1 "Nothing can embellish a beautiful face more than a narrow band drawn over the brow," says Richter.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 2 You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 3 Her voice, strong and clear in tone, attacked with great spirit the runs which embellish the air and though she sang very rapidly she did not miss even the smallest of the grace notes.
4 He could also "embellish" his words by the simple expedient of half-closing, half-winking one eye; which trick communicated to some of his satirical utterances quite a mordant effect.
5 Some day I'll tell you with embellishments just where and how I stole him and how narrowly I missed getting shot.
6 His words were brief and expressive, conveying all that was meant, and no more; no embellishments, no embroidery, no arabesques.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 7 Then Dr. Johnson blandly assured us that education was needful solely for the embellishments of life, and was useless for ordinary vermin.
8 She heard it all under embellishment.
9 Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 10 When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge.
11 She gazed concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her own, and also at her dress; which she feared had gained no embellishment from its contact with his.
12 The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off.
13 Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
14 In the meantime, the forest began to change its hues, losing that lively green which had embellished its arches, in the graver light which is the usual precursor of the close of day.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 15 To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the "holy lake," indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14