Through it I passed to a balcony which impends over the canal, and is twined round with plants forming a green festoon springing from two large vases of orange trees placed at each end.
It was now I beheld groves of olives, and vines clustering the summits of the tallest elms; pomegranates in every garden, and vases of citron and orange before almost every door.
The botanic garden is separated from the walk by magnificent railings and pilasters, placed at regular distances, crowned with vases of aloes and yuccas.
Of course Roman pottery was shipped extensively for trade purposes, as were red figure vases and other types of Greek ceramic wares.
To them we must also attribute the introduction of pedestal vases and other types of pottery which come, undoubtedly, from the Belgic area on the continent.
Then she sat down before the vaseswhere the two rival flowers displayed their charms.
When she entered the suite that had been reserved, she stopped a moment in silent astonishment before the flowering vases and ribbon-bedecked baskets that filled the reception-room with their rich colours and delicate perfumes.
On the mantel they put some flower vases on either side of a plaque representing the golden wedding of a Breton couple.
Remembering with difficulty why I had come I went over to one of the stalls and examined porcelain vases and flowered tea-sets.
The young lady changed the position of one of the vases and went back to the two young men.
Sweet peas were glowing in small vases and glasses and bowls, and violets in saucers filled the air with fragrance.
The tall vases on the bookcases each Bide of the fireplace held daffodils.
It is exquisitely drawn and engraved by Rouyer et Darcel[28] together with two vases also of lead from the Basin of Neptune.
Similar vases are in the gardens at Windsor, also larger and later examples with figure plaques in Flaxman's manner.
There are several vases at Wimpole near Cambridge, at Wilton, and at Wrest.
These vaseswill not bear comparison with the beautiful lead Gothic fonts before given.
The vases at Hampton Court mentioned above are particularly fine in design and well modelled; their height is about 2.
The negro we saw was sold by Mr. John Cheere in St. Martin's Lane, but likely enough the model was a part of the stock of Van Nost, as also the fine vases at Hampton Court.
With an understanding of the existing language of gesture the scenes on the most ancient Greek vases and reliefs obtain a new and interesting significance and form a connecting link between the present and prehistoric times.
Both these uses of it are common in Naples, and appear in Etruscan vases and Pompeian paintings, as well as in the classic authors.
Then across an open space appears a white house beyond a grass mound ornamented by a Cupid, his finger on his lips; two brass vases are at each end of a flight of steps; scutcheons[2] blaze upon the door.
Of what had they spoken when it lay upon the wide-manteled chimneys between flower-vases and Pompadour clocks?
When he was coming she filled the two large blue glass vaseswith roses, and prepared her room and her person like a courtesan expecting a prince.
She remembered the great candlesticks that rose above the vases full of flowers on the altar, and the tabernacle with its small columns.
There is something extremely oriental in its appearance, and the fountains are ornamented with China vases and Chinese figures of great value.
First it is called honey-water, and is sweet and scentless; but easily ferments when transferred to the skins or earthenvases where it is kept.
It has also been called the Cup of Mithridates, as having perhaps belonged to the celebrated collection of vases formed by the famous King.
The statuary and vases that are exposed to the open air, in this garden, must have cost an enormous sum.
But anyhow, if I did have vases I wouldn't put 'em on mantel-pieces, but on the floor.
The chandeliers, hung with brilliant cut-glass pendants, terra cotta and alabaster vases and handsome clocks, were once the property of Maximilian.
The next room contained statues, and vases covered with reliefs, in ivory.
Monte Cristo and Morcerf drew their seats towards a small table, on which were arranged music, drawings, and vases of flowers.
Every delicious fruit that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan.
A high wall surrounded the whole of the hotel, surmounted at intervals by vases filled with flowers, and broken in the centre by a large gate of gilded iron, which served as the carriage entrance.
A clock of royal magnificence and two vases of pale green garnet, also Bouchardon's "Christ" in a frame by Brustolone.
He made her do a dado all sunflowers last year, but they are a little gone out now, and are very staring besides, and I think she will have some nymphs dancing among almond-trees in blue vases instead, as soon as she has designed it.
By one o'clock the long tables were a pretty sight, covered with piles of fruit and cakes, vases of flowers and little flags, establishments of teacups at intervals, and a bouquet and pretty card at every one of the plates.
Illustration: Saracenic arch] On the shelves and in the recesses of this were small ornaments and vases of various kinds.
The lamps and vases rattled violently, and I saw the Prince's face change.
I sat inside, near the Amir's couch, and the air was sweet with scent from the clusters of roses which filled the vases in the room.
By the date of the Black Figure vases (sixth century B.
Thus the Ionic, as described, is not the same as the Syrian, when the Ionic has brooches; nor is it, in my opinion the female costume of the Greek vases of the seventh and early sixth centuries.
The vases were partly of Aegean, partly of Dipylon geometric style.
We shall first take the evidence of the black figure vases of the sixth century, and then that of the red figure vases which came in near the end of that age.
The people of Athens, as the vases prove, had four-horse chariots; had large ships manned by many oarsmen, and furnished with a submerged sharp ram.
This tomb was of the period when "geometric" ornament on vases had nearly supplanted the Aegean forms of decoration: in fact it was in the period to which we may assign Homer.
Other personages offered to the funeral genii lotus in bloom or in bud, bulbous plants, birds, pieces of antelope, and vases of liquors.
The vases contained the visceræ of the mummy enclosed in the sarcophagus.
On richly carved pedestals rested tall porcelain vases and great golden bowls, the workmanship of which was even more precious than the material.
The hyacinth is the most popular of the Dutch bulbs for growing in vases of water.
For baskets and vases the maurandia and the different kinds of thunbergias are excellent.
Two vases are on the threshold, which, for shape and execution, would compete the palm of excellence with Grecian art.
Miss Green stopped Alice just in time, as she had begun with rapid tugs to pull the mistletoe from the branch that Kent had sawed off with such care, and to stick it in vases among the holly, where it did not show to any advantage.
Well, if you promise to go back and never put your foot in Kentucky again, I'll go wrap up Aunt Clay's vases for you.
The peculiar spout, answering the double purpose of use and ornament, has been observed in some of the vases of the Southern United States.
Some few of thevases were entire, containing fragments of bones, and were well arranged in tiers, one above the other.
One or two other vases have been found, possessing the same shape and having identical ornaments, but lacking the offset or shoulder above mentioned.
Upon the mound and around it, many fragments of rough pottery are found, and a number of entire vases of rude workmanship were exposed a few years since in ploughing over an adjacent small mound.
It may be remarked that the handles of the Southern vases are often neatly moulded into scrolls, or representations of the heads of animals and birds.
Vases of pottery are occasionally, but not often, found.
The vases were coarse in material, of rude workmanship, from eighteen to twenty inches in height, and filled with burned human bones.
One of the vases from this locality is now deposited in the museum of the Georgia Historical Society.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
