Grillwork

Images of Christ’s life are executed as variations on traditional Chinese paper cutouts, and the surrounding grillwork is based on Qing Dynasty window designs found in a busy Shanghai market. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That first night, lying beside him on our mutual bed after the muffling pillow had been crammed against the grillwork was another of my special memories. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (1967)

The architecture, with its elegant stucco and grillwork, blended Islamic and Hindu styles in a composite known as Indo-Saracenic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, as this is a world of cars, each is imaginatively fashioned from wheels, fenders, grillwork and other motor vehicle parts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tony Cisek's excellent set consists of wood painted to look like ornate grillwork; the decorative grating reinforces the idea of a palace laden with secrets and eavesdroppers with the means to hear them. ❋ Peter Marks (2010)

I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. ❋ Mark Axelrod (2012)

Doris swings the Fiat out wide and explodes the entire shell of her car against the truck's grillwork with a sound so hard Boland thinks it's behind him. ❋ Kilean Kennedy (2011)

It was this stoicism that had allowed a snaggletoothed British teenager to become a man with the gleaming white grillwork of an alabaster racehorse. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)

At night, standing candelabra lit the passages with scores of candles that melted with grotesque abandon and threw intricate patterns of grillwork on the ceilings. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

Last night as we walked the streets, all over town, posted on doorways and in the grillwork of windows, were posters that read BALANDRA NUESTRA. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)

Then the grillwork behind him opened and he saw a hooded figure holding an oil lamp. ❋ Thomas Greanias (2010)

He found one of the bronze hooks inside the top of the window used to keep grillwork in place. ❋ Thomas Greanias (2010)

Created in part from art deco grillwork, marble and light fixtures reclaimed from the old Philadelphia Civic Center, the bar area is a beaut. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Look through the open grillwork of the 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C2900B Touring Berlinetta, another car with a gorgeously slicked-back front end -- it may be the most beautiful automobile, ever -- and you see that there's a foot or more of empty space before the engine begins. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What happens is activists can soften the steel and I can bend it into a new grillwork. ❋ Unknown (2010)