wainscoted

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SWEET HEART Ye hae marred a bonnier face than your ain DYING WORDS OF THE BONNIE EARL OF MORAY One room at Hurst Walwyn, though large, wainscoted, and well furnished, bore as pertinaciously the air of a cell as the appearance of Sister Cecily St. John continued like that of a nun.

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  • I looked round the low-wainscoted apartment, with its narrow mullioned windows, in extreme curiosity. —  Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet
  • Set into a hillside with its tin roof and broad porch held up by bright cedar posts shading a stately, brick-wainscoted facade, the justice court building has the look of a country estate. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • On the left were the dining-room, which had been newly wainscoted, the linen-press, the pantry, the kitchen, and a little room with a bath in it A corridor ran the whole length of the first story, the ten doors of as many rooms opening on to it, and Jeanne's room was quite at the end, on the right. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
  • The walls were wainscoted, and the massive chimney-piece was carved with heraldic designs. —  A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta
  • The spacious halls and stairways were wainscoted, finished, and ceiled in oak; the drawing- room, the dining-room, and the library were furnished in solid mahogany; and the chambers were finished in poplar and pine. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
 

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