" Then Sám made a royal feast, and every apartment in his palace was richly decorated, and resounded with mirth and rejoicing.

He soon encountered Kelson coming out of a gaily decorated passage which he knew led to the old tower.

This was a large piece of furniture, profusely decorated with metals of various colours, curiously and fantastically inlaid.

" A pretty survival of this festival has long been observed in the well-dressing of Tissington on Ascension Day, when the wells are most beautifully decorated with leaves and flowers, arranged in fanciful devices, interwoven into certain symbols and texts.

To my astonishment the stone was plainly a new one, and the grave was tastefully decorated with flowers.

The music-room was large, splendid and elaborately decorated.

Item: several square miles of grass land; item: several dozen head of sheep; item: a cove full of fish; item: a handsomely decorated cave; item: a sportive though somewhat unruly volcano.

In our own country may be mentioned the well-dressing of Tissington, near Dovedale, in Derbyshire, the wells in the village having for years past been most artistically decorated with the choicest flowers.

The tomb furniture is excellent of its kind and the cartonnage case of the mummy is well made and rather finely decorated.

And there was this cruel aggravation, that on the eve of the funeral, when the body had been laid in the coffin, it was brought down into that gallery where they had lunched so merrily while discussing how magnificently they might decorate it for the two weddings.

Besides this, the apartments for the monks are imposingly and elegantly decorated, beyond the power of words to express.

The apartment was splendidly decorated, and in the center of the parquet floor, with his back to the light, was the thin, wiry figure of an elderly man in a funereal frock-coat, in the lapel of which showed the red and yellow ribbon of the Order of Saint Anne.

Then we would come to handsome marble stairways conducting right and left into upper chambers ranged above one another three or four stories high, floors, ceilings, and walls lavishly decorated with innumerable crystalline forms.

Fairfax and his guests, were served at a table within the small cabin, and we had a glimpse of them, and their surroundings, the table prettily decorated with snowy linen, and burnished silver, while John, in a white jacket, waited upon them obsequiously, lingering behind his master's chair.

The shrine was gaudily decorated; but after a prolonged search, we found nothing of any value.

" The table was gorgeously decorated; the wine was perfect; the dishes Parisian.

The invitation was sent, and a vessel specially decorated was ordered to await her movements.

It was a superbly decorated salon he had invaded.

Her own bedroom at the western corner of the house, next door to the huge room occupied by Sarrion, had been entirely refurnished and newly decorated.

Fifteen minutes after, he reappeared with a very hot face decorated fantastically with black.

" She took the curiously-decorated box he gave her and broke the seal.

The walls were ornamented, both inside and out, with carved wood-work, and the roof abundantly decorated with points and pinnacles.

That night, then, the sala presented a curious aspect, being filled with friars and clerks seated on Vienna chairs, stools of black wood, and marble benches of Cantonese origin, before little square tables, playing cards or conversing among themselves, under the brilliant glare of the gilt chandeliers or the subdued light of the Chinese lanterns, which were brilliantly decorated with long silken tassels.

Its stem is over two feet long, heavily decorated with feathers etc.]

The top of the shrine in which the god sits is surmounted by uraei, wearing disks on their heads, and the cornice also is similarly decorated.