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A gipsy boy, with whom I was on friendly terms, used to travel about this part of the country selling trumpery brooches and ornaments.
Hence men who seek their own welfare should always honour women on holidays and festivals with gifts of ornaments, clothes, and dainty food.
Even though I'm not going for tacky, the 99-cent stores are coming in handy, because the red ball ornaments there are mondo cheapo.
In the Romantic era, signs were still used for simple ornaments such as trills, turns, or mordents.
Last year I lost a lot of the ornaments, I just couldn't find them, as well as our monogrammed Christmas stockings.
He employs a wide variety of ornaments such as mordents, trills, broken chords and appoggiaturas.
The women liked to wear clothing fashioned from calico and other printed cloth, and silk ribbons became popular hair ornaments.
The family room tree has a sewing theme, with spools, bobbins and buttons for ornaments.
What is it about those inexpensive glass ornaments at the craft stores that makes me unexplainably load my cart with them?
Several of the more modern ornaments are elegant in form and shape and can be stylishly worn on a slim chain around the neck.
There was a lovely black fireplace and a tall bookshelf filled with books and small ornaments.
Tie ornaments to napkin rings or ribbons to serve as a warm greeting to the feast.
I pulled off one of the many ornaments from around my neck and unsnapped the clasp to release my lucky guitar pick I wore everywhere.
Shrouded in bracken and blackberry brambles is a bush dangling dozens of berries like Christmas tree ornaments.
The plunder included a lot of silver ornaments, fuzees and other articles left by the Indians as pledges for their debts.
Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments.
Salford council has made a U-turn over plans to crack down on grave ornaments.
Retired policeman Paul Wright says his house shakes and ornaments rattle when First York buses go over a speed bump outside his Haxby bungalow.
In addition to painting and sculpture, the collections include displays of silver, ecclesiastical ornaments and vestments, furniture, and altars.
I have found that these ornaments only last in dry conditions, even when coated well with varnish or shellac.
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Another person put on a bishop's robes, satin gown, lawn sleeves, and the other pontifical ornaments.
The Magdalenians have passed through this ossuary and have drawn out all the canine teeth to make ornaments of them.
It has ever since been considered one of the chief ornaments of German hymnology.
And it is to these superadded ornaments that we may trace the origin of the garment proper.
A little cluster of moss rose buds on the left shoulder, and another in her belt, were all the ornaments she wore.
The difficult transition from the end of the shaft to the volutes was evaded, and masked by anthemions or other ornaments.
And not content with this exuberance in the external ornaments of the arch, the finial interferes with its traceries.
For ornaments they have a stick in the helix, or simple ornament in the ear-lobe.
The vestments and ornaments of the priests are very fine, and suggest the attire of the Aaronic priesthood.
When he returned to Kief, he carried with him the priests and sacred ornaments taken from the churches of Kherson.
The women wore splendid bronze ornaments, such as finger-rings, bracelets, torques and brooches.
But some of these ornaments are perishable, and can but delight us for awhile.
Mrs Gaff furthermore displayed her taste for articles of vertu in her selection of chimney-piece ornaments.
And made Verona's ancient citizensCast by their grave, beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans.
A santal woman may carry as much as fifteen kilogrammes of ornaments on her body.
The modern ornaments of epergne or plateau were supplied by images of the gods, wrought in bronze, ivory, and silver.
The front in Cheapside, which alone can be seen, is narrow, but floridly adorned with carvings and architectural ornaments.
The town is celebrated for its manufacture of agate and carnelian ornaments, of reputation principally in China.
Until the present, few shell ornaments have been noted in the archaeology of Baja California.
The chatelaine was perhaps the most characteristic of all eighteenth-century ornaments.
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