There is no passage that is not made up of blushing lines, no line that is not enriched with a sparkling metaphor, no image that is left unadorned with a double epithetall his verbs, nouns, adjectives, are equally glossy, smooth, and beautiful.

Her throat, in evening dress, never appears unadorned by one or the other of these beautiful bands that so cleverly conceal defects and seem to bring out more richly the texture and coloring of handsome bare shoulders.

Beauty unadorned with a vengeance!

[Footnote 17: To Osricke the answer seems too direct and unadorned for ears royal.]

Here Nature smiles like a lovely woman extended unadorned on the greensward; there, like a slumbering giant, she excites a feeling of awe.