| 单词 | filagree |
| 例句 | Judiciary Committee members in both parties should ask questions that probe the souls of nominees — simple, direct questions stripped of rhetorical filagree. Questions Democratic senators failed to ask Amy Coney Barrett 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z But opening one eye, the filagree of sunlight, sifting through the leaves, disclosed hundreds of worms letting themselves down by gossamer cables toward the earth. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The royal apartments in Whitehall were completely mounted with hammered and filagree silver furniture in the seventeenth century. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z Many-coloured bandages wrapped the body in a close sheath; and the legs also were closely fastened together in a case of gold filagree. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The watchmaker cleaned it up and then beheld what he conceived to be a jewel of silver covered with gold filagree. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z A set of silver filagree was added, bracelets, necklace, brooch, and even ear-rings, for Hortense tied them on, with a bit of pink silk, which did not show. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z The Chalice of St. Remi, with its gold filagree work, six rows of chasing, and precious stones set in a collier, is a remarkable work of art. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) 2011-07-31T02:00:09.963Z In such a room Achmet Oulid received us, putting before us delicious hot coffee in tiny cups with filagree stands, a delightful kind of peach jam, and the pipe of peace. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z With this she drew forth from her pocket, and laid on the table, the filagree bracelet. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z She moved with the last word and saw Stanief; a tall, soldierly presence in the filagree room. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z The silver had already been stored for the night, the bosses of great bowls, flowered rims, and filagree edgings shining from darkling recesses. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z When she came to the filagree box, she opened that too. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Yes, very pretty silver, filagree ear-rings, and the gilding came to ten florins. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z One morning, when Miriam came to the studio, to sit as usual, Cornelius produced a pair of morocco cases; each contained a silver filagree bracelet: he asked her to choose one, and accept it. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z The edifice was a substantial, ancient structure, with a mahogany pulpit of the old style, a broad aisle, chandelier pendent from the arched roof, filagree and panel-work around the galleries. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Two lamas were the only occupants, one on either side of a great door covered with cerise and gold brocade and ornamented with knobs of gold filagree. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z This was the work of Mrs. Errington's own hands in her school-girl days, and was of the kind called then, if I mistake not, "filagree work." A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z There was a filagree of snow crystals shimmering over the surface of the fields as if a crop of diamonds were sprouting from the sleeping soil. The Undying Past Upon the shoulders were two stones, rightly perhaps called onyx, and set in “ouches”—of filagree work, as the word seems to say. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus "I think I like the Indian things best; they smell the nicest," said Linda, snuffing at a sandalwood box, and trying the effect of some filagree ornaments on her own hair and Sylvia's. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story The walls were lacquered with red and gold; and black-enameled pillars, inscribed with ideographs, were joined to the beams by filagree dragons. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Wires of platinum, terrelium, and aquelium had been woven into a filagree of roses, with leaves and stems made red hot by the electric current. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The handles of the knives were fashioned into representations of saints and angels, and the costly ruby glasses, of Venetian origin, were surrounded with cases of gold filagree, of the most delicate and beautiful character. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Another volume of the Gospels, in a very small, clear hand, bound in a kind of silver filagree of the same date as the book, also excited my admiration. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant A coat of blue velvet with silver braid and buttons of filagree,—or wrought openwork silver buttons,—fitted as if moulded to his tall, erect young figure. Maid Sally It was a new and marvellous country, with gold and silver filagree instead of foliage, and fields of emerald, and rivers of sapphires, and distant mountains of amethyst. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children Making of filagree, or fringe, or card-purses, or cutting out paper, or dancing and singing was of no use in our village. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales In these stores laces, gold and silver filagree work, jewelry, and embroidered muslins were the principal wares sought by the tourists. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise She opened it at last, slowly and reluctantly, as it seemed to him, and took out of a nest of pink cotton-wool a string of filagree silver beads. Under False Pretences A Novel That which had been said so shortly was true; had it been wrapped up in filagree—through all disguise the solid unpleasant truth would remain as core. The Broom-Squire The dasher swelled forward like a swan's breast, and then curved deeply backward; from either corner of the band of iron filagree at the top, dangled a red horsetail. The Quality of Mercy When the mother found her girls too polite to be of any use, she would take comfort in observing how her parlor was set out with their filagree and flowers, their embroidery and cut paper. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales She took a glance in the old mirror, encompassed by its frame-work of ebony, carved and elaborated at the top and bottom into a dark net-work of fine filagree; she saw herself—a bride. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 She wore armlets and girdle of silver filagree, a silver comb in the dark tresses, and large filagree loops in her ears gave the beautiful face a half-oriental character. The Bondwoman When she reached the Moor, Mehetabel ran among sheets of gold, leaped ribbons of shining metal, danced among golden filagree—the reflection of the orb in the patches, channels, frets of water. The Broom-Squire Their shadows wrought a marvelous pattern on the glossy surface, a magic piece of delicate bronze filagree such as nature alone could trace. Treasure Valley Gold thread work in spiral forms has very much the effect of filagree in gold wire. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery Damascus blades, Cordovan leather, Moorish architecture, Persian carpets, Indian filagree, Chinese carvings and Japanese paintings all give the lie to such claims. Pan-Islam It is of good workmanship, in imitation of filagree, and interlaced with inscriptions in copper. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Snow beat upon the windows, incrusted with the filagree work of frost, and as the speed of the train increased the carriage filled with the persistent music of an intense and sustained activity. Tongues of Conscience The Genoese jewellery is very beautiful, particularly the gold and silver filagree work. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta I also presented the nurse with a brooch of gold filagree work, which I had brought home with me from Portugal, intending to give it to my mother. Lalage's Lovers “Nay, what is it, trow?” inquired Kate, who looked with deep interest through the interstices of the filagree, and saw nothing but a few inches of coarse linen thread. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century As she sits or stands, with golden bands, And lace in beautiful filagrees. The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children Gold and silver filagree works they excel in; gunpowder is manufactured at Pontiana; brass cannon is cast at Borneo Proper; iron-shot is run from their mine. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Horses, to the trooper of the Valley, were as horses in the ten years' war at Troy—the prized spoil of battle, the valued trophies, utilities outweighing all filagree spoil. The Long Roll They were indeed the little leaden ones out of the dolls' house knife-basket of green and silver filagree. The Magic City And others carried a coffee tray, upon which were cups of elegant filagree work. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series I acknowledge it, and caught my dress in the filagree of the cross. The Circular Study It is set in enamelled meadows with filagree hedges: A small Euphrates through the place is roll'd, And little finches wave their wings of gold. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 It was an old-fashioned silver locket formed in the shape of a heart, and ornamented with the most delicate filagree work; in the centre of it was the letter N in old German text. Sunrise After which they advanced and kissed the Cross and Gospels, which were covered with most minute silver and gold filagree work. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. He had turned over the treasures in his pocket and found a scrap of gilt filagree off a gorgeous valentine. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Might not this filagree have caught in her dress as she was tearing down the cross from the wall and so have started the thread which had given him this exquisite clew? The Circular Study We sat in the well-remembered room, where green tea and mint were served in a beautiful set of china-and-gold filagree cups, presented to him by the British Government nearly ten years ago. Morocco What delicious landscape floating On perfumed wings I see; Pale swans I am idly noting, And queens robed in filagree. Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry The younger have their hair ornamented with some huge filagree pin or other device of a fashion which proclaims itself to the most unskilled eye as that of some two or three hundred years ago. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 And with these words she stretched out her hand toward a basket of gold filagree work, in which twenty peaches were tastefully arranged, and took one. The Forty-Five Guardsmen Vespasian was the first who dedicated crowns of cinnamon, inclosed in gold filagree, in the Capitol and the Temple of Peace; and Livia dedicated the root in the Palatine Temple of Augustus. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson Only a trifle, though, i' faith, 'tis smart, A jeu d'esprit, not art concealing art, Fruition of a moment's fantasy, Mere mental bubbles, verbal filagree. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 The pavilion, which was of silver lace or filagree woven in the most exquisite patterns, was a hundred or more feet in circumference, and adorned with open arches and columns on its several sides. Strange Visitors Those memoirs are charming of their kind, and if life were cut in filagree paper would be profitable reading to the soul. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) How like beautiful filagree work some of the pine-boughs looked against the snow banks and the pale blue sky! The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion The balustrades are of the most elegant filagree; and it has all the boldness and lightness which peculiarly characterise the French Gothic. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 Among numerous ornaments the most common is a large round concave portion of melon shell, sometimes beautifully inlaid with filagree work of tortoise-shell, worn on the breast. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 The dew has settled upon it and each silken thread stands out perfectly, shining in the morning sunshine like some old jewelry made of filagree silver. Byways Around San Francisco Bay The court is laid out in flower-beds, and surrounded by light Arabian arcades of open filagree work, supported by slender pillars of white marble. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) I saw other women with headdresses of gold or silver filagree, something in shape like a Roman helmet, with a projection at the back of the head, a foot long. Views a-foot Thus the bosses of the groined roof are wrought and perforated into filagree, the work extending over the intersections of the groins, which are seen through its reticulations. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 A set of silver filagree was added, bracelets, necklace, brooch, and even earrings, for Hortense tied them on with a bit of pink silk which did not show. Little Women Pierced stone bracelets hung about her delicate wrists, fretted crystal balls swung from the lobes of her ears; and clasped on the ends of several fingers were long pointed filagrees of ivory. Java Head A coral and silver rosary was her only ornament; but face and form needed no aid from satins or velvets, Venetian lace or Indian filagree. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger They had entered Amberson Addition, and the moon of Mr. Amberson's delight was overlaid by a slender Gothic filagree; the branches that sprang from the shade trees lining the street. The Magnificent Ambersons The stones had all the brilliancy of valuable gems, and then there were others in the finest filagree settings—goldsmith's work which bore the stamp of an Eastern world. Phantom Fortune, a Novel I exclaimed, for there was her little amethyst cross and beautiful filagree chain; that had been father's gift to her, the prettiest ornament she possessed, and that had been my secret admiration for years. Esther : a book for girls A comb, of filagree silver, strikingly lovely in her dark hair, was her only ornament except a large turquoise, set in dull silver, at her throat. Old Rose and Silver The girl took up the crown, it glittered and was of delicate golden filagree work. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm And Fleur, always at the back of his thoughts, started out like a filagree figure from a clock when the hour strikes. To Let They also work in filagree silver, charging about sixpence in every two shillings' worth of silver for their labour. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of purple leather and filagree. Caesar and Cleopatra I have only looked in to tell Miss Ramsden that she will find her birthday present to me, the filagree bracelet, in the housekeeper's room. Man and Superman His dress also was of the same cut as the first man’s, though somewhat gayer, the surcoat being light green with a golden spray embroidered on the breast, and his belt being of filagree silver-work. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Ear-rings of silver filagree, miracles of Genoese jewelry, destined no doubt to become the fashion, were in perfect harmony with the delightful flow of the soft curls starred with blue-bells. Beatrix The sign, which represented an ermine, hung outside, as we still see in some village hostelries, from a rich bracket of gilded iron filagree. Catherine De Medici She pinned her lace at her throat with a brooch, very handsome, although somewhat obsolete—a bunch of pearl grapes on black onyx, set in gold filagree. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural The color, not undecided in tone as other blond hair, sparkled to the light like a filagree of burnished gold. Beatrix |
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