Word: adorn
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...will be surprised, O friend of my bosom, to learn that here neither the men nor the women attach any importance to their hair. None of the graces of a closely cropped crown or a long plait adorn American heads. The men cut off their hair in places called barber's shops, where three times a week they have their faces painted white with a mixture of froth and fire-water. I was curious to visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut...
...suddenly remarked, "Mr. Milburn, we will take you now as Hercules." This was too much! It was too sarcastic a reference to my small size. I claimed my twenty-five cents and departed. The next day, I received a complete set of the pictures, appropriately labelled, and they now adorn my room. I am going to Mt. Desert next summer...
...small section of picket fence, and the gate, which adorn the entrance to the Yard next Wadsworth House, are so perfectly useless, that they might well be removed, even though they do add originality to the Yard, being entirely different from the rest of the fence. They cause some delay there at times when men are coming to and from Holyoke House and Little's, and are an unmitigated nuisance. I hope they will be taken away as soon as possible...
Would Miss L. give me the pleasure of her company? Animated silence! This I translated with the help of the old proverb, as follows: of course Miss L. is only too happy to do anything rather than serve as one of those botanical specimens that on such occasions adorn the drawing-room; and it was but natural that, in the prospect of an evening with myself, a Harvard Senior, for partner, her emotions should quite overpower her utterance...
Fair Harvard on her Class Day did adorn...