The hall door opened with a loud bang and a woman's noisy laugh could be heard as a pelter of high-heeled shoes came along the tesselated hall and then the vision of a pretty girl at the doorway, accompanied by a man and two women.
He could hear her hollow cough as she passed down the tesselated corridor.
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But deep down it is rich in Roman remains; far below the invading legions tramped, upheaving the victorious eagles above the dim old tesselated pavements; for London has its Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Moreover most of the old rooms have been covered with roofs, for the protection of the elegant tesselated pavements.
In the year 1853, the Duke of Buccleuch had three holes dug in the turf within a few yards of one another, at the western end of the nave; and the old tesselated pavement of the abbey was thus discovered.
The old tesselated pavements have, however, often suffered by having subsided unequally from being unequally undermined by the worms.
Four castings found on the recently uncovered, tesselated floor of the great room in the Roman villa at Brading, contained many particles of tile or brick, of mortar, and of hard white cement; and the majority of these appeared plainly worn.
It had no stately colonnades of foreign marbles, no tesselated pavement to the vestibule, no glowing frescoes on the walls, no long lines of exterior windows, glittering with the new luxury of glass.
In 1805 a tesselated pavement, now in the British Museum, was found at Lothbury.
In 1852 tesselated pavement, Samian ware, earthen urns and lamp, and other Roman vessels were found from twelve to twenty feet deep near Basing Lane, New Cannon Street.
On taking up the modern floor, remains of the original tesselatedpavement were discovered.
Tesselated pavements have been found in Threadneedle Street, and other spots near the Exchange.
And the statuary, seen from the highway, denotes the taste displayed in the vestibule, with its floor of tesselated pavement, echoing to the tread of footsteps as the corridors of some grand old cathedral.
So Lucilius compares the artificial arrangement of words to the putting together a tesselated pavement.
Holyday explains this by "chess-board," from the resemblance of the squares to the tesselated pavements.
Some remains are still shewn, consisting of a ruined wall and a tesselated pavement in a vineyard, about eight miles from Tivoli, which are supposed, with reason, to mark its site.
Soft mosses crept around the marble basin, and dropped downward to the tesselated floor.
The windows, with all their wealth of gorgeously tinted glass, were open to the hazy atmosphere; grooms hung around the stables; footmen glided over the tesselated marble of the entrance-hall.
Not a room, not a picture on the walls, not a pattern in the tesselated pavements, that did not call up a hundred associations, and make the past in which she had enjoyed so much happiness live again in her fancy.
The floor was adorned with a handsome tesselated pavement, the principal device of which was a representation of the favourite subject of Orpheus attracting beasts and birds by his lyre.
To the blue and red tesselated floor were fastened many marble-topped tables squeezed so close together that when a customer rose to leave he created an eddy among his disturbed fellows.
This is a fragment of a tesselated floor, discovered a few years ago, but covered over by a former possessor of the estate.
We are now approaching one of the most valuable traces which Leicester affords of our Roman Conquerors, a relick of their tesselated floors; preserved with great attention, in the cellar of Mr. Worthington, opposite the town prison.
And now, his darkest tempest being long since stilled, I completely absolve myself for amending the message which Lady Pollacke's tesselated hall had mercifully left obscure.
I came to a standstill on the tesselated marble of the hall, and this time proffered my hand to Sir Walter.
The floor was in large tesselated blocks of precious metals, and partly covered with a sort of matlike carpeting.
The library room is nearly two hundred feet long, with tesselated marble floor, and with the busts of the great men of Trinity ranged around the walls.
It is now tesselated with sheets and blankets out to dry, and the sound of people beating carpets is rarely absent.
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