Her ears were adorned with pendants of pearls and on her head she wore a kerchief of brocade, embroidered with jewels of price.
Here orange-trees with blooms and pendants shine, And vernal honours to their autumn join; Exceed their promise in the ripen'd store, 20 Yet in the rising blossom promise more.
This included characteristic pottery specimens, pendantsand ornaments made from fossil shark teeth, shell dishes, cups, celts, and a few stone knives and arrowheads.
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She was clad in flowered satin, after the Egyptian manner, with pendants in her ears, a necklace of large pearls, and bracelets of gold set with rubies, with a rod in her hand.
Her habit was so costly, with bracelets and pendants of diamonds, and a necklace of pearls, so large, that he made not the least doubt of her being one of the principal ladies of the court.
The other women wore pendants of copper, as did the children, five or six in an ear.
In one place he made a veritable bonfire of the wire, and displayed a lofty hall, very white and glittering, ornamented with lovely white pendants of all shapes and sizes.
The latter is essentially of fan type, though the fans are in combination with a system of transverse arches and pendants best understood from the photograph and drawing just cited.
Fan vaulting was unused[269] outside of Great Britain, but there are many instances of the employment of extensively decorated vaults, including those withpendants of somewhat English character.
Here the panels are merely portions of a flat ceiling resting upon a series of arches arranged like ribs, but carrying a tracery framework upon which the elaborately decorated ceiling with its mouldings and stalactite pendants is made to rest.
The tunic and the front of the mantle were hung with gold watches fastened on with pins, pendants of emeralds and diamonds, rings with enormous stones like luminous pebbles.
In her ears he would put somependants of Carmen's which he had bought in Madrid, investing in them the profits of several bull-fights.
The design of a few of these pendants is based upon the prevailing custom of wearing initials of the name either in embroidery or in pure gold attached to the garments.
These pendent scent cases or pomanders, worn like other pendants of the same form, were in general use throughout the whole of the period extending from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
While sixteenth-century pendants display on their front the art of the goldsmith-enameller in its full perfection, the reverse likewise exhibits artistic work in engraving as well as enamelling.
Engravings for pendants by Erasmus Hornick: Neptune and Amphitrite, and St. George and the Dragon.
They are set each with four sapphire pastes of very fine quality; the three drop-pendants being separated from the upper stone by open spray-work of silver set with white pastes (Pl.
Both cameos and large intaglios were in frequent use as pendent ornaments, and in the most recent pieces of Roman jewellery imperial gold coins were employed for rings, bracelets, and especially for pendants to necklaces.
Of pendants containing groups of small enamelled figures there seems to have been an enormous production in Southern Germany towards the close of the sixteenth century, particularly in the workshops of Munich and Augsburg.
They include two pages of pendants composed of stones between leafwork grouped round a central ornament and hung with pear-shaped pearls.
One or two plates of pendants by Brosamer, and a buckle and whistle by Aldegrever, represent almost the sole engravings of the kind before Virgil Solis--the first to devise a more ambitious series of jewels.
Since he hung out his queer smelling pale gold pendants in late May he has shown no touch of color, but has wrapped himself stoically in sober green and waited, as old men know how to do.
The votive crown of the Abbot Theodosius (N2) is of less elaborate workmanship and design; seven of its eight pendants of gold, pearls, and sapphires remain.
It has, likewise, seven pendants of gold and pear-shaped sapphires.
In the region about Norton Sound (as shown by the extensive collections of Mr. Nelson and others) this is often converted into an elaborate lure by attaching pendants of beads, bits of the red beak of the puffin, etc.
It is very probable that this is the correct explanation of the use of these objects, as it assigns a function to the ivory pendants which would otherwise be useless.
The captain and harpooner of a whaling crew also wear them as pendants on the fillets already described, and on the breast of the jacket.
Around the middle of the cap is a narrow strip of the same material fringed on the lower edge with fifteen flat, narrow pendants of ivory, made to represent mountain-sheep teeth.
The staple on which the ivory pendants hang is of iron.
The pendants hanging from the roof are called stalactites.
And see here, Maria, look at those shining pendants hanging from the roof.
A necklace composed of small rounded beads, and somewhat similar pendants of amber, was found near the neck of a contracted skeleton at Little Cressingham, Norfolk.
In character this ornament recalls to mind the bronze pendants of which so many occurred in the cemetery at Halstatt, though this is of far simpler design.
Pendants of jet of other forms are also occasionally found with interments.
The ensigns and pendantswere lowered half-mast during the procession, and the remains of our unfortunate shipmate were attended to the grave by every officer and man in both ships.
They rub red clay softened with oil over their heads and bodies, and invariably wear a large semicircular piece of blue glass in the upper and lower lip, with ear-pendants of red wood.
I once had some diamond pendants made for him in great haste; and perhaps he wishes to employ me again.
Do you remember certain pendants of diamonds and the man you made them for?
They make a circlet of small stones strung at short intervals as if on a strong thin gold wire, with two large tawdry pretty pendants hung in front.
One of the pendants is my fertile phase of Weakness and the other my odd encompassing Folly.
Pendants hang from the nose and also from the ears, which are split in infancy and drawn down by weights till they flap at last against the shoulders.
Upon somewhat similar lines the same firm fitted up the Leeds Town Hall, for the Festival of 1883, where, however, the whole of the light was derived from pendants suspended from the ceiling by steel wire ropes.
To amalgamate the two, the latter has been somewhat mangled, doors having been added, with a pendant aloft to balance other large hollow pendants in the various arches.
The ceiling with its massive pendantsis a fine example of the period.
It was a mansion of the Earls of Bath, and upon a richly moulded ceiling, with enormous pendants of the date of James the First, are depicted biblical subjects, including the whole contents of the Ark, or a good proportion of it.
Sometimes these pendants do not quite amount to icicles, but are round beads--frozen tears.
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