It was wainscoted from roof to floor--veiled, floored and walled in oak.
The letters that the two looked over together in that wainscoted parlour at Booth's Edge lie now in an iron case in a certain muniment-room.
It was a plain little chamber where he lay, fireless, yet not too cold, since it was wainscotedfrom floor to ceiling, and looked out eastwards upon the pleasaunce, with rooms on either side of it.
She looked at this without speaking: the wall was wainscoted in oak, as it had always been, six feet up from the floor.
From this, broad door-ways give entrance to the vestibule, sixty feet by forty, paved in black and white marble, and wainscoted four feet above the floor with beautifully variegated marble from Vermont.
The father and daughter were shown into a parlour with a print of Marshal Schomberg over the mantelpiece, and wonderful performances in tapestry work and embroidery on every available chair, as well as framed upon the wainscoted walls.
She wore a double-bordered white cap over her black hair, and looked suspiciously at us through her small keen, black eyes, but kindly bade us come in to a low wainscoted hall, with broad stairway and many open doors.
The walls of only the more substantial farmsteads are wainscoted with deal, or even partially screened with drift-wood.
Rear hall, kitchen, and breakfast room to be wainscoted 3 feet high, and capped with nosing and scotia.
Kitchen and bath rooms wainscoted with narrow beaded strips of maple.
In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be "sitters-up.
When Fred was riding home on winter evenings he had a pleasant vision beforehand of the bright hearth in the wainscoted parlor, and was sorry for other men who could not have Mary for their wife; especially for Mr. Farebrother.
It was not long before they were seated together in the wainscoted parlor over their tea and toast, which was as much as Raffles cared to take at that early hour.
He went down into the wainscoted parlor first, and began to consider whether he would not have his horse saddled and go home by the moonlight, and give up caring for earthly consequences.
But their watch in the wainscoted parlor was sometimes varied by the presence of other guests from far or near.
BLAKE: Songs of Experience Fred Vincy wanted to arrive at Stone Court when Mary could not expect him, and when his uncle was not down-stairs in that case she might be sitting alone in the wainscoted parlor.
Above him, the high ceiling loomed shadowy and indistinct; behind him, the dark wainscoted wall threw his figure into bold relief.
It is an antique edifice of some architectural pretensions, displays five fine gables, and has spacious wainscoted and frescoed apartments, with quaint mantels and other evidences of colonial stateliness.
The quaint apartments are darkly wainscoted and low-ceiled, with massive beams crossing overhead.
This gallery waswainscoted with old oak and hung with rich leathers, and the lofty ceiling was emblazoned with heraldic emblems and monograms, as was the fashion of the day.
At last came the day when they knelt down and rose together from cushions before an improvised altar in the wide hall, and the colonel led them all to the wainscoted dining-room.
The horse of race-track and show-ring and hunting field were as alien there as the other bluegrass luxuries of wainscoted halls and silent servants and groaning tables and silver-surmounted sideboards.
It is a curious old structure, with wainscoted walls, and was especially favored by Dickens, who often dined here with Maclise and Forster and read to them his MSS.
In the midst of the village stands a cosy inn, where Dickens for some time lodged and was visited by John Browdie, and where we are shown the wainscoted apartment in which some portion of "Nickleby" was noted.
All the wainscoted rooms are sombre and cheerless, but the memory-haunted study seems most depressing as we stand at Carlyle's hearth-stone and look upon the spot where he sat to write his many books.
The Captain's drawing-room was a low wainscoted room, with a large window looking into the Dean's garden.
The walls, like the hall, were wainscoted with old oak, but some beautiful water-colours and old china relieved their somewhat sombre hue.
A very pleasant room, wainscoted with black oak, and furnished with an ample dining-table, and chairs of the same material.
The room is wainscoted with old oak, and at one end is a secret closet in which the king could take refuge.
There are three of the latter; one of them, now a small withdrawing-room, is entered from the oak wainscoted hall.
When we had looked long at these, the old gentleman led us into a chapel, of the same size as the former room, and built in the same fashion, wainscoted likewise with old oak.
She looked round as she spoke, and saw Rhoda coming down the broad shallow stairs into the wainscoted hall.
Though the twilight had begun to gather, enough light streamed through the great west window to make the portraits on the wainscoted walls clearly visible.
The landing-floor, like the stairs, was of polished oak, and the wainscoted walls had one or two old pictures on them.
All these rooms are wainscoted with oak, which looks new, being, I believe, of the date of King William's reign.
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