Word: inlaid
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...called from the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails expanding as a background and solidly inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls, so as to simulate exactly the plumage of a peacock. Originally it stood at Delhi, now the capital of British India, once the seat of the Mogul Emperors, for whom it was made. In 1739 the invading Nadir Shah of Persia carried off this trinket, valued at 30 million dollars...
...golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings, all different, they slipped upon his brittle digits. With eleven bracelets they circled his arms. They covered his waist with two girdles, from each of which hung a dagger, zestfully ornamented. They put the royal apron, inlaid with gold, around his pathetically bony legs. For his feet were golden sandals. A sheaf of gold tipped each toe and finger...
...those most exquisite of jewels stupidly known as semiprecious; bodies that borrow the dyes of those birds that streak green jungle tunnels with a brilliance as of exploding flame?the golden-headed trogon of Ecuador, the green tanager, the Chinese jay, the yellow woodpecker of Venezuela; a body inlaid with Macassar ebony from the island of Celebes; a Salamanca cabriolet whose interior is a Louis XV tapestry reproduced from the original in the Metropolitan Museum in two and a half million stitches, from the needle of a woman named Helen Pascal...
...bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair of the 16th Century, a Pickwickian stagecoach, a Japanese rickshaw and an Egyptian whatnot, to remind the fortunate who ride within that there are less comfortable ways to travel. For the convenience of any lady who might be so ill-advised...
...hammer of solid gold, its haft of carved ivory, studded with rubies, emeralds, aquamarines, lapis lazuli and engraved with solemn mottoes; a trowel, also of gold, also studded and graven; in a leather case, embossed and inlaid with gold and gems?these gifts of the episcopacy of the world were placed in the hands of Pope Pius XI. Pope Pius was pleased, elated...