rock-work

Their wood and wine were put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near the

Les Miserables 2008

A builder was sent for, who undertook to construct a grotto, of which the top should be reached by a path three feet wide through the rock-work, where periwinkles would grow, iris, clematis, ivy, honeysuckle, and

Albert Savarus 2007

A builder was sent for, who undertook to construct a grotto, of which the top should be reached by a path three feet wide through the rock-work, where periwinkles would grow, iris, clematis, ivy, honeysuckle, and

Albert Savarus 2007

A lake, a rock-work, a bridge, a stone lantern, and a deformed pine, are indispensable; but whenever circumstances and means admit of it, quaintnesses of all kinds are introduced.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

She tried again and again to lure him into an unconscious confession of the pleasure which he felt already in the society of the beautiful Miss Bygrave; she twined herself in and out of every weakness in his character, as the frogs and efts twined themselves in and out of the rock-work of her Aquarium.

No Name 2003

The dial was crowned by a glass pedestal placed on rock-work in carved ebony; and on the top of the pedestal sat the inevitable figure of Time, with his everlasting scythe in his hand.

Armadale 2003

Mrs. Lecount; they were tenderly interested in everything she looked at — in Magdalen, in the toad on the rock-work, in the back-yard view from the window; in her own plump fair hands, — which she rubbed softly one over the other while she spoke; in her own pretty cambric chemisette, which she had a habit of looking at complacently while she listened to others.

No Name 2003

On the table stood a glass tank filled with water, and ornamented in the middle by a miniature pyramid of rock-work interlaced with weeds.

No Name 2003

Snails clung to the sides of the tank; tadpoles and tiny fish swam swiftly in the green water, slippery efts and slimy frogs twined their noiseless way in and out of the weedy rock-work; and on top of the pyramid there sat solitary, cold as the stone, brown as the stone, motionless as the stone, a little bright-eyed toad.

No Name 2003

Next is the _Pelican Enclosure_, containing a house of mimic rock-work, and a capacious tank of water, the favourite element of the Pelican.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 545, May 5, 1832 Various