At the same time he says that metaphor deserves great attention in prose because prose lacks other poetical adornment.

These rivers are translatable into: understanding of good and evil, moral purpose, novelty, rhetorical adornment of figures and so forth.

The theologian uses metaphor only as an adornment to his solid matter.

As the enlightenment of each generation depends upon the thoughtful study of the history of those that have gone before, everything which tends to fullness and accuracy in that history is of value, even though it be not presented with the adjuncts of literary adornment, or thrilling scenic effects.

After dinner, when the house party began to settle into its stride, he made occasion, aping the other servants, to peep in at a door of the great ballroom, where an impromptu dance had been organized; and was rewarded by sight of the Princess Sofia circling the floor in the arms of a boldly good-looking young man whose taste was as poor in flirtation as in self-adornment.

When they passed a display of luxuries for masculine adornment, she found a further retort in suggesting that he ought to have a certain giddy fancy waistcoat.

The joys which spring from virtue are an adornment of it, not an enticement to it; they are its result, not its aim.

Of the distinction so much insisted on by later analysts of the true popular balladits communal origin, its impersonality, its freedom from adornment, its lack of conscious artthe Englishman of Coleridge's time took no account.

I took charge of Hyldebrand, provided an old dog-kennel for his shelter, an older dog-collar for his adornment and six yards of "flex" for his restraint.

To the maid's despair Sylvia refused this adornment, refused the smallest touch of rouge, refused an ornament in her hair.

Accordingly, he invented for the interior a composite adornment, of the newest and most varied manner which antique and modern masters joined together could have used.

The Chinese usually builds his temples even in foreign lands in the same Oriental superfluity of color and curve and adornment that makes them exclusively the Middle Kingdom's own; but here he had been content to have a simple, whitewashed church which might be a meeting-house or school.

Every walk over hill and dale, every ramble by brookside or through wildwood, gave to her some fresh home-adornment.

She's a fine girl and would be an adornment to you, such as Hammersmith could be proud of.

It is a very instructive book, containing much curious matter, is worthy of better adornment in the form of its presentation to the world, and ought to have a title more suggestive of its antiquarian lore.

Mere learning she did not hold to be an adornment in a woman.

Horns for our adornment.

SEE Romains, Jules. Horns for our adornment.

Horns for our adornment.

We could also say of the heavens that they were still imperfect and had not received their natural adornment, since at that time they did not shine with the glory of the sun and of the moon, and were not crowned by the choirs of the stars.

The same cause at the same time prevents it from being seen and from being complete, for the proper and natural adornment of the earth is its completion: corn waving in the valleys, meadows green with grass and rich with many-colored flowers, fertile glades and hilltops shaded by forests.

[Footnote c: The main items are clothing, personal adornment, furniture, and carriages.] § 5.

But all four qualities above named were pretty well embodied in primitive times in rock salt, in rare flints and bits of copper suitable for tools and weapons, in furs in northern countries, and in many articles of personal adornment, such as beads, feathers, jewels, and metal ornaments.

Both the building of the canoes and their adornment entailed long months of labour.

It is a singular thing that those poetical plays which are now written in England by the most advanced students of the drama follow exclusively the lines of Maeterlinck, and use verse and rhyme for the adornment of a profoundly tragic theme.