How To Use Inlaid In A Sentence
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One of the stars of the collection is the Diana and Minerva commode of 1773, so called for the inlaid roundels representing the goddesses of the hunt and the arts, respectively.
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An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
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It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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Here the interior is inlaid with millions of beautiful shells, scallops, paloudres, clams, periwinkles, mussels, oysters and rogans.
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The white marble floors were inlaid in a radial pattern of brass.
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The floors were mosaic, the gleaming walls all intricate inlaid wooden marquetry, the deep upholstered chairs in rich jewel colours.
TICKLED PINK
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Its massive sundials and other structures are a geometry of red sandstone inlaid with dazzling white marble, more like works of modern art than scientific instruments.
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The church tower, which has Saxon stone carvings inlaid in the walls, is 16th century and the rest was rebuilt in 1904.
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In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac.
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The rest of his person was sheathed in the complete mail of the time, richly inlaid with silver, which contrasted with the azure in which the steel was damasked.
Count Robert of Paris
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Maya Romanoff This wallcover from Maya Romanoff has genuine capiz shell tiles, inlaid by hand.
Wallcovers That Do More Than Just Cover Walls
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The false cenotaph in the public upper chamber was in white marble, the color of freshly drawn milk, inlaid profusely with stylized flowers in tiers—a lapis lazuli blue, a jasper red, a bloodstone black, an agate and sard brown, a carnelian orange, a chlorite and jade green, and a yellow limestone.
Shadow Princess
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Most antique furniture can suffer as a result of extremes in temperature, especially painted and lacquered examples and those inlaid with marquetry, brass or ivory decoration.
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They seemed to be made of solid stone, but were inlaid with precious red and purple stones that formed arcane and twisted designs.
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At one of its long edges, the top extends upward, benchlike, to form a backboard; the two perpendicular surfaces are fitted with a single inlaid sheet of medium-density fiberboard.
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Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery.
Westward Ho!
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The inherited interior – also previously an office – was not particularly grand, but any standout details were to be retained (such as marble mosaic floor tiles in the entrance area, a number of marble-inlaid fireplaces and highly detailed ceiling cornicing).
Manchester Square Interior by SHH
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The Spetisbury ring, 14 mm across, was made from a round gold bar, with stripes of electrum (gold with high silver content) inlaid in a continuous spiral.
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Later, elaborate designs were carved on precious wood, ivory and metals, including silver and brass, and inlaid with gold and silver wire, and they became votive objects of veneration for devotees.
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Made of rosewood with mahogany as the secondary wood, it includes brass stringing on the top and sides and an inlaid flush brass escutcheon and central brass plate.
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Each piece in the series, ranging from 3 to 7 feet high, is a single thick plate with meticulous rectangles etched or sandblasted onto the surface and inlaid with a mirror plate.
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The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer.
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The body of the bowl is fashioned of decarbonized iron, inlaid with silver and gold and displayed on a calamander wood base.
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And Mrs. Browning laughed too, as Flush flung himself down on the bedroom floor and slept soundly upon the arms of the Guidi family inlaid in scagliola.
Flush: a biography
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The chairs drawn up to the dining-room table are inlaid with strings of bellflowers suspended from rings, testifying to their Baltimore origin.
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An old brass clock, inlaid with arabesques, adorned the mantel of the ill-cut white stone chimney-piece, above which was a greenish mirror, whose edges, bevelled to show the thickness of the glass, reflected a thread of light the whole length of a gothic frame in damascened steel-work.
Eug�nie Grandet
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According to the journal, the hard shell of the coconut is an ideal raw material for craftsmen, since it can be carved, lacquer-coated and inlaid with silver or other metals.
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The bracelet was bronze with inlaid Charter marks of greenstone.
SABRIEL
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The shaft is made of charcoal anodised aluminium, inlaid with indigenous dark kershout (candle wood) and light boxwood.
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Here the detailing was fine and at the corners inlaid with an intarsia of different obsidians polished smooth.
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A small table stood nearby on which ivory chessmen stood poised in combat on an inlaid board.
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Perhaps he shouldn't have spent so much time admir-ing the inlaid pedestal.
The Howling Stones
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Bar tops in the fireplace-warmed "Bulldog Lounge" are made from local taconite rock, flecked with red iron ore; walls are inlaid with Minnesota stone and the decorative panels are made of wood salvaged from old grain elevators.
Why College Hockey Arenas Are the Cathedrals of Sports
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The Winchester Model 21, which is by no stretch of the imagination a fine gun, brings very serious money, and the engraved and inlaid versions command princely sums, even though the engraving and inlaying is done at a third-grade-art-class level.
Why Big-Dollar Guns Are Worth The Money
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Besides that enormous service of flatware I've just spotted among the presents, the Ambassador has given her a table inlaid with lapis.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The Sheraton card table between the windows is inlaid with rectangular birch panels and was made in Boston about 1805.
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The Morning Prayer Hall courtyard features a salsabil, or paradise water fountain, as its centerpiece, while the main garden is inlaid with a network of small water canals connected to a central fountain.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi: A Monument of Tolerance in the Heart of Dubai
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Among the many attractions of this park, there is a working clock affixed on the grounds, inlaid among flowers and foliage.
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Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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Most of then had a pearl shell inlaid, and the gold leaf in combination with marble looked just magnificent.
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Working on a rosewood corner cupboard veneered in burr walnut, and featuring an inlaid marquetry honeysuckle design, will always remain one of Luke's favourite jobs.
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There are superb creations of the same style in Italy, especially with inlaid work called tarsia, as at Assisi, Siena, Florence, and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The desk itself suggests brocade flounces and powdered hair, so exquisitely is it constructed of tulipwood and inlaid with other woods of many colors.
The House in Good Taste
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Carved ornaments were widely used in the Qing style furniture, into which bone and glass were frequently inlaid.
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The exhibition consists of jewelry, carved gemstones, inlaid hardstones, enamels and objects made from precious metals.
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A calculation model of the coefficient of heat transfer between gas and stave body and inlaid refractory is built based on the substitution method of boundary condition.
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Hundreds of delicate columns of white marble, filagreed and inlaid with gold and mosaics, and with exquisite capitals, rose before me on all sides, which, with the fine tracery of the Gothic windows, formed a vista of perfect classic loveliness.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
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Yet its only luxury was the bottom of a breechloader brass cartridge, inlaid and flanked by the sharp incisors of the little Wabar, or mountain coney.
The Land of Midian
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Then came forward the Persian sage and, prostrating himself before the King, presented him with a horse5 of the blackest ebony-wood inlaid with gold and jewels, and ready harnessed with saddle, bridle and stirrups such as befit Kings; which when Sabur saw, he marvelled with exceeding marvel and was confounded at the beauty of its form and the ingenuity of its fashion.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Church, Oxon, the burial-place of the Harcourt family, is a circular slab of blue marble in the pavement, in which is inlaid a shield of brass bearing the arms of Harcourt, -- two bars, dimidiated with those of Beke; the latter, when entire, forming a cros ancrée.
Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Each letter looked to have been hand carved and inlaid in a plastic or epoxy base.
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Wispy-bearded men prayed before the mihrab, an extravagance of inlaid, multicoloured stone.
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The Fuller Brooch is a large disc made of hammered sheet silver inlaid with black niello and with a diameter of 11.4 cm.
Archive 2008-01-01
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The show's most impressive piece was Tully, for which the artist cut a design into the gallery's wall and inlaid an off-white encaustic medium.
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Besides that enormous service of flatware I've just spotted among the presents, the Ambassador has given her a table inlaid with lapis.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The instrument designated above as the whizzer is a thin, flat, pointed piece of wood, painted black and sparkling with the specular iron ore which is sprinkled on the surface; three small pieces of turquoise are inlaid in the wood to represent eyes and mouth.
The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468
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There is also an impossible fruit salad of different materials: giltwood combined with boulle combined with ivory-inlaid tortoiseshell.
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The first lot is an amaranth and marquetry box whose top is inlaid with a map of the British Isles.
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Gold and silver had been inlaid into the lid of the box.
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At the baithak of the Khas Mahal, the sitting room with its cusped arches, a shaft of moonlight came to strike the floor and lend radiance to the ceiling of white marble inlaid with precious stones that were blue, green, and red in the day, now a dark indigo—like a painting captured in black and white.
Shadow Princess
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There is an inlaid Victorian display cabinet, an inlaid serpentine chest and an Edwardian chiffonier.
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His breastplate was inlaid with black obsidian, the preserved iron exquisitely forged.
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The armrest of horn of circular arc edge is tie-in aeruginous wood door, stair of ceramic tile inlaid is tie-in ivory metope, natural Mediterranean wind.
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In the ceiling is a tower inlaid with stained glass panels.
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The Judaeo-Christian prophets such as Amos castigate those who loll on beds inlaid with ivory, feast on lambs, drink wine by the bowlful and anoint themselves with the richest of oils, but feel no grief for those who struggle.
People of all faiths should be protesting against the cuts | David Haslam
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The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer.
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This netsuke of a seated deer howling at the moon stands 9.7 cm in height, and was carved in the Edo period from ivory with dark horn inlaid for eyes.
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I turned to look and saw Ellyn, standing tall and barefoot in the sand, dressed in flowing white robes inlaid with golden filigree, and a spear as tall as she was planted in the sand beside her.
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The exceeding beauty of good samples has caused the lazulite to be much sought after, both as a gem for adorning the person, and for inlaid works in ornamental decoration.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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There are semi-precious stones like jasper and agate, inlaid on the top.
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Alcinous," said he, "it is not creditable to you that a stranger should be seen sitting among the ashes of your hearth; every one is waiting to hear what you are about to say; tell him, then, to rise and take a seat on a stool inlaid with silver, and bid your servants mix some wine and water that we may make a drink offering to Jove the lord of thunder, who takes all well disposed suppliants under his protection; and let the housekeeper give him some supper, of whatever there may be in the house.
The Odyssey
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The archivolt that sat above the twenty-foot entrance was inlaid with exquisite gold Arabic calligraphy and the monograms of Sultans Mehmed II and Abdul Aziz I.
The Thieves of Darkness
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Other commanders wore bright cloaks or gold-inlaid corselets to insure their recognition on the battlefield.
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The day came, August 20th, and Mustafa himself, in his coat of inlaid mail and robe of cramoisy, led his army forward; but a well-directed fire drove him into a trench, whence he emerged not till night covered his path.
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
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In mid pavilion was a fountain adorned with all manner of figures; 500 and by its side stood a table covered with a silken napkin, and on its edge a great porcelain bottle full of wine, with a cup of crystal inlaid with gold.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The inside of the cabinet door is inlaid with a heptagonal figure drawn from a single, infinitely recursive line.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Besides that enormous service of flatware I've just spotted among the presents, the Ambassador has given her a table inlaid with lapis.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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The floors of the principal downstairs rooms are oak inlaid with walnut strips, while the upstairs floors are maple.
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This parlor had hardwood floors inlaid with cherry, a frescoed ceiling with flowers, bowknots, etc., and two large white marble mantel-pieces with yellow onyx columns, and large mirrors with carved walnut frames reaching to the ceiling.
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With a technique called Parchin Kari, inlaid gemstones of lapis lazuli, agate, and garnet were selected for their variations in tone, giving the resulting flowers an illusion of depth.
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The corridor leading to the ballroom was paneled in the finest wood, highly polished and inlaid with marble.
WEB OF DREAMS
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A Victorian inlaid credenza sits at the top of the room.
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The eyes themselves were originally inlaid with another material, which has unfortunately been lost.
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In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac.
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From the veranda he had seen him fling sticks of exploding dynamite into a screeching mass of blacks who had come raiding from the Beyond in the long war canoes, beaked and black, carved and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which they had left hauled up on the beach at the door of Meringe.
CHAPTER III
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Debra gave me a couple of belated birthday presents -- a large bar of kiwi chocolate and a lovely lovely pendant made of pewter inlaid with paua shell -- and showed me her gifty for cleanskies -- a doll with moving legs which she'd covered with more paua shell on top, and a Louise Brooks bob haircut apparently synthetic hair is difficult to cut so good on you cos it was a great haircut.
Mysti/Misty: separated at birth? maybe not.
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I drew nearer and saw him sitting on a throne incrusted and inlaid with pearls and gems; and his robes were of gold-cloth adorned with jewels of every kind, each one flashing like a star.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Cottier inlaid it with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl in panels depicting musical instruments and masks on the lid and nine portraits of famous composers around the sides.
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Near the flywheel was the maker badge, a repeat of the design on the glass cover, but here the stars were inlaid with small diamond-cut rubies, and the lightning bolts were coated with alternating layers of gold and silver.
The Safe
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On the evening of the Feud, Jenni turns up in an all-in-one black jumpsuit, and Wolfie is "dressed to kill in an electric-blue ska suit and white vinyl brothel-creepers with steel toecaps inlaid".
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
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The chairs drawn up to the dining-room table are inlaid with strings of bellflowers suspended from rings, testifying to their Baltimore origin.
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Club (_patu_) of wood, inlaid with _paua_ shell and carved.
John Rutherford, the White Chief
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Yet while the straight lines and flat veneered panels of Koloman Moser's "Enchanted Princesses Cabinet" 1900 foreshadow a design vocabulary several decades in the future, the long-haired princesses inlaid in marquetry are pure Pre-Raphaelite medievalism, proving that Romantic ideas weren't entirely discarded by the rising generation.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels
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Gold and silver had been inlaid into the lid of the box.
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Wood, ivory bone, metal, or other materials are inlaid into a sheet of veneer that is in turn fixed to the surface of a piece of furniture.
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The utility model relates to a soup spoon (ladle), belonging to daily used goods, comprising a spoon body, and an alcohol thermometer is inlaid on a spoon handle by a cover body.
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The inlaid plates of brass and rosewood, called buhl work, which ornament our furniture, are, in some instances, formed by punching; but in this case, both the parts cut out, and those which remain, are in many cases employed.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
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The restaurant has heavy starched white linen tablecloths and huge antique Siamese chairs with mother-of-pearl inlaid backs.
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Really, there are not pages enough in this paper to list it all: A bamboo grove, stained glass, carved statuary in stone and wood, inlaid tables, more.
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The footpace in the sanctuary is three tiered, constructed of red oak inlaid in a beautiful pattern.
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Cast and engraved bronze, partly inlaid with niello, 44.3 cm.
Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen
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Its sidewalks are inlaid with large musical notes, and a collage of the Junction's musical history adorns the side of a barbershop that years ago was one of the Junction's favorite juke joints.
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The games would be played across mahogany inlaid boards; the pieces, all ivory of course, would have been carved during the Ming dynasty.
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The chapters are on silks, carpets, ceramics, glass, bookbinding and lacquer, and inlaid brass work.
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The floors were a triumph of the wood-inlayer's art, the chairs and tables were of gilt or of inlaid rosewood.
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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Lyrical and elegant a prose stylist as he was, he never compromised the rigorous precision of his observations; he saw clearly, and described vividly what he saw, from the movement of raindrops down a window ( "the window screen, like a sampler half-stitched, or a crossword puzzle invisibly solved, was inlaid erratically with minute, translucent tesserae of rain") to the effects of the '70s energy crisis on the lives of average Americans.
The Alchemist of the Mundane
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When he came out, he cast over his shoulders a costly robe and crowned him with a coronet of jewels; he also girt him with a girdle of silk, purfled with red gold and set with pearls and gems, and mounted him on one of his noblest mares, with selle and trappings of gold inlaid with pearls and jewels.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The blade was inlaid with a beautiful white gold rose that meandered its way from the hilt to half way down the double edged sword.
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Home to Chaos
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Most were rather nondescript, though a few had gilt covers, or even covers inlaid with precious jewels.
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These were supplanted by blocks into which metal (usually copper or brass) was inlaid.
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A single lash emerged from the ebony handle, but it had been wickedly inlaid with tiny adamantine barbs.
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What distinguishes Uruapan lacquer from the rest of the lot is a technique called embutido, a fine carving of lacquer, hand-rubbed, incised, inlaid, and rubbed with an additional color in successive steps, taking at least a month to complete.
Uruapan - The Real Mexico
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The house has highly decorated interiors with lavish plasterwork, inlaid floors and exquisite joinery.
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He laughed, went over to the small mother-of-pearl inlaid table and picked up the bottle of Martell VSOP the Elhams had brought.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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A low table - only calf-high - filled the center of the room; oak, it looked like, with parquetry designs inlaid in the surface.
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Then he passed through the gate into a courtyard and found a vaulted doorway builded of hardest syenite 462 inlaid with sundry kinds of multi-coloured marble.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The original 1920s carriages have been beautifully restored, with gleaming woodwork, woven lace macassars, inlaid Lalique glass panels and wing-backed armchairs.
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Then, using a flat blade on the lathe, the slip was scraped away, exposing the white earthenware body inlaid with the black checked pattern.
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When you look at it closely you can see that it's some kind of epoxy or super hard plastic that's actually inlaid in the asphalt itself.
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Next to the table, on a chair covered in red velvet, I see a helmet, a yataghan [a curved Turkish saber], a large pistol with an ivory-inlaid grip.
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Carrara marble inlaid with verd-antique, in a kind of damask pattern; over the pulpit it fell like drapery, so easy, so graceful, so exquisitely imitated, that I was obliged to touch it to assure myself of the material.
The Diary of an Ennuyée
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On each of the shell margins furthest from the hinge they bear a large incurved hook that is inlaid with sharp spines.
Mollusca
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The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer.
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In many cases the surfaces are scraped and repainted and color areas are inlaid like pieces of marble.
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Jet is black and shiny when polished, and was sometimes inlaid with tin, calcium carbonate or orpiment, a yellow mineral imported from France and Germany.
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Hanging panel is inlaid of stone of the hill that use age, of the petaline carve above very meticulous, this kind of craft had seen rarely now.
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The bindings of Padeloup le Jeune often have small tickets with his name upon them; they usually have borders of lacelike gold tooling known as "dentelle" and are often inlaid.
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The couple say they were drawn to the home's original architectural details, which were largely kept intact, including the moldings, woodwork, doors and inlaid parquet floors.
Double-Renovated Townhouse
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The white marble floors were inlaid in a radial pattern of brass.
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The brass plate and escutcheon are inlaid, and the interior includes an ebonized penholder, ivory grips, the original baize lining, and two original lead glass ink bottles.
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The lid of the box had been inlaid with silver.
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These were inlaid with cut spessartine and pyrope.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
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The massive wooden doors, intricately carved with ornate scrollwork and inlaid with green-veined ruatinite, dominated the courtyard.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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On the evening of the Feud, Jenni turns up in an all-in-one black jumpsuit, and Wolfie is "dressed to kill in an electric-blue ska suit and white vinyl brothel-creepers with steel toecaps inlaid".
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry – review
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A colourful crystal flower is elaborately inlaid inside the transparent crystal.
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Each apartment has wall-to-wall carpeting, inlaid flooring, a private veranda with a spa pool and an ornate ‘state room’.
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The table is inlaid with a spotless, stainless steel board, and the tableau comes alive as the chef prepares food for diners sitting in front of him.
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The first lot is an amaranth and marquetry box whose top is inlaid with a map of the British Isles.
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Its top is inlaid with brass with a border of stars and interlaced lines.
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The men have hanging from their girdles their flint and tinder, knife-case, powder-horn, and, stuck through the girdle from right to left is a sword encased in a sheath made sometimes of wood, but often of metal inlaid with silver and stones.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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‘Banding’ describes strips of contrasting wood inlaid into a surface.
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Dance-music was pouring from the arched recesses above the doorways, and chandeliers of coloured Murano glass diffused a soft brightness over the pilasters of the stuccoed walls, and the floor of inlaid marbles on which couples were rapidly forming for the contradance.
The Valley of Decision
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His copy was plated in nickel, with a long smoke-like design of inlaid onyx along the right side of the barrel, and a carved wooden grip.
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The lid of the box had been inlaid with silver.
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When you look at it closely you can see that it's some kind of epoxy or super hard plastic that's actually inlaid in the asphalt itself.
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A marble mantle clock made £170; an Edwardian dressing table £240 and an inlaid writing desk £230.
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Columns supporting the roof were inlaid with elaborate, seemingly aimless designs; tantalizingly intricate, almost gaudy.
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In addition to the usual Buddhist emblems there are musical instruments, exquisitely inlaid, or enriched with niello work of gold and silver of great antiquity, and bows of singular strength, requiring two men to bend them, which are made of small pieces of horn cleverly joined.
Among the Tibetans
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The lid of the box had been inlaid with silver.
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His ideal table has many functions, and several nubs of cork inlaid for pinning.
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Tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl stood at intervals along walls mosaicked in intricate patterns with thousands of tiny, multihued tiles.
Conan The Magnificent
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Cornell is talking about these things in reverie: the little store nearby where you can find star fish butterflies in little boxes driftwood and in the antiques store the things from Asia inlaid wood
Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
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On the rear wall is a kind of private chapel, a wall niche framed by pilasters and faced with spandrels with inlaid vegetal ornament, which shelters an altar.
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Some plaques are carved with dragons, phoenixes and flowers, some are even inlaid with pearls and jade.
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Parliament stood silent and empty on Friday afternoon, stripped of everything but government-issue furniture in preparation for its new occupant - Democratic Party leader Tony Leon. ooden desk, with inlaid fake-leather writing pad, yawned open; an unpk in one corner, and in the dustbin was a discarded folder carrying the NNP logo, a poignant symbol of the party's shattering defeat in the June 2 polls.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Iron objects were also inlaid with silver to decorate them, or sometimes were completely sheathed in a fine sheet of beaten silver.
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In front of each chair lay a jeweled, ruby-encrusted goblet of wine, whose inlaid gemstones shone in the bright lamplight.
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The blended clay was then formed into a brick, a thin slice of which was inlaid into a shallow recessed channel around the body of the teapot and adhered with wet slip.
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A true metalsmith, she crafts pieces that are simple but can easily be dressed up for your next luau: the winsome puka shell necklace; the delicate heart-shaped earrings; or the sweet dome rings inlaid with tiny stars.
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Stylistically, the brilliantly veneered and inlaid case is most likely the work of John and Thomas Seymour of Boston.
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Each of the faces is set with a panel of gold cellwork, inlaid in a matching pattern with three stepped garnets.
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Gold lower gross profit margins, inlaid jewelry category on higher gross profit margins.
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Floral designs formerly inlaid were now engraved and new designs including human figures and architectural scenes were introduced.
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The top of the wooden chest was inlaid with ivory.
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They were not bound in leather, inlaid with gold, or covered in fancifully artistic renderings.
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Once cast, most of his sculptures are inlaid with mosaic and glass tiles.
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Abdul posed carefully for my photo in his engagement finery - shimmering white robe, ceremonial cane, tasselled belt with inlaid dagger thrust under it and embroidered hat.
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You can find the boards with brass corners, inlaid maple and walnut, Italian alabaster, and pewter.
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Flat plates of ivory are inlaid with scroll and floral ornament designs which are used in the fittings of calamander wood boxes found in the southern district of Matara.
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At the evening banquet, Siya wore a tawny-coloured silk dress, overlaid in gold muslin, the scooped neckline and bell sleeves' seams inlaid with pearls.
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Iron and stone were used for footwear and some 13th-Century, middle-class citizens wore shoes with insteps inlaid with diamonds and rubies.
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_grotesque_, or _promiscuously interspersed_; and the description here given leaves out the most beautiful kind of arabesque, namely, the inlaid work of geometrical figures in colored marbles, in which the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
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The shower room has a quarry tiled floor with deep blue inlaid mosaic tiling and chrome fittings, while the main bedroom has an en suite bathroom decorated in similar style.
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The armrest of horn of circular arc edge is tie-in aeruginous wood door, stair of ceramic tile inlaid is tie-in ivory metope, natural Mediterranean wind.
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The other one is inlaid in stone just outside the doors, in a little elevated, shielded courtyard overlooking the Nob Hill park.
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It is beautifully decorated with gold inlaid borders.
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I am on nodding terms with a meditative turncock who lingers in one of them, and whom I suspect of a turn for poetry; the rather as he looks out of temper when he gives the fire-plug a disparaging wrench with that large tuning-fork of his which would wear out the shoulder of his coat, but for a precautionary piece of inlaid leather.
The Uncommercial Traveller
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The top of the wooden chest was inlaid with ivory.
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The bread plate was made by the medieval encaustic process whereby clays of different colors were inlaid.
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There is also an impossible fruit salad of different materials: giltwood combined with boulle combined with ivory-inlaid tortoiseshell.
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Every pedestal that held a golden vase of peacock feathers or a priceless work of art was chryselephantine—delicately carved ivory inlaid with gold.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Inlaid furniture, kilim rugs with horsehair tassels, and multicolored lamps with crescent moons complete the decorative program.
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He passed his broad sinewy hand across his brow, as if to obliterate these signs of emotion, and advanced towards Annot, holding in his hand a very small box made of oakwood, curiously inlaid.
A Legend of Montrose
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These were supplanted by blocks into which metal (usually copper or brass) was inlaid.
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December: finishing Bella's present, an intricate inlaid box bristling with secret drawers.
FOLLY
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The dining room also houses an inlaid mahogany breakfront bookcase or gentleman's secretary as the form was called by Sheraton.
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The intricate intarsia (inlaid wood decoration) of the studiolo also illustrates how innovative art of the period required the purchasing power and political authority of influential patronage.
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The nine-room suite has walls inlaid with thousands of pieces of mother-of-pearl.
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The Judaeo-Christian prophets such as Amos castigate those who loll on beds inlaid with ivory, feast on lambs, drink wine by the bowlful and anoint themselves with the richest of oils, but feel no grief for those who struggle.
People of all faiths should be protesting against the cuts | David Haslam
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At one of its long edges, the top extends upward, benchlike, to form a backboard; the two perpendicular surfaces are fitted with a single inlaid sheet of medium-density fiberboard.
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In this algorithm, the inlaid fitness function based on the table task or the simplex search is designed, and the genetic operational method ensuring the floating-point coding validity is adopted.
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Scattered throughout the place, on each voluminous flank, amid the inlaid shell and coral rock and the painted marbleized surfaces, were her photographs.
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In a similar way, penwork was developed to imitate the glamorous ivory-inlaid furniture of Vizagapatam, with its engraved floral designs set into dark ebony, rosewood, padouk, or sandalwood.
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It is a superb piece, made of mahogany and rosewood and inlaid with ebony spikes to the corners, raised on three lyre supports, each with splayed legs and brass lion-paw feet.
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The cup stands 86 cm high and is inlaid with brass.
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE
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She was dressed in bright red breeches tied with a cord inlaid with silver thread.
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Finally, they arrived at the most imposing set of doors yet; built of brilliant white wood they outshone the pearlescent marble surrounds and were inlaid with sparkling gems.
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In India, Tamils are known for their handmade silk saris, pottery figures of various gods, bronze work, and brass and copper inlaid with silver.