What is "intricately"

Usage examples of "intricately".

Nom Anor reflected idly how well some of those intricately scarified designs would look on his own face.

Poteen had walked in and handed them their hot, spiced cider with a sniff of disapproval over the wet tracks across the intricately woven Aubusson rug.

Four Quarters, then took the birdstone his father had given him, an intricately carved piece of basalt about the size of his thumb attached to a slender linen cord, and twirled it until it sang.

The mirror, two feet wide and three feet tall, its dark oval bogwood frame carved intricately with holly, looked old, and lovely, and perfectly innocent.

It was a variation on the Bramah, a notoriously intransigent lock that could be openedand even then with difficultyonly by a long, arcane, tubular key, intricately notched at one end.

Briefly, Calli glimpsed for the first time the intricately carved silver amulet that hung around his neck.

I had seen bracelets, anklets, chains and necklaces, intricately wrought and beautiful, in the cave.

Out of the sixth century had come intricately weaving melodies and countermelodies that contrasted and reinforced one another, chiming out of bronze strings plucked and muted by long nails and agile fingers.

Life-size statues of all the Sun Kings, from Bahlam the first down through Gordon, were set in niches along the corridor, flanked by intricately ornamented obelisks glorifying their reigns.

On the wall hung several framed examples of Indian flatwork, ranging in size from small, intricately quilled squares to full-sized blankets with geometric patterns.

Religions of high complexity of feeling and rationale, forms of architecture, conceived in the spirit of that religion and put into its service, lyric poetry, pictorial art, sculpture, music, orders of nobility, orders of priesthood, stylized dwellings, stylized manners and dress, rigid training of the young up to these developments to perpetuate them, systems of philosophy, of mathematics, of knowledge, of nature, prodigious technical methods, giant battles, huge armies, prolonged wars, energetic economics to support this whole multifarious structure, intricately organized governments to infuse order into the nations created by the higher being acting on the different types of human materialthese are some of the floraison of forms which appear in these two areas.

The desk was of no polished stone nor rare wood intricately inlaid but was just a desk and the man was just a man: the suit looked Galeries Lafayette rather than Lanvin.

Stemond would show her his detailed, intricately painted maps, and talk to her of the gold and jewels, shining silver and ruddy copper torn from her own northern mountains, the feasts of meats, grains, and greenstuffs from the fertile plains, and rich spices and exotic wines from the strange, faraway lands of the south where the heat lay across the olive-silvered hills like a mantle of heavy silk.

The table held a cast-iron pot of water simmering on an intricately fashioned charcoal brazier, a porcelain pot, a tiny handleless cup, a bamboo spoon and bamboo whisk, and a small lacquered box.

Other unmistakable paraphernalia sat on tables and shelves: a large white and pink seashell, a slender glass vase holding one long stemmed red rose, an intricately carved wooden box, and a collection of small jadestone figurines.