Word: adornment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are bookplates that are really designed to adorn a page, not to squat upon it like a nuisance; bookplates that have some genuine connection both with the books they rest in and the owners of those books; pleasant, interesting, engaging, individual bookplates. You sigh, and resolve to have one made...
...immersed in the memory of her husband. The doctor has discovered that he loves her; but his respect to her devotion to the departed restrains him long from saying the word. At last he is moved to it, and makes a compact with her, whereby he has her to adorn his house, but no further. He continues to pay every consideration to her sacred memories, not at all realizing that they are dying with the dead. The intervention of a supposed friend, who has no qualms about infringing on the realm of the departed, awakens him to the new situation...
Some of the bodies were painted over with pitch and went to adorn the Isle of Dogs, a custom which had the warm approval of Townsend, the worthy old Bow-street runner, as a warning to sailors who might be disposed to murder revenue officers. So Kidd, as we say, did not set the fashion in these matters, when he came down to take his place on the gallows set on the uncovered beach when the tide...
There should be at least some measure of safety assured to those who seek education at a higher university. Although it may be considered sacrilege to adorn historic buildings with such prosale things as fire-escapes, yet sentiment must sometimes give way to common-sense...
...summer season is with us in earnest. The "Poor Little Ritz Girl," now playing at the Wilbur, blossoms forth as one of the hardy perennials which adorn Boston's stage in the sultry season...