ornamental

• “The project, organized by a company called GEOS, will specialize in ornamental plants and cut flowers.”

  Lloyd Mexico Economic Report July 2005

• “There, too, the turbulence and flow of capitalism is treated in ornamental poetry which exploits it in different ways, hyperbolically overdeveloping it like Keats in The Eve of St Agnes or showing its contiguity with sensations of contagion, corruption and violence, as in anti-slavery poetry.”

  _Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire

• “The neatness and completeness of everything; the due allowance of trees dispersed in ornamental fashion; nature so thoroughly tamed and domesticated; the picturesque railway stations, and a certain moist softness in the air.”

  In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World

• “In the top right is a picture of an ornamental box with the English words, Happy New Year”

  Brudirect News1

• “Along with the main ornamental flowers, the fillers like BabyÂ’s Breath, foliage and ribbon have completed and enhanced the giving of flowers.”

  Goddard Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

• “In those places where the gentry were attached to the Stuart cause, their houses seemed dismantled or deserted, the usual course of what may be called ornamental labour was totally interrupted, and the inhabitants were seen gliding about, with fear, sorrow, and dejection on their faces.”

  Waverley

• “All those works are of that kind called ornamental: the graces of true art, the truth of action and the dignity of sentiment are wanting; and they seem to have been produced by a sort of mechanical process, similar to that which creates figures in arras.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829

• “On the other hand, this looseness of arrangement, and what may be termed ornamental, not only spread through Germany, but infected the schools of Venice; witness the works of Tintoret and Paul Veronese, in which the expression of the countenance absolutely goes for nothing, and the whole arrangement is drawn out in a picturesque point of view, merely to amuse and gratify the eye of the spectator.”

  Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.

• “The furniture of the club room could hardly be called ornamental, but it was certainly comfortable.”

  Glenloch Girls

• “Dispose these, which may be called the ornamental adjuncts of the galantine, judiciously, so that when cut cold they will be well distributed.”

  Choice Cookery

Show 10 more examples...