Citations:adorned

English citations of adorned

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.