She was a living anachronism for many years before her death, with her high-heeled, gold-buttoned, scarlet-coloured shoes, her Marie-Antoinette coiffure raised high above her head and interlaced with ribbons, her elaborately gorgeous dress, her intricate array of ornaments, and her long, jet-black, official-looking cane.

Some of these are excessively gorgeous and proportionably valuable.

Nothing can be more magnificent and gravely gorgeous than the Chamber of Peersa large oblong hall, paneled with oak, elaborately carved, to the height of perhaps twenty feet.

The view from this point was strange, fantastic, yet inconceivably gorgeous.

Very large serpulites extend from their calcareous tubes, elegant red, blue, and yellow crowns of feelers, and, while little fishes of marvellously gorgeous color dart about in this fairy garden, in their midst luxuriantly grow delicate, feathered plumulariae.

As I told you, we now made ready for the climax; and that climax, Sir, I can only describe as positively gorgeous.

The hammer-cloth happened to be unusually gorgeous; and partly on that consideration, but partly also because the box offered the most elevated seat, and undeniably went foremost, it was resolved by acclamation that the box was the imperial place, and, for the scoundrel who drove, he might sit where he could find a perch.

Yet he was not vulgarly gorgeous; he was Oriental.