单词 | tapestried |
例句 | She sits next to an empty hearth in a big tapestried chair, the kind you'd find in a ladies' sitting room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always cold in the tower, for all the carpets and the tapestried hangings and the rich furred clothing and the broad marble fireplaces they had. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps. On the French Riviera, Fitzgerald Found His Place in the Sun 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, he took calls from children while seated on a gold chair in a tapestried room at his Florida vacation home. A golden idea? Museum offered 18-karat toilet to Trump: Washington Pos 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z AMYNDEON, Greece — The landscape of the Macedonian region in northern Greece is tapestried with vineyards. Greek Wines Get Back to Their Roots 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z On Christmas Eve, he took calls from children while seated on a gold chair in a tapestried room at his Florida vacation home. A golden idea? Museum offered 18-karat toilet to Trump: Washington Pos 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth. Review | Brasserie Liberté adds some French twists to Georgetown 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.” Saving the lost art of Hollywood 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go. A queen's anniversary gift for her king: A Salon After Dark read 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Sitting in a gold chair beside first lady Melania Trump in an ornate, tapestried great room, the president enthusiastically chatted with youngsters and their parents. Trump's Christmas wish: 'We've got prosperity. Now we want peace' 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Old and young, fit and fat, stylish and frumpy—overall, about the most diverse group ever gathered in a tapestried conference room. Attain Golf Enlightenment: Meet The Real Guru Of Golf - Golf Digest 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The house was decorated with soaring marble mantels and high-back chairs with gargoyles on their arms and tapestried upholstery. Big City: Beach Town of Eclectics 2012-05-26T14:29:39Z With one accord they hurried through the library and up the stairs to the old tapestried room, where Mr. Audley had slept and for the last month had lived. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Remnants of tapestried hangings, … and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Sitting in a gold chair beside first lady Melania Trump in an ornate, tapestried great room, the president enthusiastically chatted with youngsters and their parents. Trump's Christmas wish: 'We've got prosperity. Now we want peace' 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z A long suite of ten rooms was thrown open, and probably the old and tapestried walls had never witnessed so strange a sight before as the gallery presented. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z After examining 252 several rooms, tapestried and furnished in such a style as befitted the palace of a Venetian noble, when Venice was in her glory, we passed on to the gallery. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z "That last touch has spoiled the whole," said the lady in the tapestried chair. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z My lady sat upright in the tapestried saloon, marvelling that no one filled the teapot. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Sightseers festooned the parapets, crowded the balconies, tapestried the windows with eager faces, and formed a solid mass between the wooden barriers of the processional lane and the plate-glass show-fronts of the business houses. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z There was a grotto tapestried with jasmine and honeysuckle; yonder was a thicket of cannas, or cypresses, and in the centre a statue of white marble. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z To the right and to the left, seated upon tapestried benches and cushioned, are men clad in red and wearing a little gold sheep on their necks. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Like those below, too, it was beautifully draped and tapestried, and the floor was of mosaics, crimson and blue and yellow, while the cushions that surrounded the walls were soft and delightful. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z He walked toward the tapestried door of the dining-room, and flung one of its curtains aside, holding it thus while he stood on the threshold and looked back at her. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z He showed her the state-rooms with their tapestried walls and painted ceilings. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z The possessor of a single suit of presentable clothes, the knees of which I was even now deteriorating past remedy—and of a heart tapestried with purple and gold, filled with an almost insensate ambition! In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Then His Majesty whispers into his son’s ear that he should speak some kindly words to those men who are seated upon the tapestried chairs. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z He was sitting near a table covered with writing materials, and in a large high-backed tapestried chair, which further enhanced the ponderous dignity of his appearance, whilst helping to envelop his face in complete shadow. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Urged by fear, she rapidly traversed the corridor, reached the tapestried door, stood still before it with a beating heart, and listened. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z While waiting till the dinner hour, at that time between eleven o'clock and noon, Louis XI., after a short walk, was sitting in a large tapestried armchair in the chimney-corner of his own room. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Below on the right stretched the concave valley, tapestried with cultivation. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z So keen was challenge and r�plique just at that moment that I was outside the fine old tapestried dining-room without being perceived by anyone. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Behind him stood a large screen tapestried with red stuff, against which the waxen whiteness of his face and hands stood out in strong relief. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z He was given lodging in the house of a burgess full discreet and courteous, who gave up to his guest his own fair tapestried chamber. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z The steps, gradually less vague, finally firm and assertive, reach the tapestried doorway. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z In the room there were rich woods and tapestried walls, and at the back was a four-poster mahogany bed with heavy satin hangings, brocaded with fleur-de-lis. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z The fire on the hearth had settled to a warm, rosy steadiness, filling the room with its glow and starting velvet shadows that tapestried the simple place with an airy brocade of shifting patterns. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z The tables are supplied with the most costly and delicate viands; the walls are tapestried; the dresses are of fine silk; the floors are inlaid with rich marbles. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Beside Lamb's stuttered jests, Hazlitt's incisions, Coleridge's billowy eloquence, Wilde's tapestried speech must be set among the regrettable things of which time has carelessly deprived us. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The second floor was devoted largely to a tremendous ballroom, a state dining room, and the tapestried private offices of the Ambassador himself. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z There were the most delightful possibilities in the property, which included a small garden and lawn, the whole hemmed in by a peaceful old red wall, plentifully tapestried with espaliers. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z In one moment more the tapestried door has flown open—a cavalier, hurried and travel-worn, flings himself by the Countess’s bedside. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z The sober tone of the room, with its tapestried walls and happy medley of knick-knacks, broad-leaved plants, Japanese screens, and comfortable furniture, formed a harmonious background to her slight, white figure. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z And it was pleasant to emerge from the damp into the brightly lighted tapestried chamber with the dinner set out. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The chair in which the mother sat was gilded and tapestried; the carpet her feet rested on was soft as mossy turf, and delicate as embroidery. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z So I will chat of the old place, of its lofty halls and tapestried boudoirs. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z "Only from the sleeping apartment of the Frau Countess by the tapestried door." Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z Dark doors were swung wide, and they stood in the dim tapestried hall, the inquisitive sunshine following them and playing among the crystal lustres. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z I closed the window, crossed to the shuttered fireplace, and sat down in a striped tapestried chair. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z He staggered to the side of a large tapestried easy-chair, and limp with fear, toppled over its broad arm into its capacious depths an almost nerveless mass of flesh and bones. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile He had seated himself on a tapestried stool close beside the chair she had taken again. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode The inside was neatly tapestried with silk, and on all sides of the opening, which looked downward, were strung guy ropes and cross lines. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies It came from the library, where a shabby figure crouched, listening, in the corner behind the tapestried screen—a man evilly clad, with a scarred cheek. The Valiants of Virginia It contains sixteen richly tapestried chambers, one of which has a fire-place of porphyry. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. Inside, in the magnificent hall, with its weathered oak beams and mission furniture and bronze plaques upon the tapestried walls, I met a host of good-looking, well-dressed men. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew Yet the words had not been spoken that meant to him the renunciation of all the luxury and opportunity that surrounded him in the tapestried wealth of the great room. Making Money The Brownies had a hard task before them, for they must hang to the tapestried sides of the tower with one hand, while they kept the sword arm free. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies The buildings, of mellowed red brick, include a panelled chapel, in which is the founder’s tomb, a fine dining-hall, governors’ room with ornate ceiling and tapestried walls, the old library, and the beautiful great staircase. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" The King is asleep!" said Anthony Arpajon—"asleep in my best tapestried chamber. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion So presently she was lying on the tapestried bed in the tempered sunlight of her room, while through the house in whispers ran the news that it might be any time now. Carnival On the stair-landings, torches flared in iron holders; down the long, tapestried corridors, a lamp burned by every door. The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses In the midst of this tapestried twilight the burning whiteness of the girl he had followed blazed like a flame. The Tree of Life There are no princes of the blood to wrap the infant in the insignia of royalty, and fold about his limbs the tapestried escutcheon of a kingdom. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The Jesuit had already installed himself in the great tapestried armchair, and put his small, neatly-shod feet close together on the footstool. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion She sat up in bed thinking to tap on the wall; but the tapestried headpiece muffled the sound. Carnival The apartment assigned to the Spanish chieftain was tapestried with the finest embroidered cotton. Hernando Cortez Makers of History He was beginning to see more clearly in the odd, blurring twilight that ran the outlines of things together in that queer, tapestried manner. The Tree of Life A banished dream, not forgotten, but relegated to dim tapestried chambers because the air of the present seemed to blur out memory by excess of light. Rose MacLeod The curses of your father follow you now whether you dwell in the forest or in your finely tapestried rooms. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors As soon as he was alone in his room he locked the door, and sought for a tapestried door concealed at the foot of the bed. Pretty Michal Christine is seated in a tapestried hall with one or two esquires who prefer to discourse of love to joining in the jollity. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens It was as if they walked a strip of tapestried twilight in some unlighted dream. The Tree of Life On the stair-landings torches flared in iron holders; down the long tapestried corridors a lamp burned by every door. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) The buildings were of stone, and the spacious apartments had roofs of odorous cedar-wood, while the walls were tapestried with fine cotton stained with brilliant colors. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West "Why, I am, of course, and always shall be!" cried Count Hommonai; for he was behind the picture, which opened like a tapestried door, and out he stepped. Pretty Michal All the houses in Cheapside were dressed with banners and streamers, and the richest carpets, stuffs, and cloth of gold tapestried the streets. Old and New London Volume I There seemed little other explanation for this hushed and tapestried solitude that had swallowed him up. The Tree of Life They walked to the tiny tapestried lift, beyond the curve of the great stairs, and she pressed the ivory button that sent them up. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon The memory of the great old Keep that dominated the town, with its tapestried halls and torchlit chambers, was suddenly very precious to him. The Barbarians "The streets were richly decorated and tapestried from the Porte Saint-Denis to Notre-Dame, 'and all the people cried No�l! to show their joy.'" Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 If at this time the Republic compared its conditions with the tapestried court in Mexico, then hope of success must have 365seemed lugubrious irony. The Missourian He could focus directly upon no outlines anywhere, for the tapestried blurring of the place. The Tree of Life Erect, and with a jaunty step, she walked about the room, renewing acquaintance with old friends of her youth: with the little tapestried fables on the chairs and sofa; with certain portraits and smaller articles. The Pines of Lory Another method is to have the bed and curtains hung with plain materials, to contrast with embroidered or tapestried hangings on the walls. Needlework As Art The corridor led into a drawing-room richly tapestried and furnished; that into another room, which contained musical instruments; that into a gallery where some portraits were hung. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire He did this while they stood in the tapestried square hall, avoiding each other's eyes. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The red glow, half light, half shadow, flickered over the quaint tapestried furniture, the white-painted woodwork, and the portraits of departed Blands and Fairfaxes that smiled gravely down, with averted eyes. The Romance of a Plain Man Large tears ran down the man's face and dropped across his wife's hand and splashed on the tapestried arm of the chair. Angelot A Story of the First Empire I was ushered, with many other men, into a dining-room, richly carpeted and tapestried, with a large oak table, laid for about a score. Dreamers of the Ghetto Our procession seemed to pass through a painted and tapestried corridor, so pink and purple and azure and gold were the rocks that lined our way, with millions of delicate wild flowers. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America They did not, however, tell him that she had another visitor, whose voice he recognized while depositing his hat and overcoat on one of the Regency chairs in the tapestried square hall. The Side Of The Angels A Novel Then he opened his eyes to feast them on the big, light tapestried room. Harding's luck A plain, brown, unpainted house; straight and square, with no break of piazza or window blinds; tapestried on the front with frost-bitten gourd vines, the yellow and green fruit yet unscathed. Say and Seal, Volume I In vain on gilded roof they fall, 640 And lightened up a tapestried wall, And for her use a menial train A rich collation spread in vain. Lady of the Lake How empty now appeared the tapestried hall! as when some great eclipse shuts to the golden portals of the sun, and steeps the earth in darkness! The Buccaneer A Tale One could hardly move in Joe’s big rooms for the litter of gilded and tapestried furniture, and their crowded walls made the eyes ache. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 The fact that neither bonds nor stocks, nor anything connected with them, was ever discussed inside its tapestried walls, opened up for him new vistas in life. Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman The tapestried walls, the high windows, and the fine Perpendicular hammer-beam roof together form a magnificent and pleasing whole, one of the noblest halls of its period that the country has to show. Hampton Court A tapestried chamber in the gray old pile known as Berkhampstead Castle. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Behold him as he sits, within the tapestried chamber at Hampton Court! The Buccaneer A Tale It was at Kelmscott, in the famous tapestried room, that besides painting the ‘Proserpine,’ ‘The Roman Widow,’ &c., he wrote many of his later poems, including ‘Rose Mary.’ Old Familiar Faces Little he cares for the rain beating on the roof, or the moan of the wind in the chimney, or the shadows on that tapestried wall! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The tapestried walls of my chamber stifle me and I would fain lie in the fresh air with only the green leaves for my canopy and the stars for my taper lights.” At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern The approach to the mountain is closed by ice and snow, while the rocks are all tapestried with icicles. The Huguenots in France I would rather talk to him in that old tapestried hall," thought Robin, "than in this narrow chamber. The Buccaneer A Tale To them 'common life seems tapestried with dreams.' The Map of Life Conduct and Character The beautiful heroine vaguely shambles into a tapestried background. The Merry-Go-Round He breakfasted in the tapestried room which he had ordered to be kept open for him, and then went into the library to write his letters. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir We had front seats, quite near the tapestried platform from whence we took note of the audience. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Madame de Ruth guided the Duchess through another maze of long corridors, and ushered her into the tapestried room which is behind the palace gallery. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Rose established herself on the trunk of a fallen tree, whose upturned roots made a most comfortable armchair, all tapestried with emerald moss. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Above all Milton still sate musing on the "Paradise Lost" in the tapestried chamber of his house in Bunhill Fields. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Seated against the tapestried walls with their fasces and red caps of liberty, like their fellows of the fleurs-de-lis, the judges preserved the same gravity, the same dreadful calm, as their Royal predecessors. The Gods are Athirst He went back to his wife and knelt down on her tapestried cushion. The Day of Wrath Having seen me, dear M., safely enthroned in my beautiful log palace with its outer walls all tapestried with moss, perhaps you would like a description of the coronation-dinner! The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 With the trellised green roses that tapestried every porch. The Servant Problem In those historic palaces the great rooms were cool, dim, and resonant, the women's voices died away in space between the tapestried walls and the ceilings frescoed with pagan deities. Sacrifice It was in the great hall of the Palace, where the walls and the ceiling are tapestried with pictures of kings riding the chase. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette As we leave East Williston we approach more interesting country, with a semblance of hills, and wooded thickets still brownly tapestried with the dry funeral of last year's leaves. Pipefuls “Madame Giche,” said she, after she had wiped away the happy tears which would come, dancing into the tapestried room, almost like one of the twins, “papa and mamma are coming home next summer.” The Heiress of Wyvern Court His eyes, dark and heavy, fastened themselves upon the walls of the inn lost in shadows, painted with nymphs and satyrs sprawling over tapestried landscapes. Erik Dorn Beside her on a tapestried stool, a young girl with long, fair hair hanging in plaits over her neck, was embroidering an altar-cloth. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. It was a great, tapestried chamber, dusky in the early candle-light, furnished with heavily carved chairs and chests, and a huge, four-posted bed. The Genius Men, moreover, who find nothing “low” in listening to the tapestried talk of wayside taverns, where, indeed, even to-day many a scrap of folk-lore and remnant of age-old superstitions may be learned. Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 This was in the afternoon, after they had lunched with Madame Giche in the tapestried room, and had wandered away up into the picture-gallery, to look at some of the pictures. The Heiress of Wyvern Court Torches were lighted to show us the way and scare off wild beasts, as we sallied forth from our tapestried chambers. My First Voyage to Southern Seas The halls and corridors of the mansion are tapestried with books. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 There isn't another house in any land tapestried like ours, Vesty. Vesty of the Basins The "quiet nook" referred to was a recess at the hall window, partitioned off by a drapery of tapestried curtains. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life The beautiful mellow-toned piano from the drawing-room had been removed to the tapestried chamber, and a new one sent from London to fill its place. The Heiress of Wyvern Court The tapestried walls revealed the presence of small hidden doors, and the windows were covered by double curtains close drawn. A Hungarian Nabob The rooms into which this passage opened were the oldest of all—one in particular, tapestried all round, struck me greatly. Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls "Tell me some anecdote out of your tapestried past." The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Mixed with this scent is the scent of incense and of old tapestried rooms, where no one has lived for a very long time. The Magic City Across the lake rose the precipitous slopes of East Hill, tapestried in green, etched here and there by stretches of winding white road, and crowned by the buildings on the campus of Cornell University. The Secret of the Storm Country There were the grey ramparts tapestried in ivy, and the terraced gardens, where the peacocks sunned themselves. Orrain A Romance Then they all went into the great tapestried room where the tiny Princess lay sleeping in her mother-o'-pearl cradle, and the seven fairies began to say what they would each give her. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Thin rays of autumn sunshine filled the tapestried room with pale, clear light. A Book of Quaker Saints From this the rain continued to pour down, and the surface of the sea became as it were tapestried with white, over which the lightning darted and the thunder rolled. Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan They were all tapestried, as it were, with a kind of stalactite, which covered the funnel to the top, with its knobs and chintz-like variation of colors. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two They comported with the shadowy hall, the great oaken gallery, and the tapestried parlor, but are unfitted for the light showy saloons and gay drawing-rooms of the modern villa. Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Enormous canvases of Alexander's triumphs, in allusion to those of the great Louis, were turned out to order, and Versailles to this day is tapestried with battle-pieces in which Louis is always victor. A Text-Book of the History of Painting There were many beautiful tapestries in the rooms, one room having a tapestried frieze. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Yet still greater was her terror of Hidvár and a hundred times more homelike was the dreadful forest with its giant trees speaking in their sleep than the tapestried walls of the Castle of Hidvár. The Poor Plutocrats The white figure, bearing in her arms a sleeping child, glides to the tapestried wall, and vanishes through it, into the Chamber of the Crown Prince, a babe of fourteen days. Historical Mysteries They were busily transforming the bare rocks into a green tapestried chamber, when Sahwah came up, crying as if her heart would break, carrying in her arms a dead wild duck. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping Everywhere beyond the burning of the billows the land-surface is tapestried with verdure and tufted with cocoas; they still show the traditional clump which gave the name recorded by Camoens. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative We ascend the great marble staircase, pass the famous antique boar and enter the long horseshoe corridor filled with busts and tapestried with paintings. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Nor would he look upon the tapestried walls, or the objects of luxury lying profusely scattered around the room, even when pointed out to him by his young companion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 He sat in a richly tapestried room in the old Louvre Palace where more than one King had danced to merry tune. The War After the War Nothing can well be imagined more charming than the description of a tapestried chamber in 1418; the room being finished in white was decorated with paroquets and damsels playing harps. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance As I entered, two figures jumped from the shadow of a tapestried alcove with gasps of fright. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade The houses were ceiled with cedar and tapestried with fine cotton or feather work. Days of the Discoverers We spent some hours in this inspection, and stayed to luncheon, in the noble old tapestried drawing-room. Milly Darrell and Other Tales That hall, with its tapestried walls, its polished floors, and Oriental rugs, was reminiscent of "the movies" to Clay. The Big-Town Round-Up For the purposes of a home, better a separate dwelling with dry-goods box for table and camp-stools for chairs than tapestried walls, mosaic floors, and all luxuriousness in those modern structures where human beings hive. The Young Man and the World "Yes," said I. "Come this way," and he led to a tapestried corner, where sat the queen and her ladies. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade On your right hand the cliff is tapestried, almost hidden, by wild-flowers and ferns in the wealthiest profusion! Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books And in the cool tapestried antechamber of the salle-à-manger, they found Henry looking from the window a little wistfully, and a pang of self-reproach struck both their hearts. The Man and the Moment The Mayor's little daughter braced her back up against the tapestried wall and planted her two feet in their thick shoes firmly. The Pot of Gold And Other Stories It was in the hour before supper one evening that I told her of it, as we sat in the tapestried parlour, looking into the fire from the settle where we sat together. Oddsfish! In the great tapestried bedroom to which the two men conveyed me Sir Luke's demeanour changed, and in a fashion at first puzzling. Corporal Sam and Other Stories His verses were first read in tapestried chambers, and to the gracious ear of stately lords and ladies. English Satires There are cabinets against the walls, buhl tables, luxurious tapestried chairs, etc. The Man from Home Gwendolyn's bed stood midway of the nursery, partly hidden by a high tapestried screen. The Poor Little Rich Girl At length he reached the entrance of Pinewood—a high iron gate, between huge stone posts, on the tops of which were urns overflowing with vines, that hung down and partly tapestried the columns. Trumps Here under candles glimmering in sconces of silver and crystal the courtiers engaged in games of billiards, while their ladies disposed themselves gracefully upon tapestried seats. The Story of Versailles It may be the simplicity of a marble floor and tapestried walls and a painted ceiling, it may be the simplicity of white paint and muslin and fine furniture, but simplicity it must have. The House in Good Taste Trent cast a blank stare about the tapestried walls. The Wheel of Life Above the wainscot, the dull tapestried walls reached to a ceiling richly panelled. The Poor Little Rich Girl His foreign travels, his illness, his recent weeks in London, they were part of a tapestried background that had very slight and distant connection with his present existence. When William Came He therefore makes a human crowd for himself out of carved and tapestried figures, and the few names which penetrate into his solitude, and fancies himself always the greatest personage amongst them. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) It's up in yon chamber tapestried, Sits the Lady Katharine; She smiled at a woman's art applied Her own true love to win. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Now that he had caught the idea, he could see at a glance, as his mind changed his metaphor, how admirably she was suited to the tapestried European setting. The Street Called Straight He paused again, turning the lantern so that the tapestried colors of the walls again flashed forth. Judith of the Godless Valley He recognized the grand piano, the table loaded with albums, the divan, the chairs in the style of Louis XV with tapestried covers. Là-bas I remained in the old tapestried room, leaving Frances and George to say their farewells. The Touchstone of Fortune The fact is but too true, she became a confirmed maniac, and had to be confined for the rest of her life in the tapestried chamber before mentioned, and in which she died. True Irish Ghost Stories "But if I were you, I'd like to have heard what awaited the knight in the tapestried chamber of the castle tower!" Max As they neared the edge of the first line, the ground became tapestried with lilies, yellow, white and crimson. Judith of the Godless Valley He had descended into a dark and shady valley, beset and tapestried with gloomy thickets; the weird wood noises were the only sounds, strange, unutterable mutterings, dismal, inarticulate. The Hill of Dreams We passed into the tapestried room, and after Hamilton had closed the St. George door, we paused for a moment before leaving. The Touchstone of Fortune Yet poor Anne has kept her tapestried chamber by nearly the same means which compelled her parents to call in the aid of the parish priest so long ago. True Irish Ghost Stories "Yes," answered Corona, and sank into a deep tapestried chair. Saracinesca It is tapestried with a sheet of three-cent engravings that got in there by mistake last July, and adhered. Mince Pie Well, then, the gentleman and I mounted some steps and then we entered a tapestried room. Aylwin On one side of the room you will see a tapestried panel bearing the image of St. George and the dragon. The Touchstone of Fortune The vault above the tapestried walls was very dark blue, and decorated with gilded stars in relief. In the Palace of the King A Love Story of Old Madrid His home in Philadelphia—one of the literary centres of the time,—bore traces of his Turkish stay—carpets brought from Constantinople, Arabic designs on the draperies, and rich Eastern colours in the tapestried chairs. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini Taking off her hat, she laid it on the table, loosened the hair on her temples, and sat down on the tapestried footstool near the hearth. The Man in Lonely Land Within the hollow, every cup of the innumerable flowers which tapestried the cliffs seemed a mouth breathing heat. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories About an hour after Isabella had joined her attendants, a light signal was heard at the tapestried door of the apartment. The Vale of Cedars He has been evicted by turning his tapestried chamber into the smoking-room. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Before a stairway leading to an upper floor, he stopped, and, with the dreamy, passive air of a somnambulist, ascended, entering through swinging doors a large, pleasant room, tapestried, ornamented with paintings and statuary. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The dressing room was tapestried in deep red. Against the Grain There was a slip of forest between the village and the river bank, and while Walker was still dodging the palm creepers which tapestried it he heard a noise of lamentation. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories Under the magic spell of this enchanted, golden hall, even the grim Maghrabis, black and motionless along the tapestried walls, seemed to have sunk to the role of mere spectators. The Flying Legion Lillian Underwood and I sat in the big tapestried chairs on either side of the glowing fire in her library. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon I noticed among the furniture a gorgeously tapestried bed. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy In the tapestried room into which the brothers were conducted, sat the Black Lady of Brabant on a throne elevated considerably above the floor. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832 On her arrival in France she retained the national costume; and discarding the tapestried chests common at the period, made use of a pile of cushions as her seat. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 For Miss Farrow's present bed-chamber, with its tapestried and panelled walls, its red brocaded curtains, and carved oak furniture, the whole lit up by a bright, cheerful fire, was very cosy. From out the Vasty Deep They were strained, bloodless, where the fingers gripped the tapestried surface. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon Nick hung his head, for the walls seemed tapestried with staring eyes. Master Skylark "So calm, so fair, He rested on the purple, tapestried floor, It seemed an angel lay reposing there." Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook As the cap was doffed, however, and the long feather swept the tapestried floor, Louis forgot to chide this ostentatious defiance of his will, and with a smile motioned his splendid courtier to a seat. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 The walls were tapestried with canvas, hung with pictures, scalps, and the various decorations won by members of the mess. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 Come up with me to the tapestried salon, and we shall see if my stewards can find anything for your refreshment. The Refugees Passing on, one would find the lightning conductor projecting out through the tapestried seat of a Louis Quinze chair. Bullets & Billets The old Marquise, during the cold weather, always sat in her bedroom; and there, between the tapestried four-poster and the fireplace, the family grouped itself around the ground-glass of her single carcel lamp. The Custom of the Country Thick walls, dreary galleries, and tapestried chambers, were indifferent to me while I could leave them at pleasure, but have ever been hateful to me since they held me by force. Maid Marian On the stair-landings, torches flared in iron holders; down the long, tapestried corridors, a lamp burned by every door. The Black Arrow Some of the rooms are tapestried with Chinese silks, beautifully embroidered. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates It was as if all the dreams, sleeping and waking, of its vivid occupant had taken a visible although unmaterial form and had tapestried the bare room with splendid filmy tissues of rainbow and moonshine. Anne of Green Gables We have preserved, in an inventory of 1403, the description of tapestried rooms where Charles may have played in childhood. Familiar Studies of Men and Books Wyant rose, and the doctor led him through the tapestried door and down the passageway. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 What would happen to a cat if she had to live in a room tapestried with catnip? The Haunted Bookshop And so it befell at dinner in the tapestried dining-room that Psyche Bines received assiduous attention from two gentlemen whom she considered equally and superlatively fascinating. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Through the closed door and the thick tapestried walls, only a loud cry, or some such sound as a stroke on the resonant bowl or tray, could have reached him. An Enemy to the King Knights helping old men with the harvest; minstrels sent to sing to the bedridden instead of to an assemblage of bored ladies and gentlemen in a tapestried gallery. The Faery Tales of Weir "Oh, do come!" said Madeleine, with a great breath, and she walked away, unsteadily, by herself, into the darkness of the tapestried passage, her white dress floating behind her. Sir George Tressady — Volume II Mistress Ruth and friend Lockarby are in the tapestried room, she spinning and he reading aloud one of those entertaining volumes which she would have me read. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 They saw the child to whom they had given their hearts lying at peace in the old tapestried room. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II She passed into an ante-room, with tapestried walls, and a divan covered with raised velvet, a music desk of gilded wood, and a spinet, on which was painted the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger The doors were open, and through two or three intermediate rooms the Major saw the tapestried chamber, dark and empty. Henry Dunbar A Novel Just above the verdant river-bank run its mediæval ramparts tapestried with ivy, the yellowish stone almost the colour of the rocks. The Roof of France She showed them a tapestried chamber, the large figures upon the faded canvas looking threatening in the dusky light. Lady Audley's Secret In strange, half-waking moods, I seem to see the ghosts and the memories flitting together through the spectral moonlight, and weaving mystic dances in and out of the storied windows and the tapestried walls. The Portent & Other Stories I yield up all! my picture rare Found beneath antique rubbish heap, My great and tapestried oak chair I will from you no longer keep. Poems The Major was ushered at once to the tapestried room, where the banker was still sitting at the dinner-table. Henry Dunbar A Novel The wild fig-tree grows here, and the huge boulders are tapestried with box and bilberry. The Roof of France You've caught a cold from standing in that damp tapestried room. Lady Audley's Secret The Count shrank against the tapestried walls, hot with anger, wishing himself a dwarf that he might escape the gaze of so many inquiring eyes. The Strong Arm Calderon's studio that I saw a few days ago is richly tapestried and very lofty; it is quite as fine as that of Millais. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Mr. Dunbar had led his shabby acquaintance into the low, tapestried room in which he usually sat. Henry Dunbar A Novel But Irving turned his back upon everything else when he entered the tapestried chamber of the past, while Hawthorne sought that vantage-ground only to secure a more impressive view of humanity. A Study of Hawthorne The fat squire and his wife abandoned the gray, tapestried chamber, and left the black-browed warriors looming from the wall to scowl upon and threaten new guests, or to glare vengefully upon vacancy. Lady Audley's Secret "Pray, good folks, what is all your merriment about?" here asked Madame Bernstein, peeping in on her relatives from the tapestried door which led into the gallery where their conversation was held. The Virginians One could hardly move in Joe's big rooms for the litter of gilded and tapestried furniture, and their crowded walls made the eyes ache. The Deluge The banker had dismissed his servants at ten o'clock that night; so there was nobody to wait upon him, or to watch him, when he went back to the tapestried room. Henry Dunbar A Novel The studio was a long tapestried room with a curtained archway at one end. Crucial Instances Logic and reason re-established themselves in my mind, there were no dark hounds of sin, the tapestried chairs were empty. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories They are no sooner in the tapestried passage leading away to their own apartment, but Lady Castlewood's bland tone entirely changes. The Virginians At the end I perceived two figures standing as if in silent guard on each side of a door tapestried with the python's skin. Prince Zaleski The detective was ushered through the two outer rooms leading to that tapestried apartment in which the missing man had spent so many miserable days, so many dismal nights. Henry Dunbar A Novel The gloomy, tapestried room seemed to close her in like a prison. The Bars of Iron With the cry the archer leapt out through the tapestried doorway. Beltane the Smith And, as on pinions, with airy foot hast Over the tapestried green of the plain! The Poems of Schiller — Suppressed poems See how yonder hedgerows that sever the farmer's possessions Have by Demeter been worked into the tapestried plain! The Poems of Schiller — Third period The man who called himself Henry Dunbar was lying on the tapestried cushions of a carved oaken couch that stood before the fire in his spacious sitting-room. Henry Dunbar A Novel In a few minutes after this she led the way to the ancient library, tapestried with family portraits, and furnished with book-cases of every past generation. Thaddeus of Warsaw With her own hands she drove two nails into the tapestried wall above his head. Greifenstein They are all tapestried with vines and made to serve as sunny fruit-walls—grim old defence as they once were; now giving nothing but a splendid buttressed privacy. Italian Hours From the hall would open a spacious bedroom, with tapestried walls and a monumental bedstead. The Eve of the French Revolution Lady Ruthven sat composedly, on a tapestried bench, awaiting the arrival of the company. The Scottish Chiefs The distant forest was the palace wall, tapestried in green; its dome, a sky of tender blue; its lamp, the morning sun; its Prince, her Harry standing in the garden. The Perils of Pauline There was no door near, no window, no staircase; it was a mere slip of barren platform, tapestried with big advertisements. Stories by English Authors: England They throng the softly carpeted, richly tapestried interiors of the gilded hells of Venus. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Dream after dream rose up and passed away before that little background of tapestried wall. The Great Impersonation Lady Mar cast her eyes around the splendid chamber, and seated herself on one of its tapestried couches. The Scottish Chiefs Gentlewomen were sitting in the tapestried hall, spinning or working with their needle. Stray Pearls Neither did the old dame approve of tapestried walls, cups and bowls of silver, gold and enamel, flower-gardens or delicately-made dishes. Masters of the Guild Then, in a sheltered nook tapestried with moss and fenced in with roses and hawthorn- flowers, she yielded herself to grateful repose. Bulfinch's Mythology Then, in a sheltered nook tapestried with moss and fenced in with roses and hawthorn-flowers, she yielded herself to grateful repose. Legends of Charlemagne When she sat down to read or write in the tapestried drawing-room, her mind, distracted for the time by a new occupation, would soon return to its obsession. Strong as Death Part of the floor was carpeted, and overhung with a canopy, proceeding from the tapestried wall, and here was a cross-legged velvet chair on which sat Queen Mary. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland The altars were reddened with the blood of slaughtered cattle; the tapestried walls had been spattered with it. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days The walls are tapestried with a paper of yewfronds and clear glades. Ulysses The dream was true: Morano saw himself walking slowly in splendid dress along the tapestried corridors of his master's castle. Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley As a bit of art, it is strikingly imaginative, and suggests the picture-quality of the tapestried horse, which Browning himself says was the chief inspiration of the poem. Dramatic Romances Yes, here I sweep, dust, decorate daily, allowing no other touch; and here I bring my daintiest, rarest flowers, as tribute to Him who tapestried the earth with blossoms, and sprinkled it with perfumes—when? At the Mercy of Tiberius Turning from some tapestried curtains, he told her he was weary of the life of the camp. The Untilled Field His eyes rested on the fireplace, which he could see under the bottom of the big tapestried fire-screen which was raised on legs about a foot high, fitted with big casters. Arsene Lupin Return to Table of Contents Miss Elizabeth Compton sat in the dimly lighted library upon a deep-cushioned, tapestried sofa. The Efficiency Expert Waking to tapestried walls and jewelled lanterns and a strange splendor of furnishings, Randalin experienced a moment of wild bewilderment. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest When its bell rang people rushed to the old tapestried chamber allotted to it, and waited its pleasure with all the deference due to such a novel inhabitant of that ancestral pile. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day It was not the tapestried walls of his chamber at Laon that met his opening eyes, but the rugged stone and tall loop-hole window of a turret chamber. The Little Duke In vain on gilded roof they fall, And lightened up a tapestried wall, And for her use a menial train A rich collation spread in vain. The Lady of the Lake So the Prioress's chamber was tapestried above with St. Helena's life, and below was enclosed with drapery panels. Two Penniless Princesses Floor and wall were no longer logs gnarled and stained: upon the one lay a carpet of delicate ferns and aromatic leaves, and glossy vines, purple-berried, tapestried the other. To Have and to Hold The walls were richly tapestried with products of the looms of the Gobelins, representing the plains of Italy filled with sunshine, where groves, temples, and colonnades were pictured in endless vistas of beauty. The Golden Dog Mrs. Sackville had a particular genius for making covers of tape or network for these tapestried cushions. The Book of Snobs The Queen lounged on a long seat over against the tapestried wall. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series If they entered, they saw the walls tapestried with the defeats of their fathers. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The balcony on which these young girls stood opened from a chamber richly tapestried in fawn-colored Flanders leather, stamped with golden foliage. Notre-Dame De Paris The rooms were of all sizes, panelled, tapestried, and furnished in a style of splendor suited to the wealth and dignity of the Seigneurs of Tilly. The Golden Dog The room was tapestried with all manner of works of art, of which he was justly proud, while the house itself stood copied from a Chinese model, for he was very classic. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan They were alone together in the intimate little tapestried room she called her oratory. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series And Edouard walked round the chateau, and soon discovered a light at one window, the window of the tapestried room. White Lies "You don't need speech here," said Daphne, pulling aside the curtains of her tapestried bed a little later. Daphne, an autumn pastoral It was a fair-sized chamber, and the moonlight, falling athwart the floor, lit upon a great carven bed brave with tapestried hangings. Black Bartlemy's Treasure She was at last in her own room: an apartment of gracious-tinted fabrics and pink satin panels; of tapestried sofas made by French artists before the lovely daughter of Maria Teresa went to her death. Phyllis of Philistia They comported with the shadowy hall, the great oaken gallery, and the tapestried parlor, but are unfitted to the light showy saloons and gay drawing-rooms of the modern villa. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon And Raynal went softly up and put his foot quietly through the aperture, which he now saw was made by a panel drawn back close to the ground; and stood in the tapestried chamber. White Lies In a large and gloomy tapestried apartment, Flora was seated by a latticed window, sewing what seemed to be a garment of white flannel. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Auguste, sitting on a tapestried chair at a marquetry table with brass trimmings, was reading a book by the light of the candelabra on the chimney piece. The Brotherhood of Consolation What does the spectre in the tapestried chamber do when the house is NOT full, and no guest is put in the room to bury strangers in, the haunted room? Books and Bookmen No musty fusty scents Such as inn chambers keep, But tapestried with content And hung with sleep. Many Voices Then Rose slipped out, ordered a fire in the salon, and not in the tapestried room, and the next minute was at her sister's door. White Lies Four rows of tapestried seats, one rising above the other, run lengthways along the hall, and afford room for eighty legislators. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North They comported with the shadowy hall, the great oaken gallery, and the tapestried parlour, but are unfitted to the light showy saloons and gay drawing-rooms of the modern villa. Old Christmas I have a feeling that this interview has happened before, here in this tapestried room, and we are two ghosts revisiting a haunted chamber. The Man Who Knew Too Much Down the tapestried stairway came the Doge of Venice, and, resting upon his arm, in a white bridal dress covered with pearls, walked the girl queen Catarina. Historic Girls Yet Edouard recognized the carpet of the tapestried room—which was a very large room. White Lies The pretty theatre is, however, an exception: for its walls are inlaid from top to bottom with mirrors, its pillars are gilt, and the royal box tapestried with rich red velvet. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North In a gothic boudoir the doors were concealed by tapestried curtains, and the paneling by hangings; the clock and the pattern of the carpet were made to harmonize with the gothic surroundings. The Magic Skin But, deep down and invisible, the disagreement remained; and compunction for having been its cause gnawed at Susy's bosom as she sat in her tapestried and vaulted bedroom, brushing her hair before a tarnished mirror. The Glimpses of the Moon From the tapestried chamber a door opened into a long suite of deserted rooms, which were lofty and of noble proportions, but devoid of furniture, and given up to dust, spiders, and rats. Captain Fracasse The baroness, fatigued a little by her walk, had mounted no higher than her own bedroom, which was on the first floor just under the tapestried room. White Lies The apartments are high and large, and splendidly painted, tapestried, and furnished. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North Ali reappeared for the third time, and drew back the tapestried hanging which concealed the door, to signify to his master and Albert that they were at liberty to pass on. The Count of Monte Cristo The old half-timbered cottages with overhanging storeys, peaked dormers, and gabled porches, tapestried with roses and honeysuckles, must be much what they were in Bunyan’s days. The Life of John Bunyan It led to the tapestried chamber, and years ago they used to steal up it and peep into the room. White Lies Creeping a yard nearer, he discovered that it was the tapestried room, and that what had seemed the further wall was only the screen, behind which were lights, and two women singing a duet. White Lies Josephine and Rose postponed the inevitable one moment more, by arranging their hair in the glass: then they opened the door, and entered the tapestried room. White Lies "There must be a good deal done before it can deserve that title, your excellency, for the tapestried hangings are very old." The Count of Monte Cristo She helped her to dress, and breakfasted with her in the tapestried room, and dissembled, and put on gayety, and made light of everything but Josephine's health. White Lies And with these words he disappeared behind one of the tapestried portieres. The Count of Monte Cristo The doctor selected the tapestried chamber for him as being most airy. White Lies |
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