The bouquet of roses was a beautiful embellishment on the wedding cake. From LearnThat.org.
The smoke-key embellishment is a result of some experimenting I did with etching metal. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Smoke Key Book] Reference
I'm using luxurious fabrics but a lot less embellishment, which is very expensive to do. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty Blogger] Reference
Mature enough by this time to realize that his account of his time at Business International could be described as embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [UNCoRRELATED] Reference
Mature enough by this time to realize that his account of his time at Business International could be described as embellishment …. From Wordnik.com. [Right Voices] Reference
Which wasn't entirely true; by one account, "Don't Mess Around With Jim" once had upwards of 30 verses, but he knew how to make his point and wasn't interested in embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [October 2006] Reference
He also said he commanded the War Room in the Pentagon, which was an "embellishment," and claimed to have fought in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- when he was never deployed. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Kirk's Teaching Experience 'Overstated,' Says School Representative] Reference
The open timber roof, raised to the original height, was substituted at the restoration for a flat ceiling which had been put up at a previous "embellishment" of the cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
"I'm using luxurious fabrics but a lot less embellishment, which is very expensive to do. From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
This article clearly was written by a person with the depth and 'embellishment' of a Ward Churchill, than a Professional News Reporter!!. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
Men Ugg boots; anything by Ed Hardy; anything made out of mesh; jeans that have any kind of embellishment; jewellery of any kind; anything tie-dyed; bandanas; Crocs. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It is rare indeed that a fact can be used without embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Dressing is not regarded as an adulteration, but as an embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
A journey of the imagination has become an exercise in sheer embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [From China, With Love] Reference
And the door shut upon his face, the brass knocker a shamelessly festive embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [Once There Was A Man] Reference
He rigidly eschewed embellishment, and adorned his pupils with no graceful accomplishments. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
Love is but the embellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Attorney-General agreed reflectively; and the New Yorker could easily pardon this embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Mr. Hallock tells us in his preface that his province is to write an anglers 'guide without embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Costa's dresses were elongated to mid-calf, the only embellishment a well-placed crease or an elegant fold. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion Week wrap-up: Fresh talent has clearly joined the ranks of the old guard] Reference
Words should serve the fact, and not substitute themselves for it and make it forgotten in its embellishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
I enjoyed Davis's trademark clear, bright way with the information, but that was an aural embellishment too far. From Wordnik.com. [Radio review: Evan Loves Tax] Reference
These sketches are real native stories put into readable English, without any attempt at embellishment or enlargement. From Wordnik.com. [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference
This is particularly true of woodworking planes on which, unlike their continental cousins, embellishment is rarely seen. From Wordnik.com. [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference
A literal translation is all that has been attempted, with absolutely no embellishment to make it "popular" or easy reading. From Wordnik.com. [Operations Upon the Sea A Study] Reference
"People are willing to spend if a piece has great fabric, great embellishment, great detail, but the balance has to be there.". From Wordnik.com. [Luxury-Goods Firms Turn Up Volume on Value] Reference
We no longer trust each other to come up with good-enough facts or allow each other add colorful embellishment to our stories. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Tjan: The Next Big Movement: Natural Conversations] Reference
After cleansing the city to a certain extent, embellishment was commenced, and lastly, works of general public utility were undertaken. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Every embellishment which art could invent, luxury court, wealth invoke, or even imagination conceive, seemed there lavished with a most prodigal hand. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Cicero, the great Roman orator, remarked, "For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.". From Wordnik.com. [Can we really blame Lady Gaga for being politically incoherent?] Reference
The practical applications of teratology deserve the attention of those cultivators who are concerned in the embellishment of our gardens and the supply of our tables. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
I augmented these comforts by the addition of a trunk, mattress, hammock and pair of blankets; yet, after all this embellishment, I confess my household was rather a sorry affair. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
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