1 Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor.
2 When I came down again, I found Joe and Orlick sweeping up, without any other traces of discomposure than a slit in one of Orlick's nostrils, which was neither expressive nor ornamental.
3 So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
4 Our punch was cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin the bower was raised.
5 It had an official look, however, and there was nothing merely ornamental to be seen.
6 With that he took his trembling hands, which were like the claws of a great bird, out of my hair; and put on a pair of spectacles, not at all ornamental to his inflamed eyes.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13. THE SEQUEL OF MY RESOLUTION 7 Mr. Bounderby sat looking at her, as, with the points of a stiff, sharp pair of scissors, she picked out holes for some inscrutable ornamental purpose, in a piece of cambric.
8 The car passed the ornamental ponds, in which the colliers threw their newspapers, and took the private drive to the house.
9 But this is a later stage of King Edward's landscape gardening, the sort that has an ornamental coal-mine on the lawn.
10 Just below the end of the second, going down, the stone wall on the left terminates in an ornamental pilaster facing towards the Thames.
11 It came out upon the landing opposite to a second more ornamental stair which came up from the front hall.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 12 The breed is purely ornamental.
13 Since she had been brought up to be ornamental, she could hardly blame herself for failing to serve any practical purpose; but the discovery put an end to her consoling sense of universal efficiency.
14 Here and there, a mildewed jessamine or honeysuckle hung raggedly from some ornamental support, which had been pushed to one side by being used as a horse-post.
15 Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.