单词 | willow-pattern |
例句 | On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Most contemporary Chinese art is a product made for western consumption, just as willow-pattern plates or porcelain vases were shipped out in huge quantities for the western market. Tate Modern's sunflower seeds: the world in the palm of your hand 2010-10-11T13:08:00Z Card counters, especially the golden and mother-of-pearl kinds, and dominoes, and the willow-pattern pots and a blue cup or so from the glass-fronted cupboard. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z The Rabbi relapsed into his moody attitude, and retained it till his wife brought in a big willow-pattern china dish of stewed prunes and pippins. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The dresser, opposite to the hearth, exhibited pewter and some willow-pattern pottery. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z And my new blue dish with the willow-pattern. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Every willow-pattern plate has a better landscape on it than that. Household Organization I love its dresser, full of willow-pattern china, and its two big china dogs that face each other on the high mantelpiece. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Pieces of tapestry and oriental curtains were draped between, and large blue-and-white willow-pattern plates made a frieze above. The Head Girl at the Gables The teapot, the old stocking-foot, the linen rag, the willow-pattern tureen will yield up their barren deposit in many a house. Shirley Who would not sail with fairy freight Piloting some flat-bottomed barge— A size too small, or else too large— On this old willow-pattern plate? Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 Towards midday Becky's fish, nicely browned and sprigged with parsley, stood cooling on the great blue willow-pattern dish, and Becky's neuralgia abated, perhaps from the mental relief of the spectacle. Ghetto Comedies They were the half-dozen blue willow-pattern cups and saucers which Mother MacAllister had saved from the wreck of her once complete set. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Only fancy the willow-pattern plate out here in the hills!” Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills By signs he invited us to enter a rather nice-looking building, built just like one of those little pagodas resembling card-houses that you see in the right-hand corner of a willow-pattern plate. Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant I took a hammer and a cracked willow-pattern plate one day, and broke it up in bits and fed him with them. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure I myself found half a willow-pattern saucer in the crater of Vesuvius. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert Her lips are lemon; underneath Appear her willow-pattern teeth. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Here were to be seen great heaps of earthenware of red clay—pans for cooking rice, water-jars, bottles, and dishes of all sorts, as well as English crockery, especially that with the old willow-pattern design! The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar There was one of those brown earthenware teapots, and an old willow-pattern soup tureen, without cover or stand, but full of flowers. Middy and Ensign In Shanghai I visited the original tea-house depicted on the well-known willow-pattern china ware. Ranching, Sport and Travel A picturesque effect is produced by these projections, as everybody knows who has examined a “willow-pattern” plate. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands But that is, or was, the Chinese 'viewpoint,'—and what a willow-pattern viewpoint! On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 He cared nothing about the old willow-pattern set usurping the place of the Jawleyford-armed china; but the contents of the dishes were bad, and the wine, if possible, worse. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour On the dresser shelves were lodged some willow-pattern plates, their clear, tender blue bearing witness to an early period. The Moon out of Reach The Bhagmutty was crossed by two narrow Chinese-looking bridges, resembling those we have such frequent opportunities of admiring on the willow-pattern plates. A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home We can infer nothing, however, from this as to the movements of people: the vogue of the willow-pattern plate is no measure of our 'yellow-peril'. The Unity of Civilization So send me some books, books of dreams, books about China and the willow-pattern plate and the golden age and fairyland. Mr. Britling Sees It Through While willow-pattern china was passing into other hands the Spectator made a discovery. Adopting an Abandoned Farm Outside the arch was the bedroom painted chest-of-drawers and the Kidderminster carpet, and the washhand-stand with the riveted willow-pattern jug, and the faded curtains, and the dull light of indoors on a wet day. The Story of the Amulet There was a lot of room at the oval table; the china of dark blue willow-pattern looked pretty on the glossy cloth. Sons and Lovers The inventor was so chagrined at hearing afterwards of the immense fortune realized from it by the man of the West, that he committed suicide by hanging himself on a willow-pattern plate. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870 Fate has comfortably appointed gold plate for some, and has bidden others contentedly to wear the willow-pattern. The Book of Snobs “Cross between a willow-pattern plate and a New York slum,” was his comment. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green Whenever you turn off what you are saying into a willow-pattern compliment and bow seventeen times like an animated mandarin, I know that you are keeping something back. The Mirror of Kong Ho |
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