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...-work. The fourth shall be a general store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The work- shop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall n... ...d the avarice of the owner: in the antechamber were six straw chairs and a porcelain stove; on the walls, which were cov- ered with a bottle-green pap...

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...ingular hallucination. His neat, clean paintings, hard as tin and shiny as porcelain, were covered with a sort of mist; they looked like old daubs. Ma...

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...and unfa- miliarity. The prints, the flowers, the subdued tones of the old porcelains, seemed to typify a superficial refinement that had no relation ...

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...was displayed a service of silver plate, the gift of an English lord, also porcelains in high relief; in short, the luxury of an actress who has no ot...

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...ndlesticks were yellow with smoke, and at each corner of the shelf stood a porcelain vase crowned with artificial flow- 13 Balzac ers full of dust an...

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...heer; their diverse expressions pro- ducing piquant effects seen among the porcelain baskets, the fruits, the glasses, and the candelabra. All of a su...

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...ight not have been an education to recommend in advance, but its re- sults with so special a subject were as appreciable as the marks on a piece of fi...

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...hairs and half a dozen of those small cylindrical stools in green and blue porcelain, which suggest an affiliation between the residents and the East-... ...leer- ing on chimney-pieces, in front of beautifully figured hand-screens; porcelain dinner-sets, gleaming behind the glass doors of mahogany buffets;... ...cton talked a great deal about his chinoiseries; he knew a good deal about porcelain and bric-a-brac. The Baroness, in her progress through the house,...

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...f coal; he drank water muddy with the clay that would one day make cups of porcelain; he chewed the ear of wild wheat he had plucked and gazed with a ... ...Above rose great frontages of in- tricate rather than beautiful reinforced porcelain, studded with lights, barred by bold illuminated advertisements, ... ...nd blocking out any vision of the uplands of Thibet, rises that citadel of porcelain, that gothic pile, the Lio Porgyul, walls, towers, and peaks, a c...

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...tlines of Ginevra’s figure were slowly destroyed; her cheeks grew white as porcelain, and her eyes dulled as though the springs of life were drying up...

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...d the course of your Lerne, which I found to be of the same quality as the porcelain clay of Meissen, does it still merely bear a few scanty blades of... ... of a book I happily dis- covered in the library. They were sent up to the porcelain shops in London, and orders began to come in, to the great exulta... ...rag Harold up to the tailor’s, he brought down a fragile little bouquet of porcelain violets, very Parisian, and in the latest fashion, which he flatt... ...reover, Harold improved his mind con- siderably in the matters of pottery, porcelain, and model lodg- 137 Charlotte M. Yonge ing-houses. Dermot...

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...saw in each hollow face, be- neath the shadow of the eyebrows, two eyes of porcelain blue casting clear fire, like those of a wolf crouching in the br...

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...e bay win- dow, reading the paper, drinking his beer, and smoking his huge porcelain pipe while his food digested; crop-full, stupid, and warm. By and... ...r two nights in the week. He spent a pleasant hour there, smoking his huge porcelain pipe and drinking his beer. He never joined any of the groups of ... ...this, he was drinking his fourth cocktail. McT eague began filling his big porcelain pipe. He lit it, blew a great cloud of smoke into the room, and s... ...kitchen, a creation of T rina’s, a dream of a kitchen, with its range, its porcelain-lined sink, its copper boiler, and its overpowering array of flas... ... the freshly blackened cook stove glowed like a negro’s hide; the tins and porcelain-lined stew-pans might have been of silver and of ivory. T rina wa...

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... at Paris But Nature, woe is me, no fragrance shed Within my cup of Orient porcelain. “Well?” asked Lucien after a pause, immeasurably long, as it see... ... a pomegranate, and a chin subtly delicate in its contour as the edge of a porcelain cup, Coralie was a Jewess of the sublime type. The jet black eyes... ...ung fellow!” exclaimed the Minister. Supper, served with new plate, Sevres porcelain, and white damask, was redolent of opulence. The dishes were from... ...r. Berenice waiting on him, the dishes were of wrought silver, the painted porcelain plates had cost a louis d’or apiece. The luxury was producing ex-... ...looked up in search of ideas, his eyes fell on that beloved face, white as porcelain, fair with the beauty that belongs to the dying, and he saw a smi...

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... the stairs of the Bessemers’ flat, two at a time, tossed his stick into a porcelain cane-rack in the hall, wrenched off his overcoat with a single mo... ... while along its railing stood a row of pots—brass, ruddy bronze, and blue porcelain—from which were growing red saffron, purple, pink, and golden tul...

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... age above cost. This fat little man, doubled-up in his corner, opened his porcelain-blue eyes every now and then, and looked at each speaker with a s... ...atural amenity of women who can show a fine set of teeth, trans- parent as porcelain between rosy lips, and dimpling cheeks as fresh as those of child... ...nt made a violent sign to her to hold her tongue, and his little eyes of a porcelain blue showed as much fear as those of his companion. “Fool! do you...

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...e girl, showed a delicate tracery of blue veins; its whiteness was that of porcelain. His eyes, which were light blue and ineffa- bly gentle, implored...

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...his room, ornamented with engravings of mili- tary scenes, was heated by a porcelain stove, on each side of which were sporting-guns suspended on the ... ... and cornice, its high wainscot and handsome cupboards finely painted, its porcelain stone and magnificent tall clock,—all the property of Mademoisell... ...ul waiting-room, floored with squares of white and red marble, warmed by a porcelain stove, and furnished with benches covered with red plush. It was ...

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...he most agreeable ac- cessories—shiny casings, spark-plugs with immaculate porcelain jackets tire-chains of gold and silver. He was flattered by the f... ...(in itself a virtue). It possessed a non-conducting fiber ice-container, a porcelain water-jar (guaranteed hy- gienic), a drip-less non-clogging sanit... ...elicate wrinkled lines which slipped with a green sparkle over the curving porcelain as the clear water trembled. Babbitt lazily watched it; noted tha...

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...le band of brightness, arranging some salmon-pink geraniums in a shal- low porcelain bowl. Every sensation of touch and sight was thrice-alive in her.... ...easantly on its brown walls, on the scattered books and the flowers in old porcelain vases. In his eyes lingered the vision of the dark-haired mother ...