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... roses, hand delivered tightly by the master lodging masons, who work not as slaves, but as heroes, and saints, together, forever with hearts beating tapestries, paint bursting with berry oil and wine, belly laughing into the chorus of love, with crystallized euphoria delivering the message of a stardust twinkled Palace of Versailles. ...

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...dest daughter. That means that Mrs. Gereth will have to leave Poynton, the beautiful house that she and her husband filled with the furniture, china, tapestries, and other objects that they lovingly collected over the years. It is not so much possessiveness that drives Mrs. Gereth to want to maintain control over them (or so she claims, at any rate), but rather the sense t...

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...all too evident in this vast rectangular room - marble floors covered with Persian carpets, rich tapestries adorning the walls and crystal oil lamps... ...propelled firmly by the Countess in the direction of John MacGregor, who was examining one of the tapestries at the far corner of the hall. The gia...

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...ace on a small platform, which had been erected beside the fountain. Behind the platform, tapestries were draped with the Royal Family crest, a stan... ...eared in front of the stage with the lion Amsara, who had been waiting behind the draped tapestries with another keeper to make his appearance. The... ...hing was elegant, and evidence of great wealth was every- where around them – paintings of tapestries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was o...

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...room was not hers, yet Laylah knew it would still welcome her. The opulent tapestries and drapes, the burgundy furniture--all were familiar. This dre...

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...autiful storybooks. Her mother s beautiful scarves were hung around the walls as tapestries. And her brother s marbles were made into shining chandeli...

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...d walls, and woven rugs of scarlet, gold, and black covered the stone floor. Tapestries of ancient fairie kings and queens draped the walls. Tables, c... ...her gaze over the room. It was nice enough, all the stone walls covered with tapestries of forest scenes. The one with the unicorns bathing in the str... ... the small nightstand, still with the same jade vase, graced the other side. Tapestries draped the walls, and oval woven rugs in shades of mint and pe... ... approve?” he asked. Regan glanced around the room. The walls were hung with tapestries, again depicting fairie kings and queens. Who provided them, a... ...gaze to the walls, but not before she heard a dry chuckle from Dirkk. Woven tapestries - all in rich colors of emerald, ruby, and gold - draped the s...

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...dozen doors. Cold windows merge into cold mirrors, a door opens. Here are tapestries from Bruges. Someone coughs. Feminine laughter sounds. As I wa... ...i marbles—twenty-one major pieces. I study and admire the King’s Bataille tapestries. My private gallery. My autumn sun, as well. Sometimes Francesc... ... too preoccupied with his current mistress, the Queen moves in. Up go her tapestries. Up go her pictures. In go her dogs, cats, guards, maids, pages... ... ou ask me what my apartment was like in Milan? It was an apartment of tapestries and antique furniture, paintings, mine and others. Sculptured p... ...Sculptured pieces. I bought many things at the Thieves’ Market. My Camjac tapestries covered three walls. Made the room warmer. My paintings covered...

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...pic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limita...

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...mpic gods changed all three into birds. Cave drawings, notched sticks, tapestries, and the like, however, marked but baby steps beyond the limita...

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...epped regally down the three steps into the ornate room that was cov­ ered with tapestries depicting scenes of Moorish battles. Another maid, as bea...

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... palaces and houses of pleasure, beautified with gilded bowers, pictures, and tapestries of silk. Through this place, by pipes to different parts of ...

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...ly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the panes were purple. The third was green throughou... ...xth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in...

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...While the objects around me—while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasm...

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...eam of the lamp, the flame of their eyes, the colors of the stuffs and the tapestries were more vivid, more of love was in the air, more fire about th... ...were framed, as it were, in that panelled cham- ber, hung with high-warped tapestries of Flanders, the ceil- ing of which, made of carved beams, was b...

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...n a bank from which it was reflected in the Loire. In the rooms were royal tapestries, furniture, Saracen pomps, vanities, and inventions which were m... ...room, did not fail to run in and quickly thrust his brown head between the tapestries of the door. “What do you please to wish?” said the page. And he... ...lieved him happy. Then the surgeon rose quickly, as if to take note of the tapestries and count the rafters, but gained the door before anyone else, a... ...n so pitiable state, went out of the room, but he had not even reached the tapestries of the door, when Marie d’Annebaut again con- templated him, say...

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...ater work, is worth a thousand of these bed hangings and these fly bitten tapestries. Let it Henry 4th, Part 2, Act II, scene i 21 be ten pound, if ...

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...ravanserai. The room was airy, the water excel- lent, and the dawn had called me to a moment. I say noth- ing of the tapestries or the inimitable ceil...

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...l staircase leading to the two upper stories. The dining-room is hung with tapestries of the fourteenth century; the style and the orthography of the ... ...anguage of the fabliaux, it is impos- sible to transcribe them here. These tapestries, well preserved in those parts where light has scarcely penetrat... ...eets at the hotel de Guenic adore me. They are all per- sonages born under tapestries of the highest warp; in fact, they seem to have stepped from tho... ...ies of the highest warp; in fact, they seem to have stepped from those old tapestries as if to prove that the impossible may exist. Some day, when we ...

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...e of organdy, Who is to blame? The weaver? Ah! the bewildering thread! The tapestries of paradise So notelessly are made! 40 LXI E...