The traditional housebuilder-business model relies on pattern-book designs, which can be quickly and easily rolled out across the country, often with little consideration to the local context or the needs of the people who will live in them. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Meanwhile the artist himself made an unconvincing show of not caring about “what people think” — a confidence he shared with the readers of Vogue — while, obviously, he cared desperately and bitterly: for decades, in fact, creating a pattern-book of duly contorted, lonely selves, the better to excise or even tear out the pages. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Save the pattern-book passwords for sites where your only vulnerability is having somebody change Web-site passwords or post dumb comments under your name. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)
Twenty years later, a Scots artist named David Roberts visited Petra on a peregrination through the Middle East, and published an album of poetic views of ancient ruins that became the pattern-book of Orientalist imagery. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The volume of love, like a pattern-book, fell open, and this well-dressed gentleman was engraved upon her heart. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Each dyer should make himself a pattern-book into which he should enter his tests, with full particulars as to how they have been produced at the side. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)
The great pattern-book of nature, filled with graceful forms, in ever-varied arrangement, and illuminated by delicate tints or gorgeous hues, suggested the beauty they endeavored to represent. ❋ Various (N/A)
Haven't you got a pattern-book of all the shades you can make it in? ❋ Unknown (1938)
But this pleasure which he received from the mere colours of the landscape was the same pleasure which they would have given him if he had met them in so many skeins of silk; the more complex pleasure due to their juxtaposition, was the pleasure he might have had if those skeins, instead of being on separate leaves of a pattern-book, had been lying tangled together in an untidy work-basket. ❋ Vernon Lee (1895)
His manuscript pattern-book is over a hundred years old, and has the rules for setting the harnesses. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
Nature's pattern-book, too, is full of half tones and mixed tints. ❋ Walter Crane (1880)
Even this was not intended to be exclusively humorous, but was to contain light stories as well as paradoxes and inquiries; the editor observing in the introduction that "a tailor's pattern-book must consist of various colours and various cloths; and what one thinks fashionable, another deems ridiculous." ❋ Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange (1873)
When, after the war, the city of Warsaw was reconstructed from scratch, it was accepted without question that the old town should be rebuilt as it was, and that signs and facades should conform to the Renaissance pattern-book. ❋ Roger Scruton (2010)
And we think it's time the Iowa City Council offers such protections to this area's mix of cottages from the 1870s, multi-story mansions from the early 1900s and pattern-book houses from the 1930s. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mrs. Lewin talked with but little interruption for the best part of an hour while measuring her new customer, showing her pattern-book, and exhibiting the ready-made wares she had brought, the greater number of which Hyacinth insisted on buying for Angela -- who was horrified at the slanderous innuendoes that dropped in casual abundance from the painted lips of the milliner; horrified, too, that her sister could loll back in her armchair and laugh at the woman's coarse and malignant talk. ❋ Unknown (1875)
a pattern-book, fell open, and this well-dressed gentleman was engraved upon her heart. ❋ Unknown (1862)
