Our aesthetic interest, accustomed to perking up before autonomous works of art that are usually framed and on canvas, often flags before the spallieras and the cassone panels that figure so prominently in this show, images originally intended to adorn the chests and wainscotings of bridal chambers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The rooms throughout were low, and for the most part long and narrow, with large wide fireplaces and deep wainscotings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I was ushered into an upper room, whose teak wainscotings, covered with Cufic and other inscriptions, large carpets, and ample Diwans, still showed a sort of ragged splendour. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She gazed appreciatively at the high ceiling and the shining oak wainscotings of the wide corridor through which she was passing. ❋ Pauline Lester (N/A)
More complex forms are the succession of repeated designs in mouldings and wainscotings (for example, the alternation of egg and dart), the series of windows in a wall, or of the columns of a Greek temple, or of the black and white keys of a piano. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)
They reached her chamber, where a dim lamp faintly illumined the sombre magnificence, the sculptured wainscotings, and the heavy draperies. ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1783 Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the court took up a brief residence here to assist at the aerostatic experiences of De Rosier, and in 1787, ceasing to be a royal residence, La Muette was offered for sale after first having been stripped of its precious wainscotings, its marbles and the artistic curiosities of all sorts with which it had been decorated. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
The Salle de Conseil is of the period of Charles X, and has some fairly imposing carved wainscotings showing in places the monograms of Marie ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
Later on, when I was well enough to wash myself in the bathroom, I found that there was kept there a huge packing case into which the scraps of food and dirty dressings from the ward were flung, and the wainscotings were infested by crickets. ❋ Unknown (1946)
Then Marcella crept away along the passages through which the wind whistled while the rats, hungry as everything else about Lashnagar, scuttled behind the wainscotings. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)
The lady was very particular about the scouring of wainscotings and doors. ❋ James Stephens (1916)
I had a mental vision of her interior decorations -- all fumed-oak wainscotings and buff-leather hangings. ❋ Unknown (1910)
Boiling will kill the borer, but furniture and wainscotings are not easily boiled. ❋ William Patten (1902)
And in the meantime there was much clatter in and about the old Britt house, tumble of timbers and rip of wainscotings and snarl of drawing nails. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
It was an old house with wainscotings of yellow stucco and a sad air of ruined stateliness, of a splendor that even in its prime had pretended to more than it really was. ❋ Frederik Van Eeden (1896)
Then he would say to Bingham what he said later to Susan Bates when she came with Jane to view the wainscotings and the panelled ceilings of the long succession of rooms: that the man who met all the legal exactions of the community and all the needs and requirements of his own flesh and blood was doing quite enough for the preservation of his own credit. ❋ Henry Blake Fuller (1893)
Its besiegers were quartered within the town, fattening on the supplies which flowed in from the country and sleeping warm at night, while the garrison of the castle burned its carved wainscotings for fuel and daily buried some famine-stricken sentry. ❋ Unknown (1886)
The carved woodwork of the railings and wainscotings and cornices had been devised by ingenious and patient craftsmen, and the same portraits and old engravings hung upon the walls that had been there when its mistress could first remember. ❋ Sarah Orne Jewett (1879)
These were not the narrow quarters of the Venice steamer, nor was this lamp, shedding a soft light on cushioned seats and paneled doors and wainscotings the sort of illumination usual in that humble craft. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
In the heavy odor of tobacco and various liquors that filled the rooms, the furniture, the wainscotings, the decorations seemed faded yet still new. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
