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Beauty of design has at length become of paramount importance, and the beautiful, so long neglected, is now avenged. The public taste has advanced too fast. Since the introduction of foreign goods, such as silks and other ornamental fabrics, the inferiority of our native designs for these materials has become manifest to all.
But besides the engaging cordiality of Miss Wallingford's invitation, there was something about the letter that puzzled almost as much as it cheered him. "She prizes the name of Bunker, does she? Never struck me it was very ornamental; and in any case the compliment seems a trifle stretched. But, hang it! this is looking a gift-horse in the mouth.
Back of the congregation the organ-loft is concealed from view by ornamental screen-work and an arbor-like arrangement of vines and leaves, from which the gilded pipes and gothic spires shoot up into the vaulted ceiling; but no one knows who or what may be there concealed. Towards the altar the church is a bower of beauty.
But how much of our general sense of grace or power of motion, of serenity, peacefulness, and spirituality, we owe to these creatures, it is impossible to conceive; their wings supplying us with almost the only means of representation of spiritual motion which we possess, and with an ornamental form of which the eye is never weary, however meaninglessly or endlessly repeated; whether in utter isolation, or associated with the bodies of the lizard, the horse, the lion, or the man.
He was a rude artist, such as might have belonged to the darkest age, but certain ornamental details of the bas-relief indicate that he was a man of the sixteenth century. The walls of the cavern have been blackened by the damp, and these awful shapes reveal themselves but slowly to the eye, so that they look like a vague and dreadful company of ghosts advancing from the darkness.
It's a word that people uses for for well, it's ornamental. They don't put ruffles on a shirt to keep a person warm, do they?" "Course they don't." "But they put them ON, don't they?" "Yes." "All right, then; that letter I wrote is a shirt, and the welkin's the ruffle on it." I judged that that would gravel Jim, and it did.
Whilst a peculiar defect which I scarcely like to call an oversight in mental construction shuts me out from the flowery pathway of the romancer, a co-ordinate requital endows me, I trust, with the more sterling, if less ornamental qualities of the chronicler.
A little more and I shall tell them what happened to you on the ornamental waters in Regent's Park that rough day." "Really?" asked Simpson with interest. "Yes; I fancy he had been rather overdoing it at Swedish drill that morning." We gave her ten in silence, and then by mutual consent rested on our oars. "There's a long way yet," said Myra. "Dahlia and I will row if you're tired."
"Now, that's a poser!" He ruminated a minute, then said, "It's useful, certainly, but not just what you'd call ornamental. One wouldn't save it for an ornament not this one, anyway, but simply for its contents " "I have it, I have it!" Faith actually jumped up and down. "It's a letter! It's a letter from Debby! Now, isn't it? Your 'contents' gave it away. Say I'm right, father come, now!"
My lot below were always asking me about it, and I handed them the usual ornamental and soothing lies, in which they believed long enough to keep the steam up. What more could you ask of human nature? So we kept her plugging along, getting nearer and nearer nowhere.
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