The hilt is of ivory overlaid with gold delicately carved with cloudbands and scrolls.

" He continued, " Manufactures of silk, fine brocade, and other fine muslins, of which are made turbans, girdles of gold flowers, and drawers worn by Mughal females, so delicately fine as to wear out in one night " were one of the most expensive forms of clothing ins the world, " or even more when embroidered with fine needlework.

The faces and forms in the Louvre painting are more delicately painted and subtly blurred by ‘’ sfumato ’’.

Many delicately painted walls and ceilings of the house were done by Antonio Verrio.

They are painted delicately.

The tall central section of this addition animates the long and delicately detailed facade.

In his depiction of Anna Maria Cumpston he delicately depicts a girl holding a flower.

During the 1973-1974 school year the antenna was delicately moved to the roof of the newly opened 18 story dormitory later named Fox Hall.

In his review for Science Fiction Weekly, Clute suggested that " almost every scene in the first 300 pages should have been carefully and delicately trimmed " ( emphasis in original ) since they do little to advance the story.

The tea is delicately flavored, and considered to be one of the finest teas in the world.

The Etymologicum Magnum presents a medieval learned pseudo-etymology, explaining Aphrodite as derived from the compound habrodiaitos (" she who lives delicately " from habros + diaita ) explaining the alternation between b and ph as a " familiar " characteristic of Greek " obvious from the Macedonians ".

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

They vary in size from small stone markers to entire artificial hills, and in complexity from loose, conical rock piles to delicately balanced sculptures and elaborate feats of megalithic engineering.

However, Ender cannot but help reveal secrets from the lives of Libo, Pipo, and even Novinha herself as their lives were all so delicately bound together by guilt, deception, and love.

Extra paragraph breaks were added and a very few passages that distracted from the main messages were delicately pruned.

The lessons to be learnt from Russell's foreign policy, Salisbury believed, were that he should not listen to the Opposition or the press otherwise " we are to be governed … by a set of weathercocks, delicately poised, warranted to indicate with unnerving accuracy every variation in public feeling ".

Across the table, executives from a California software firm called Jukt Micronics are listening and trying ever so delicately to oblige.

However, for each mechanism the epithelial cells ' " niche " can be delicately unique with different membrane receptor profiles and basement membrane thickness from specific branching area to area, so as to regulate cell growth or differentiation sub-locally.

Many delicately carved pipas with beautiful inlaid patterns date from this period.

This aged person conducted the two friends into a dark cabinet lit only by a single lamp, where they could see upon a table covered with a cloth a kind of little statue or mandragora, seated upon a tripod and having the left hand extended and holding a hank of silk very delicately fashioned, from which was suspended a small piece of iron highly polished.

The capture required three EVAs: a planned one by astronaut Thuot and Hieb who were unable to attach a capture bar to the satellite from a position on the RMS ; a second unscheduled but identical attempt the following day ; and finally an unscheduled but successful hand capture by Thuot, Hieb and Akers as commander Brandenstein delicately maneuvered the orbiter to within a few feet of the 4215 kg communications satellite.

She is delicately fair, with fine grey eyes and dark eyelashes ; and from her appearance one would not suppose her more than five and twenty, though she must in fact be ten years older.

The screen behind the high altar is delicately carved in Oamaru limestone from New Zealand.

The rectangular back of an ivory comb ( right ) from Bavaria, from about 1200, is delicately carved with a Tree of Jesse scene, showing Jesse lying with the tree emerging from his navel.

The painting shows a girl studiously working away, knitting from a ball of yarn which sits delicately by her side.

Eighty years old, Judge Stevens attempts to delicately handle the complaints about the smell emanating from the Grierson property.

* The 2010 BBC Proms premiere of Latent Manifest performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Litton, was widely reviewed in London: personal canvas, taking us a long way from a literal reworking into the realms of evanescent fantasy, with delicately evocative results ( The Guardian, London ), ... a beguiling response to response itself – a mirage of intimations and allusions to own experience of hearing Bach ’ s third solo Violin Sonata ( The Times, London ), a gracefully-controlled meditation on a single Bach phrase ( The Independent, London ).

The transition from the rusticated masonry of the ground floor to the more delicately refined stonework of the third floor makes the building seem lighter and taller as the eye moves upward to the massive cornice that caps and clearly defines the building's outline.

My movement did frighten the snake and it raised its head and trailed delicately a couple of feet and stopped again, and its tongue was working very rapidly.

The snake worked away very slowly and delicately and with a gorgeous kind of dignity and beauty, and he carried his head a little above the rolled clods.

It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled.

White frost forms when there is a relative humidity above 90 % and a temperature below – 8 ° C ( 18 ° F ) and it grows against the wind direction, since arriving windward air has a higher humidity than leeward air, but the wind must not be very strong in order not to damage the delicately built icy structures.

Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

" In conclusion about the poem, Watson stated, " The triumph of ' Kubla Khan ,' perhaps, lies in its evasions: it hints so delicately at critical truths while demonstrating them so boldly.

* A cat walks delicately through the grass.

Nevertheless, the use of moors ( and particularly their heads ) as a heraldic symbol has been deprecated in North America, where racial stereotypes have been influenced by a history of Trans-Atlantic slave trade and racial segregation, and applicants to the College of Arms of the Society for Creative Anachronism are urged to use them delicately to avoid creating offensive images.

These small creatures share several characteristic physical features: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, large upright ears, long, thin legs, and a thin tail.

The work had had extensive rehearsals for many months, and despite problems Berlioz found in making the musicians play as delicately as he would like, and even discovering that the orchestra pit was too small before the premiere, the work was a success.

With Lady Croom, for whom Mrs Chater is a " harlot ", Septimus delicately admits that " her passion is not as fixed " as a suitor might wish.

The delicately beautiful Manchu princess Lo-Tsen is the basis of the Maria character.

The Southern Song Longquan celadon is characterized by a thick unctuous glaze of a particular bluish-green tint over an otherwise undecorated light-grey porcellaneous body that is delicately potted.

These, with a bureau and a chiffonier in the French national Garde Meuble, in which bouquets of flowers are delicately inlaid in choice woods, are his best-known and most admirable achievements.

Ærøskøbing's houses and streets are delicately restored to retain the character of the Middle Ages.

Thus negi and tofu, a strongly flavored ingredient mixed with a delicately flavored ingredient, are often combined.

Franck wrote the delicately evocative Les Eolides, following it with the narrative Le chasseur maudit and the piano-and-orchestral tone poem Les Djinns, conceived in much the same manner as Liszt's Totentanz.

In art, bishōnen are usually drawn delicately, with long limbs, silky or flowing hair, and slender eyes with long eyelashes that can sometimes extend beyond the face.

The overburden sediments that cover buried cavities in the aquifer systems are delicately balanced by groundwater fluid pressure.

Additionally, jade was used for adze heads, knives, and other weapons, which can be delicately shaped.

The head usually attaches to a lever so that adjustments to the orientation can be performed more delicately.