As such did he view them allfrom the ornately garbed young man who came among us purveying windmills to the portly, broadclothed, gray-whiskered and forbiddingly respectable colporteur of the American Bible Society.

Phillips's diction, though sometimes rhetorical, is also often ornately beautiful and highly poetical.

" He led the way to a large parlor ornately done in red, and pulled out from a leather trunk a passport issued by the Department of State of the United States of America.

On one shelf was a large, clear sphere on an ornately shaped stand.

I am proud to have shown them the way by collecting these facts which, as you will see, are without pretension; not only because I am unable to adorn my subject more ornately, but also because I have never thought to write as a professional historian.