Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011 Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
Each pile contained an ornament along with its matching brothers and sisters from sets purchased many years ago.
" The gardener said nothing, but he thought of what he long had turned over in his mind, how he could make that pretty sunny spot very useful, so that it could become an ornament to the garden and a pride to the family.
Blooming flowers ornament the staircases, and soft carpets the floors.
If I had received golden shoes I should have been an ornament to the stable; now I am lost to the stable and to the world.
This was an ornament to the jug, and he has a great love for ornament.
On his return home, he became a master builder,—built one house after another in the town, till they formed quite a street, which, when finished, became really an ornament to the town.
It seemed to the little girl that she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a brass ornament.
Her shoes were gilt, and her dress had a red rose or an ornament.
For the old man and woman who took care of him, he brightened his iron ornament glitteringly.
The oldest one was looking at her reflection in an ornament on the Christmas tree.
