Use "ornamental" in a sentence

1. An ornamental pool with a fountain graced the center of it, they took the scotch to some high-backed stools that bracketed a small table next to a small raised lawn upon which houris might perform

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2. There was no energy to run a pump here, in fact a wind-wheel drew their water, so the pool could hold nothing but some ornamental fish and plants to provide their oxygen

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3. He spent the day preparing the soil in his allocated spot, mulching, weeding and hoeing, before gently placing his prize specimen in its ornamental pot in the middle of his display

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4. placing his prize specimen in its ornamental pot in the middle of his

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5. There was a lot of ornamental detail on most houses, porch rails were fanciful twists of thick vine, with clumps of leaves, large maroon flowers and long string beans

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6. Ornamental candle-holders swung from porch roofs

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7. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago

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8. There are few hands to spare for the necessary, and none for the ornamental manufactures

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9. But had those tolls been put under the management of commissioners, who had no such interest, they might perhaps, have been dissipated in ornamental and unnecessary expenses, while the most essential parts of the works were allowed to go to ruin

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10. They generally have a good deal of leisure, during which they may perfect themselves in every branch, either of useful or ornamental knowledge, of which they may have laid the foundation, or for which they may have acquired some taste in the earlier part of life

11. fruquently, too, by cultivating all those arts which best deserve, and which are therefore most likely to gain them, the esteem of people of rank and fortune; by their knowledge in all the different branches of useful and ornamental learning, by the decent liberality of their manners, by the social good humour of their conversation, and by their avowed contempt of those absurd and hypocritical austerities which fanatics inculcate and pretend to practise, in order to draw upon themselves the veneration, and upon the greater part of men of rank and fortune, who avow that they do not practise them, the abhorrence of the common people

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12. It was originally two plain planks of wood, though while Carl prayed, Adem saw light of changing colours spreading along the timber, carving smaller crosses, and shaping the wood to look ornamental

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13. spent any time in office building atriums in the United States, you know the ficus as a kind of gangly potted ornamental

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14. A second later the bike crashed through the ornamental wooden bridge then cartwheeled into the pond, spraying water and goldfish in all directions

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15. unhurriedly along the passage, he saw a collection of ornamental

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16. ornamental, it really worked

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17. There he found an ornamental iron fence that encompassed a few square feet of ground

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18. Their houses were made of materials obtained from the environment: lime stones, trunks, shrubs and a special clay that acted like glue, of which they also designed kitchen tools and ornamental vessels

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19. She crushes a brick mailbox whipping over a lawn, you knock ornamental statue through a breakfast nook keeping up

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20. Ailanthus is the genus of Tree of Heaven, which is an ornamental tree that was introduced into the U

21. It was of Richard wielding a heavy-looking ornamental vase above his petrified face

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22. She thought of it as both ornamental and something they could all learn to play

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23. He had created vegetable patches either side of the ornamental path that he had laid running from the patio area near the house to the end of their garden

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24. He glimpsed walls with ornamental copings, lattices of carven stone that might once have served as the walls of pleasure pavilions

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25. Only the occasional ornamental tree or collection of shrubs and bushes survived among the cracked dry earth, remnants from long abandoned ornamental parks and gardens

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26. He walked on and, when he reached the point where the individual had appeared, he found a ruined building amongst some ornamental trees and he cautiously walked over to investigate

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27. Nearby, a rusted shipping container had been jammed under the dead tree and, although it was badly weathered, Siri could see that at one time it had been painted with some sort of foliage design, overwritten with large, now unreadable, ornamental lettering

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28. It was painted yellow with blue and red bubbles, and a metal panel filled the space between the frame with the words, Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione, painted on both sides in large red and blue ornamental lettering

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29. forming the centre of an intricate ornamental design, inlayed in silver, upon the lid

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30. I worked at an ornamental iron shop in Buffalo, and I’m happy to report that today, I have all my fingers

31. Tommy stopped hacking at the bushes and threw what was left of the rose into the ornamental pond

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32. After all, I did work at a nuclear power plant, an ornamental iron shop and a chemical company

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33. A brick wall about five feet high atop of which there was an additional two feet of ornamental ironworks surrounding the entire property to keep intruders from disturbing the guests who paid dearly for the privacy and intimacy offered by the establishment

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34. They slowly made their way to the twelfth hole, a short par three with elevated green protected by high mounds and deep crevices, beyond which in another alcove of high mounds of earth sat a small, nondescript marble building no more than twenty feet wide by twenty feet deep with ornamental grasses as the only landscaping

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35. The only sound in the room other than their footsteps was the ticking of a large ornamental clock on the mantle of the fireplace

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36. ” Within a fraction of time, I was reaching in the realm of my dream world, where the fancy couple, white doves were gazing each other in white-soft ornamental attires, holding the sacred garlands, and the Moon and the stars were witnessed their romantic moment

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37. be stood in an ornamental pot (without a hole in its base) and suspended in an ornamental

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38. Most lay Churchmen can only see that the service in some churches is more ornamental and musical than in others, and that in some there is more importance attached to the Lord's Table, and to flowers, decorations, gestures, dress, and postures, than in others

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39. They cannot, or will not, perceive that the ceremonial actions in administering the Lord's Supper, about which the clergy disagree, are not mere ornamental trifles, as some suppose

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40. Over the next few weeks he brought in window boxes and ornamental containers, planted

41. They eventually settled on an ornamental and intimate genital contraption for both the male and the female

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42. He wore a mantle over his body that was elaborate and ornamental, studded with gold

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43. In this era of the baroquely ornamental plate, masters of food as art for art's sake must look not only at the critics' faces at the table, but also, and most importantly, at those absent: the uninvited, the hungry, the one's who do not understand meals judged but uneaten, constructed but inedible, and discarded but not recycled as leftover meals for mouths or microbes

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44. as he noticed an ornamental Buddha stuck to the

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45. “Every ornamental pet is a gilded prisoner who has one purpose: when I get home, go apeshit crazy like Oprah fans getting house niggers on her last show

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46. “As I was saying, we will gladly pay for a pet's expensive ornamental purposelessness, but won't adopt a family in poverty, or become an elder's regular visitor and friend

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47. looked at her chest again, and this time she saw a neatly tricolored cape house, off the grid, self-sustaining, with ornamental pets and flower box perfection

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48. What is the difference between domestic house dogs and domestic factory chickens? Only a pet owner's prejudice that, as royalty, their ornamental pet has more right to excess consumption than a 1030

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49. “I could hardly say any less of you; saving the day by flying off a cliff in an apparatus that I would have guessed was nothing more than ornamental

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50. ornamental chess set covered in dry vomit and asked his roommate if

51. They were employed as ornamental plants in flower gardens and because they were of the same family as the deadly Nightshade plant they were believed to be poisonous

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52. Aloysius, and the ornamental rug was now stained with the virgin’s blood! It was so unbearably scandalous! They had been separated—ripped from each other—wet with their sweat, blood, and carnal fornication

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53. Coral: The red coral being esteemed the most precious; was used for ornamental purposes

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54. a popular shrub and ornamental in the southern part of the United States, is a

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55. Can anyone find one sane reason why humans with the most primitive toolkit suddenly began to mass-produce useless objects that were not even tools and were not even ornamental? Imagine yourself on a deserted island with only a few simple stone tools

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56. ornamental canopy above the hob

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57. They are used as ornamental trees, because of the

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58. Then my sister sealed them up in a piece of paper, and put them under some dried rose-leaves in an ornamental teapot on the top of a press in the state parlor

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59. So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless

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60. Our punch was cooling in an ornamental lake, on whose margin the bower was raised

61. At one corner it had a tower surmounted by a spire or steeple, and this steeple terminated with an ornamental wrought-iron pinnacle which had to be painted

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62. But the proprietor appeared already to have relinquished, as hopeless, the effort to perpetuate on this side of the Atlantic, in a hard soil and amid the close struggle for subsistence, the native English taste for ornamental gardening

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63. It came out upon the landing opposite to a second more ornamental stair which came up from the front hall

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64. Ornamental trees and shrubbery had been shattered, their broken branches stripped naked by the blast, and at least thirty-five members of the Temple Guard and “several”—Clyntahn and Rayno still refused to issue an official number—agents inquisitor had been killed along with every single person in the church

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65. Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to

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66. What should he do about his skimming? Who would make the ornamental butter-pats for the Anglebury and Sandbourne ladies? Mrs Crick congratulated Tess on the shilly-shallying having at last come to an end, and said that directly she set eyes on Tess she divined that she was to be the chosen one of somebody who was no common outdoor man; Tess had looked so superior as she walked across the barton on that afternoon of her arrival; that she was of a good family she could have sworn

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67. Apollo, it may here be mentioned, is useful as well as ornamental, for his lyre is tipped with a metal point which does duty as a lightning-rod, and conducts the fluid to the body and down the nether limbs of the god

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68. Travellers did not often carry full information on Christian art either in their heads or their pockets; and even the most brilliant English critic of the day mistook the flower-flushed tomb of the ascended Virgin for an ornamental vase due to the painter's fancy

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69. She carried the leather box containing the amethysts, and a tiny ornamental basket which contained other boxes, and laying them on the chair where she had been sitting, she said, with perfect propriety in her air—

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70. In the Kennels which ran down the mucky Centres of the Streets, one saw Fish Heads, Orange Rinds, Human Wastes—e’en dead Cats! The Air above was as smoky here as it had been fresh and clear upon the River; and one hardly dar’d look up o’erhead at the Profusion of creaking Sign Boards, hung upon ornamental iron Brackets, which sway’d in the Wind like hang’d Men, and obstructed whate’er Light and Air there might be, especially upon the narrowest Streets

71. Thomas sat down across from him, on an old divan that wasn’t meant to hold someone of his size; it creaked alarmingly, and the ornamental legs bowed, but he didn’t seem to notice

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72. Having gone round the corner of the hothouse to the ornamental garden, he saw that the carved garden fence was broken and branches of the plum trees had been torn off with the fruit

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73. The old man was still sitting in the ornamental garden, like a fly impassive on the face of a loved one who is dead, tapping the last on which he was making the bast shoe, and two little girls, running out from the hot house carrying in their skirts plums they had plucked from the trees there, came upon Prince Andrew

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74. The fact that Barsoomian architecture is extremely ornate made the feat much simpler than I had anticipated, since I found ornamental ledges and projections which fairly formed a perfect ladder for me all the way to the eaves of the building

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75. The tuft of hair on the breast of the wild turkey-cock cannot be of any use, and it is doubtful whether it can be ornamental in the eyes of the female bird; indeed, had the tuft appeared under domestication it would have been called a monstrosity

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76. Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel

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77. I was interested, too, in beetles and other insects; I used to collect them, some were very ornamental

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78. Likewise, I remarked that the Prince was a very near relation of mine, and that, when lunching with him the same day, he had invited me to go and spend the entire summer with him at that villa, but that I had declined, since I knew the villa well, and had stayed in it more than once, and that all those balustradings and bridges did not interest me, since I could not bear ornamental work, especially in the country, where I liked everything to be wholly countrified

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79. Our literary women are not ornamental, and are skillfully excluded from drawing rooms

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80. Near New-Haven immense beds of green marble were discovered in 1811, during a mineralogical excursion: this beautiful material, closely resembling the verd antique, is now, on the spot, wrought into tables, fireplaces, and many other ornamental forms; and although the farmers had made fences of it for 150 years, no one suspected what it was till the study of mineralogy, in Yale College, brought it to light

81. Where are the men who will model capitals and panels in clay, with some sense of ornamental effect? We have the men who can make a copy in relief of an architect’s drawings: but then the architect, even if he have the sense of ornamental effect, in the first place can never draw out, full size and with care, all the work required in a rich building, and, in second place, can never design sculptured form aright by mere drawings on the flat

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82. granite for the body of the cathedral, with trimmings of carved capitals, bases, columns, belts, arches and other ornamental stonework of a Georgia marble

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