 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1846 - 254 pages
...imitations of birds and animals in gold and silver, of exquisite workmanship ; curtains, coverlets ; robes of cotton, fine as silk, of rich and various dyes, interwoven with feather- work, which had all the delicacy of painting;" and, besides all this, thirty loads of cotton... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1846 - 252 pages
...imitations of birds and animals in gold and silver, of exquisite workmanship; curtains, coverlets; robes of cotton, fine as silk, of rich and various dyes, interwoven with feather- work, which had all the delicacy of painting;" and, PRESENTS. 95 besides all this, thirty... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 460 pages
...and silver thread, and sprinkled with pearls and precious stones ; imitations of birds and animals in wrought and cast gold and silver, of exquisite...silk, of rich and various dyes, interwoven •with feather work that rivalled the delicacy of painting.* There were more than thirty loads of cotton cloth... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1853 - 532 pages
...animals in wrought and cast gold and silver, of exquisite workDISCOVERY OF MEXICO. [Boon II manship ; curtains, coverlets, and robes of cotton, fine as...sent to the capital, and now returned filled to the Jbrim with grains of gold. But the things which excited the most admiration were two circular plates... | |
 | William Dalton - 1862 - 556 pages
...thread, and sprinkled with pearls and precious stoues ; imitations of birds and animals, in wrought ami cast gold and silver of exquisite workmanship; curtains, coverlets, and robes of cotton, fine as silk, of rieh and various dyes, interwoven with feathenvork that rivalled the delicacy of painting. There were... | |
 | William J. Barbee - 1866 - 282 pages
...arrows ; and when on the Mexican coast, among the rich presents received by him from Montezuma, were coverlets and robes of cotton, fine as silk, of rich and various dyes, interwoven with feather work that rivalled the delicacy of painting. The West India islands furnished to Great Britain,... | |
 | Joseph Bardwell Lyman, Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1868 - 220 pages
...coast, among the gorgeous presents sent him by the confiding Montezuma were " curtains, coverlids, and robes of cotton, fine as silk, of rich and various dyes, interwoven with feather work, that rivaled the delicacy of painting." The Mexicans also understood the manufacture... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1871 - 780 pages
...against the Indian arrows ; and among the rich presents which that conqueror received from Montezuma were "curtains, coverlets, and robes of cotton, fine as...interwoven with feather-work that rivalled the delicacy of painting." Alike in that old world, then, fai The paseagc occurs in the Treasury of Traffic, by Lewis... | |
 | William Dalton - 1872 - 636 pages
...and silver thread, and sprinkled with pearls and precious stones; imitations of birds and animals, in wrought and cast gold and silver of exquisite workmanship;...interwoven with featherwork that rivalled the delicacy of painting. There were more than thirty loads of cotton cloth in addition. Among the articles was the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1873 - 638 pages
...and silver thread, and sprinkled with pearls and precious stones ; imitations of birds and animals in wrought and cast gold and silver, of exquisite...of painting.17 There were more than thirty loads of " Aid,:, Book 1, chap. 2, p. 37. K From the checkered figure of cotton cloth in addition. Among the... | |
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... panaches, and crests of variegated feathers, intermingled with gold and silver thread, and sprinkled with pearls and precious stones; imitations of birds and animals, in wrought and cast gold and silver of exquisite workmanship; curtains, coverlets,... 
