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But he supplied his own decorations, and made them so elaborate that the most skilful adorner would have found it difficult to add to them.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Edwards, Henry Sutherland

He tried to make out the design that had once colored the faded carpet on the floor, and wondered about the dead artist in Japan, the adorner of his bureau.

From The Hill of Dreams by Machen, Arthur

But it is the latter branch of his art which principally concerns us now, the art of a maker and adorner of stories.

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung by Turner, Winifred

He was a mighty builder and splendid adorner of cities; all that remained unsystematized in the Augustan system, he reduced to perfect system and order.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

But the illustrious adorner of female loveliness had already resumed his reading.

From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile