The famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum, and once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life of London so plentifully presents.

A "modifier" has, just as it sounds, the role of embellishing sentences.

The organ is supported by red marble columns and embellished with countless decorations.

I told her the truth. I just added a few embellishments.

The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.

You're just seeking to embellish all this!

The kings' main task was to erect a tomb, conceived as being as timeless as the stars that shone above the sands of time, into which everything else disappeared. Planning of the afterlife was more important than life itself, which was just the way to get there. To be gloriously remembered on the walls of these tombs, scenes from the wars they waged were carved into stone. Certainly, a lot was embellished, and in later times, victories were depicted that had never even taken place.

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.

What an unfailing barrier against vice, immorality and bad habits are those tastes which lead us to embellish a home, to which at all times and in all places we turn with delight, as being the object and the scene of our fondest cares, labours and enjoyments; whose humble roof, whose shady porch, whose verdant lawn and smiling flowers all breathe forth to us, in true, earnest tones, a domestic feeling that at once purifies the heart and binds us more closely to our fellow beings.