Sentence Examples

1. Numerous walls bore vibrant frescoes depicting undersea cities and mer courts as well as coral reefs teeming with kaleidoscopic varieties of fish.
2. The stylish wooden chairs also pleased him, old-fashioned as they were but gaily painted in coral or lime green.
3. The extreme beauty of the countenance, that shone forth in loveliness that mocked the vain attempts of dress to augment it, was peculiarly and purely Grecian there were the large, dark, melting eyes, the finely formed nose, the coral lips, and pearly teeth, that belonged to her race and country.
4. The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea.
5. Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercédès boasted the same bright flashing eyes of jet, and ripe, round, coral lips.
6. The atoll was just a ring of flat coral islets, like a cup filled to its brim and ready to spill.
7. Houses were mostly built from stone and dead coral, harvested from local waters.
8. I had before me the suit thou didst send me, and the coral beads my lady the duchess sent me round my neck, and the letters in my hands, and there was the bearer of them standing by, and in spite of all this I verily believed and thought that what I saw and handled was all a dream for who could have thought that a goatherd would come to be a governor of islands?
9. Haydée was reclining upon soft downy cushions, covered with blue satin spotted with silver her head, supported by one of her exquisitely moulded arms, rested on the divan immediately behind her, while the other was employed in adjusting to her lips the coral tube of a rich narghile, through whose flexible pipe she drew the smoke fragrant by its passage through perfumed water.
10. John, a man of generous disposition, as was shown by his extreme liberality to his brother, the famous John Andrea Doria and what made his death the more sad was that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was now lost, he entrusted himself, and who offered to conduct him in the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery.