1 You remember I told you I had been struck at the distance by certain attempts at ornamentation, rather remarkable in the ruinous aspect of the place.
2 There is no glass, porch, or ornamentation without.
3 Eight days after they were dressed in san-benitos and their heads ornamented with paper mitres.
4 Candide was at once conducted to a beautiful summer-house, ornamented with a very pretty colonnade of green and gold marble, and with trellises, enclosing parraquets, humming-birds, fly-birds, guinea-hens, and all other rare birds.
5 In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 6 The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 7 The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old rusty knocker.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES 8 At the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year through with plaster villas, and on Sundays with beaming bourgeois.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL 9 It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the principal lodger, and in reality intrusted with the functions of portress, who had let him the lodging on Christmas eve.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUN... 10 On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ... 11 Another spread out over his coat the cross-belt and cartridge-box of a National Guardsman, the cover of the cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: Public Order.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP 12 A fine web, which spread far and wide, and was very black and ornamented with dead flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER 13 I wish, in order to honor our worthy aldermen, you should appear in ceremonial costume, and above all, ornamented with the diamond studs which I gave you on your birthday.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 17 BONACIEUX AT HOME 14 This person walked along the terrace, which was ornamented with flowers.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 30 D'ARTAGNAN AND THE ENGLISHMAN 15 After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all ornamented with hearts.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground