first series, we observe that the ornaments are projected in straight continuous lines or zones, which are filled in with more or less complex parts, rectilinear and geometrically accurate.
Mommaggiore pulled it down, as he pulled so many other things, and used its priceless ornaments to adorn his own palace at Porta Sole.
It lacks the finish and the gilded ornaments of the Riccardi chapel, but in exchange it holds a certain simple and religious sentiment which is lacking in his later frescoes.
These, however pleasing, may be made and often are made the instruments of vice and guilt, though under proper discipline, they are fitted to be both aids and ornaments of virtue.
The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men when their own lives and the fate of their wives and their children and their country hang on the decision of the hour.
Their idea is to build great edifices with costlyornaments to Him.
The material of the ornamentsis generally of small value.
Agate beads, however, are not uncommon, and gold beads have been found in a few tombs, as well as some other small ornaments in the same material.
Ornaments were much affected, especially by the women.
When a metal is found, it is either gold or bronze, no trace of iron (except in ornaments of the person) appearing in any of the Chaldaean remains.
The ornaments which have been actually discovered, are such as suggest the idea of internal rather than external decoration; and they render it probable that such decoration was, at least in some cases, extremely rich.
No fragments of architraves or capitals, no sculptured ornaments of any kind, have been found among the heaps of rubbish in which Chaldaean monuments are three-parts buried.
Iron in the early times is seemingly unknown, and when it first appears is wrought into ornaments for the person.
This obelisk is a solid piece of red granite, without hieroglyphics, and, with the pedestal and ornaments at the top, is 182 feet high.
Those who had attained the honour of triumphalornaments in the same war, rode behind; the rest followed on foot, wearing the robe with the broad stripes.
The triumphal ornaments decreed him by the senate, he considered as beneath the imperial dignity, and was therefore resolved to have the honour of a real triumph.
He likewise granted the consular ornaments to his Ducenarian procurators.
The artist may now proceed to the work of tinselling, which consists in gumming little spangles and embossed ornamentsover certain parts of the picture.
Nothing adds so much to the beauty of park, pleasure ground, or garden, as the planting of handsome and suitable trees: in fact, they are the only true and pleasing ornaments of such.
The cradle was made of the finest wampum, and all its bandages and ornaments were of the same precious stuff.
She arranged her hair according to the fashion of her tribe and put on all of her maiden ornaments in beautiful array.
Pins are extremely fashionable, and are made in the Italian style, with large heads, and pendent ornaments attached by small gold chains.
For young ladies, no other ornaments are admissible.
And these be the bounds of this ward, in which are parish churches seven, halls of companies two, and other ornaments as shall be shewed.
They threw aside embroidered clothes, pictures, ornaments of every kind, and gilt bronzes, for a few handfuls of flour.
While the useful arts are comparatively little advanced, those which relate toornaments alone are very generally superior to ours; and the persons who profess these arts speak of them with a degree of fervour that often seems ludicrous.
Its character is that of massy greatness; its ornaments are rich rather than elegant, and its interior striking more from its immense size than the beauty of the proportion in which it is formed.
The Jewesses of Northern Africa wear them as a part of their regular costume, and even to-day curious spiral ornaments are worn on either side of the head by the Dutch women.
And so terminated the life of one of Italy's greatest ornaments and scholars.
Just after renting his home he had had a talk with the English gentleman of the fruit syndicate and had spoken about certain ornaments and bits of furniture, valuable chiefly to himself, which he wished to keep.
He had even seen such a stove in the window of a hardware store downtown, a tiled stove with a brass fender and with curious flamboyant ornaments of cast-iron--a jewel of a stove.
Their furniture and ornaments were of the preceding generation, solid, conservative.
Some dozen or more portfolios and stretchers were leaned against the baseboard, and a few ornaments and pieces of furniture, such things as Vandover set but little store by, were carelessly arranged about the room.
He did not think of decorating the room, of putting any ornaments about the wall.
These idols were attended with the most servile care, and dressed in the richest ornaments known to Indian wealth.
The temples of their blind gods were bright with gold, and the Indians wore precious metals in profusion, just as our own Navajos and Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona wear pounds and pounds of silver ornaments to-day.
The outer corners and the sides are filled with scaleornaments and floral sprays of a branching character.
The fillets and many of the flowers and ornaments are often picked out with black stain.
It is covered in deep purple velvet, and the ornaments upon it are cut out in thin gold, and finished with engraved work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ornaments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
