1 She heard it all under embellishment.
2 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 3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 Some day I'll tell you with embellishments just where and how I stole him and how narrowly I missed getting shot.
7 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 8 Then Dr. Johnson blandly assured us that education was needful solely for the embellishments of life, and was useless for ordinary vermin.
9 Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks.
10 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 11 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 12 Had it been now a catamount, or even a full-size panther, I would have embellished a performance for you worth regarding.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 13 Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall.
14 Among the rest, she converted the pantry into a dressing-room for me; and purchased and embellished a bedstead for my occupation, which looked as like a bookcase in the daytime as a bedstead could.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 37. A LITTLE COLD WATER 15 He has occasional employment on the same newspaper, in getting up the facts of dry subjects, to be written about and embellished by more fertile minds.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 43. ANOTHER RETROSPECT