adornments

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• Everything was just so very big — and with adornment to boot.

• The trend for adornment amongst Middle Eastern women is nothing new, but nail polish is often left out of the equation.

• The Norway maple came to North America in the 18th century, imported by a Philadelphia merchant and peddled as a garden adornment.

• A footnote toward the end of the book gives a short, wonderful history of human adornment, but the discussion remains didactic.

• The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.

• Yet I think if we observe closely we shall detect traces of a spontaneous impulse towards self-adornment.

• Imitation of the ways of their elders doubtless plays a part here, but it is aided by an instinct for adornment.

• One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.

• Little girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.