Brilliantly decorated and lined with masterpieces, the museums are brimming with treasures and history.

Buddha heads and framed silk kimonos decorate public areas; the high-ceilinged Opus One, containing main bar and restaurant, is brilliantly decorated in scarlet, black and gold.

Brilliantly decorated with flowers and scrolls, elaborate lettering and lacy penmanship, the group's birth certificates and other official papers make today's just-the-facts-ma'am forms and applications seem positively soulless by comparison.

The great square was crowded with sedan chairs, mostly the drab black public conveyances, but a few richly hung and decorated brilliantly with embroidered or jeweled coats of arms.

The brilliantly decorated and stitched mainsail was furled loosely along the single wide yardarm, and Morgan's black-green-black maritime banner hung limply from a short standard at the bow.

Gawaine scowled, but looked where Naitachal was looking: High above them, in the space which had been a vault between two truly gruesomely ornate candelabras, there hung a brilliantly decorated, gilt egg.

On the second floor, the Sala dei Gigli (Hall of the Lilies) is brilliantly decorated in blues and golds with Florentine heraldry and vivid Ghirlandaio frescoes of Roman and early Christian history.

A Map Brilliantly decorated with colourful ceramic murals, this is one of the most impressive buildings in the townships, if not in all of Cape Town.

The dragon and phoenix boats were brilliantly decorated in the Chi- nese fashion.

F'lessan heard his own stammer echo back from the vaulted ceiling, a ceiling that had been decorated in brilliantly colored murals that had lost nothing of their brightness.