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Example sentences for "stuccoed"

Lexicographically close words:
stubbornly; stubbornness; stubby; stubs; stucco; stuck; stucke; stud; studded; studding
  1. The Royal Palace, like that at Christiania, is an exceedingly plain building, with a granite basement and stuccoed bricks above, forming an immense quadrangular edifice.

  2. Most of the city houses are built of brick or stone, the former being stuccoed so as to give the general effect of the latter.

  3. It was formerly, before Government took it over, a plain white stuccoed building utterly devoid of any pretensions to architectural beauty, and depending mainly for any chance claim to recognition on its immense length.

  4. Savage and Bonham, of Brighton, merchants, freighters of the said ship, for one voyage, at and from Sunderland to Brighton Beach.

  5. One need not look so high as the old-fashioned stuccoed ceiling.

  6. Thus at Nippur, the walls of many of the rooms were stuccoed with a plaster consisting of mud and straw, and were coloured, the colours used being apparently always solid.

  7. The walls of the atrium and tablinum are curiously stuccoed in large raised panels, with deep channels between them, the panels being painted of different colors, strongly contrasted with each other.

  8. This apartment, like the others, is well stuccoed and painted yellow; a cornice, highly enriched with stucco ornaments, is supported by fluted pilasters placed at irregular intervals.

  9. The old buildings of adobe, wood, corrugated iron, and stuccoed cane are fast being replaced with metropolitan structures of brick and cement.

  10. He lives in a ramshackle salmon-colored house of stuccoed adobe which has been cracked by an earthquake.

  11. It is built very solidly of tightly fitting red brick, and was intended to be stuccoed over.

  12. Instead of the stuccoed houses in the West End, this is the place where I should like to live,' he would say.

  13. Scattered about a stuccoed floor white as crystal, were coloured caddies of exquisite confections, and in others sweetmeats of various kinds.

  14. The stuccoed buildings rose pale and ghostlike, or in sombre, mysterious tones, against the sky, and deep shadows crossed the cobbled highway.

  15. During the winter it was generally in the main room of the cafe, before the big round stove near the centre; but the summer days generally found him comfortably installed in the garden which enclosed the old stuccoed building.

  16. The road sometimes took them past stuccoed walls, gray, chipped and broken by the ravages of time; and here and there, rising high above the faded red coping, were the tall and graceful poplars so characteristic of the landscapes.

  17. Four years after the completion of that pretty stuccoed villa, which seemed destined never to be inhabited, Belinda Lawford walked alone up and down the sheltered shrubbery-walk in the Grange garden in the fading September daylight.

  18. A village, too, has grown up about it, so that it seems out of place among modern stuccoed dwellings, such as are erected for tradesmen and other moderate people who have their residences in the neighborhood of a great city.

  19. The High Street reminds me very much of American streets in its general effect; the houses being mostly stuccoed white or light, and cheerful in aspect, though doubtless they are centuries old at heart.

  20. The ancient walls, dating from the year 1020, are of red brick intermixed with stone, stuccoed and washed with white.

  21. I detest every atom of the filthy, stuck-up, stuccoed hovel.

  22. The church is built of rough-hewn stone, stuccoed on three sides.

  23. And wherefore, for such a purpose, were the foundation-stones wrought into spheres, and the whole structure stuccoed within and without?

  24. Slowly they saw unfolding the fog-clothed mountains, a forest, scattered bits of white they knew were stuccoed houses; but while their eyes brought joy, their ears brought sadness.

  25. Then the haven at last: the white-stuccoed houses of Oropus clustering down upon the shore, the little mole, a few doltish peasants by the landing gaping at the great trireme.

  26. Facing us, as we looked down, was a white stuccoed house, with a glimpse of a garden at one side.

  27. By the more remote lakes, like Buttermere and Hawes Water, and in the secluded valleys running up from the larger lakes, you would come upon square stuccoed houses, generally abominably ugly, where the nymph was mistress of the situation.

  28. It meets us at the hall-door, where miserable stuccoed pillars are supposed to confer a quasi-palatial dignity on a wretched jerry-built little villa run up without regard to one essential of home comfort or of architectural truth.

  29. The great, strong, full noon-day sun beats on the stuccoed buildings, heating their whiteness to an intolerable incandescence.

  30. It was a house such as one sees only in Rome,--a wide expanse of stuccoed wall with six or seven windows of different sizes scattered at random over its surface.

  31. On the right hand of the gate was a huge jungle of blooming rose-bushes whose intertwisted branches climbed the tall stuccoed wall, for the possession of which it struggled bravely with an equally ambitious and vigorous ivy.

  32. The inlaid floors are rotting; the stuccoed ceilings, the richly-carved architraves, fall in fragments as your footsteps move; and the doomed walls themselves seem scarce able to resist the rude blast whose wailing cadence steals along them.

  33. And a lovely object is the same fountain; and a beautiful street it stands in, with its stately houses, all rich in stuccoed arabesques, and gorgeously carved doors and gates!


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stuccoed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.