Quotes About Ornate

Excellent. I've been told I have a lovely, melodic reading voice." He flipped the book open to the front page, where the title was printed in ornate script. Across from it was a long dedication, the ink faded now and barely legible, though Clary could make out the signature: With hope at last, William Herondale.

her hair tied up in an elaborate lace rigolette

Uvijek se možete pouzdati u ubojicu da ?e pisati kitnjastim stilom.

on an actual kyber, which Zerpen had gone to great lengths and cost to acquire. Relatively rare, the so-called living crystals were almost exclusively the property of the Jedi, who seemed to regard the kyber as sacrosanct. Finger-sized ones powered their lightsabers, and larger ones were rumored to adorn the ornate façades of their isolated temples.

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy... you can bet he's worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.

embroidered with the brightest gold, and all over enriched with pearls. The hands next brought him an elegant dressing-table

Lahiri Mahasaya left this world shortly after I had entered it. His picture, in an ornate frame, always graced our family altar in the various cities to which Father was transferred by his office.

The Villa Straylight," said a jeweled thing on the pedestal, in a voice like music, "is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. Each space in Straylight is in some way secret, this endless series of chambers linked by passages, by stairwells vaulted like intestines, where the eye is trapped in narrow curves, carried past ornate screens, empty alcoves. . . .

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king.

His cuffs are jewelled, and the moth pin that holds his cloak in place has wings that move on their own.

Cardan is wearing a high jewelled collar of jet on a stiff black doublet. Over the top of his pointed ears are knifelike caps of gold, matching the gold along his cheekbones. His expression is remote.

Cushions and rugs, goblets and trays and half-full decanters cover every surface- all of them in a riot of colours: vermillion and umber, peacock blue and bottle green, gold and damson plum.

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.

those ornate metal deals. The initials JP were inscribed on the back. I gave Billy a look that informed him I knew I was handling stolen goods. I gave him a follow-up look indicating that I wouldn't rat him out. I'm not a rat, which some people might consider an asset, but I'm fairly certain it is my fatal flaw.

Red-heeled shoes and silk stockings clocked in black. Gray satin breeches with silver knee buckles. Snowy linen, with Brussels lace six inches deep at cuff and jabot. The coat, a masterpiece in heavy gray with blue satin cuffs and crested silver buttons, hung behind the door, awaiting its turn.

its ornate gilded frame it presented a magical image, lit by candlelight in the family chapel.

red marble drawing-room, where an

horse-drawn litter covered with velvet and fringed with gold and silk, as well as a coach

My cairns were obvious, pretentious, rococo.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

At first I followed her deliberately soft voice, which had the timber of a zurna,* and listened to her speech, which resembled embroidery or a string of pearls, words and phrases completely different from those of the townspeople, somewhat withered yet ornate, with the aura of those old chambers and something enduring.

The peacock's gaudy tail does not enable him to fly any higher, but it raises his status in the eyes of the peahen.