Wainscots

"The red light breaking at the close from under a low somber sky, reached out in a long shaft," the man said, seeming to quote, and gesturing at the shaft, "and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old color." ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Mexican architecture, interior walls bathed in vibrant hues are given texture with the addition of colonial style stencil patterns or wainscots in contrasting colors. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These include lots of hardwood, including oak wainscots and heavy solid oak doors, transoms, and marble tile. ❋ Angry Professor (2007)

The rooms were very comfortable, with large cross beams, high wainscots, and small windows in deep embrasures. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The apartment was still shown which the poet had inhabited, consisting of a sitting-room and small bedroom, with paneled wainscots and ❋ Unknown (2004)

The lamp caused great luminous moires to flicker on the wainscots. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A galley-shaped lamp hung burning in the back part of the room, and three rays, emitted from its silver keel, trembled on the lofty wainscots, which were painted red with black bands. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I heard the rats squeak behind the wainscots: it seemed to me that the very mice were consulting on the manner of her death. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There is the pleasant old fashion of window seats all through the house; and one can see that the parsonage was built in the days when wood was plentiful, as the massive stair-banisters, and the wainscots, and the heavy window - frames testify. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The swallows nested in the drawing-room; the floor was strewn with straw; the plaster fell in shovelfuls; rafters were laid bare; rats carried off this and that to gnaw behind the wainscots. ❋ Unknown (2002)

She had made this room Victorian, oak wainscots, heavy furniture, thick carpet and drapes, glass-fronted cabinets for carefully chosen curios, a shelf of books still more select, on top of which rested the white bust of a man who had been black. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

Those that had axes, having retreated before the inroad, chopped cudgels for their fellows out of wainscots and pillars. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1983)

My friend and his wife have collected fine old wainscots, sideboards and cupboards of richly carved oak in Friesland and in the ❋ P. M. Hough (N/A)

Most part of it is furnished in the old style, as for example, Mama's and my apartment are brown wainscots, and the bed - curtains and hangings are crimson damask laced with gold most dreadfully tarnished. ❋ Lady Biddulph Of Ledbury (N/A)

Hundreds of nests, some in good condition, others deserted and out of repair, clung to old beams, rafters and wainscots. ❋ Various (N/A)

[Debbie] was [wainscoting] Jamal for six months before they broke up. She was using him to [renovate] her kitchen, and all he got were blue balls. ❋ Donutshop69 (2018)

Are [those guys] Wainscoting it or are they [just] [homeless]? ❋ Super Dad (2011)