Word: inlaid
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Scattered on the floor like driftwood on a beach were inlaid sideboards, china cupboards and end tables. Marble busts stood in dusty splendor on all the tables and desks; mirrors leaned at odd angles against the walls. Art and antique magazines, cardboard cartons and discarded papers littered the room. The scene of this disarray was not Ye Olde Antique Shoppe, but the paneled office of White House Curator Mrs. James N. Pearce, head huntress for Jackie Kennedy in her campaign to turn the White House into a treasure trove of Early Americana...
Next morning, shortly after 7 a.m., a pajama-clad Hemingway went downstairs and from the gun rack took his favorite gun, which, like almost everything he owned, was not merely a thing but a ceremonial object. A twelve-gauge, double-barreled shotgun inlaid with silver, it had been specially made for Hemingway. He put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled both triggers. The blast blew his whole head away except for his mouth, his chin, and part of his cheeks...
...lobby of the popular, 274-room Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which commands an unrivaled view of Hong Kong itself banked against the Peak across the harbor, the visitor is surrounded by shop after shop selling bargain-priced brocades, silks, cameras, pearls, jade, tape recorders, linens, carved ivory and inlaid furniture...
...Serristori loaned their priceless illuminated manuscripts, as well as two elaborately decorated Renaissance trays once used to carry water to noblewomen in labor. A plate bearing the arms of Roberto Strozzi and Maddalena de Medici marked one of the great weddings of the 16th century. A delicately inlaid table had been the gift of Clement VII to his Governor of Bologna, Francesco Guicciardini...
...shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast a gilded Easter egg celebrating three centuries (1613-1913) of Romanov rule. It was inlaid with miniature portraits of all the Romanov czars, and thanks to a Bolshevik firing squad, soon proved prophetically complete...