| 单词 | wainscoted |
| 例句 | She led Desdemona down a long, wainscoted corridor, through a telephone operator’s office, and into another darker hallway. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Clues were scarce, but he deduced what he could from the set: a wainscoted room with French windows, a cane-back wheelchair parked in front of them. Review: ‘The Unexpected Guest,’ From Agatha Christie, Dispenses With a Bully 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The gray-on-gray wainscoted dining room is quite pleasant, and so, too, looked the outdoor patio on such a fine summertime’s evening. Dinner at a Movie takes a picture-perfect day trip to Port Townsend 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The 10-foot-high ceilings have ornate, botanically themed moldings; the walls are wainscoted; and the floors retain their original geometric two-tone marquetry. A Classic Parisian Apartment Filled With Modern Design 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z The room was spacious but somber, wainscoted and vaulted with oak. The King's Stratagem and Other Stories 2012-03-22T02:00:40.343Z The room was spacious, but sombre, wainscoted and vaulted with oak. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z All up the dark wainscoted walls, dead and gone Penroses looked down upon us, in every sort of ancient costume. Nurse Heatherdale's Story 2012-03-06T03:00:21.190Z The room was spacious but sombre, wainscoted and vaulted with oak. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z In the wainscoted hall, small and square, with a high narrow window on each side of the door, his mother and Josina were sitting on one of the window seats. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The so-called "Square Room" of the "Wild Goose Tavern" was a low, wainscoted chamber, set with small deep windows. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The rooms opening at the right and left of the hall are worthy of it, especially the first named, which is wainscoted from floor to ceiling, and enriched with elaborate carving. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The quaint apartments are darkly wainscoted and low-ceiled, with massive beams crossing overhead. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z All the wainscoted rooms are sombre and cheerless, but the memory-haunted study seems most depressing as we stand at Carlyle's hearth-stone and look upon the spot where he sat to write his many books. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z There were people standing or sitting round the hall, a low-ceiled, dark wainscoted room, with sheaves of way-bills hung against the square pillars, and theatre notices flanking the bar window. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z At last came the day when they knelt down and rose together from cushions before an improvised altar in the wide hall, and the colonel led them all to the wainscoted dining-room. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Still, though the décor is simple, it’s pleasant, with wainscoted walls dotted with vintage photographs of Williston Park. | Williston Park: Willy Parkers Is Reincarnated ? Review 2011-12-17T03:35:19Z It is an antique edifice of some architectural pretensions, displays five fine gables, and has spacious wainscoted and frescoed apartments, with quaint mantels and other evidences of colonial stateliness. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z The walls, in some places, were hung with arras, in others, wainscoted with dark lustrous oak, embellished with scrolls, ciphers, and fanciful designs. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The room was not painted but wainscoted; on each side under the windows there were red-painted benches. In God's Way A Novel 2011-10-13T02:00:38.570Z It is wainscoted with Italian marble, studded with panels of remarkably rich rose brocatelle marble, and with many natural mosaics of rare and curious beauty. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The wainscoted walls around him were hung with costly paintings, mingled, not untastefully, with Indian war clubs, shields, bows and arrows, and other trophies won from the savage. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Although it was customary to place wainscoted pews within the chancel, the "Second Lynnhaven Church," of 1692, Princess Anne County, had also in the chancel several benches, which were used by the parish poor. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z It was wainscoted with oak half-way up, and the walls were hung with yellow leather, patterned with black; but what most struck him was a firelock musket with its long spring dagger attached. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z This gallery was wainscoted with old oak and hung with rich leathers, and the lofty ceiling was emblazoned with heraldic emblems and monograms, as was the fashion of the day. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The oaken ceiling of this room is of fifteenth century date; the walls up to a certain height are wainscoted; above this they are covered with a plaster frieze. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z Forges like this were scattered all through the Weald, and what with the iron-workers and the ship-builders, and the people who wainscoted their houses with good Sussex oak, there is no Weald left nowadays. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z The rafters were black with smoke or rottenness: the walls had been wainscoted with oak, but the greatest part had been torn down for firing. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z These curiosities, ingeniously arranged on the background of yellow pinewood with which the wall was wainscoted, formed a colored ornamentation to which tobacco smoke had imparted a soberer tone. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The place was very like the senior common-room of one of the more ancient Oxford colleges, wainscoted in oak, and with large mullioned windows on the side opposite to a high carved fire-place. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z This wall is wainscoted up to the same height as the other walls, and above the oak panelling it is profusely decorated, as will be seen from the illustrations, with scrolls and other patterns. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital 2011-08-26T02:00:28.290Z The doors of No. 5 opened on a broad, high-ceiled corridor, the side walls of which were wainscoted halfway up with dark polished wood. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z It was wainscoted in dark oak, with carpets and hangings of richly-figured crimson cloth from the looms of Avignon. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The rooms were floored and wainscoted with pine, and on one side there were a kitchen and a servant's room. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z A grand and stately chamber, lofty, dark and wainscoted, where the wax candles made luminous clouds in the darkness, and the wood-fire on the marble hearth failed to give heat. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z The walls are wainscoted with the brave old English oak, far advanced in its seeming transformation into ebony. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z There is, in the Dower House, a long low room, wainscoted in black shining panels from floor to ceiling, and which in old times was called the oak parlour. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z The party entered the spacious wainscoted hall, in which was an old wooden bench, on which, gladly, it seemed, the sick lady sat herself down. The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:53.937Z The captain's drawing-room was a low wainscoted room, with a large window looking into the dean's garden. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z She led the way to a long, high-lighted room, wainscoted and antique, like all the rest, where long rows of dead and gone Thetfords looked down from the carved walls. Sir Noel's Heir A Novel 2011-04-24T02:00:07.013Z They passed through the corridor and entered the wainscoted salon. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z It is wainscoted in wood, in tiny square panels, except over the fireplace, where one great panel runs across, and up to the ceiling, with somebody's coat of arms carved in relief upon it. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z At last he reached an oval apartment wainscoted in cypress-wood, stuffed with dainty furniture, and letting in the light through a single sheet of plate-glass, which looked out on a garden. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z It is a wainscoted room with two windows looking on the Square. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z And then in the handsome wainscoted parlor, James Madison and the winsome "Widow Todd" were married, September 15, 1794, by Dr. Balmaine, of Winchester, Va., a relative of James Madison. Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison 2010-12-20T17:12:10.847Z The room was wainscoted in dark wood to the height of six feet, and upon the wall above it hung portraits of ladies and gentlemen of the house of St. Hilaire. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z The walls, papered a dull grey-green, were wainscoted to the height of an elbow with dark oak, and were hung with etchings and engravings, mostly of local scenery, in narrow black frames. The Princess Galva A Romance I found my father sitting as his wont was in the high wainscoted book-room beyond the hall. Idonia: A Romance of Old London She was in a large low wainscoted room, with two windows looking upon the Square. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z The girls went at once to the wainscoted room that had been old Mr. Ledbury's library. The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life On the floor above was a good apartment wainscoted with wood work, all the rest were chambers and lofts for wares, superabundant furniture, corn and wool. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. The house that had belonged to the Amthors for many generations, was a narrow three-storied antique building, with wainscoted walls and ceilings, and handsomely furnished with old silk tapestry and heavy hangings. Barbarossa and Other Tales His lowering eyes fell upon Morgan Wallifarro, who sat without a word or a change of expression in his chair against the wainscoted wall. The Tempering It is one of those old wainscoted rooms, furnished simply, but everything solid and good—a long table, nearly as large as this one of yours: solid chairs—a solid sofa. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z The walls were dark, the ceiling wainscoted with brown wood, and on the black marble mantlepiece stood a heavy verde antique clock. The Children of the World As my companion spoke, we were passing down the narrow wainscoted passage which he had described to me at school. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne She led the way to a half-lighted room, wainscoted and antique, like all the rest, where long rows of dead and gone Thetfords looked down from the carved walls. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Above him, the high ceiling loomed shadowy and indistinct; behind him, the dark wainscoted wall threw his figure into bold relief. The Gambler A Novel The parlour of the Salutation was a good-sized room wainscoted and provided with a sanded floor. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z There were not many pictures—the panels and the stuffs were themselves the picture; and in all the great wainscoted house there was not an inch of pasted paper. The Spoils of Poynton It was wainscoted, the floor was covered with mats, and furnished with cushioned chairs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 A grand and stately chamber, lofty, dark, and wainscoted, where the wax-candles made luminous clouds in the darkness, and the wood-fire on the marble hearth failed to give heat. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir They heard the lively hum of voices, and Ewing found himself in a low, wainscoted room, finished in dull gray, where a dozen or so men talked loungingly in corners, awaiting the dinner hour. Ewing\\'s Lady They stepped into the large wainscoted entrance-hall, where a great many withered wreaths were suspended. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine To their surprise, the ceiling was high, the side walls were heavily wainscoted, an unusual condition for a garret. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds There!--it was no dream-fancy--something really rustled behind the curtains, and a shrouded shadow glided along the wainscoted walls. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 The ceiling and walls were wainscoted with dark brown wood, fancifully inlaid with other coloured woods. The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. Weighborne met me at the entrance of a hall over which hung the charm of ripe old portraits and wainscoted walls. The Portal of Dreams The walls, wainscoted in dark walnut wood, were adorned with grotesque carvings of hunting scenes and instruments of venery. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I It was wainscoted, and elegantly fitted up, like the last. Old and New London Volume I But the brilliantly lighted, over-decorated table was effective enough in the big, darkly wainscoted room, a little island of light and colour. The Wishing Moon He is gone, but his room still remains unaltered—a large wainscoted upper chamber, thirty feet long, with three windows looking on to the quay, with carved and ornamented chimney-piece and ceiling. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations The second lord imported marble mantels from England, had the walls beautifully wainscoted, adorned the ceilings richly with arabesque work in wood. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 The chapel is a plain wainscoted room, with an ante-chapel filled with busts of former members of the college—among them Bacon and Macaulay—and also a noble statue of Newton. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel In 1620 the hall was wainscoted instead of whitewashed; and in 1646 it was paved with red tile, rushes or earthen floors having "been found inconvenient, and oftentimes noisome." Old and New London Volume I As it was, she dismounted before he could offer assistance and ran up the steps and across the white pillared veranda into the great wainscoted hall. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield The ceiling is very low, and the walls are wainscoted in dark wood. John and Betty's History Visit To the 28 left of the hall is the dining room, beautifully wainscoted and having a built-in cupboard for china and a fireplace faced with blue tiles. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The gallery is wainscoted in oak in semicircular arched panels, alternately large and small, surmounted by a frieze and a turreted and battlemented cornice. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel A high flight of stairs leads from the piazza to the hall, which is a very lofty apartment, handsomely wainscoted and ornamented with Doric pilasters, and various carvings in compartments. Old and New London Volume I Think of Johnnie and Robin; and that delightful wainscoted room for your study, with the book-cases all ready—and plenty of money to buy books.” Phoebe, Junior The Stove, 1. is beautified with an Arched Roof, 2. and wainscoted Walls, 3. The Orbis Pictus In the wainscoted room back of this the sliding top of a closet offers opportunity for a person to conceal himself and listen through a small hole to the conversation in the adjoining hall. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia It was a plain, comfortable place, wainscoted about, with shelves and lockers in the whimsical copy of a vessel's cabin. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Mrs. Gaskell has sketched the "Chapter" in 1848, with its low heavy-beamed ceilings, wainscoted rooms, and its broad, dark, shallow staircase. Old and New London Volume I The travellers were shown into a cosy little room, brown wainscoted, and with a great jar of flowers in the chimney; and here the cloth was immediately laid for their dinner, or supper. The End of a Coil The house here is very fine within, all the rooms being wainscoted with Norway oak, and all the chimneys adorned with carving, as in the Council Chamber in Chelsea College.” Chelsea The Fascination of London The front door opens into a large square hall with a brick-paved floor and walls wainscoted to the ceiling with white-painted wood paneling. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia It was very large, and decidedly hideous, wainscoted in imitation panels and frescoed in imitation paintings. A Woman's Will It was a large, square room, wainscoted high with green-painted wood, and had a south window and two westerly ones, so that the sun lay on it all day long. Eyebright A Story I remember one conversation while we were sitting at an old wainscoted room at All Souls', ornamented with the arms of former fellows. Stories of Authors, British and American Or, the walls may be wainscoted with oak, walnut, maple, etc. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources It was a medium-sized, wainscoted room, with two front windows and one side window. Her Mother's Secret Some had curiously carved door-frames and mantels, with parlors wainscoted clear up to the ceiling, and heavy mouldings wherever they could be put in. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 It was wainscoted in dark wood, and contained many antique bits of furniture and some fine 149 specimens of old armour and other curios. Patty's Social Season The Great Hall, as it was called, had best withstood the ravages of time, as it was wainscoted and ceiled in massive old oak. Patty's Friends On either side the walls are wainscoted in oak similarly emblazoned in gold and silver, with the initials of Diane de Poitiers, and of her admirer, Henri, everywhere interlaced. Royal Palaces and Parks of France Their guide preceded them into a small wainscoted room, fitted up as a study, or perhaps an oratory in those days. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 At the same time the order was given for the part of the organ screen towards the nave to be wainscoted. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The walls of the rooms were wainscoted and painted. Customs and Fashions in Old New England The walls were wainscoted in panels, with moldings about them that looked like another frame for the pictures. A Little Girl in Old Boston The rooms themselves were lofty; the walls of the better kind wainscoted and carved, and the ceilings painted in allegorical designs. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I And if he goes within, he will see on either side buildings decorated with stone and wainscoted with wood of various colours. Bulgaria In 1730 an order was given for the face towards the nave to be wainscoted, and in the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for October, 1798, we read a criticism of some work then just carried out. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The walls, like the hall, were wainscoted with old oak, but some beautiful water-colours and old china relieved their somewhat sombre hue. Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story It is an old, heavily wainscoted apartment, gloomy beyond words, so immense that the four who dine in it tonight appear utterly lost in its vast centre. Molly Bawn Behind the portrait a piece of tapestry, which used to be in the great schoolroom, recalls the fact that the whole sanctuary was hung with arras and also wainscoted in Queen Anne's time. Westminster Abbey The walls were wainscoted, and the massive chimney-piece was carved with heraldic designs. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta They were either wainscoted high up the wall with panelled wood, or simply white-washed, and large pieces of tapestry hung round on heavy iron hooks. All's Well Alice's Victory They were long low apartments; the walls wainscoted and panelled; the furniture of carved mahogany. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 The little parlour is wainscoted with the votive paintings—a village Diploma Gallery—of artists who have made the "Swan" their home. Highways and Byways in Sussex It had the usual long, narrow windows, a suitable hall, wainscoted rooms, battlemented walls, and turreted angles. The Two Admirals The floor was of oak, almost black with age, the walls were beautifully wainscoted and carved, and here and there tall armoured figures looked down upon me in disdainful silence. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta The spacious halls and stairways were wainscoted, finished, and ceiled in oak; the drawing- room, the dining-room, and the library were furnished in solid mahogany; and the chambers were finished in poplar and pine. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis It was a low, wainscoted apartment, and its deep-set window, revealing the thickness of the wall, looked out upon a dismal yard littered with brooms and buckets. Scottish Ghost Stories A broad beam of light fell across the dark, wainscoted room, and in the track of it sat a handsome well-dressed man, busily eating. While Caroline Was Growing It was floored and wainscoted with oak; its frieze richly carved and adorned with boars' heads, thistles, and roses; its ceiling, also of oak, beautifully panelled and ornamented. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 But every summer they spent a few days with him, in the very house where their father had lived, and where Felix could still associate him with the wainscoted rooms and the terraced garden. Cobwebs and Cables All the walls are wainscoted with oak, most exquisitely carved and polished, and the ceilings were painted by artists brought from Italy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 It was cleaner than he had been led to expect by its outside aspect; wainscoted to the ceiling with oak; and the stairs were strong and well made. By What Authority? An hour later Silver was smoking a cigarette in the darkness of the wainscoted dining room, when the door burst open. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs "Sire," replied the trembling keeper of the keys, "I am ignorant; the last time the gallery was opened it was wainscoted with oak, as usual, most assuredly these hangings are not from your majesty's wardrobe." The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural Old Mr. Clifford was sitting in the wainscoted dining-room, his favorite room, when Phebe opened the door silently, and looked in with a pale and anxious face. Cobwebs and Cables His walls are not wainscoted, and there is about his house no umbrageous park nor verdant lawn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 The deception was further increased by the two living-rooms being first wainscoted and then hung with thick tapestry; while the lobby was bare. By What Authority? The afternoon sun poured in at the window until it made the little wainscoted parlour like an oven, but still for me it only lit up one pair of eyes. Dead Man's Rock The room was wainscoted in white, and the panel-work around the great chimney was beautiful. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel Every niche of the walls was covered with carved oak; no wainscoted hall in the country could be more richly or more fancifully decorated. Cobwebs and Cables A brown upholstered bench ran around the brown, wainscoted walls. Atlantis Slowly she pushed back a heavy mahogany door, and entered a large room, whose richly wainscoted walls, heavy friezes, and beautifully painted ceiling were but the most obvious points in its general magnificence. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York The windows were muslined, the rooms were wainscoted in oak, the furniture was heavy and cumbersome. 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life The Fairy, who was waiting at the door of the house, took the poor puppet in her arms and carried him into a little room that was wainscoted with mother-of-pearl. Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet It was a spacious room, with a low ceiling where black beams crossed and recrossed each other; with wainscoted walls, and a carved chimney-piece of almost black oak. Cobwebs and Cables Her rather numerous body-guard, which now included Mr. Samuelson and his assistant, were ushered into the audience chamber, a lofty wainscoted room with bay windows. Atlantis It was a large, low room, with wainscoted walls, and a big tiled fireplace nearly filling one end of it. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York While the butler left Rainham, with apologies, to make further search, the latter stood, hat in hand, making a survey of the little wainscoted room, which he remembered as the schoolroom. A Comedy of Masks A Novel A lamp of neat design hung from the wainscoted ceiling, while another with a soft shade stood upon a centre-table. Glen of the High North It is a dark wainscoted room, with curtains of crimson brocade. The Climbers A Play in Four Acts And at the dispersal—only there was no dispersal—the senator took his turn, leading the way to the great wainscoted living-room and persuading Patricia to go to the piano. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush The side wall is low and wainscoted with carved panelling on which hang weapons, shields, and coats of mail. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays He crawled painfully up the wainscoted staircase and into the dark corridor leading to his bedroom. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Here they seated themselves against the wall wainscoted with rare wooden sculptures, on the same bench on which all lovers of the old painter's art who have visited Perugia through four centuries have sat. Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters She looked at this without speaking: the wall was wainscoted in oak, as it had always been, six feet up from the floor. Come Rack! Come Rope! It was handsomely wainscoted, and the finish of it was even better than that of the parlor. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches It was large and wainscoted, and furnished with an ample dresser. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The library was wainscoted in some dull satin finished wood, with the graining of olive wood. Kit of Greenacre Farm A few of the inhabitants who can afford superior accommodation, have houses divided into several apartments, wainscoted within, and roofed with deal. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time It was wainscoted from roof to floor—veiled, floored and walled in oak. Come Rack! Come Rope! The walls could be paneled in some rooms, wainscoted in others, and papered in others. 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 One chamber, still called James the First's room, is considered 'most worthy of notice;' it has two square windows in both north and south, is beautifully wainscoted, and contains some old furniture. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 It is a long range of chambers built of mellow brick and immemorial oak, having in their centre a small hall, darkly wainscoted, the very table in which makes a collector sinfully covetous. Vanishing England It was a low-ceilinged room with wainscoted walls, and at first glance one received an impression of the past. The Princess Passes In the Guinness house in New York there is a little hallway wainscoted in white with a green trellis covering the wall space above. The House in Good Taste A wainscoted, dark, and generally uncarpeted staircase gives access to landings on which abut the outer doors of the "sets," or chambers. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 A few days after his return, Paul found Miriam in the old wainscoted parlor seated by the fire. The Missing Bride It was a bare room, wainscoted round the walls a few inches up, papered beyond in some common palish pattern. The Necromancers Two large chambers tiled and wainscoted with wonderfully carved blackwood panels were apportioned as dining-hall and sitting-room for the English visitors. The Elephant God The rooms are small, and the walls are wainscoted, and fancifully inlaid and painted. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 This room had been done over last year in gray and old rose, with the "suit" in Circassian walnut, and wainscoted walls which harmonized admirably. V. V.'s Eyes There are three of the latter; one of them, now a small withdrawing-room, is entered from the oak wainscoted hall. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. That wainscoted back parlour at the Salutation and Cat, for instance, where Lamb and Coleridge used to talk into the small hours "quaffing egg flip, devouring Welsh rabbits, and smoking pipes of Orinooko." Shandygaff The room was large, wainscoted in dark paneling; a capacious fireplace jutted far out, and was made further conspicuous by two settees of worm-eaten oak. Out of the Ashes The walls were wainscoted in oak and had capacious book shelves. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission To keep off dampness I have had the sides of the market-house, as my mother calls it, wainscoted in oak to the height of twelve or fifteen feet. The Cross of Berny Her bathroom was wainscoted with Venetian mirrors so that she could see 'nine-and-ninety' reflections of her very comely person as she dipped and splashed or dried her royal skin. Elizabethan Sea Dogs I went into the room, followed by the servant woman, and was amazed to find that it, like the one below, was wainscoted, and that nothing like drapery was to be found near the door. Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin The fire was nearly out, he chilly, and the flame of the candles throbbing strangely in their sockets, shed alternate glare and shadow round the old wainscoted room and its quaint furniture. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 It was wainscoted, in black panels, up to the ceiling, which was stuccoed over in the fanciful diagrams of James the First's time. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 The wood of the chestnut is much used in England for hop-poles, and old houses in London are floored or wainscoted with it. Among the Trees at Elmridge He went downstairs, and paced the wainscoted parlour in a very savage frame of mind. Fenton's Quest The bedrooms were wainscoted, but the front one was not gloomy; and in it the cosiness of antiquity quite overcame its sombre associations. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 "His antichamber, and room of audience, are little square chambers wainscoted." The Grammar of English Grammars The walls were wainscoted with many panels, dark, old, and mysterious; and in a burnished copper brazier at the end of the room cinnamon, rosemary, and bay were burning with a pleasant smell. Master Skylark The hall and great parlour are wainscoted with oak, and adorned with Ionic pilasters. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 Gilbert grew to be quite at home in the little wainscoted parlour at the Grange, smoking his cigar there nightly in a tranquil contemplative mood, while Mr. Carley puffed vigorously at his long clay pipe. Fenton's Quest The exterior of the chancel is lined with marble divided into panels, each of which has its basso relievo; the interior is wainscoted, and carved in a very masterly style. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829 The parlour was wainscoted, and communicated to strangers a magnetic and instinctive consciousness of rats and mice. Martin Chuzzlewit Behind this shop was a wainscoted parlour, looking first into a paved yard, and beyond that again into a little terrace garden, raised some feet above it. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty My sitting-room is an old wainscoted chamber, with small panels, and set off with a miscellaneous array of furniture. Little Britain The blaze made the dark wainscoted room cheerful of aspect, however, which the two candles could not have done, as their light was almost absorbed by the gloomy panelling. Fenton's Quest A great change has come over the dark wainscoted parlour since we saw it in Godfrey's bachelor days, and under the wifeless reign of the old Squire. Silas Marner I went into the room, followed by the servant-woman, and was amazed to find that it, like the one below, was wainscoted, and that nothing like drapery was to be found near the door. The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 In those days the lower part of the walls of the apartments were wainscoted—that is, covered by timber framed in large panels. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography First was a small anteroom, divided from the inner apartment by a wainscoted archway two or three yards wide. A Pair of Blue Eyes They got out at this house, and the carriage waited while they walked up the path and entered a wainscoted hall and then a room full of books. Summer But their watch in the wainscoted parlor was sometimes varied by the presence of other guests from far or near. Middlemarch A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a table with a green cloth. Les Misérables It was wainscoted from floor to cornice in old black English oak, curiously and elaborately carved, and divided into long narrow panels. The Inn at the Red Oak It was a low wainscoted room, with a very wide window divided into three by mullions, and fitted with latticed panes. The Young Buglers Following our fair guide we passed into a very large and lofty room, the walls of which were wainscoted with carved oak, and hung at either end with tapestry. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 He went down into the wainscoted parlor first, and began to consider whether he would not have his horse saddled and go home by the moonlight, and give up caring for earthly consequences. Middlemarch The walls should be wainscoted to the height of three feet at least. The Dog Plaintive, tender melodies for the most part; prolonged trembling, faintly-expiring airs; and sometimes harsh, strident notes that evoked weird echoes from the bare wainscoted walls. The Inn at the Red Oak It was not a bad room at all: countrified-looking and old-fashioned, with a low ceiling and wainscoted walls. The Lovels of Arden There is a bird-shop at one corner, wainscoted with little cages containing linnets, waxwings, canaries, blackbirds, Mino-birds, with a hundred other varieties, known only to naturalists. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be "sitters-up." Middlemarch The red light of a fire was shining in a wainscoted chamber, half sitting-room, half library. Henry Dunbar A Novel A man who had a wainscoted pew was naturally and properly much respected and envied by the entire community. Sabbath in Puritan New England Let him but close his eyes in the old wainscoted bed-room, beneath the old roof where his fathers and grand-fathers have done so for centuries. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 They were in a small, irregular parlor, wainscoted and floored in redwood, and lightly furnished with bamboo. In Exile and Other Stories It was not long before they were seated together in the wainscoted parlor over their tea and toast, which was as much as Raffles cared to take at that early hour. Middlemarch The landing-floor, like the stairs, was of polished oak, and the wainscoted walls had one or two old pictures on them. Miss Merivale's Mistake George looked round the wainscoted parlour with some interest. The Virginians Lana had led the retreat to that apartment; its wainscoted walls and heavy door shut out in some measure the racket of hammers and saws. All-Wool Morrison In a book-lined library, wainscoted in natural woods of three colors, the original fanatic often sat reflecting pleasurably on his folly. The Call of the Cumberlands The door opened directly into a wainscoted square hall, which had a large fireplace with gleaming brass andirons, and a carved mantel carried to the ceiling. Annie Kilburn : a Novel Though the twilight had begun to gather, enough light streamed through the great west window to make the portraits on the wainscoted walls clearly visible. Miss Merivale's Mistake The central portion, upstairs and down, is floored, wainscoted and ceiled with the costliest of timber. The Jewel City The Captain's drawing-room was a low wainscoted room, with a large window looking into the Dean's garden. The History of Pendennis The walls were wainscoted five feet up from the dark polished floor, and were hung with several smoky old paintings, of no great artistic value. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales It was a bare wainscoted room, gloomy, lighted by two candle-ends. The Grip of Desire "You are very much like James, Tom," she said, glancing at the portrait that hung on the wainscoted wall just above him, "and you get more like him every day." Miss Merivale's Mistake The house was utterly unlike anything they had ever seen; high ceilings, wainscoted walls, wooden cornices and beams, and wooden mantels with heads carved on the corners. Saxe Holm's Stories Lifeless quietude reigned in that stern, sad-looking anteroom, wainscoted with oak, and pervaded with the smell peculiar to hospitals. Fruitfulness The colonel in scarlet and the general in blue and buff hang side by side in the wainscoted parlour of the Warringtons in England, and the portraits are known by the name of "The Virginians." Boys and girls from Thackeray It was wainscoted with ebony, and the furniture was of the same. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales She looked round as she spoke, and saw Rhoda coming down the broad shallow stairs into the wainscoted hall. Miss Merivale's Mistake The woodwork was all of black walnut, and there was much of it, the window frames and door frames being heavy and ornate and the room being wainscoted with the same dark wood. Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners We never called them anything but parlors, for the shabby wainscoted walls and old-fashioned furniture forbade any similitude to the modern drawing-room. Esther : a book for girls A staircase of the same stones, as imposing as a castle staircase, with a curious balustrade of wrought-iron, led to the old-fashioned wainscoted bedrooms on the second floor. The Story of a Child It seems they slept in the room below, though they had upstairs a handsome wainscoted apartment. A Book of Golden Deeds They stood at the corner of Ship Street, as you turn into the Corn Market—a low wainscoted chamber, ill-lighted but commodious. The Splendid Spur There was another scurry to change shoes and wash hands, and then Mysie conducted her cousin into a large, cheerful, wainscoted room on the ground floor, with deep windows, and numerous little, solid-looking deal tables. The Two Sides of the Shield It had rather a dull outside look, but the moment one entered the narrow wainscoted hall, there was a cheery vista of green lawn and neatly graveled paths through the glass door. Esther : a book for girls I never perceived any alteration in his wainscoted room. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life The armour of knights stood about, and valuable trophies graced the wainscoted walls. Patty in Paris There, up a few shallow steps, in a quiet, cool, wainscoted room, adorned with Eastern porcelain on shelves, we found her with her little daughter at her knee. Stray Pearls The room in which Giovanni found himself was a small wainscoted apartment in the top of the tower, furnished in a grotesque fashion well suited to the humped and twisted figure of its master. Masters of the Guild It was a large room on the lower floor, wainscoted with pine, and unpainted. Hyperion It is wainscoted with black oak, which some vile wretch of a water doctor painted white, on the ground that it darkened the room. The Recreations of a Country Parson The walls, wainscoted half way up in wood and covered for the rest with a dark, diamond- patterned paper, were hung with faded engravings, mostly of clerical-looking, bewigged personages in gowns and bands. Kilmeny of the Orchard In the wainscoted room was a large closet, used for hanging up cloaks and dresses, and fortunately empty. Magnum Bonum Instead, there is seen a sumptuously furnished interior the walls wainscoted in Moorish mosaics and lined by broad divans covered with silken rugs. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women They were taken by their host into a wainscoted parlour, where a wood fire crackled and burnt, and the crimson curtains shut out the waning day and the outer chill. Wives and Daughters The walls of only the more substantial farmsteads are wainscoted with deal, or even partially screened with drift-wood. Letters from High Latitudes There was a rich, dim light in the room, which was cool and wainscoted entirely with dark red wood, and there was only one long, low window, with turned bars of the same wood. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Janet chose the apartments which had been Mr. Barnes', and which being in the oldest part of the house, and wainscoted with dark oak, she could take possession of at once. Magnum Bonum The walls were wainscoted with arabesques and lines in gold. Within an Inch of His Life It was a spacious room, whose walls, wainscoted with rough oak, shewed no casement but the grated one, which Emily had left, and no other door than that, by which she had entered. The Mysteries of Udolpho The interior of the room was wainscoted, the floor paved with bright red and cream-coloured tiles, and the tall stove in one corner decorated with the same. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest At the end of the corridor was a large, ornate room with gilded cornices and enormous crystal lustres, and beyond it several smaller ones, wainscoted with dark wood. Ten Days That Shook the World Wolsey, meanwhile, was received by Doctor Sampson at the doorway of his dwelling, and ushered by him into a chamber on the upper floor, wainscoted with curiously carved and lustrously black oak. Windsor Castle A very beautiful room it is, opening on a terrace, and wainscoted with miniature paintings interesting from their merit, and interesting from their history. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 It opened into a suite of spacious and ancient apartments, some of which were hung with tapestry, and others wainscoted with cedar and black larch-wood. The Mysteries of Udolpho Christina Sorel awoke to a scene most unlike that which had been wont to meet her eyes in her own little wainscoted chamber high in the gabled front of her uncle's house. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Certainly, when Stephen closed the door and stood in the wainscoted passage, which was only dimly lit by the high window at either end, her courage seemed at once to ooze away. The Man At the same time the queen's chamber was painted and wainscoted, and iron bars were placed before the windows of Prince Edward's chamber. Windsor Castle On the high wainscoted walls he could still trace the vacant dust-marked squares where the Blake portraits had once hung—lines that the successive scrubbings of fifteen years had not utterly effaced. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields Having crossed the foot of the stair-case, and passed through an ante-room, they entered a spacious apartment, whose walls, wainscoted with black larch-wood, the growth of the neighbouring mountains, were scarcely distinguishable from darkness itself. The Mysteries of Udolpho What had the Millionaire's mansion to do with a long, wainscoted Virginia hall, where the riders were grouped around a silver punch-bowl, drinking the ancient toast of the House? Strictly business: more stories of the four million My sitting-room is an old wainscoted chamber, with small panels and set off with a miscellaneous array of furniture. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon It was an immense vaulted apartment, wainscoted in black oak, and lighted by three small ogive windows, looking out upon the terrace. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels The room—a large and lofty one, with an arched roof—had somewhat of a somber character, from being wainscoted and ceiled with polished black oak of a great age. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American He started up and listened; it came from the apartment of Colonel Talbot, which was divided from his own by a wainscoted partition, with a door of communication. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since The lower rooms were wainscoted in a sort of yellowish-brown color, the upper wainscoted in olive-green. We Two, a novel The wainscoted chamber where he slept, and the dining-hall where he entertained his guests, have a certain dignity and sanctity which even the present Irish tenants cannot wholly destroy. The Story of a Bad Boy The whole of the lower floor had originally been wainscoted, but Miss Agnes Wyllys was answerable for several innovations in the principal rooms. Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 It was a low wainscoted room, such as one sees in old houses: everything was in the most perfect neatness. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth The marriage was solemnized with much pomp, and a few days after there was a feast in that very wainscoted chamber which you paused to remark was so gloomy. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English The palace of Sir Robert Clayton, in the Old Jewry, contained a superb banqueting room wainscoted with cedar, and adorned with battles of gods and giants in fresco. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 The two lower rooms consisted of a dining-room, with a table, chairs, and side-board of walnut,—and a wainscoted parlor, without ornaments, carpet, or timepiece. The Count of Monte Cristo The marble ended some six or seven feet from the floor, the walls from that point down being wainscoted in solid gold. The Chessmen of Mars |
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