Over a low wicker sewing-chair, she did linger longingly; it would look so nice beside one of the west windows.
XIV: Benavente's Madrid All the gravel paths of the Plaza Santa Ana were encumbered with wicker chairs.
Next in favor came two large, low wicker chairs covered with bright striped linen.
Arden sat at the small wicker desk, pen and paper before her, and got as far as "Dearest Mother.
What is, however, peculiar to Scheveningen is its expanse of sand covered with sentry-box wicker chairs.
Mats have been banged on its doorsteps by clean Dutch maidservants armed with wicker beaters; milk has been brought in huge cans of brass and copper shining like the sun; but of its life proper the gracht has given no sign.
Wicker work (poloi kalathoi) was also used by the ancient Greeks to make brim-less hats.
Amid all the confusion and tumult the wicker basket, which had held food, floated serenely, and the oars clustered round about it.
She let her work lie upon her knee, and leaned back in her low garden chair, her hands resting upon its wicker arms.
It began in the time of Egbert and Canute, and earlier, in the days of the Druids, when they used peacefully to allow themselves to be burned by the score, enclosed in wicker idols, as natural offerings to placate the gods.
Beneath the wide-spreading lebbek a low table was laid for luncheon with two wicker chairs beside it.
His eyes held their fixed scrutiny in an instant, then dropped carelessly away, as he drew forward the wicker chairs.
Mild offences were visited with the loss of eyes or ears; neglect of a more serious sort with death by fire in the wicker tower.
He had observed in Britain that the coast fishermen used boats made out of frames of wicker covered with skins.
Her informant, reclining dreamily in a luxurious wicker chair, bathed in the perspiring vapor, had evidently taken a fancy to her.
Toss in the whitebait, shake them lightly in the cloth, and put them in a wicker sieve to take away the superfluous flour.
So he went to the mountains and built him a splendid wicker castle which is so strong that even I and my people could not batter it down, and there he lives all by himself.
Next morning they made an early start, but had hardly proceeded on their way an hour when, on climbing a slight elevation, they beheld in the distance a low mountain on top of which stood Ugu's wicker castle.
These two groups, however, were headed straight for the wicker castle, and so Ugu began to plan how best to meet them and to defeat their efforts to conquer him.
The puzzle is still a puzzle, so let us go on to the wicker castle and question the magician himself.
So after vainly searching for the boy a full hour, they formed a procession and proceeded in the direction of the wickercastle of Ugu the Shoemaker.
Then the King waved his metal wand and before them appeared a room in the wicker castle of Ugu.
With this, he waved his metal wand, and in the circle suddenly appeared a thin little man, very old and skinny, who was seated on a wicker stool before a wicker table.
They remained in the wicker castle for three days, carefully packing all the magical things that had been stolen by Ugu and also taking whatever in the way of magic the shoemaker had inherited from his ancestors.
Then he climbed in beside her and wished himself in his own wicker castle.
All this time our friends had been getting farther up the hill and nearer to the wicker castle.
The wall completely surrounded thewicker castle, and its sharp points prevented anyone from climbing it.
His first act was to go away from the City of Herku and build for himself the Wicker Castle in the hills.
But I mean to face him in his wicker castle and force him to return my property.
In front of the stove, two battered wicker rocking chairs.
Several wicker armchairs are placed around the fire-place on the left in which a cheerful wood fire is crackling.
She was established at ease in a wicker rocker, unconcernedly plying the ostrich-plume fan.
Rugs, wicker furniture, wall-pockets of flowers, and paper lanterns dropped over the electric lights gave it the appearance of a prettily set scene.
Mexican cowboys, in all the glory of leather jerkins, hung wicker baskets, bursting full of cold meat and fruits, of flasks of cognac and flagons of red wine, over their saddlebows.
The Indian harvest is about our Christmas time, and the labourers troop into the milpas, wicker baskets slung on their brown backs, and pick the cobs, dropping them over their shoulders into the baskets.
We may reasonably suppose that at least the scale armor and the unwieldy wicker shields (yeppa), which required to be rested on the ground, were adopted at a somewhat late date from the Assyrians.
They had large wicker shields, and bore their quivers suspended at their backs.
So gay and colorful was the room itself with its cretonnes, its soft tinted walls, its singing birds, in wicker cages, that it seemed a part of the fragrant garden that crowded close to the French windows.
The mail arranged, Trude sat back in the cushions of a great wicker chair and with a long breath of delight enjoyed the beauty around her.
With a pull she loosed it from a splinter of the wicker chair, and then made for the doorway, followed by the other girls.
Bess, Belle and Hazel busied themselves setting to rights their various possessions in the little cabin, and then they sat out in the wicker chairs in the after part of the craft, where Jack and Walter were.
Like the ordinary car it was constructed of wicker work, but was of the proportions of a small house, being built two stories high, with an upper platform like the deck of a ship, on which the passengers could stand.
They made an excellent meal, and then Vane drew up a wickerchair to the fire for Evelyn and sat down opposite to her.
Evelyn sat near him, reclining languidly in a wicker chair.
At length, impatient to get a view of the world without, he mounted a high stool in the hall, and so contrived to enjoy the prospect which the unglazed wicker lattice, deep set in the wall, afforded.
It was a large wicker laundry hamper, and it was filled with unbound volumes of Temple Bar, and the Cornhill Magazine.
Lesbia, leaning back in a picturesque wicker armchair and holding a pale-yellow teacup in her hand, and a plate with a slice of walnut-cake on her knee.
