| 单词 | wainscotting |
| 例句 | They might be in the wainscotting, but they’re putting it out there. | Tilda Swinton 2014-03-11T19:00:39Z Such details would include adding traditional beadboard or wainscotting to dress up and protect walls. Six design tricks to make laundry feel like less of a chore 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z They fixed up the twenty-six-seat dining room, putting in wainscotting and a bar made from a farmhouse floor. Joe Beef and the Excesses of Restaurant Culture 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z When I had mounted the stairs, I found myself in a large room, the floor of which was covered with a thick carpet, nailed all round the wainscotting. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z “Except when the midnight mouse in the wainscotting suggests burglars, or the booming of the wind in the chimney, bogies,” rejoined Fordham, tranquilly. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z The wainscotting was dark and much shrunk and marked with age, and full of joins in the wood any one of which might have meant a door. Uncanny Tales 2011-03-22T02:00:16.307Z They accordingly returned to the corridor, where they set to work once more to over-haul the wainscotting. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z Finer carved wood than the wainscotting of this small interior is far to seek. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z She bent over the edge of the sofa to look for the lost slipper, which was hidden somewhere in the wainscotting. The Undying Past When the house was renovated in 1942, the cobblestone floor of the room was overlaid with wooden flooring and pine wainscotting was added to the walls. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia His mistress herself had tied his blue ribbon; it was she, too, who adjusted the chain that attached him to a strong staple driven in just above the schoolroom wainscotting. Man and Maid Every panel of the wainscotting seemed as hollow as its fellow—each projection as firmly secured. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z “I wish we started now,” was the answer, and the speaker savagely kicked his boots across the floor, to the grave peril of a big tarantula prowling along in the shadow against the dilapidated wainscotting. Harley Greenoak's Charge It was an ancient practice in England to place timber for thrashing-floors and oak planks for wainscotting in running water to season them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" A portion of the old house still remains, with its ancient wainscotting. The Night Side of London After the time of the Countess Anne, the castle was neglected, and much of the stone, timber, and lead disposed of at public sales: the wainscotting being purchased by the neighbouring villagers. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) He not only blocked up this fine view, but even covered the window niches to a great depth with boards and wainscotting, and so destroyed the symmetry of the room. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels I suppose the walnut wainscotting gave me the idea. Aliens Upon removing a portion of the modern wainscotting in the main reception room, there was discovered an ancient fireplace, made of roughly hewn blocks of granite. Famous Firesides of French Canada Ceiling and walls are painted dead white, with red wainscotting round the settee. An Ocean Tramp It seems that a bit of the wooden wainscotting had fallen down. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development The passage was very narrow, the ceiling was low, the walls whitewashed, the wainscotting blue; and yet the room which they entered, though sharing in all the items of this description, was homely and comfortable. Diana The walls of the room have a 3-inch baseboard, but no wainscotting. The Fairfax County Courthouse A panel in the wainscotting of the lower dancing-room flew open as if by magic, and out jumped a jaunty little trumpeter with a slashed and decorated jacket and the busby of a hussar. Famous Firesides of French Canada Behind its tapestry hangings a secret door, suspected only by a crack in the wainscotting, opened beneath his prying fingers, and revealed a spiral staircase leading downward into pitchy darkness. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) No; they wouldn’t make a chimney of wainscotting. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story The oak wainscotting and shelves were removed there piece by piece from the old library at the back, which faced north and had rather an uninteresting outlook towards the woods. The Ffolliots of Redmarley Along the walls of the foyer, panelled wainscotting, painted white, is installed. The Fairfax County Courthouse She was aware of a lot of fluted wainscotting around her, and, beyond Dr. Fallows' head, a Tudor staircase in silhouette against a large bay window of many leaded panes. Sacrifice You may as well go down to the kitchen for a pail of hot water and begin with the wainscotting in the hall.' Chatterbox, 1905. He pointed to a closet in a dark part of the room, nearly concealed by the wainscotting. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Note the marble wainscotting, and the finely conceived and executed allegorical paintings and mosaics on walls and roof. Hertfordshire Because of the unevenness of the floor, the height of this wainscotting varies from 4 feet 2 inches to 4 feet 3 inches. The Fairfax County Courthouse One side of the wainscotting is covered with tapestry, the remainder is decorated with old family pictures, and some ancient pieces of embroidery, probably the handiwork of nuns. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural It was thin and colourless, and there were lines sad to see on so young a face; but it might have been a youthful Apollo leaning his head against the wooden wainscotting. Uncle Max He had, however, obtained an order authorizing him thoroughly to search the house, and to take down any wainscotting, and to pull up any floors that might appear likely to conceal a hiding-place. One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo I leant back on the wainscotting with my eyes tightly fixed on him, and my thoughts sneaking back, with something of regret, to the storm I had come through. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Mr. Parsons in vain took down the wainscotting, to see whether some mischievous neighbour produced the sounds. Cock Lane and Common-Sense In the wainscotting of the famous schoolroom are the carvings cut by many generations of Harrovians, among them being the names of Peel, Byron, Sheridan, the Marquess of Hastings, Lord Normanby, and many others. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association At the same time the wainscotting painted in 1580 with inscriptions and heraldry was cleared away and replaced with cement. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Upon the strength of the rumour, a believer in all the wondrous tales told of Nicholas Flamel bought the house, and nearly pulled it to pieces in ransacking the walls and wainscotting for hidden gold. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 They passed through corridors, and up and down short or long stairways, with stained or faded walls, and sometimes with cracked or fallen plastering and wainscotting. The Shuttle How well she remembered the low, spacious room, with its oak wainscotting, its book-cases and its pictures! Delia Blanchflower The Royal George Hotel, in the High Street, is a perfect feast to the eye of panelled wainscotting, oak settles, and Chippendale cabinets. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association In those years his books, with their odour of incense, made the small, flat inhabitants of the sacristy wainscotting venture out of their chinks in the wall in delight; but they obtained no applause elsewhere. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth The upper part of the house was carefully searched, the walls tapped, wainscotting pulled down, and the floors carefully examined. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire Some fellows must be using the place as a sort of post-office; don't you remember Fred Acton made one in the wainscotting at The Birches? only these fellows have invented a cipher. The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs Some of the walls are wainscotted and some papered, modern taste, the taste of twenty-five years ago, having probably chosen to remove wainscotting, as despised then as it is now desired. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time The latter made a hole in the wainscotting and suspended them from strings, so that they fell within the plastered wall of the room below. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth Within, the women forced rags into the crevices, pasted upon the wainscotting at the north-west side old newspapers brought from the village and carefully preserved, tested with their hands in every corner for draughts. Maria Chapdelaine "Don't you think it would be effective if the wainscotting went almost to the ceiling?" The Pit These were displaced, and the oak wainscotting, and beams that crossed the roof, were painted white. The Mysteries of Udolpho These brick floors, the stone stairs, the want of wainscotting in the rooms, and the thick party-walls of stone, are, however, good preservatives against fire, which seldom does any damage in this city. Travels through France and Italy After the waiting-hall she crossed a great round antechamber where servants in respectful rows made a living wainscotting to the high, blank wall. The Nabob The dining-room was very large, finished in oak, with a dark blue paper above the wainscotting. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural Instead of wainscotting, the walls are covered with tapestry or damask. Travels through France and Italy |
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