Touch of color, perhaps

Usage examples of adornment.

The troops of ladies were off to bereave themselves of their fashionable imitation old lace adornment, which denounced them in some sort abettors and associates of the sanguinary loathed wretch, Mrs.

Though an emerald ferronniere crowned her forehead, in truth Anorrweyn Evensong needed no adornment.

Their squat, hirsute bodies were clad in practical clothing devoid of adornment.

Dressed in molleton, with no adornment save the glow of a perfect health, she seemed at this moment, as on the Ecrehos, the one being on earth worth living and caring for.

But, at all events, Tubby began early to ride Larry, insinuating--when the unhappy fellow had muffed a difficult or purposely confusing question--that perhaps if less time were spent on physical adornment and a little more on mental beautification his chances of graduating would be improved.

Their chief, Yoi Sendar, went from one to the next, checking that every trace of adornment had been removed.

Sculptured sprays and berries, with leaves of Mistletoe, fill the spandrils of the tomb of one of the Berkeleys in Bristol Cathedral--a very rare adornment, because for some unknown reason the parasite has been always excluded from the decorations of churches.

It grew up in the midst of our pleasant work at the Hall, and it was burthensome, for it took the joyous adornment off everything, made handsome things ugly, and comfortable things dreary.

The people who crowded the rest of the room were almost entirely Narwhal Clan, as evinced by their jewelry, clothing adornments, and tattoos.

A few steps behind him was the King dressed all in white, without jewels or adornment of any kind except the long crimson overcloak draped around his shoulders to protect him from the chill of the temple.

He wore a rich skirt and a shawl of blue damask with fine gold passementerie, and no headdress or any other adornment on his head except for his hair, which was so blond and curly it looked like rings of gold.

A part of me could see that the lights continued to blaze as before, and when I looked at the wheel out of the corner of my eye, in a sidelong glance, I could confirm its continued bright adornment, yet when I looked at it more directly, I saw only an ominously huge, portentously dark Ferris turning ponderously against a black sky, as if it were one of the mill wheels of Heaven-the one that relentlessly grinds out the flour of suffering and cruel misfortune.

Ridge decided objectively, even without such adornments, Quintel of the House of the Gliding Fallon would dominate any crowd.

Except for the streith, her adornments all came from this age, firedrops in her golden hair, a large ruby dangling between her breasts, ornate golden bracelets on both wrists.

When this view is maintained by men and women who oppose the killing of animals for purposes of food or raiment or adornment, or their exploitation in any way which demands extinction of life, it is entirely consistent with high ideals.