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Example sentences for "personal adornment"

  • Whether we assume it to have been designed as an ornament for the head or the neck, the Clunemore ring, with its singular snake-head finials, could not fail to prove a very striking article of personal adornment.

  • Have you not been amused, sometimes, to read about the early Christians?

  • I read the histories of the religions and compared them, and I read the works of those writers who have risen up to attack them.

  • The starry heavens no more prove anything than does the running of the raindrops down the window-pane.

  • At top and bottom it exhibited indications of friction, showing it had been strung with others as a necklace, or some article of personal adornment.

  • Surely this obvious consideration fully explained woman's greater devotion to personal adornment, without assuming any difference whatever in the natural endowment of the sexes as to vanity.

  • In hot climates, at any rate, the savages only commenced to cover their bodies with clothes with the object of pleasing by personal adornment.

  • Others are only harmful when pushed to excess, such as good living, sexual pleasures, personal adornment, etc.

  • Among savages the men are more inclined to personal adornment and to coquetry than the women.

  • The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.

  • Others again care for them mainly as a means of personal adornment, though I am disposed to think that this partially interested fondness is less common with children than with many adults.

  • One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alcoholic stimulants; china clay; conform themselves; good moral; instruction publique; personal adornment; personal ambition; personal appearance; personal being; personal characteristics; personal danger; personal estate; personal experiences; personal habits; personal love; personal matters; personal nature; personal observation; personal pronouns; personal recollections; personal relations; personal religion; personal representation; personal service; sure thou; thrilling and absorbing interest