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  • There he was, semi-transparent — the proper conventional phantom, and noiseless except for his ghost of a voice — flitting to and fro in that nice, clean, chintz-hung old bedroom.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • The dressing-table is so simple that any girl might copy it -- it is a chintz-hung box with a sheet of plate glass on top, and a white framed mirror hung above it.

    The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

  • "I had a little sister once who looked just like you," said Mrs. Brill, as she watched Betty smooth her hair at the mirror in the chintz-hung guest room.

    Betty Gordon in Washington Alice B. Emerson

  • The vague, snow-veiled light filtered in from the street-lamp below, making of Cameron an incoherent lump, wrapped to his eyes in the covers of their chintz-hung bed.

    Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

  • Campion walked through the chintz-hung room and stood looking out over the wide garden, misty in the twilight.

    The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • Up in the low-ceilinged chintz-hung bedroom the oak floor was sloping and the cool air was fragrant with lavender, toilet soap, and beeswax.

    Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930

  • Up in the low-ceilinged chintz-hung bedroom the oak floor was sloping and the cool air was fragrant with lavender, toilet soap, and beeswax.

    Mystery Mile Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1930

  • Cicely sat by the fire in her chintz-hung bedroom, leaning back against the flowered cushion of the big armchair, gazing into the flames.

    The Windy Hill Cornelia Meigs 1928

  • Cicely sat by the fire In her chintz-hung bedroom, leaning back against the flowered cushion of the big armchair, gazing into the flames.

    The Windy Hill 1922

  • Robert Morton needed no second bidding and at once followed the middle-aged English woman up the staircase and into a small, chintz-hung sitting room that looked out on the sea.

    Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920

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