Use adorn in a sentence
Sentences ending with adorn
- And no vulgar, worldly triumph was it to adorn. [9]
More example sentences with the word adorn in them
- To show New York millionaires how to adorn their city. [4]
- I feel grateful when I can permit our poets to adorn my leisure for a brief space. [10]
- It is probably well to have a period in the year that tests character to the utmost, and the person who can enter spring through the gate of February a better man or woman is likely to adorn society the rest of the year. [4]
- Is there any way for us Protestants, when love for the dead longs to find expression in action, except to adorn with flowers the places which contain their earthly remains? [10]
- A magnificent reception was to be prepared for the young conqueror, and Coello received the commission to adorn a triumphal arch with hastily-sketched, effective pictures. [10]
- Not till that was over did the guests usually adorn themselves with wreaths, wash their hands with Smegma or Smema (a kind of soap) and begin to drink. [10]
- I obey gladly too, for if I succeed in saving you, a new and beautiful star will adorn the heaven of my memory. [10]
- It was impossible to wait longer for the sculptures which were to adorn the walls. [10]
- If she desired to place him under the deepest obligations, she would join them there and adorn the festival with her singing. [10]
- There was little to be done in the last arrangement of the dead, but she could place the delicate, pale hands in a more natural position, and the flowers which the gardener had brought to adorn the coffin did not satisfy her. [10]
- Permit your maidens to adorn your cheeks with a color that shall look like the excitement of joy. [10]
- You will adorn the new sphere into which you enter. [11]
- On its top the Hindu brackets and monolithic architraves of Sikandra are replaced by Moorish carped arches, usually single blocks of red sandstone, in the Kiosks and pavilions which adorn the roof. [5]
- Let them adorn that house with all the treasures in the world, the woman who lives within will still remain its best ornament! [10]
- There are four staircases leading up to the main steeple, each of which cost a hundred thousand dollars, with the four hundred and eight statues which adorn them. [5]
- With serious repugnance she had allowed Katterle and her sister to adorn her, and entered the sedan chair which was to convey her to the Town Hall. [10]
- For whom did she adorn herself or strive to stay the vanishing charm? [10]
- The thought of seeing her adorn the triumphal procession of Octavianus was unbearable to him also. [10]
- Two stately stone porches capped by elaborate iron railings adorn it in front and on the side. [9]
- The exalted character of Berkeley is thus drawn by Sir James Mackintosh: Ancient learning, exact science, polished society, modern literature, and the fine arts, contributed to adorn and enrich the mind of this accomplished man. [6]
- Thee may the motley still adorn, When, an old man, the laurel crown Thy head doth deck, while gifts less vain, Thine age to bless will still remain. [10]
- Scars adorn a man; on a woman they are ugly and repulsive. [10]
- The room was large, light, and had a comfortable look, in fact a home-like look, though the furniture was of a humble sort and not over abundant, and the knickknacks and things that go to adorn a living-room not plenty and not costly. [5]
- He was too jaded with the din of pounds, shillings, and pence to permit his pen to invent facts or to adorn realities. [4]
- If it was intended to adorn the landscape, why was it ruined by piercing it irregularly with square windows like those of a factory? [4]
- Art had denied herself that her canvases might be hung on these walls; and even the Church, on that first Sunday of my visit, forgot the blood of her martyrs that she might adorn an appropriate niche in the setting. [9]
- To fluff out her curls, put on fashionable dresses, and sing romantic songs to fascinate her husband would have seemed as strange as to adorn herself to attract herself. [2]
- He expected, when he had sated his greed, to begin to spend, and he had formulated an intention to build a great house, to add another to the palaces of the country-bred millionaires who have come to adorn the great city. [8]
- To adorn herself for others might perhaps have been agreeable--she did not know--but she had no time at all for it. [2]
- Eva already had flowers enough to adorn the coffin as she desired, and the sun showed that it was time to return. [10]
- I close my eyes as a faithful and devoted adherent of the Church, and in token thereof I will endow her to the best of my power and adorn her with rich and costly gifts; I will--but I can say no more.--Speak for me, Orion. [10]
- No lover ever delighted more to cherish and adorn a mistress, to heighten and illustrate her charms, and to vindicate and defend her against all the world than did the Moors to embellish, enrich, elevate, and defend their beloved Spain. [4]
- But, on the day after to-morrow, you will adorn my modest banquet with the singing of the most gifted artist in the world. [10]
- Deep, scarlet wounds, brave breasts adorn, Impoverished, crippled age I shun A death of honor, 'mid glory won, This too is good fortune, good fortune! [10]
- Yet he will bear you this, if it be possible, for he comes to-night to adorn my fashionable brother. [11]
- My prince shall be tall like you, shall have your golden curls and blue eyes, and your rich, royal dress shall adorn his noble figure. [10]
- If it should be granted he hoped to show that Hermon had not been wholly unworthy to adorn himself for a short time with the wreaths of Myrtilus. [10]
- The garment must be becoming too, so we adorn it as we choose. [10]
- The daughter of an old but now impecunious Westchester family, she had been born to adorn the position she held, she was adapted by nature to wring from it the utmost of the joys it offered. [9]
- Beautiful things should adorn them; no man should set his hand in cruelty on a woman--after she is his. [11]
- I should, perhaps, adorn the marble with emblems, as is the custom with regard to the more regular and normally constituted members of society. [6]
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