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“On the toilette beside, stood an old-fashioned mirror, in a fillagree frame, part of the dispersed finery of the neighbouring castle.”
“Reason, — to-day, pasteboard and fillagree, and ending to-morrow in madness and murder.”
“The fillagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-vitae, with its strong resinous odour; the burnet-rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns.”
“All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason, -- to-day, pasteboard and fillagree, and ending to-morrow in madness and murder.”
“I remarked many of our favourite garden shrubs among these wildings of nature: the fillagree, with its narrow, dark glossy-green leaves; the privet, with its modest white blossoms and purple berries; the lignum-vitae, with its strong resinous odour; the burnet-rose, and a great variety of elegant unknowns.”
“But not all the peppermint-drops in a chymist's shop could take away the taste of the fillagree-box from Julia.”
“Yes! even though the fillagree box had been shown off and admired.”
“So now you see this triumph of simplicity over art, despoiled the fillagree box of all its horrors, for the innocent children admired her shells yet more -- unsophisticated, and insensible to the long story about the value of the rubies, the maid of honour, and even the queen's hairs.”
“One of the ladies told her that her little girl should bring to shew her a most beautiful gold fillagree work-box set with precious stones, which one of the maids of honour about court, who was her godmother, had given her a few days before.”
“The fillagree box was a fort of night-mare to her.”
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