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    1. Embellish it with all the details and clarity you can


    2. A great bridge cannot be thrown over a river at a place where nobody passes, or merely to embellish the view from the windows of a neighbouring palace ; things which sometimes happen in countries, where works of this kind are carried on by any other revenue than that which they themselves are capable of affording


    3. Once in the city, tourists cannot help but being pleased with the placid and affable blue waters of the islets that surround it and the green parks and gardens that embellish it


    4. Other stops at meaningful and noted locations embellish the journey to Lisbon


    5. Nonetheless, years later, 1987 in fact, when having been sober two years, I decided to embellish my own never sought after government contract professional credentials from NCMA by applying to become a Fellow member thereof, as well as to take and pass the CPCM exam, I learned with chagrin and dismay that FPI would not give me “partial credit” for the 9 out of 10 sessions that I did attend in LA back in ‘69


    6. when her true love came to embellish them


    7. Surely Trask would further embellish the truth next time Barnum questioned him, and with his off-the-wall temperament he might come up with something even more outlandish than he'd threatened


    8. In each case he would select the truth in what they taught and then proceed so to embellish and illuminate this truth in their minds that in a very short time this enhancement of the truth effectively crowded out the associated error; and thus were these Jesus-taught men and women prepared for the subsequent recognition of additional and similar truths in the teachings of the early Christian missionaries


    9. So, back to the plane trip and talking with these gamblers, I told them this story, but I started to embellish it a bit


    10. This may have included individuals who could add their expertise to embellish the project and make it more successful, and quicker

    11. Embellish a tale


    12. Wherever he went, Alexander was escorted by scribes whose job it was to embellish history and manufacture legends about their employer


    13. permitting religious leaders to embellish and interpolate the original narratives, has produced


    14. ” It’s clear the changes were made to embellish the religious air


    15. The Vatican editors tried to confuse or embellish this message with nonsense additions


    16. OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT


    17. In the evening especially its argand lamp is lit up and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of colour; then across them as if in Bengal lights is seen the shadow of the chemist leaning over his desk


    18. INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT


    19. We would not dress them up in silk and satin and broadcloth and fine linen: we would not embellish them, as you do, with jewels of gold and jewels of silver and with precious stones; neither should we allow them to fare sumptuously every day


    20. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province

    1. He put the neatly embellished square back into his pocket


    2. His wife embellished her life considerably with good quality clothes and jewellery, buffing up her ego and fluffing her aura so much that she became a leading light in the social whirl at the country club


    3. The dress was embellished with emerald stones around the waist and neckline


    4. The Temple was embellished with marble colonnades


    5. Many of the houses in the principal street were highly embellished, the walls being stuccoed in red, and finished in white; but with all this decoration there was still the filth and stench, and the hundreds of carriers were at once set to work to thoroughly cleanse and clear the end of the town occupied by the troops


    6. Scattered amongst the courtyards, alleys and quadrangles were warrens of dingy living quarters and storerooms, juxtaposed with larger houses that were highly and attractively embellished, the walls being stuccoed in red and finished in white


    7. Political oratory was embellished however simple in style


    8. While he haggled over how much he would pay and whether Kazowskis should throw in a set of harness, Colling embellished his story considerably, telling Kazowskis how he was really buying the cart for use on the farm he had recently purchased jointly with his brother, located near the Hungarian frontier


    9. A large red banner embellished with the hammer and sickle hung across the front of the building


    10. By the time the EPA’s scientific report could be issued the tocsin had been sounded, the brigades of misinformation had been marshaled, and environmentalists on the warpath had embellished the data with alarming “facts” of their own

    11. His life could be compared to an exile embellished, carpeted with tapestry in the United States


    12. I held the dress looking at it in awe, its high waistline was diamante embellished


    13. A dazzling Madeline springs out of it, wearing a revealing Latin dress embellished with tassels and sequins


    14. ” He embellished that with a huge wink


    15. aprons that are embroidered with cryptic symbols and embellished with jewels (or maybe


    16. The story is quickly spit out and embellished, as most stories are:


    17. 8 And then said Jesus, pointing up to the device of a pot of manna which decorated the lintel of this new synagogue, and which was embellished with grape clusters: "You have thought that your forefathers in the wilderness ate manna -- the bread of heaven -- but I say to you that this was the bread of earth


    18. What is the subjective constellation of experiences that we agree to call depression? It includes as a central component a feeling of sadness, embellished by despair or


    19. 5 All that the Son of Man said or did on earth greatly embellished the doctrines of sonship with God and of the brotherhood of men, but these essential relationships of God and men are inherent in the universe facts of God's love for his creatures and the innate mercy of the divine Sons


    20. ‘…one other thing,’ he said after giving an inflated and embellished account of his morning spend on the door-to-door checks, ‘DC Tetlow wanted to draw our attention to a photograph taken presumably by Ainsley the day before he was shot

    21. up contemporary tales that they embellished and wrote


    22. story embellished by the media


    23. From what I saw of the first thirty minutes of the latter, it seemed like the color of the blood was embellished for special effect


    24. convinced she hadn’t embellished the situation


    25. bliss that endlessly embellished each others company


    26. embellished – of their exploits, and that of their comrades, over the years


    27. even though her embellished reputation


    28. Maybe, embellished a little here, or there –


    29. have embellished it quite a bit


    30. Two bottles of champagne and a crayfish meal on room service had embellished their two hours of love making and now he was as close to exhaustion as he would get

    31. Ken Evans took the off ramp then a left and a right and drove parallel with the sombre stone of prison walls embellished with their rolls of razor wire


    32. The professor embellished a great deal, but served it up well


    33. The cape was pure chiffon and was embellished with gold stitching throughout, creating a sun-ray pattern, which originated at her shoulders and cascaded down the cape


    34. The walls were nothing but plain wood, and the only thing that was carved and embellished was the frame around the door leading into the main chapel


    35. One because he is embellished with sublime glory


    36. Brahmvitt is the mind that is embellished with knowledge of


    37. kings repeatedly conquered Scotland, a fact skillfully embellished in the


    38. The characters were embellished for the readers’ enjoyment, but they are


    39. They were folded and held back with scroll shaped fitments, embellished with red tassels, blue ribbons and green festoons


    40. They were folded and held back with scroll shaped fitments, embellished with red tassels, blue-ribbons and green festoons

    41. Vickerton every day and she was a woman who loved to talk; but those of the Shuttleworth servants who were often in Minehead on divers errands ratified and added to all he said, and embellished the tale besides with what was to them the most interesting part, the unmistakable signs their Augustus showed of intending to marry the young woman


    42. When he had shaken his head and categorised them as violent crimes embellished by a journalist’s fertile imagination the subject had been quickly dropped


    43. I smiled at the parts where he embellished a little, but let him have his glory


    44. Then they began the process of overlaying the richly embellished illustrations in the hope of deciphering hidden messages that might have been concealed by Raka


    45. It was enlarged and embellished by CharlesV


    46. ” He embellished with his arms outstretched and began to walk slowly and deliberately down the length of the great table


    47. Down past central processing, and out to a waiting passenger bus that sported not only tinted windows but also a painted jet-black silhouette with the county sheriff’s logo embellished across the side of it


    48. It was embellished with a very important clue that had to be deciphered before one could locate the treasure, or in this case, The Holy Grail


    49. called dramatic history, but when embellished in tradition


    50. The authors of the New Testament surely would have embellished and exaggerated Christ’s coming and going in the phenomena of an ‘ideal’ state of wondrous hype and thunderous glory, without controversy or dilemma



































    1. Love, reflected changes one’s life forever, and embellishes it


    2. He embellishes, perhaps, four or five hundred acres in the neighbourhood of his house, at ten times the expense which the land is worth after all his improvements; and finds, that if he was to improve his whole estate in the same manner, and he has little taste for any other, he would be a bankrupt before he had finished the tenth part of it


    3. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich ; and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess


    4. Vanity that embellishes face lifts and changes provided by questionable surgery is not an addiction to be proud of


    5. To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech,—which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free,—so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the point of yielding when I knew you, has no longer any hold over me; and this—this is my fortune—not chimerical, but actual


    1. embellishing on the issue could make him look bad in the environment he was


    2. It was obvious he was embellishing his stories, but he did so with such charm it didn’t matter


    3. I could almost smell the burning of wax candles at every section of his palatial home, the bright coloured clothes brought from India through trading adorning the women, their bosoms exposed, their hair plaited with diamonds embellishing their soft necks, their ears garnished with the vibrant stones of the East


    4. Those weren’t the exact words used – you know I’m embellishing, here – but I think you have an idea of his feelings on the situation


    5. Phillip maintained his contemptuous gaze, knowing that Mitchell was embellishing the truth


    6. Aesa told her that they had seen the king during their visit with the Council, or at least his shadow, embellishing on the encounter to make it more interesting


    7. There were many gasps at this, and even Fenton stopped sulking when Robbie started embellishing the story a little


    8. lying; it’s called embellishing the truth…


    9. But we tend to project our own human experience and imagination of pain and suffering onto these animals, perhaps unnecessarily embellishing the pain that these animals may experience in death


    10. done his share of entitled embellishing

    11. A girl, selected for the task by her rank and qualifications, commenced by modest allusions to the qualities of the deceased warrior, embellishing her expressions with those oriental images that the Indians have probably brought with them from the extremes of the other continent, and which form of themselves a link to connect the


    12. for the custom of embellishing silent films with piano accompaniment had not yet been established here, and in the darkened enclosure all that one could hear was the projector murmuring like rain


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    Synonyms for "embellish"

    beautify embellish fancify prettify aggrandise aggrandize blow up dramatise dramatize embroider lard pad adorn decorate grace ornament deck flourish elaborate amplify enhance enrich trim bedeck

    "embellish" definitions

    add details to


    be beautiful to look at


    make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.


    make more beautiful