Rare objects arrested one's eye.

A golden sugar-bowl was crowned with violets, earrings set with Alencon stones were displayed on green moss, and two Chinese screens with their bright landscapes were near by.

Loulou, hidden beneath roses, showed nothing but his blue head which looked like a piece of lapis-lazuli.
The singers, the canopy-bearers and the children lined up against the sides of the yard.

Slowly the priest ascended the steps and placed his shining sun on the lace cloth.

Everybody knelt.