| 单词 | tessellate |
| 例句 | Here, silent light works glow amid sculptural walls of tessellated foam while, next door, a hand-crafted antennae transmits the live sounds of the River Calder flowing past outside. Jordan Baseman, Haroon Mizra, Free Range: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-05-24T12:00:00Z It's actually a beguiling piece of seduction, but if you ever find yourself stumbling out of a club saying, "Til morning comes let's tessellate," you really need to look at yourself. This week's new tracks 2012-07-13T23:11:21Z One small window-seating nook is swathed in wallpaper printed with tessellated close-ups of the restaurant’s sandwiches, and the bathrooms are decorated with images of pickles and black-and-white cookies. Review | On Rye review: Deli that doesn’t put you down for a nap 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Halfway down, the flat planes of the leaning sidewalls crack into a tessellated field of triangles that reflect light, activating the surfaces and dynamizing the shape. Building Zaha Hadid’s Bold Afterlife 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z I blundered through a misty nocturnal gloom, past a mock-up observatory, ending up in a space where a video took me on a journey through a tessellated universe. Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart? 2013-06-02T18:30:01Z The screens hang in rooms lined with tessellated wallpaper; arranged throughout the pavilion are gilded geometric objects based on the shape of pyrite, a mineral also known by the colonial-era term “fool’s gold.” Fighting Forgetting, With a Venice Biennale Win 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, her tessellated processions of color are all about beauty — a quality that seems almost archaic today as a measure of worth for art. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “Occidental,” a group of works including “drone maps” made from tessellated aerial photographs during his time in the Amazon. The Terrible Beauty of Richard Mosse’s Portrait of the Amazon 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z These paintings are actually wall reliefs: The models’ wavy hair consists of incised resin blocks, and the backgrounds are tessellated tiles overlaid with pasted paper. TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z You will note these two positions don't tessellate as neatly as they could. Has Suella Braverman gone too far this time? 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z I note those two positions don't tessellate as neatly as they could. London Gaza rally: Commemoration, protest, freedom of speech - and yes, politics 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z That geography is part of why the actual Biosphere 2 building looks so striking: Two ziggurats made of tessellated glass triangles are connected by a long, glass rectangular structure. I Survived a Weekend at Biosphere 2 Pretending to Be in Space 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z “It can be quite meditative. And it provides a better understanding of how a shape does or does not tessellate.” Elusive ‘Einstein’ Solves a Longstanding Math Problem 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “They look tiled or tessellated and are round or almost octagonal,” Pearce said. Perspective | In a lather: What were those sudsy bubbles I saw on trees last week? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The display press has a tessellated rubber frame that presses down on the phone to seal a new waterproofing adhesive. iFixit uses its tools to dismantle Apple’s self-service iPhone repair tools 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z In his mural, called “Path to the Golden Age,” elephants, lions, birds and other animals gather under a blue tessellated sky. Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic blends medical care with art, history in second Rainier Valley location 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z "These lost rooms were replaced by an enormous entrance hall, which featured balustrade galleries, tessellated pavements and various niches for statuary," the trust said. Bid to reveal secrets of 'lost' mansion 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Whoever their opponents later this month Real’s weaknesses here seemed to tessellate intriguingly with the attacking strengths of both Liverpool and Roma. Brittle Real Madrid will have Liverpool and Roma licking their lips | Barney Ronay 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Runs must be made, spaces found, angles devised, into which Özil’s own brilliantly gymnastic range of movement and passing will elegantly tessellate. Will the real Mesut Özil stand up? Very possibly at Arsenal this season 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Shell with bands of tessellated brown or purple spots; suture slightly channelled; margin of the volutions convex. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z M. Shell ovate-acute, white, with transverse punctured stri�; the basal whorl thick, with numerous bands consisting of small, and two of large tessellated spots; outer lip toothed. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Passing from one pavilion to another over tessellated pavements, we enter apartments rich in mosaics and all manner of precious stones. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The present species varies more or less in the regularity of its tessellated markings. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z It has columns from Palestine, dogal monuments, tessellated pavements, in endless variety. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Shell obtuse, gibbous, orange, the sides with alternate tessellated spots of white and brown. Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:34.283Z Most people suppose that the old Roman tessellated pavement suggested the idea of representing figures on tiles. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z There are many houses of the nobility where the floors consist of small pieces of oak arranged in tessellated forms. The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z The marvellous tessellated floor of the cathedral has withstood, in a wonderful manner, the damp and ravages of time, but, like that of S. Mark's, is very uneven. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z As the doors closed on them Ah Sing walked slowly toward the resident, who was lying on his back on the tessellated pavement. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z The prefacer of Dickinson's Speech had inserted in his introduction a lapidary memorial of William Penn made up of tessellated bits of eulogy, extracted from the various addresses of the Assembly itself. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z "If you please, Mr. Ambrose," said Constance, "will you tell us what was the Roman tessellated pavement?" Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z They passed behind the curtains together, and there was the sound of a chair being moved over the tessellated floor. A Butterfly on the Wheel 2011-06-21T02:00:24.683Z And then Mrs. Whittaker went out, passed down the tessellated covered way and turned her face toward the station, conscious that she had that day graduated as a first-class liar. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Its onyx lobby, lined with massive pillars, had once been the talk of the neighborhood, and the black and white tessellated floor of the wide entrance hall was as black and as white as ever. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z Oswald had arranged his dress quickly in the hall, which had a beautiful tessellated floor, and now followed the baron into a lofty large room. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Small statuettes of Mercury, Mars, Ceres, and Apollo, evidently the household gods of the Romans, together with urns, tiles, and tessellated pavements, were unearthed. Cathedral Cities of England Where we stand upon its tessellated floor, each square yard is sacred to the memory of some departed Knight; the marbles bearing their names are also emblazoned with their arms. The Story of Malta From this court, under a pillared archway, led off all the lower rooms,—great spacious chambers, with richly painted ceilings and tessellated floors. Tony Butler The hall clock ticked loudly through the silence; slanting sun rays fell through the street grille, across the tessellated floor where flies crawled and buzzed. The Moonlit Way She smiled at him from the corners of her shadowed eyes and stepped into the tessellated foyer. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole The floor will be as artistic as the tessellated pavement of a palace. The American Country Girl In the homes of the wealthy, the inner court became an elaborately pillared banquet hall, with tessellated work in fine marble and with the pavement figured in symbolical devices. Women of England She was born Of a high race, and laid upon the knee, With her soft eye perusing listlessly The fretted roof, or, on Mosaic floors, Grasped at the tessellated squares, inwrought With metals curiously. Fugitive Poetry Bright drops of blood from her mouth dripped slowly to the tessellated pavement. The Moonlit Way His tone was nonetheless cheery and polite as he ushered the stranger into a long panelled room, where a single oil-lamp threw a vague, uncertain light upon the tessellated floor and plain oak furniture. Under False Pretences A Novel The tessellated shadow of the honeysuckle lies motionless upon my study floor, as if it were a figure in the carpet; and through the open window comes the fragrance of the wild-brier and the mock-orange. Home Life of Great Authors The tessellated flooring of his tent formed part of his impedimenta, and, like Napoleon, he expected to find amid the distractions of war many of the comforts and conveniences of his palace at Rome. Old Roads and New Roads The “mountainous marble masses” of the Duomo, “tessellated marbles climbing into the sky, self-crowned with that prodigy of marble domes,” struck Mrs. Browning as the wonder of all architecture. The Brownings Their Life and Art Soane sat on the chair behind the desk, his face over-red and shiny, his heels drumming the devil’s tattoo on the tessellated pavement. The Moonlit Way They may obtain a juxtaposition in space of curiously tessellated pieces of Bible and Prayer Book. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer The Mosaic Pavement is a representation of the ground floor of King Solomon's Temple; the Indented Tessel, of that beautiful tessellated border or skirting which surrounded it. Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. She sprang across the tessellated pavement of the hall, and seizing the glass, swept the shore with a slow movement of her slender person from right to left. A Noble Woman Fragments of tessellated pavements, coins, and other relics from time to time exhumed attest the extent of the Roman settlement. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The small hand-holes of the box-delivery were in the wide tessellated passage that still runs through the building from Royal street to Exchange alley. Dr. Sevier Frequently the epidermis in the center of the cap cracks, giving the surface a tessellated appearance as in Figure 119. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth It seems it's the tessellated school, and they tell me that in a few years nothing else will count. The Limit In the Greek tessellated pavement found at Halicarnassus, the mosaic is of very fine workmanship, being composed of small cubes of white, black and red marble. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life It has twenty chambers communicating with a long corridor, and there are several elegant tessellated pavements, while the walls are still standing to a height of four feet. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The statues seemed to shrink from the blinding light into their niches in the great square-cut hedges, and the tessellated pavement was hot beneath his tread. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) The pileus is fleshy, plane, slightly depressed, tessellated scaly, downy, not zoned, umber in color or brownish as if scorched, flesh dingy-white, taste slightly bitter when raw, margin round. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth If one uses a spatial metaphor, the absolutist vision is a tessellated map. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind The oak pulpit is modern, and the font, cut from a solid block of dark-veined marble and supported by four pillars, stands on a small platform of tessellated pavement. Chelsea The Fascination of London This was found in Watergate street about a century ago, together with a tessellated pavement. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The picture on its wrapper shows a man in green tights, and whose hair is blue, veiling his eyes before a lady in a flame-coloured robe who stares from a distance in a tessellated solitude. Waiting for Daylight Has that rosy, well-groomed body of yours ever sought repose on the tessellated floor of a public hall? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 This was all very well, but as they moved under the cottonwoods across the grass tessellated with sunshine and shadow, the fact of sex thrust itself up and embarrassed her. The Fighting Edge Burke summed up its activity in an excellent pamphlet, "A Short Account of a Late Short Administration," and now entered into opposition against Lord Chatham's ministry, which he called "a tessellated pavement without cement." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Scenes are divided by slender Gothic columns, and other architectural features are tessellated floors and a sketchy sort of brick-work that appears wherever a limit-line is needed. The Tapestry Book Some of the decorations showed need of regilding, and though the magnificent old carved woodwork, and tessellated floors could not be marred by time, yet many of the lesser appointments called for renovation or renewal. Patty's Friends In front of the altar is a tessellated pavement 11 feet long and nearly 4 feet wide. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric He rode towards a side-door, but over the main entrance Harley saw in tessellated letters the words "Grand Hotel," and he tried to shake off the feeling of weirdness that it gave him. The Candidate A Political Romance On the tessellated floor was a little patch no bigger than a saucer which had been recently washed. The Green Rust The patio itself is paved with painted bricks—a tessellated pavement. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico That he might be the better seen and heard he ascended a movable rostrum, or judgment-seat, which was placed on the tessellated pavement that ran from end to end of the palace. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. Opposite him, across the open lawn, were the wide steps, white in the moonlight, leading to the tessellated walk above. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain His first act, after seating himself cross-legged on a carpet in a marble and tessellated recess, was to call for a hookah. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story The ceiling and walls were rich with tessellated and arabesque work. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale It is now tessellated with sheets and blankets out to dry, and the sound of people beating carpets is rarely absent. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) The passages are paved with tessellated pavement, and the floors of the large schoolrooms are of parquet. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London Furniture was rudely hewn from wood and placed on floors which were generally uneven and covered with straw instead of being paved with tessellated marble. Heroes of Modern Europe What elegance of design, what columns of sculptured marble, and fine tessellated work stuck up where few people can see it, even when they try to.” The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story The square hall, with tessellated marble floor, led into a suite of three parlors, opening into each other by arched- ways, heavily draped with satin damask. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis I said to him, "Can you tell me the way to the tessellated pavement?" With the British Army in The Holy Land It stands in Longsmith Street, just above the spot where forty years ago I looked down on a beautiful tessellated pavement of, perhaps, the time of Valentinian. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 A tessellated fret pattern is made along the borders of the corridor floor, consisting of triple rows of smooth cubes of marble inserted in the cement. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 From the packing case there had been taken a gigantic image of Lucien Apleon, and it had been reared upon a plinth of dark green marble, upon the tessellated platform within the Temple. The Mark of the Beast The floor was of tessellated marble, but some ten squares of it lifted up in a mass, forming together a trapdoor, from which steps led down into the vault. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib Here we see the zigzag marginal line, the scalloped bands, the interlaced or tessellated bands with star points, triangles, scrolls, &c.; but the elongate triangle or lance point is seldom present. Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 They walked together through the long ranges of apartments, the close ranks of men prostrating themselves as they passed, until they struck with their foreheads the malachites wrought into the tessellated floor. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 The skin was cracked in a tessellated manner. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners It is made of bronze, and is set in the tessellated pavement of green, white and mauve marble. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres Upon thy tessellated surface lie The wave-glassed splendors of the sunset sky! The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention In the profound, tomb-like stillness of the great house, I had heard the sound of his footsteps on the tessellated pavement from afar. Romance What became of it all?—of that easy colonial life, of the men and women who trod those tessellated pavements? On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 He accompanied them into the tessellated court-yard, but not to the gate. Sunrise In summer he sate in the passage, or on the broad tessellated pavement of the portico. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell The clerk crossed the hall, its tessellated flags gleaming under the colours thrown in by the stained windows, and entered the drawing-room, a noble apartment looking on to the lawn in front. Elster's Folly Out in the sanded strip across the tessellated floor, tumblers were glistening with perspiration from their vaguely noticed efforts. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt She springs from the lower step on which she has been standing, runs across the tessellated floor, and stops short in the door-way, gazing after the two figures. The Deserter Was it my fancy, or did I really hear the faint rustle of a dress on the tessellated pavement of the hall? Uncle Max In half an hour the doors had to be shut and locked, and new crowds formed on the tessellated pavements; Hugo's was full. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes At the very moment that he put his feet on its tessellated floor, a sudden commotion was heard up the stairs. Verner's Pride It was treacherous walking, that tessellated pavement in the hall. The Inheritors Upon the marble tubs, the tessellated floors, the gilded columns and mirrors of this apartment a great sum was expended. The Story of Versailles The great room was built in palatial style, with domed roof, tessellated marble floor, and stately pillars: it was brilliantly lighted; and massively-framed paintings of snow-capped peaks and river gorges adorned the walls. Ranching for Sylvia What in the name of—' He kicked the object out of the lift on to the tessellated floor of a passage which led to the Fish and Game Department. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes We now wended our way to one of the village inns, where we had been told to ask permission from the landlord to see the Roman tessellated pavement in his back garden. From John O'Groats to Land's End As I went into the hall I saw its floor was tessellated, and its wall was a picture-gallery. New Tabernacle Sermons He loved his garden and the view of the tessellated city from the vineyard on the hill, the strange clamor of the tavern, and white Fotis appearing on the torch-lit stage. The Hill of Dreams The color varies a good deal, the head being generally a reddish brown, and the neck, back, and sides marked with tessellated, rust colored spots with narrow white divisions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 It was a cold, dank, raw, and formidable morning; Hugo's tessellated pavements were covered with moisture, and, moreover, day had not yet conquered night. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes The floor, too, was better preserved than any I had seen; though cracked and in part overrun by ivy, it showed portions of the original white and black tessellated work. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 This room opens into a salle de bain of an elliptical form; the bath, of white marble, is sunk in the pavement, which is tessellated. The Idler in France Looking back, it was as much a part of his life as his schooldays, and the tessellated pavements were as real as the square of faded carpet beneath his feet. The Hill of Dreams And he strode across the tessellated pavement under the cold, scrutinizing eye of menials to a large window marked in gold letters: "Bureau." Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) On the raised tessellated pavement of the inner hall stood two meditative youngish footmen, possibly musing upon the problems of the intensification of the Military Service Act which were then exciting journalists and statesmen. The Pretty Lady He showed a passionate interest in the tessellated pavement of the entrance. The Regent The specimens of the tessellated pavement that once formed the flooring of the great hall are worthy of passing notice. Somerset Here, in a field covered over by a cow-shed, is a piece of tessellated pavement which was once the floor of an old country house occupied by one of Caesar's generals. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Inside, the walls were adorned with very old-looking frescoes that were equally innocent of perspective and reticence: the floor was of tessellated bronze. Figures of Earth He stepped on to the tessellated pavement of the outer hall. The Pretty Lady Then I heard his tread on the tessellated pavement of the main hall, the distant clatter of double doors, and a shrill cab-whistle. Sacred and Profane Love A Roman tessellated pavement was discovered in making the railway cutting, and was removed to Bristol. Somerset From the steps of the gateway to the tomb is a vista about a hundred feet wide paved with white and black marble with tessellated designs, inclosed with walls of cypress boughs. Modern India In the year 1849 two very fine tessellated pavements were unearthed in Dyer Street, and removed to a museum which Lord Bathurst built purposely for their reception and preservation. A Cotswold Village They told me to go to the Palmer House, which is overmuch gilded and mirrored, and there I found a huge hall of tessellated marble crammed with people talking about money, and spitting about everywhere. American Notes I rose; far music drew my steps in fond pursuit Down tessellated floors and towering peristyles: Through groves of colonnades fair lamps were blushing fruit, On seas of green mosaic soft rugs were flowery isles. Poems The town was taking its siesta, and the brisk step of a stranger who crossed the tessellated floor and rapped with his knuckles on the top of the cigar-case was the only sign of life. Soldiers of Fortune The diminutive of Abacus, ABACISCUS, is applied in architecture to the chequers or squares of a tessellated pavement . The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The tessellated pavements are wonderfully preserved, though not quite so perfect as a few others that have been found in England. A Cotswold Village One's last view before the door closes noiselessly is of a bay-window opposite, set with cathedral glass casement-lights, which sheds soft colours upon the hall-bench of carven stone and upon the tessellated floor. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Or No. 2, of the same plate, bestowing an archiepiscopal benediction on the houseless multitudes, before he retires for the night to slumber between his tessellated floor and his frescoed ceiling. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 The footsteps were close at hand now upon the tessellated pavement. The Mischief Maker I could not help laughing at poor old Hiero, whose cabins were divided into many rooms, with floors composed of mosaic work, of all kinds of stones tessellated. Prue and I Its tessellated marble work, its ancient mosaics, with its Roman capitals and columns, all make it interesting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics The room was built of rose-coloured marble excepting the floor, which was tessellated in rose and grey. The King in Yellow Behind the tomb three Gothic windows cast their "dim, religious light" over the tessellated pavement and along the Ionic pillars. The Pilgrims of the Rhine After sitting in silence for some time, still with that frown on her beautiful face, her eyes resting thoughtfully on the tessellated floor, she roused herself, and taking out her purse, gave Fan half-a-crown. Fan : the story of a young girl's life This Hotel, which is one of the deepest in London, is composed of four magnificent platforms and nearly a mile of finely tessellated corridors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 As it was Sunday, all the shipping was tessellated with the colors of every nation. The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany The dome- like roof of this hall was of marble variously colored, and the floor tessellated and mosaicked in grotesque and graceful figures of Vesuvian lavas and painted porcelain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 We can only picture to ourselves the Roman tessellated pavement bestrewn with wine, bones, and fragments of the barbarous revelry. A Book of Golden Deeds There he found the prostrate pine and tessellated branches, but the throne was vacant. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers But most memorable of all were certain winter mornings of unexpected calm, when ruddy clouds tessellated the northern sky and were mirrored in the freezing sea. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 They are all built around a plaza, which sometimes is a park with fountains and tessellated marble pavements and electric lights, and sometimes only an open place of dusty grass. Captain Macklin Then, with a signal to Conyngham, he crept noiselessly across the tessellated pavement to the shadow of the staircase. In Kedar's Tents He had to turn from Bashville for a moment to do this, and before he could face him again he was clutched, tripped, and flung down upon the tessellated pavement of the hall. Cashel Byron's Profession The table, a rickety gueridon, overbalanced, and away rolled my uncorked phial of prussic acid and fell into a hundred pieces on the tessellated floor. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel He had awakened with Defiance as his bedfellow, and throughout breakfast at the hustler Dairy Lunch sunshine had flickered over the dirty tessellated floor. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Mr. Grunt, capitalist, is standing in his tessellated sty,—the tessellated sty being represented by the hardwood floor of a fashionable drawing-room. The Hohenzollerns in America The officer signed to the sentry to stand aside, and Eugene entered the castle, crossed the tessellated vestibule, and ascended the wide marble staircase. Prince Eugene and His Times Inside there was a large hall running up to the roof; there was a tessellated black-and-white marble floor, and a circular staircase round the sides of the hall, from the top floor down. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography A dark medal of blood had formed itself near the man's head on the tessellated floor. Dubliners They stepped along the tessellated floor above the Abbot's garden, flooded now with sunshine which drew the perfume from the roses blooming there. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series A willowy lady in a shimmering gown leaned over the rail of a tessellated pig-sty, in which an impossibly clean hog stood in an attitude of ill-mannered immobility. The Hohenzollerns in America In the crude light falling from the dusty glass skylight upon the black and white tessellated floor, covered with muddy tracks, their footsteps echoed faintly. Under Western Eyes We children much admired both the tessellated floor and the circular staircase. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography The centre of the fabric is frequently occupied with tessellated or lozenge patterns of multicolored sides; or divided into panels of contrasting colors, in which different designs appear. The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it They picked up his body from the tessellated floor of the loggia, carried it to the parapet as Andreas's had been carried, and flung it down into the Abbot's garden as Andreas's had been flung. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series As her fan dropped on the tessellated pavement, he came forward, picked it up, and put it in her rigid and mechanical fingers. Maruja Miss Haldin had already noticed that the hall was like a dusty barn of marble and stucco with cobwebs in the corners and faint tracks of mud on the black and white tessellated floor. Under Western Eyes I think we were right about the latter, but I am not so sure as to the tessellated floor. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography But Andre-Louis stepped past him into the wide vestibule, with its tessellated floor of black-and-white marble. Scaramouche The house stands back a decorous distance from the street, under the shadows of some gigantic oaks or elms, and presents an imposing appearance as you approach it over the tessellated marble walk. An Old Town By the Sea I did not, at the time, suffer my fancy to linger over the tessellated document. The Works of Max Beerbohm Merrily the sunbeams played to and fro on the tessellated floor and the brilliant walls—far more happily came the rays of joy to the heart of the young Glaucus. Last Days of Pompeii The floors are sometimes of wood tessellated after the fashion of France. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 PILATE, on the tessellated pavement in front of his palace. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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