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It was a very beautiful as well as costly ornament,
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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And you may the better afford the lack of ornament,
Kenilworth 2004
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The Lombardy Poplar, which was formerly a favorite way-side ornament,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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The dust on which thou treadest becomes an ornament,
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 Various
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It is therefore a fruit of experience, an ornament,
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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In his snow-white turban, vest, and wide Eastern trousers, wearing a sash of scarlet silk, without any other ornament,
The Talisman 1894
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My friendly and intimate relations with primitive man, in Oceania and elsewhere, have imbued me with a deplorable taste for tattoo-work; and I had wished to carry away on my own person, as a curiosity, an ornament,
Madame Chrysantheme — Complete Pierre Loti 1886
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_Feather_: which tho 'He and Fashion may consider as an ornament,
Fielding Austin Dobson 1880
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Game seemed to be scarce upon the plain that morning; but after a time as they rode round the edge of a clump of trees, so beautiful in their disposition that they seemed to have been planted there for ornament,
Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870
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Resolved, That in the death of our beloved Brother, the cause of Christian literature has lost a bright ornament,
Journal of the thirty-fifth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Mississippi, Episcopal Church. Diocese of Mississippi. Convention 1861
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