| 单词 | fretwork |
| 例句 | He hung in the midst of a sea of bones, with the blue sky visible through a fretwork of ribs and vertebrae. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Padva, pausing to admire one in ivory satin delicately covered with black velvet fretwork, like wrought iron in long scrolling lines and curves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It is set in a cupboard whose door he has replaced with a fretwork arch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Matt heard him slither through the fretwork of bones. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo looked for a way into the grassland so she could peer more closely into the windows, which were open but covered by a fretwork of iron. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s in one of her best dresses, sky blue with embroidery in white along the edges of the veil: flowers and fretwork. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Here a fretwork wooden chef on his back, holding a board on which remains chalked today’s soup. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His designs mix and match various styles of the day, with Asian-influenced fretwork, carved ornamentation with Art Nouveau flourishes, and the Medieval-inspired lines of much Arts and Crafts furniture. Art Review: A Marriage of Design, Aged in the Wood 2011-01-06T22:47:38Z And with a façade sporting her signature bronze fretwork—you won’t miss it. Tory Burch Opens Her First Shop in Paris 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z And in the Nels Cline 4 — a new band that’s just released its debut album, “Currents, Constellations” — his sterling fretwork is the big attraction. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Is Ready to Rumble, and 11 More New Songs 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z His fretwork was spidery and brisk, and at times his band seemed to be evoking the onrushing tilt of a hiccuping funk sample, racing along the far edge of control. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z In the new show at the institute, the vessels and sculptures are knobby, horned, gnarled and faceted, and trimmed in motifs based on ancient Greek fretwork, acanthus leaves and frilly seashells. Antiques: The Ceramists Frans and Marguerite Wildenhain on View 2012-08-16T20:43:06Z The fretwork is marvelous even by his lofty standards, and some credit for inspiration probably goes to producer Buddy Miller, a fair picker himself. Review: Soaring solos from Thompson on 'Electric' 2013-02-04T13:24:09Z Natural forms move from realistic to stylized to abstracted or from fully dimensional to relief to pierced fretwork. Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Her singing voice — high, plain and sweet — was always perfectly supported by Mr. Frisell’s lapidary fretwork and Mr. Blade’s whispery pulse. Jenny Scheinman Features Her Own Songs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Chippendale fretwork on both the outdoor railing and the indoor dining chairs is also a special unifying element. Before and After: Lake Retreat 2010-04-23T22:11:00Z Though there’s material poetry in Rohlfs’s carved surfaces, the imagery in his fretwork is often appropriated from other cultures. Art Review: A Marriage of Design, Aged in the Wood 2011-01-06T22:47:38Z OK, maybe you can't taste Jimmy Page's guitar licks, but you may detect a trace of the camaraderie that his fretwork fosters. Who's rocking to the music? That's the chef 2012-04-26T04:30:48Z He lingered briefly over some Bakelite clocks and parasol handles in his home before heading into what he calls a “crazy Moorish Revival fretwork room” with wood carvings. Antiques: An Antiques Sale at Ross Art Group 2013-04-18T20:02:45Z SHoP, the architects on the project, created a major bronze component for the facade: an ascending fretwork that appears to stitch the building together delicately as it spins vertiginously to the 1,428-foot top. Our Midas Moment, From Galleries to Artisans 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z His guitar playing is better than ever; he never gets too far from the melody but there is a dazzling fluidity to his fretwork that I never noticed before. Dean Wareham: My Jonathan Richman romance 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z So we made a shirt with an extra sleeve in it, and a musician crouched behind doing the fretwork as Redden strummed. How we made Deliverance 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z There is an instinctive interchange between Saulnier's fretwork and Nelson's taut rhythms that doesn't come from drill and practice. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z Despite some impressive fretwork from the star, the revved up audience's attention drifts somewhat. Leeds Festival: Sam Fender crowned king of the North with career-defining set 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z Its fretwork of thin glass tubes was bent and shaped to resemble an old-fashioned bellows camera. Perspective | What’s the best way to get rid of old portrait paintings? 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Years later they married, and Louise displayed the cherished card, tucked into the fretwork of a bedroom dresser, for decades to come. Earnest or playful, that Valentine’s card has a history 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z I can’t remember what this one is called but it’s the one with pounding drums, heavy brass, a bit of guitar fretwork and is used often for boxing montages. West Ham United v Everton: Premier League – live! 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z The 71-foot-high glass pyramid he built as the Louvre’s new entrance relied for its extraordinary visual lightness on a fretwork of stainless-steel rods and cables made by a manufacturer of yacht rigging. I.M. Pei, architect who designed Louvre’s Pyramid, dies at 102 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Designs often included intricate fretwork for shelves and chair legs, and decorative feet, sometimes featuring a hairy lion’s-paw design. Met Exhibit: how Chippendale became a household name 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The solid banana-fiber shade, laid over copper wire, contrasts nicely with the airy bookshelf and the chair back’s open fretwork. Décor Challenge: Can Eastern and Western Styles Coexist? 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Along the way War has mastered lyric writing, a tool now as keen as her fretwork. California Sounds: Sunny War's elemental blues, Khruangbin's global stomp and Van William's confident folk-rock 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The home features arched fireplaces, arched windows and hand-carved fretwork from Europe, as well as German stained glass. When Your Home Really Is Your Castle 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z That fretwork of kisses with which you sign off is fine to a friend; probably inappropriate with a colleague. Don’t press send … The new rules for good writing in the 21st century 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z All the trancelike drones and the clever fretwork, she’d fashioned after her father. “Herman Melville, Volume I” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The lines of the blooms in this wallpaper’s motif echo the curves of the mirror’s frame, and “I saw a Chinioiserie connection between the fretwork of the console and the floral pattern,” she said. Design Dilemma: Can Unfinished Pine Live With Slick Red Lacquer? 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The seventh track and album closer, “Fade Out,” redacts its title, as soaring fretwork and an explosion of effects dismantle any semblance of structure. Major Stars return with massive set of guitar excursions 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse, the Little Red Lighthouse, beckons through a thick fretwork of branches. Finding Washington Heights 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z His distinctive fretwork also featured on the James Bond anthem Live and Let Die. Obituary: Henry McCullough - BBC News 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z The area used by the terrorist prisoners is separated by a fence and a large fretwork metal dome sits over most of it. The prison wing housing only terrorists - BBC News 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Though there are wall-mounted air-conditioning units and ceiling fans in the bedrooms, the trade winds sweeping through the fretwork walls and open shutters keep the villa cool, Mr. Zephirin said. House Hunting in ...Trinidad and Tobago 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z His voice - gritty, sensuous, filled with longing, resignation and a spritz of raunchiness - cleaves to his rhythmic fretwork as he enshrines the masters and weaves musical stories of his own. From Belafonte to the blues: Guy Davis’ uncommon life 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z His simple, elegant acoustic fretwork and supple tenor sound much as they did in his 1970s hit-making heyday. Review: James Taylor solid, at times sublime on new album 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z YANGON, Myanmar — The once-grand colonial building of marble floors and iron fretwork, an elegant outpost of Britain’s trading empire, is now a wreck. In Myanmar, Racing to Save a Colonial Past in Decay 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z In the foyer, inlaid walnut fretwork adorns the oak herringbone floors and mimics the crown moldings in the public rooms and master suite. House of the Week | Tagliabue’s Hillandale house for $3.195M Often I would be lookimg at a gable, or some fretwork, or a picture, while she monologued in her offhand way about something totally unconnected, usually sexual. Paul Theroux and the London of Lady Max 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Enclosing the sacred spot is a screen of marble, carved into a kind of fretwork, and so pure and white that light shines through it as through alabaster, falling softly on that which is within. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z This last was an art de propia Espa�a, and her churches would lack half their sublimity without the massive fretwork of iron or brass that shuts in the richly-decked altars. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z I looked away to the fountain, letting my eyes dwell on its projecting roof and its fretwork of gold, its lustrous blue and green tiles, splendid ironwork, and plaques of gray and brown marble. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z One wants strength at the foundation—not gold ornaments and marble trimmings and beautiful decorations, fretwork, carving. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The former, as its chief curiosity, contains the shrine of its patron Saint, an elaborate and most exquisitely wrought fretwork canopy, about fifteen feet in height, beneath which repose his remains. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z This throne is a large platform, with a very high back and parapets of bold stone fretwork, supported on marble lions and other figures, and is ascended by three or four steps. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The andarun and its fretwork galleries are on one side, and on another is what may be called a hall of audience, where the Sartip hears village business and decides cases. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The outer ring is embossed with zig-zag fretwork enclosing a circle of 5-pointed stars; the rectangular belt attachments have a floral design. American Military Insignia 1800-1851 2012-02-04T03:00:18.780Z Ornaments consist of velvet fretwork with braid round it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z The colors of the fruits were like flowers, melons white with a delicate fretwork of green; brilliant touches of red peppers like scarlet passion flowers; tiny bits of garlic lilac-tinted. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The beauty of the designs, whether in fretwork of wood 209 or stone, is remarkable, and the effect is enhanced by the filling in of the interstices with coloured glass, usually amber and pale blue. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Gilding, arabesques in colour, fretwork doors and panelling, and ceilings and cornices composed of small mirrors arranged so as to represent facets, are all decorative in the extreme. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z A shadow hesitated upon the lace curtain, then the door itself was slowly, doubtfully opened, and the old man shuffled into the vestibule, peering suspiciously through the iron fretwork. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z Templeton girls had evidently been going in for fretwork, while the High School had made a speciality of stencilling and bent-iron work. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z The waves, too, worked ever, and for ever, a broad fretwork collar round these rocky shores. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z The wall next the courtyard is entirely of very beautiful fretwork, filled in with amber and pale blue glass. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Long tiers of pointed windows, mingled with exquisite fretwork, and one colossal balcony, with a rich crimson awning, completed the façade. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z These designs are not confined to single stones, but embrace several blocks, and together with the diaper fretwork extend the entire length of even the larger structures. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Estelle strolled across the grass, sat down at length on a wooden bench, where a great beech above her made green fretwork against a sea of tender blue. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Rajah Darpore was leaning lazily against the fretwork marble balustrade just where the ghat steps dipped down under the water. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z The drawing-room, used as a dormitory, is a superb room, in which exquisitely beautiful ceiling and wall decorations in shades of fawn enriched with gold, and fretwork windows, suggest Oriental feeling at every turn. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z A blaze of chandeliers, with golden fretwork skirting the galleries and rich dark velvet framing the boxes, could hardly surprise him. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z The most elaborate knockers depict such ideas as Medusa's head, Garlands of Roses, and, in many cases, animals' heads, while the simple ones show oval or plain shapes, with border decorated with bead or fretwork. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The inner wall was lined with a marble mosaic composing a wide red-and-white fretwork pattern. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z Walls teem with intricate stucco carving that resemble ivory fretwork. Selma Al-Radi, Restored Historic Madrasa, Dies at 71 2010-10-15T01:51:00Z These rooms on the river front have large projecting windows, six in a row, with screens which slide up and down, and those which look to the courtyard are secluded by very beautiful fretwork. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The shelves will look very nice with a border of fretwork, in sycamore, placed either above or below their edges. Household Organization Deep lies the snow on the white, white plain, And frosted the fretwork on window-pane. Derby Day in the Yukon and Other Poems of the "Northland" In Cairo the rich fretwork of its decorations and the soft yellow hue of the stone of which it is constructed add to this beauty. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu No gate of gilded fretwork shews the terraced garden, with the plashing fountains, and the orange-trees bending with their fruit. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) The front of the room facing the courtyard is entirely of fretwork filled in with pale blue and amber glass. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z He laughed delightedly, his eyes almost disappearing behind a fretwork of fine wrinkles. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole There was a rosewood piano, whose ivory keys were the color of coffee, whose fretwork displayed a pleated silk that once was crimson as wine. Carnival First came a band of priestesses bearing fan-like ensigns of carved wood and fretwork, and panels filled with silks, rare brocades and embroideries. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The ladies of the forest, the birch trees beside the line about Farnborough, were hung with jewels of ice, and glittered like a fretwork of purple and silver. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses "What about my fretwork basket for Rosemary?" demanded Monica, rather nettled. The Head Girl at the Gables Why were the floors littered with carved and golden fretwork? Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Massive iron bars and stanchions protected the windows of the ground-floors; heavy fastenings secured the doors, whose surface was a fretwork of iron. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Dully and uncomprehendingly he stared up at a fretwork of bare brown branches against a background of blue. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp They have balconies enclosed by iron fretwork, and the first in the row is especially dainty and attractive, and quite overshadowed by the lofty building that has grown up beside it. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations But if I do any more fretwork before the exhibition, I'm going to show it. The Head Girl at the Gables When he entered the room, she had left the piano, and wheeled a sofa in front of the grate, where she sat gazing, vacantly into the fiery fretwork of glowing coals. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part As I half-muttered this to myself, a dark object intervened between me and the sky, a large black disk, shutting out completely the brilliant fretwork on which I had been gazing. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas They sketch a mazy fretwork pattern of light and shade on the dank underlay of rotting vegetation which the melting snow has laid bare. In the Brooding Wild It had a flat roof laid with a plaster of lime, about which was a fretwork of open tiles. Mary Magdalen It contained a fretwork basket, stained brown and still rather sticky with varnish. The Head Girl at the Gables He was likewise a prolific designer and maker of book-cases, cabinets and escritoires with doors glazed with fretwork divisions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" On the tops of these are huge stones thrown transverse, as if an earthquake had tossed them there, and behind these is a fretwork of perpendicular rocks, something like the ‘Giant’s Causeway’. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Now fair in my fretwork at the feast I hang In my place on the wall while warriors drink. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose How admirably he has sketched the former inmates of the South-Sea House: what “fine fretwork he makes of their double and single entries!” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature The effect is like that of fretwork, but the figure is probably derived from a modified animal form. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 He was especially successful in designing small tables with fretwork galleries for the display of china. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" He watches the marauding sparrows, and thinks with tenderness of the fate of less audacious birds; and then pauses to examine the strange fretwork erected at the mill-dam by the capricious freaks of the frost. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Through the perfect fretwork of the upper branches the eastern light shone cold and pure; in the lower depths the gray gloom had not yet lifted. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country In her splendid vanity she was like some piece of elaborate golden fretwork, from which the substance had been refined by excess of workmanship. Audrey Craven A well-worn sofa was stowed away in an obscure angle, and a piano with a rose-silk front and fretwork occupied another of the many dark corners which the room possessed. The Hound From The North Gun shields caught by the gusts of shell were cut out like fretwork; funnels were blotched with blackened holes; but of them all not one was out of action. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships Fair as the palace builded for Aladdin, Yonder St. Mark uplifts its sculptured splendor— Intricate fretwork, Byzantine mosaic, Color on color, column upon column, Barbaric, wonderful, a thing to kneel to! Italy, the Magic Land Glancing along the beam of light that filtered through a fantastic fretwork of delicate birch twigs arching a drive, he saw a broad, bright disk hanging low above the edge of the moor. Thurston of Orchard Valley Moreover, I feel, pleasantly pricking through the green fretwork and over the glacis of cut glass, a desire to peer and peep at the man opposite—one's as much as I can manage. Monday or Tuesday In certain country inns, the flimsy gossamer of spiders makes an undesirable fretwork over the greenish knobs of the ill-puttied panes. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Behind rise red walls, with here and there quaint little maroon-coloured towers, all pinnacles and angles, showing up like fretwork against the sky. Round the Wonderful World In short, the old mythologies are well nigh as full of the serpent as those ancient Runic obelisks of our country, whose endless knots and complicated fretwork are formed throughout of the interlacings of snakes. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed On the crest of the smooth-scarped hillside, which stretched back from the sheer face of rock far overhead, stood what looked like a tiny fretwork in ebony, and consisted of two-hundred-foot conifers. Thurston of Orchard Valley The forest of pinnacles beneath our feet, mingled with a labyrinth of ornamented spires, statues, flying buttresses, and Gothic fretwork, piled all about the roof, is seen through a gauze-like veil of golden mist. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Through the black fretwork of the acacias showed the thin crescent of the new moon, clean and sharp as a knife-blade. Juggernaut Another Young Mechanic writes, in answer to An Amateur Mechanic's question, that walnut, oak, and sandal are among the best woods for fretwork purposes. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young The great tangled roots of these trees stood up out of the water like a fretwork of lace, and the interwoven branches above our heads shut out the glassy glare of the sun. Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines In another age it might have been fretwork. Once on a Time Round the tomb the carved stone fretwork Was at Easter-tide put on. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold An Amateur Mechanic inquires which is the best wood for fretwork purposes; and where fret-saws may be obtained. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young The Salak's fretwork crater stood out entirely clear—his form a purple background to the picture gradually unfolding itself. Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java T errace and lawn are white with frost, Whose fretwork flowers upon the panes— A mocking dream of summer, lost ’Mid winter’s icy chains. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature Then such a Gothic hall, with pendent fretwork in imitation of the old, and with a chimney-piece like mine in the library. The Dukeries Wide balconies and gratings and fretwork of iron painted in gaudy colors gave an Oriental touch. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The ceilings of these closets were gilded and painted; the hangings were of tapestry embroidered with fretwork of pearls and gems. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 At the front we found the "cornice" again, about twenty feet up, sloping to the water, and dipping beneath it on either side; below it, a crystal surface; above, marble fretwork. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 There were two doors to the apartment in which she lay, one, ornate with Turkish fretwork, which had in its center panel what seemed to be a small window, covered by a black grille. The Secret Witness Now may peace come again, and give us time to cast wreaths and garlands of fretwork round the sternness of the war-walls, or let them abide and crumble in their due time. The Sundering Flood Free ventilation is also secured by iron fretwork, in suitable portions of the ceiling. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 He reached the monarch's gate whereon Rich gems and golden fretwork shone. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The vaulting itself also being panelled, to resemble elaborate stone fretwork, rather detracts from the general beauty of the building, being but a meretricious kind of ornamentation, and quite unworthy the building. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta Why should fret, in this sense, not come from fret, to eat away, since fretwork may be described as the "eating away" of part of the material? The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The delicate fretwork of the walls was blurred in twilight when I waked from heavy, irresistible sleep. The Car of Destiny This pool is the watery fretwork of a dam where the tidal portion of a fifty-mile length of river is ended, and the salmon are therefore caught in brackish water always with the fly. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Their shadows soften the sunlight glittering on the snow, or weave a black fretwork when the cold moon shines. The Chief End of Man His short woolly hair was white, and his chocolate-coloured skin, hard and tough like that of a rhinoceros, was covered with a fretwork of tiny wrinkles, such as one seldom sees on a European face. Impressions of South Africa Who shall decide how much our fretwork owes to each of these possible etymons? The Romance of Words (4th ed.) These mosques and the towers of the richer pearl merchants show some decided architectural features, having arches of the Saracenic order, with fretwork of plaster and quaint stucco patterns. Southern Arabia It is of brick, with diagonal fretwork in darker bricks, as in the gate tower. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London Hedges, thickly grown, Twined into compact firmness, with no leaves, Trembled in jewelled fretwork as the sun To lustre touched the tremulous water-drops. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV The gloom of them was deepened by jutting balconies, and by innumerable badgirs that cut out a strange black fretwork against amazing stars. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Monstrosities of hearts, cupids, and entwining fretwork were embossed on each, but save for the intricacy of design, there was little difference between them. A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life The doors are exquisitely decorated with it, the supporting beams, and the windows, which are adorned with fretwork instead of glass. Southern Arabia The spire is of open fretwork, and the sun shines through it. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland On these fretworks, so heard I, four horses therewith, All alike, close followed after the track, Steeds apple-fallow. The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats The ceiling, encrusted with green fretwork, and studded with silver stars, rested upon clustered columns of white and green marble. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity Of this apartment the walls and ceiling were entirely covered by a fretwork in sandalwood, evidently Oriental in workmanship. Brood of the Witch-Queen All the windows are filled with pretty fretwork; bolts, doors, and window frames are also carved. Southern Arabia Third, a series of nine blank arches filled with fretwork, between which are escutcheons bearing the Greatest Name. God Passes By The rain had worn a wondrous fretwork upon their sides and ribs of blue clay lent this effect to the whole. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World A straggling moonbeam fought its way through an open fretwork pattern in the top of the tomb, and just revealed the dim interior. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity The glittering rime transfigured the very cart ruts into bars of silver; and every coarse weed was a fretwork of beauty. Faith Gartney's Girlhood That had a fretwork of gold at its base. The Circular Study Edward Chesterton practised "water-colour painting and modelling and photography and stained glass and fretwork and magic lanterns and mediaeval illumination." Gilbert Keith Chesterton On the upper Ag�san it is not rare to find combs that have a band of beaten silver with a fretwork pattern laid across the convex part above the teeth. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir The pair spying through the fretwork above also judged it expedient to beat a hasty retreat. A Popular Schoolgirl No. 12, fretwork and carpentry class; games; letter writing. With Our Soldiers in France One might almost find it in his heart to feel sorry that this rare mingling of sculpture and fretwork and lace is soon to be draped with a mantle of green. Some Winter Days in Iowa These columns are carved with a fretwork of leaves, and their capitals are formed of strongly chiselled masks of a classical type, like those on the Or San Michele niche. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres It has a pattern of concentric circles and other symmetrical figures traced upon it, together with a fretwork of small triangular holes. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir No more did Mrs. Armine see, at the end of the long and narrow alley, behind the fretwork of shining, pointed leaves, the lateen sails go by. Bella Donna A Novel Dicksonia has a pretty leaf of fretwork, and will grow three feet in length, though it is usually much shorter. The Garden, You, and I There was a commotion behind the fretwork of the palace. The Adventures of Kathlyn There were splendid pillars of teak, marble tigers and marble fretwork beneath, with much glittering colouring around. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation The ragworts and the wild geraniums made a yellow and purple fretwork all around him, and the colour gave him a sense of keen gladness. The Romance of the Coast To this New England farmer, architecture was not in the planning and the proportion and the structure; to him it seemed to mean only some sort of jig-saw fretwork added as an afterthought. Inquiries and Opinions This pattern may be extended to any size, and would look very well if the flowers were sewn in pale pink ingrain cotton, and the fretwork in white cotton. The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. This word denotes a field covered with fretwork or laths interlacing each other. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science The figures just mentioned are of white marble, kneeling upon cushions, beneath a rich canopy of Gothic fretwork. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Through the iron fretwork of the gate, the little gentleman shot a Parthian spark or two. The Day of Days An Extravaganza Soon even this fretwork was gone, and there was no sign of it to be seen. Among the Forces Already the sweat had started on his forehead, and across one cheek the old gray fretwork of wrinkles began to shadow suddenly. Little Eve Edgarton Moreover, all its marvelous fretwork is distinctly visible, for the light film of water pulsates over it so delicately that it can no more hide the filigree beneath than a thin veil conceals a face. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park His remains he deposited in a deep vault under the centre, and are covered by a plain slab of marble, without fretwork or mosaic. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official A Gothic gate, richly ornamented with fretwork, which opened into the main body of the edifice, but which was now obstructed with brushwood, remained entire. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century He thrust out a leg, from below the sharp-pressed trouser-line of which protruded a boot trimmed in a sort of bizarre fretwork. Success A Novel It was so dark, I could see nothing save the fretwork of branches against the night sky. The Man with the Clubfoot For having set my teeth in the scarlet tart udder of a sumach, all frosted with delicate fretwork, I could not resist bringing away some of its color. Lazarre Milan, seen through the doctor's telescope, displayed its Duomo perfect as a microscopic shell, with all its exquisite fretwork, and Napoleon's arch of triumph surmounted by the four tiny horses, as in a fairy's dream. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Gardening, fretwork, photography and gymnastics are not necessarily quiet hobbies. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment His delicate fretwork tea-tables are a delight, with their fretwork cupboards and carving. 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 fretwork of mirrors which takes the place of frieze in the room is continued all around the four walls. The House in Good Taste In the light the nearer leaves of the surrounding trees showed in strong relief; beyond that copper fretwork all was blackness. Lewis Rand The next presents a fretwork of fine film, wrought by the south wind over the whole sky, iridescent with delicate rainbow tints within the influences of the sun, and ever-changing shape. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Rowing close to the bank, the Highlander saw through the gold fretwork of the leaves above him far spaces of pale blue sky. Audrey One of the most beautiful examples of Chippendale's fretwork tea-tables in existence. 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 And he gazed at it compassionately, as a cabinetmaker might gaze at a piece of amateur fretwork. The Lion's Share He can do fretwork, cook a steak, clean boots, find out what's wrong with the gas, and understand Waterloo Station; in an emergency he is invaluable. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891 The elderly man of the ballroom sees the rosy-fingered dawn touching the sky into golden fretwork; he thinks of his cool white bed, and then, by contrast, he thinks of his hot throbbing feet. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour On his key-board of imbricated tones there are grays that felicitously sing across alien strawberry tints, thence modulate into fretworks of dim golden fire. Promenades of an Impressionist Above them is a bronze grating or fretwork for further adornment and to admit light and air. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul The tower of beautiful fretwork rises to the height of three hundred and ninety-five feet, and the body of the church, including the choir, is of the same length. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 The mighty Lombard pillars on either side—supporting a triforium gallery of circular arches and slender pillars of marble fretwork, delicate as lace—are wreathed and twined with red taffetas bound with golden bands. The Italians Delicate minarets, carved into a fretwork of amazing fineness, pointed their fingers at the yellow shimmering sky. The Flying Legion Chair backs consequently have the peculiar irregular lattice work which is seen in the fretwork of Chinese and Japanese ornaments, and Pagodas, Chinamen and monsters occur in his designs for cabinets. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time In places the palms stood close together, towering and slender, their stems a stately colonnade, their fronds an arched fretwork against the sky. Through the Brazilian Wilderness They had only to sink their hands into any one of the great old chests, pulsing with the dull gnawing of the wood-borers, whose iron fretwork, pierced like lace, was dropping away from its supports. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel "In the curious fretwork of rocks and grottos." The Grammar of English Grammars The powerful glasses on Nissr showed fretwork carving everywhere; but the main outlines of the city, none the less, gave an impression of almost primitive severity. The Flying Legion The reader will notice that in the examples selected from Chippendale's book there are none of those fretwork tables and cabinets which are generally termed "Chippendale." Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time There were towering trees with buttressed trunks, whose leaves made a fretwork against the sky far overhead. Through the Brazilian Wilderness He tried to make profit of his former amusement, fretwork, and to a certain extent succeeded, earning in six months half a sovereign. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories The tower of beautiful fretwork, rises to the height of three hundred and ninety-five feet, and the body of the church including the choir, is of the same length. Views a-foot How admirably he has sketched the former inmates of the South- Sea House; what "fine fretwork he makes of their double and single entries!" The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Here, too, are what might be taken for thick bushes or shrubs, branching out with sprays of fretwork, white and spotless. Lord Dolphin There was no mistaking the gold-lined fretwork cut in the thickness of the blade. Allan Quatermain He was rattling the wire fretwork, impatiently, loudly, when the partition door swung open. Stories from Everybody's Magazine The mighty pillars support a magnificent arched ceiling, painted to resemble fretwork, and the little light that falls through the small windows above, enters tinged with a dim golden hue. Views a-foot Probabilities are as various as the faces to be seen at will in fretwork or paper-hangings: every form is there, from Jupiter to Judy, if you only look with creative inclination. Middlemarch Upon raising her head, and casting a glance round, she saw the walls, artistically carved in fretwork. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books And in very truth they resembled bouquets of flowers or clusters of tapestry, with all their fretwork so transparent. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The moon was shining very brightly above us, silvering the broad streets, and casting a fretwork of shadows from the peaks and pinnacles of the churches. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 He saw before him a high-heaped assemblage of red-tiled roofs, and above them rose the fretwork of a soaring Gothic spire. With the Procession There were his pipes neatly arranged on a little fretwork rack which hung where bell handles are usually put beside the fireplace. The Heavenly Twins He was using wood from old cigar boxes, thin boards of unfinished mahogany upon which he executed fretwork and embellishments of extraordinary delicacy. L'Assommoir No passion of fretwork, or pinnacle whatever, I said, is in this Pisan pulpit. Val d'Arno The massive strata are the horizontal elements in the entablature, but the intervening shales are carved with a beautiful fretwork of vertical forms, the sculpture of the rills. Canyons of the Colorado The parlor was an uncomfortable chamber with uncomfortable elaborate chairs in orange plush upholstery, a narrow sofa, an organ of highly varnished lightwood ornamented with scrolled fretwork, and a cannon stove with polished brass spires. The Happy End Doric marble is replaced by the natural columns of the great trees of Oregon, and the frieze of Phidias, by the fretwork of the bark of pine and fir. The Jewel City He stood motionless for a minute, his figure a queer fretwork of light and shadow from the creepers and palms. The Devil's Admiral A sudden gloom blotted out the fretwork of the pine shadows that had, during the latter part of the afternoon, lain athwart the rock. The Claim Jumpers The towers are of open fretwork, and in excellent preservation. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot Here is a passage from the article:— How admirably he has sketched the former inmates of the South-Sea House; what "fine fretwork he makes of their double and single entries!" The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Chapel—but the fretwork is gilt, and there is petitesse about the Gothic which disappoints all good judges. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 The moths, that were then battening upon its obsolete ledgers and day-books, have rested from their depredations, but other light generations have succeeded, making fine fretwork among their single and double entries. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia The rabble, having made a good meal from the spoil of a sweet-potato patch, pushed forward through the fretwork of fern, rank morass, and verdure, toward security. The Iron Game A Tale of the War The bronze and iron ventilation gratings to the doors gave us glimpses of the coast through fretwork; the rich inlaying of woods surrounded us. The Mystery The huge cathedral with its spires and arches and rich fretwork of dark stone, seemed to him the model of what all cathedrals should be. Greifenstein How admirably he has sketched the former inmates of the South Sea House; what "fine fretwork he makes of their double and single entries!" Charles Lamb Accordingly, the Golden Eagle was steered slowly round the great hull, and finally Ben selected a place to clamber up among the fretwork below the heel of the bowsprit. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest The golden haft, the jeweled fretwork and the broad blade were all covered with the life tide of the great man whom no one mourned in Delhi. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story By the fretwork of its radiance through the chinks of our rudely-built cabin I had marked off the hours. The Mystery Down the cool, green glades and alleys, beneath the illuminated leaves of the forest, over the rising grounds, in the glimmering fretwork of sunshine and leaf-shadow,--an exhilarating walk! Hyperion Pile- drivers were piercing the ice with long slender needles of spruce; across the whole river was weaving a gigantic fretwork of wood which appeared to be geometrically regular in design. The Iron Trail There were various sorts of wood inlaid with care, and the fretwork along its sides had been jig-sawed with much pains spent in detail, and the pilasters were turned with art. The Landloper The timid girl had seen no beloved woman's face upon the fretwork of the walls of this Aladdin's castle. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story It formed the point of rest for the eye; the little pagoda-like buildings and domes around it, with all their gilding and fretwork, vanished. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 The moonlight crept through the clustering honeysuckle and silvered the piazza floor with grotesque fretwork, while it bathed lovingly the sad face of the girlish watcher. Beulah It stood about two feet high and was made of fretwork in the form of an Indian mosque, with a pointed dome and pinnacles. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists A fifth small group of designs is carved in the form of fretwork. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo The flower of the French army passed before me, the glorious sunlight touching sword and lance and bayonet tip until they formed a shimmering fretwork of steel. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy Greek suggestion in Corinthian columns and fretwork and frieze around rotunda. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth Violet left the fire-place after a glance at the mantel-shelf on which nothing stood but a casket of open fretwork, and two coloured photographs mounted on small easels. The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange When at home Slyme passed his time playing a mandolin or making fretwork photo frames. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists In one Kayan house the ends of all the main crossbeams that support the roof are ornamented with fretwork designs, which are clearly animal derivatives and apparently all of the same animal. The Pagan Tribes of Borneo Wild flowers were blooming, and here and there unfolding leaves made a delicate fretwork against a deep blue sky. To Have and to Hold Those Corinthian columns, with the melancholy drooping of the acanthus and the fretwork and the frieze, by Zimm, are suggestive of Greece. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth There was, indeed, something quaint in this fragment of Old World handicraft, with its smooth-jointed paneling, in two colors, its little lozenge fretwork, its lapped roof, overhanging eaves, and miniature gallery. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's The case of the clock referred to--which stood on a table in a corner of the room--was of fretwork, in the form of an Indian Mosque, with a pointed dome and pinnacles. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists A heavy balustrade was made ethereal with a delicate fretwork of vegetation between its balusters like lace. Under the Redwoods They drew near with respect and peeped through the fretwork of her press, to bid her good-night, if by chance she were not asleep. An Iceland Fisherman The walls apparently were hewn from black rock, and at regular intervals, placed some three feet from these gleaming walls, uprose slender golden pillars supporting a kind of fretwork arch which entirely masked the ceiling. The Yellow Claw Every night, when the last train came from the city, she put a lighted candle in her front window, using always the candlestick of solid silver, covered with fretwork in intricate design. Lavender and Old Lace It lacked a glass, and was set in a frame ornamented with bronze fretwork and bronze corner rings. Dead Souls |
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