| 单词 | valance |
| 例句 | The window itself is mantled in a crochet-like aluminum valance that is echoed in the glass-beaded pedestals and vitrines that display the objects. The Treasures of Saint Pierre 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z After surveying their distorted bodies and their impossible reflections in mirrors, my eye wanders off to the framing apparatuses of lavish curtains and valance. Morris Hirshfield Rises Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Update the look of the room by using drapes instead of valances. House Calls: A family room gets more seating and a better arrangement 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z The company also offers a number of valances and cornices. Window Treatment Sources We Love 2010-03-18T00:06:00Z Keep the shades to control light, but soften the space by replacing the valances with full-length drapery panels in a subtle pattern. Design a dining room that can also serve as a lounge and game space 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z For the past 28 years, these floor-to-ceiling curtains with blue banding and six curved Empire valances, installed on Clinton’s Inauguration Day, have garnered bipartisan support. Presidents come and go, but these curtains are forever 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z I guess my shriek unnerved him, and he prob’ly lost his balance, ’Cause that is when he spread his “wings” and swooped up to the valance. Style Invitational Week 1094: TAXI’s the fare in Tour de Fours XI; plus ‘rude word’ poems Awning-like valances and a canopied reading hideaway keep the room youthful and dreamy. Everything Merry & Bright 2010-12-08T19:14:00Z The Great Chamber bedroom features cushioned window seats, a lovely canopy bed with yellow valances highlighted in red and green, and a wooden highboy. Three-and-a-half centuries of mythos surrounds Salem’s House of the Seven Gables 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z The valances, trimmed in bullion fringe, were inspired by designs from books of 19th-century drapery treatments. Obama legacy includes a new look for White House’s State Dining Room 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Country Curtains sells a variety of fabrics by the yard, ready-made curtains, valances, and hardware. Window Treatment Sources We Love 2010-03-18T00:06:00Z The company offers a huge selection of fabrics and hardware, cornices and valances, and custom drapes. Window Treatment Sources We Love 2010-03-18T00:06:00Z For a clean, custom look, Arnold sometimes likes to hide the curtain rod or track by tucking it behind a valance or crown molding. How to choose and hang the right curtains for your room 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z Hybridization is introduced to explain the geometry of bonding orbitals in valance bond theory. Chemistry 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z The studio quietly held it in storage after wrapping production on the original in 2014, with its upholstered valances and window blinds still intact. Why 'How I Met Your Father' resurrects the original's iconic apartment 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Model ships and colored onion lamps, as well as the valance scalloped like waves that frames the waterfront view, affirm the maritime theme. The Cultish Home That Draws Fans of Americana Design 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Soon there will be cushioned window seats in the bedroom and valances over the windows. A Broadway Director on Restaging His Home 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z One particularly naked emperor at the press briefing noted that the historic 124 Spider had a lovely, undercut front valance, the classic barchetta profile. The Fiat 124 Spider: Now, That’s Not Italian 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z There were floors painted in an oversize cartoon version of wood grain; a loopy 19th-century cottage bed was painted with stags and flowers and hung with a giant zigzag valance trimmed in red. William Diamond, Designer of Wildly Colored Interiors, Dies at 63 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z French still hasn’t finished her decorating for this year, although there appears to be a glittering wreath, valance or bit of ribbon on every surface of the house. 52 Christmas trees in 1 house 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, you can hire companies now to alter what comes up when people Google you, a fact that speaks to the public’s anxiety about the valance accorded search results. Circa Now: Background Checks and Personal Ethics in the Age of Google 2012-10-28T00:20:01Z Lady Betty did so, and Sophia, to whom the secret had been committed the day before, lifted the leather valance that hung before the seat. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z There was a white face lying back among the pillows of a great bed, with carved posts and a valance of flowered chintz that smelled faintly of lavender. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z The room is lighted by brass sconces and a chandelier, the windows are dressed in brown fringed swag valances. The Houses of the G.O.P. Hopefuls 2011-12-28T23:31:38Z Nuance said it will use a portion of proceeds to buyback shares under a $200 million stock repurchase plan, with the valance for potential acquisitions, capital expenses and other strategic transactions. Nuance Slides On Plan For $600M In Convertible Debt 2011-10-18T14:08:29Z Mercury’s palace was the sign Gemini and Venus’ valance, probably meaning her detrimentum or the sign opposite her palace, was Aries. Astronomical Lore in Chaucer 2011-10-13T02:00:42.860Z And to think the dear things lie under that dingy valance! Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He still stood with his back to her, and, from under his bent brows, his glance shot up and found the parting of the valance. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z It was a large, old-fashioned room, and Jacqueline’s little white figure, as she sat up in bed, was almost lost in the huge four-poster, with dimity curtains and valance. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Behind her, fitted into the wall, was the bed with its curtain and valance of warm crimson, and spotless counterpane. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z The chin valance has been lowered to give the impression that the C30 hugs the ground. Car review: Volvo C30 R-Design 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z She held this until Lady Betty had dropped the valance, and the two could take their seats again. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He rolled over and again could look through the valance. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z In bed-rooms of the present time valances to the beds are quite superfluous, as the bed-round is completely out of fashion. Household Organization Round the toilet-table crackled a pink chintz valance, draped in stiffest muslin. Carnival Her eyes darted hawk glances round the room, seeming to penetrate the chintz valances on chairs and sofa! The Brightener And she clicked the drawer home, dropped the valance in front of the seat, and rose from her knees. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z It had a balustrade about it and within this balustrade hung short yellow brocaded curtains, in a sort of valance, that seemed to Herrick strangely fresh, as though hung there yesterday. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Oft hath a little passing breeze Along this valance stirred; But in this stagnant calm 'twas not The wind I heard. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems At the foot of the bed, in one room, stood a packing-case to serve as a wardrobe, a valance of calico tacked on its top, concealing the true nature of the contrivance. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge Therefore the two couches in the sitting-room were covered with the cretonne, and half a dozen box chairs; and there were cretonne valances at the windows. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor In the doorway stood Mr. Simeon Sill, in carpet slippers and overcoat, the latter displaying a valance of flowered dressing-gown. The Wooing of Calvin Parks Herrick, leaning against the banisters had got his eye to the opening in the valance again, and he could now see Christina with her hands in her lap facing Ten Euyck. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z And nearly everything from her lovely bedroom—chintz valances, and the little South American dressing-cabinet, and the china-set in a strawed barrel. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon The high, old-fashioned, four-post bed with its ruffled valance and tester was still smoothly made up and undisturbed. The Boarded-Up House If the back of the Baldachino is embroidered, it admits of totally different treatment, and the valance must include a border according to its outline. Needlework As Art I wriggled down to gain another view, and when I cautiously lifted an edge of the valance my eyes met the strangest sight ever seen in all England. The O'Ruddy A Romance Christina looked along his arm, along the lifted revolver, to what was now only a dark opening in the valance. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z By the side of an old-fashioned bedstead, hung with snow-white valance, knelt the old gray-headed minister, and his low voice, broken and thrillingly solemn, went up in earnest prayer for a departing soul. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Both girls jumped to their feet and stood listening to the strange sounds that came from under the valance hanging about the bottom of the great four-poster bed. The Boarded-Up House One evening she was making her usual round, armed with a tennis racket for protection, and was peeping under the bed, when she suddenly let the valance fall hurriedly, and drew back with a shriek. The Manor House School Travelled through the vale of Nith, here little like a vale, it is so broad, with irregular hills rising up on each side, in outline resembling the old-fashioned valances of a bed. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 He parted the little curtains of the valance, and beheld himself so far right that there stood the red-haired lady lighting the chafing-dish. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z That this less solid manner was not confined to the far East is shown by the Venetian valance, B, on the lower part of the page, which has very much the appearance of gold lace. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery The valance at the top ended in a deep fringe of thick cords, and at the end of each cord there was a bright ornamental thing made of wood covered with silks of various colours. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Scott stooped, and raised the valance with the greatest precaution. The Manor House School The valance is the fringes or drapery hanging round the tester of a bed. Hamlet Little red flames were creeping up the valance of the crib in which poor sick Stella lay! Nine Little Goslings In the chamber where the family apparently lived and slept, there were two feather beds, with the usual appurtenances of bolsters, sheets, blankets, valances and curtains, and also a couch bed and a couch. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century "Do you know, Louisa," she said slowly, "I believe we could make curtains for those windows—just straight side-drapes, you understand, with a plain valance across the top." Rainbow Hill A stirring, a bulging outward of the valances of the opposite seat. A Sheaf of Corn Heavy curtains of raw silk, Turcoman, and canton flannel, with a full valance at the top, are used for the window drapery. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources There was a high four-poster bed in one corner, with a chintz valance around it, and pink silk quilled into the tester. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation Also, there were blankets, curtains and valances for tester beds, counterpanes of serge, table-knives with white handles, black handles, and ivory handles; in pewter, the store offered porringers, plates, serving-dishes and candlesticks. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century It can be made of casement cloth with narrow side curtains and valance of bright material. American Cookery November, 1921 She wore knit mits, had a lofty poke bonnet, and a "checkered" gown gay enough for a valance, and, although it was yet very early spring, she carried a parasol over her head. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk He pointed to where, plainly seen on the white counterpane that half covered the heavy valance, there was the mark of a bloody hand that had caught the quilt and dragged it a little down. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled The mattress and canopy are exactly alike; each has its valance, and they are just the same size; so directions for one will answer for both. Little Folks' Handy Book By the middle of the century, valances and curtains around the beds "to shut out the night air" were in general use. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Faded calico covered the seat, a valance of the same hung about the legs; two of the upright spindles were missing from the back. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood “Here’s a sofy will do,” he continued, pointing to a kind of settee, cushioned, and with a common moreen valance hanging down, while a rough kind of pillow was fastened to one end. The Bag of Diamonds He stepped forward and raised the heavy valance, directing the light beneath. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled Cut the edges of the border, or valance, into small points, as in Fig. Little Folks' Handy Book Both types had curtains and valances, were supplied with blankets and sheets, the latter, either of canvas or Holland, and there were several quilts. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The dimity valance, trimmed, like the curtains, with ball fringe, hid the trundle-bed that was pulled out at night for Mary 'Liza and me to sleep in. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood These hangings, bed curtains, quilts, and valances are of linen or a mixture of cotton and linen, and one type is embroidered with bold, freely designed patterns in worsted. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them A white damask cope; "a little narrow thing like a valance," with the name of Jesus in gold—sold for 8d. Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See Make the canopy just as you have made the mattress, but cut deeper points on the edge of the valance. Little Folks' Handy Book It should carry every color she could muster, and the upper valance should have the same border as the head curtain. The Development of Embroidery in America The valances at the foot of the bed should be raised, and a piece of carpet placed on the floor. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother It had high posts and curtains and valance of pale-blue flowered chintz. A Little Girl in Old Boston The satin brocade furniture was faded, the great gilt-framed mirrors tarnished, and all the bedsteads had high posts and hanging curtains, and a valance round the lower part. A Little Girl in Old New York After satisfying myself of the fastening of the door, I began to walk round the room, peering round each article of furniture, tucking up the valances of the bed and opening its curtains wide. The Red Room It was not alone bed hangings which were subjects of New England crewelwork; there were mantel valances, which covered the plain wooden mantels and hung at a safe distance above the generous household fires. The Development of Embroidery in America That question settled, she thought any other room would do, and chose the large front room across the hall with its high four-poster and the little ball fringe on the valance and canopy. Marcia Schuyler The "ruffled pawn" was a calico or linen valance which was hung on the edge of the mantel-shelf, a pretty and cheerful fashion seen in some English as well as Dutch homes. Home Life in Colonial Days There is some whimsicality in placing the two ladies under a canopy, formed by the unnailed valance of the bed, and characteristically crowned by the wig-box of a highwayman. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency The door had hardly closed behind her when Winifred's head appeared from under the chintz valance of the bed, and she looked cautiously about. A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia An embroidered apron became of much more importance than a bed valance or counterpane. The Development of Embroidery in America The design is pretty for bordering table scarfs, tidies, valances and curtains when heavy braids are selected. The Art of Modern Lace Making He sat kicking his heels against the valance of the bed, and thinking. Despair's Last Journey Three pairs curtains for casement windows 6 feet high and 5 feet wide, with pleated valance. How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence As it was, all might have been well had not Irene, just as Lucy was reaching the door, given a low, wild whoop, and then disappeared again under the valance of the bed. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Not only were all Mrs. Otway’s and Rose’s under-clothing trimmed with it, but it served as insertion for curtains, ran along the valance of each bed, and edged each pillow and cushion. Good Old Anna Upon the four-post bed, between white valance and tester, lay a dying officer. The Long Roll To put over this, make a thinner cushion, of hair, cover it with furniture-calico, and fasten to it a valance reaching to the floor. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School "What is it at all?" and he stooped as he spoke, and lifted the valance. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Dexter went back into the hall, obtained his cap, and went out through the glass door into the verandah, where the great wisteria hung a valance of lavender blossoms all along the edge. Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel It was a large chamber, the boards of which were furred with mildew, and the valance on the bed was dropping off with rottenness. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 They had laid him upon a narrow bed, an old, single four-poster, with tester and valance. The Long Roll An old champaigne basket, fitted up with a cushion on the lid, and a valance fastened to it to cover the sides, can be used for the same purpose. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Furlong was paralysed, and could offer no further resistance: Andy stooped, and lifting the valance of the bed to withdraw the portmanteau, dropped it suddenly, and exclaimed, "O Lord!" Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes "A bit solid for a box spring, isn't it?" he asked, and continued his investigation, tearing down the bed valance. The Daffodil Mystery A sudden rustling made Letty glance fearfully at the bed; and she perceived, to her terror, the valance swaying violently, to and fro. Scottish Ghost Stories Big pink roses splashed all over the cretonne counterpane and valance of the bed. At Home with the Jardines Protruding through the aperture of the press, and shrouded in the shade of the valance, they plainly saw the white fat hand, palm downwards, presented towards the head of the child. The House by the Church-Yard Beyond the fireplace, and at right angles to it, a large sofa, or lounge, with square ends and back, broad low seat, loose cushions, and valance. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts A sort of canopy or valance, formed of various coloured cloths, hangs overhead. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants He pointed an accusing forefinger at Bismarck, whose lambent eyes of terror glowed from beneath the valance of the sofa. All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches The extension foot facilitates the arrangement of spread or valance, and if drapery is desired, beds with head posts fitted with canopy frames or "testers" are to be had. The Complete Home There was a little valance, about a foot deep, round the top of the child's bed, and this descended within some ten or twelve inches of the pillow on which it lay. The House by the Church-Yard The bed was curtainless, and neutral except as to its blue valance, and the carpet only cocoa-nut matting, which, however, harmonized fairly with the prevailing cerulean effect. Bluebell A Novel The room seemed to contract and break out into soiled pink valances. The Judge A valance connecting the side curtains and covering the top of the net curtains will also make the window seem broader. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today When the china closet does not connect with the dining room, but is a "thing apart," its shelves may receive the same treatment accorded those in the pantry—white paper or oilcloth covering and valance. The Complete Home The dressing-table was made of a long, low box, with a glass top and a valance so crisp and flouncing that it suggested a young lady in crinoline. The House in Good Taste Once you had the code key they translated themselves simply enough into such homely items as Hosey's fishing tackle, canvas curtains for Ted's sleeping porch, slip covers for Pinky's room, black net dress, sun-parlour valance. Half Portions The four-post bed had curtains of green damask, all closely pinned around it, and a green valance. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts A high room may have the curtains reach only to the sills with a valance across the top. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today A dainty valance, or sash curtains of muslin, dimity, or other summer wash goods, give an attractive and homey touch to the room. The Complete Home A flat valance, cut the length of the design of the chintz, furnishes the top of the two windows. The House in Good Taste She smiled up delightedly at me and crawled out farther from the bed valance. Five Nights It bore traces of many petty attentions, even—in its white dimity curtains and valances—of an attempt at daintiness. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales There should be plenty of room under all ruffles or shaped valances where the curtains are to be drawn to allow for easy working of the cords, otherwise tempers are liable to be suddenly lost. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Double-faced goods have the hems on the side on which they will show least, with any extra length turned over as a valance on the same side. The Complete Home The valance was of chintz in gentian blue and white. The House in Good Taste His dome bed was yellow as to its upper works, with crimson valances above and yellow valances below. The Pretty Lady I had a vague consciousness that some hand had recently parted them, and the tassels on the valance were quivering still with the impulse they had thus received. Miriam Monfort A Novel In hanging these more formal curtains the shaped valance is usually used with the curtains hanging straight at the sides of the window, so they can be drawn together at night. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today If the bed is hung with a valance, that, too, is pinned up. The Complete Home The ruffled valance is more suitable for summer cottages and bedrooms than for more formal rooms. The House in Good Taste They lifted the heavy valance and one got upon his knees and prodded beneath with his sword. Mistress Penwick After satisfying myself of the fastening of the door, I began to walk about the room, peering round each article of furniture, tucking up the valances of the bed, and opening its curtains wide. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Another method is to have the curtains simply parted in the center, either with a valance or without, and drawn back at the sides with heavy cords and tassels, or bands of the stuff. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today The home carpenter can easily fashion one from a plain pine table, hung with a valance to match the other draperies. The Complete Home These valances should be strung on a separate rod, so that the inside curtains may be pulled together if need be. The House in Good Taste Dusky in far corners or sharply drawn near the firelight, stood, in those days, chests and tables and forms and doubtless a bed too with its valance and curtains. Virginia: the Old Dominion Her aunt returned before the packing was done, and Ann Veronica lunched with an uneasy sense of bag and hold-all packed up-stairs and inadequately hidden from chance intruders by the valance of the bed. Ann Veronica, a modern love story With considerable ingenuity she evolved a dresser from a soap box and the colored supplements of the Sunday papers, which she gathered into a valance, in imitation of Mrs. Purdy's bright chintz. Calvary Alley If considerable color has already been introduced into the room, the bed drapery, cover, and valance should be of some thin white washable material—dimity, Swiss, and the like. The Complete Home In my bedroom I have used a printed linen with a flat valance. The House in Good Taste There were no window curtains, but a valance of white dimity hung above the window. The Young Buglers There was a scuffling sound from under the bed; the valance was lifted, and a head emerged cautiously. The Green Satin Gown He was a small-faced man, with a squarely aquiline nose and a black moustache, which hung like a valance over his mouth. With Edged Tools Roberts peeped timidly into the dark void beyond, dropped the valance, and looked up with a comical, quizzing expression, and began to laugh. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Chintz curtains are often hung with a valance about ten or twelve inches deep across the top of the window. The House in Good Taste I examined it, and found that the curtain had been caught by a pin in the valance, which had held it back; but it was impossible to tranquillize her for some time. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Over this scene came the glaring daylight, for the windows had neither blinds nor shutters, nothing but a valance of gingham through which the sunshine poured upon the aching eyes of the sick. The Old Homestead They stood in diagonally opposite corners of the room, and upheld the hugest of feather beds, with gay, home-made worsted coverlets and valances that shamed the hues of the rainbow. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories "What a set of confounded cowards you are!" cried the landlord; "can't you lift the valance and see what it is?" Life in the Clearings versus the Bush We need all the light the windows give, so there are no curtains except the orange-colored taffeta valances at the top. The House in Good Taste She felt that she would surely die if anyone should notice that the bonnet was gone, or happen to lift the valance and find her sitting there with it on her head. Georgina of the Rainbows Sometimes the sable valance and portières were heavily trimmed and fringed with silver; at others there was only the scantiest display of time-worn black cloth. A Versailles Christmas-Tide There was a hesitating movement on the unseen stairs above, and then Hilda could see Sarah Gailey's felt slippers and the valance of her skirt. Hilda Lessways Turning up the valances of the bed, he found a piece of paper crumpled up; this was sent to an analyst on the following day. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) A fitted valance of chintz or brocade is quite dignified enough for a drawing-room or any other. The House in Good Taste It was a chintz valance with birds of paradise patterned on its pink back-ground, and there was pink silk quilled into the quaint tester overhead, reminding her of old Jeremy's favorite quill dahlias. Georgina of the Rainbows Johnnie then, though badly burnt, pulled the curtains, valance, and all down on to the floor, and beat out the flames with his hands and feet. Beneath the Banner And she saw the pale blinds drawn down behind the dressing-table, and the valance at the top, and the draped curtains; and herself darkly in the glass. Hilda Lessways In the front was an external valance of crimson velvet, richly laced and trimmed with tassels. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 The chintz curtains are lined with silk of this tone, and the valance at the top of the group of windows is finished with a narrow silk fringe of this greenish-blue. The House in Good Taste Also she walked around the valance, counting its birds of paradise. Georgina of the Rainbows Then she hears something snip, snip, and lifts up the valance and looks under the bed, and there sets Adeline cutting the fringe off her shawl! Old Caravan Days Take down the curtains of the bed, remove the valances. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children A minute later she slipped away to hide under the bed in her own room, peering out from under a lifted valance for a hoped-for pursuer. The Iron Woman Some windows do not need these valances, but these windows are very high and need the connecting line of color. The House in Good Taste A curtain, preferably of some dark color, should be hung on each side, and a lambrequin or valance across the top. Entertainments for Home, Church and School We were lodged in a silver bedstead, quilt, curtains, valances, and counterpane of crimson damask, embroidered richly with flowers of gold. Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid. She pictured to herself with a shudder the effect of a sixpenny Chinese umbrella in that fireplace, a cretonne valance to that bed, or chintz curtains to those windows. Cashel Byron's Profession The window-curtains had amplitude beyond the necessary, and they were suspended from behind fringed and pleated valances. The Old Wives' Tale An immense broad sheet, a burnished bed of silver—lucid canopy of blue above—lofty mountains are its valances, palm forests form its fringes! How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Lifting her eyes to the tester, Mrs. Howland saw nearly a yard of the valance torn away and hanging down. The Iron Rule Or, Tyranny in the Household No tester frame had accompanied the cheap bedstead at its original purchase, and now my wife wished to have one, and also a light curtain above and valance below. Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper "What an awful night!" she observed once, strolling to a window to peer out from behind a brocaded valance. The Titan "Here goes for another, and may his bed in heaven have a valance to hide his sins!" On the Firing Line A kitanda, or square light bedstead, without valance, fringe, or any superfluity whatever, but nevertheless quite as comfortable as with them, was brought to my tent for my use by the village chief. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley For a long, quiet, blissful moment, she lay smiling at the spot where the sunlight, streaming level through the lace-curtained window, fell on the rose-flowered chintz of the valances. Missy She wondered at the ball of glass, containing various coloured sands from the Isle of Wight, or some other place, which hung suspended from the middle of the little valance over the window. Mary Barton His boots were good stout boots; the shadows of his legs upon the valance suggested a formidable stoutness of aspect. Twelve Stories and a Dream "Well, you know that chintz over the bed, and the valance, and the easy chair; what pattern should you say it was?" The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural So Sara Lee got into her white bed with the dotted Swiss valance, and drew the covers to her chin, and looked a scant sixteen. The Amazing Interlude “I heard a slipping sound, and a dead hand fell on the floor-lying outstretched, its palm turned upwards, showing beneath the valance of the couch.” A Lady of Quality The farther end of the room was completely filled by a four-post bedstead, with a scalloped valance for decoration. The Country Doctor The minute apertures between the stitches of the fabric of the valance admitted a certain amount of light, but permitted no peeping. Twelve Stories and a Dream Large valances of silk, embroidered with flowers of gay colors, which were rather faded, fell from the wide windows; the fittings of the room were simple, but in excellent taste. Twenty Years After Elder Green Persimmon," because when he prayed his mouth went inside out, came mincing into the room, and as he passed the valance and got a pinch, jerked out a sour-grape sneeze: "Mercy on us! Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister She bent and placed it within the shadow of the valance again, and as she felt it touch the hard oak of the polished floor her bosom rose with a soft sigh. A Lady of Quality Mr. Ledbetter stooped beside the bed, thanked Heaven for a valance, and crawled within its protection not ten seconds too soon. Twelve Stories and a Dream Beneath the edge of the valance a strip of carpet was visible, and, by cautiously depressing his eye, Mr. Ledbetter found that this strip broadened until the whole area of the floor came into view. Twelve Stories and a Dream Very cautiously Mr. Ledbetter shifted his hand forward, projected a pioneer finger, and began to lift the valance immediately next his eye. Twelve Stories and a Dream The valance dropped again behind Mr. Ledbetter, and he rose from all-fours and held up his hands. Twelve Stories and a Dream |
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