1. It was mounted in ormolu with an enamelled face.

2. The ormolu clock ticked on the mantelpiece.

3. A red lens in ormolu casing was clamped over his left eye, and perhaps had replaced the original jelly organ.

4. Around 1834 his father took up business as a gilder and ormolu manufacturer in London.

5. Each of the legs of the table incorporated a naked ormolu caryatid.

6. There was a silence during which the tick of the monumental ormolu clock on the white marble mantelpiece grew as loud as the boom of a minute-gun.

7. The slightly curved cabriole legs are adorned with gilt reliefs of a woman's head attached to an animal body, and the feet are fashioned in ormolu in the form of claws.