Crossword clues for ornaments
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Ornaments are traits that are used to attract mates based on physical attractiveness. These traits may help show good genes that potential mates may find desirable. Although these ornaments are usually the main strategy in order to procure a mate, they come with the cost of making the individuals more susceptible to being tracked by predators. The most notable form of ornaments comes in the ornate plumage that the peacock has in order to attract peahens; the brighter and bigger the feathers, the better chance of finding a mate.
Usage examples of "ornaments".
On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well.
The cantrev lord flung open chests of goblets, ornaments, weapons, horse trappings, and many things Taran judged of high value, but in such a muddled heap that he could scarcely tell one from another.
The Peruvians had such immense numbers of vessels and ornaments of gold that the Inca paid with them a ransom for himself to Pizarro of the value of fifteen million dollars.
On the friezes, ornaments, and the framework of the doors they place plates of gold incrusted with precious stones.
Copper axes, spear-heads, hollow buttons, bosses for ornaments, bracelets, rings, etc.
They seem to have attached a high value to silver, and it is often found in thin sheets, no thicker than paper, wrapped over copper or stone ornaments so neatly as almost to escape detection.
I was before this time pretty well acquainted with Goldsmith, who was one of the brightest ornaments of the Johnsonian school.
In those years life had been confined to certain compartments, each item in its place, ready to be taken up when needed, to be replaced when finished with, like ornaments from a box.
Only a scatter of little silver and gold ornaments remained, and one long string of pearls, a gift of her scholar father.
Before midnight, I should have seen the inside of that room, should have touched its objects and ornaments, invaded the air with my breath and will, my personality, perhaps a stifled cry, the heat of my sweat.
His only ornaments were the earring and the tiny black and white posy.
As a matter of principle, few ornaments of religious ceremony ever had sat well with Dr.
They danced the polka until the china ornaments upon the mantelpiece jumped and the dust rose inches high about their thumping feet.
Then he began to look about him, at the china, the knives and forks, the ornaments on the shelves: he was looking to see what there might be, that he could be done for.
And thus, when he had well examined the china ornaments, it occurred to him to be insolent, with which object he turned round and stared at the Froments, who, as the train they were expecting would not arrive for another quarter of an hour, were gayly promenading through the fair.