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Quotes About Adorned

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance.
~ A.A. Gill
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
~ Alice Walker
She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.
~ John M. Tobin, Jr.
How did he know so readily, you ask, that they were female fiends? Because he saw that each of them had a chignon on her head about fifteen inches tall and adorned with tiny bamboo strips. It was a most unfashionable style! Our
~ Wu Cheng'en
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
~ Epictetus
Since the age of 14, I have littered - excuse me, adorned - the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
~ Tavi Gevinson
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
~ Thomas Brooks
Only I don't know," the Enchantress pinched her lips together, "who gave you permission to describe my internal organs. How did it go? 'Her heart, as though a jewel, adorned her neck. Hard as if of diamond made, and as a diamond so unfeeling, sharper than obsidian, cutting—' Did you make that up yourself? Or perhaps…?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
wells were adorned with wreaths, and springs with flowers, for the Fonta - or Fontinalia. On this day a god Fontus or Fons was celebrated (Varr., LL, 6, 22), 'the son-in-law of Volturnus, husband of Juturna' (Arn., 3, 29).
~ Robert Turcan
Sometimes he was adorned or made to don Half-vestures then in statued nudity Did imitate some god that seems to be By marble's accurate virtue men's again.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.
~ Armistead Maupin
Loose crimson trousers wrapped her lower body, her bracelets and necklaces tinkling like glass bells as she breathed.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In naked beauty more adorn'd,More lovely, than Pandora.
~ John Milton
Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections tend to holiness. That which men love, they desire to have and to be united to, and possessed of. That beauty which men delight in, they desire to be adorned with. Those acts which men delight in, they necessarily incline to do.
~ Jonathan Edwards
my sister and I want to laugh out loud. She stands in her kitchen pouring a really good chardonnay. Her wrists, like her ankles, are perfect. Her fingers slender and adorned with the Tiff—the rock on a platinum
~ Gregg Olsen
I waited a moment, then lowered myself, cross-legged, to the earth. Some of the graves were adorned with flowers, in various stages of freshness and decay. As though the dead could smell the bouquets.
~ Barry Eisler
begirt with a flowing kirtle
~ Stephen Leacock
He, although he received no symbols and types of high priesthood from any one, although he was not born of a race of priests, although he was not elevated to a kingdom by military guards, although he was not a prophet like those of old, although he obtained no honor nor pre-eminence among the Jews, nevertheless was adorned by the Father with all, if not with the symbols, yet with the truth itself.
~ Eusebius of Caesarea
Every new thought suggestive or explanatory of it is crowned by him, and by it he forms a new heaven. It is said that whenever a man gives expression to such a word it ascends at once into the divine presence, who taketh and embraceth it and adorneth it with seventy crowns, all engraveth with his holy name.
~ Bernhard Pick
I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, pre- pared like a bride adorned for her husband. Revelation 21:2
~ Beth Moore
The ubiquitous palace servants opened the door for Neverfell as she approached, and Zouelle was suddenly stung by the thought of the guards perhaps calling Neverfell 'my lady' the same way they had addressed her. Immediately the honour of that title cheapened in her mind, like a piece of tinsel that had adorned the neck of a puppy or piglet.
~ Frances Hardinge
I had liefer that thou shouldst strip the altar of the glorious Virgin, when our need demandeth it, than that thou shouldst attempt aught, be it but a little thing, against our vow of poverty and the observance of the Gospel. For the Blessed Virgin would be better pleased that her altar should be despoiled, and the counsel of the Holy Gospel perfectly fulfilled, than that her altar should be adorned, and the counsel given by her Son set aside.
~ Bonaventure
For reasons I couldn't begin to guess at, a balustrade along the roofline had been adorned with life-sized statues of ordinary men, women and children. Goodness knows what this is meant to suggest – I suppose that this is some sort of Hall of the People – but the effect is that it looks as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.
~ Bill Bryson
We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
~ Meir Soloveichik