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We have a vast continent to subdue and to adorn, and we need the aid of millions more of willing hands to accomplish the magnificent enterprise.— Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
The station I ask you to adorn will be a private one.— The Mayor of Troy
I will not adorn, as a modern Cleopatra, the triumphal entry of the modern Augustus.— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia
For, the moment we make anything useful thoroughly, it is a law of nature that we shall be pleased with ourselves, and with the thing we have made; and become desirous therefore to adorn or complete it, in some dainty way, with finer art expressive of our pleasure And the point I wish chiefly to bring before you to-day is this close and healthy connection of the fine arts with material use; but I must first try briefly to put in clear light the function of art in giving Form to truth 98.— Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
We promise to follow those courses which shall adorn the royal name.— The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator

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