festoonery

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The grey gauze-like festoonery, having a resemblance to ascending smoke, hinders him from perceiving that of the discharged gun He can see none.

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  • The grey gauze-like festoonery, having a resemblance to ascending smoke, hinders him from perceiving that of the discharged gun He can see none. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • Lifting his eyes above the joyous exhibition, he beheld the carven capitals of the columns, tied together with festoonery of evergreens, and relieved by garlands of shining flowers, and above the musicians, under a canopy shading her from the meridian sun, the Princess Irene herself. —  The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • The grey gauze-like festoonery, having a resemblance to ascending smoke, hinders him from perceiving that of the discharged gun. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • A pause in the soliloquy; a glance at the prostrate form; another, which interrogates the scene around, taking in the huge unshapely trunks, their long outstretched limbs, with the pall-like festoonery of Spanish moss; a thought about the loneliness of the place, and its fitness for concealing a dead body. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • The rumbling of wheels heard through the drooping festoonery of the trees, proclaimed that a second carriage was approaching along the Shell Road. —  The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
 

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