There were venerable, white-bearded priests, and there were girls, too, arrayed in festive garb, their hair bedecked with flowers.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
The salary-grabber, the military adventurer, the pinchbeck diplomat, the commercial parvenu, and the scientist, together with their heavy-jowled, jewel-bedecked women-folk, elbow each other in order to secure the notice of the All-Highest One, who, in that green-upholstered private room wherein I worked with him, often smiled at the unseemly bustle while he calmly discriminated among men and women according to their merits.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
Christmas day in the Arctic does not dawn with the glow which children in waking early to seek their bedecked tree, view outside their windows in more southern lands.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook