The sword of (lie Aliansa High Chief, similarly adorned, was beside it.
He noticed now that the faces of most of the others were similarly adorned with patterns done in the black pigment, not just circles but in some cases whorls, triangles, crosses.
The flag of the province is similarly adorned with the fleur-de-lis to commemorate Lely.
Alan thanked her, then remembered that the man called Mungana, who was the husband, real or official, of this priestess, had been somewhat similarly adorned, and shivered a little as though at a presage of advancing fate.
The trees at the land's boundary were similarly adorned, though the wind kept stripping them off.
The curved, veined-looking walls were similarly adorned with plaques, company, battalion, division and regimental honour plaques and the heads, genitals, limbs or other acceptably distinctive body parts of old adversaries.
The wings that sprang from its shoulders, however, suggested Babylonia rather than Egypt, or the Assyrian bulls that are similarly adorned.
The doors of private houses were similarly adorned.
The main building was festooned with turrets and parapets, and there was an inner courtyard of similarly adorned bungalows connected by pathways--high, perfectly trimmed hedges surrounding them.
White-gloved waiters, each with a gardenia pinned to his lapel, kept the libations flowing at four well-stocked bars, and security guards, similarly adorned with gardenias, kept an eye out for rowdy guests.