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Example sentences for "tapestried"

Lexicographically close words:
taper; tapered; tapering; tapers; tapes; tapestries; tapestry; tapeworm; tapeworms; taphysique
  1. The halls and corridors of the mansion are tapestried with books.

  2. The tapestried walls, the high windows, and the fine Perpendicular hammer-beam roof together form a magnificent and pleasing whole, one of the noblest halls of its period that the country has to show.

  3. The tapestried figures on the walls grew pale and colossal in their light.

  4. He breakfasted in the tapestried room which he had ordered to be kept open for him, and then went into the library to write his letters.

  5. The sound vibrated through the long corridors, the spiral staircases, the suites of tapestried apartments, and the ears of the personage who has the honour to address you.

  6. On the second day, the carriage stopped at an old castle, and she was conveyed into a tapestried apartment, where the delicate creature instantly fell ill of an inverted eyelash, caused by continual weeping.

  7. I now found myself in a narrow passage, with another door at the farther end of it; and I prepared to traverse winding stairs, subterranean passages, and suites of tapestried apartments.

  8. The Jesuit had already installed himself in the great tapestried armchair, and put his small, neatly-shod feet close together on the footstool.

  9. The pretty theatre is, however, an exception: for its walls are inlaid from top to bottom with mirrors, its pillars are gilt, and the royal box tapestried with rich red velvet.

  10. Four rows of tapestried seats, one rising above the other, run lengthways along the hall, and afford room for eighty legislators.

  11. Yet poor Anne has kept her tapestried chamber by nearly the same means which compelled her parents to call in the aid of the parish priest so long ago.

  12. The fact is but too true, she became a confirmed maniac, and had to be confined for the rest of her life in the tapestried chamber before mentioned, and in which she died.

  13. Illustration: A Tapestried Room in a French Chateau, With Oak Chests as Seats.

  14. The walls were richly tapestried with products of the looms of the Gobelins, representing the plains of Italy filled with sunshine, where groves, temples, and colonnades were pictured in endless vistas of beauty.

  15. The king in his palace, the lady in her tapestried chamber, the nun in her cell, the very beggar on the street, would stand on a pavement of fire to read the tablets which record the secret of the aqua tofana.

  16. Ali extended his hands towards the apartments destined for the fair Greek, which were so effectually concealed by means of a tapestried entrance, that it would have puzzled the most curious to have divined their existence.

  17. Ali reappeared for the third time, and drew back the tapestried hanging which concealed the door, to signify to his master and Albert that they were at liberty to pass on.

  18. And with these words he disappeared behind one of the tapestried portieres.

  19. There must be a good deal done before it can deserve that title, your excellency, for the tapestried hangings are very old.

  20. Gwendolyn's bed stood midway of the nursery, partly hidden by a high tapestried screen.

  21. Above the wainscot, the dull tapestried walls reached to a ceiling richly panelled.

  22. The wild fig-tree grows here, and the huge boulders are tapestried with box and bilberry.

  23. Just above the verdant river-bank run its mediƦval ramparts tapestried with ivy, the yellowish stone almost the colour of the rocks.

  24. I therefore caused the Tapestried Chamber, as we call it, to be opened; and without destroying its air of antiquity, I had such new articles of furniture placed in it as became the modern times.

  25. He paused a second time, and then perceiving that Lord Woodville remained silent and in an attitude of attention, he commenced, though not without obvious reluctance, the history of his night's adventures in the Tapestried Chamber.

  26. And it was pleasant to emerge from the damp into the brightly lighted tapestried chamber with the dinner set out.

  27. The whole world cannot show another hall such as this, so tapestried with recollections of whatever is most striking in human annals.

  28. Ford arranged these on a spindle-legged table, and brought forward an old tapestried arm-chair for Katharine.

  29. Mrs. Winthrop meanwhile had appropriated a spindle-legged sofa, and was leaning back against a tapestried Endymion.

  30. That last touch has spoiled the whole," said the lady in the tapestried chair.

  31. Lofty iron gates slowly unfold to admit you to a deep hollow way blasted in the rock, the stone walls of which are tapestried with the most luxuriant vegetation.

  32. Under the magic spell of this enchanted, golden hall, even the grim Maghrabis, black and motionless along the tapestried walls, seemed to have sunk to the role of mere spectators.

  33. Silence fell upon the banquet-hall, where still the thin, perfumed incense-smoke writhed aloft and where still the motionless Maghrabi men stood in those ominous lines along the silk-tapestried walls.

  34. I love the free open sky better than these tapestried walls.

  35. If there was any one road that led to her heart, it must have been through the portals of a palace, along tapestried passages, between lines of bowing lackeys, with a gentleman-usher at each turning to point out the way.

  36. All this rolled in a terrible panorama before Conan's consciousness as he crouched beside the tapestried wall.

  37. He found himself in a wide hallway with lofty tapestried walls, where the light was the same twilight gloom.

  38. He opened the familiar tapestried door leading into Sophie's private apartments.

  39. He comes in so gently at the tapestried door that she only perceives him when he stands before her.

  40. Hastily bolting the tapestried door through which she had passed, she flew to the heavily sleeping Viceroy.

  41. The tapestried door was backed with iron; the assailants could not force it.


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