The very furnishings of this library were intellectually and spiritually appetizing.
Sue was obliged to note that the service and the napery were dainty, and what she had seen of the furnishings of the darkened hall amazed her--as it had Pratt on his first visit.
The old ranchman furnished the former, of course; but nobody but Frances, Pratt thought, could have arranged the furnishings and adornments of the house.
Then you can have it for anything you like--for house-furnishings or a pearl necklace.
The furnishingsspoke of comfort and a modest dignity.
Taking men and women as he found them, he had little tendency to speculate as to the impulses within their lives, any more than as to the furnishings behind their house-fronts.
This was followed by a symposium on architectural plans and furnishings for law libraries, participated in by Mr. Frederick D.
The building was a model of hospital architecture, thefurnishings were the most modern obtainable and the institution was ideal in every respect, adjudged by experts the latest thing in hospitals.
For several months she received her visitors in a drawing room with black furnishings and curtains.
The owners decided to rent the villa with all its elegant furnishings for a modest sum, and at first, the ladies who were gambling in the Casino, quarreled as to who should get it.
Spray the house and furnishings and wash feed and water containers at frequent intervals with this economical germ-killer.
This period was famous for palace building, and the descriptions of the magnificence and luxurious furnishings read like a fairy tale.
Johore is a famous gambling-place, but the "parlors" were deserted on this afternoon, and we could see only the fine furnishings in carved teakwood.
The house was so small, the furnishings so very simple.
So it became a veritable treasure-trove, more distinguished in furnishings than some of the rooms of his own home.
The furnishings and ornaments of the room are the same to-day as then.
Pigs were kept in one of the pews, while many of the furnishings were burned.
The furnishings of his single room were an iron bed, an unpainted table, and three straw-bottomed chairs.
Now fame has come and my pen earns more, We have furnishings choice and books in store.
Even the public school boy takes a greater interest in his studies when he recognizes in the furnishings of his home antiquities from Greece or those lands in which that once powerful nation founded colonies.
Their armor and the furnishings of their horses were extraordinary.
The horses and their furnishings form no small item in the expenses, since most of the travelling had to be done on horseback, and a numerous retinue of mounted attendants must be provided.
Windows and doors were gone from the grand old edifice; inside, the fire was shining; devouring at its dreadful ease, the sacred architecture and furnishings that it had swept down to the ground.
Miss Smalley possessed some movables of her own, though the furnishings in her room had been mostly Mrs. Pimminy's.
Moonlight through the room's wide window formed a solid square on the floor, and in its ghostly radiance the furnishingsseemed shadowy and unreal.
They crossed quickly to the designated opening, along a short narrow hall, through a second doorway and on into a low-ceilinged room whose furnishings bore mute testimony that Dylara's guess had been right.
Under any circumstances the owner will have to investigate proprietary goods and special furnishings for himself.
The other furnishings and fittings of a library should be quiet in tone, the chairs easy but not rich, the carpet of a neutral color, the wall decorations preferably without figured outlines, the pictures small and quiet.
Very little more may be said about the sitting-room, excepting to call to mind that a great deal depends upon the fittings and furnishings of the room, which, however, should not be glaring or rich.
A pretty kitchen is a pride and delight, but the serviceableness and practicability of its furnishings must be the first consideration in selecting them.
It was rather a pretentious apartment, with fine furnishings in ornate taste.
At another time we would have been deeply interested in the pictures and the furnishings but now we had eyes and thoughts only for one thing.
Only a few rugs and furnishings and a woman's touch were required to make it an unusual and beautiful room.
The painters and sculptors and the makers of the furnishings they were compelled to pay, but that was nothing.
Looking at it more critically than before, I was delighted with its beautiful furnishings and appointments.
The furnishings were simple and attractive, with no "Mission" pieces or attempts at camping effects.
But in its style of architecture and its furnishings it seemed so completely an old-time house that I regret that it has had to be changed into an institution.
Then, after offering to buy from me, at her own price, the pretty furnishingsin the tent, she departed, and I have never seen her since.
I impartially distributed thefurnishings of the tent among the other tent residents.
Every family of any considerable possessions or owning good household furnishings had a few silver spoons; nearly every person owned at least one.
By night the foot of the bed rested on two heavy legs; by day the frame with its bed furnishings was hooked up to the wall, and covered with homespun curtains or doors.
In Virginia the table furnishings were similar to those in New England; but there were greater contrasts in table appointments.
