flower-vase

All this as he pottered about, setting his books in order, placing the flower-vase just so, tapping the glass, smoking like a chimney, and at last settling himself in an armchair, remarking how grand it would be to see "the homeland" once more.

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I had been imprisoned inside that flower-vase, which your golf-ball shattered, for five thousand years.

Archive 2005-05-01 ps 2005

I had been imprisoned inside that flower-vase, which your golf-ball shattered, for five thousand years.

The Uses of Enchantment ps 2005

All this as he pottered about, setting his books in order, placing the flower-vase just so, tapping the glass, smoking like a chimney, and at last settling himself in an armchair, remarking how grand it would be to see "the homeland" once more.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

All this as he pottered about, setting his books in order, placing the flower-vase just so, tapping the glass, smoking like a chimney, and at last settling himself in an armchair, remarking how grand it would be to see "the homeland" once more.

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

Now it will be an umbrella, now a silver-rimmed flower-vase, at another time a tea-trolley.

Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958

"You have a flower-vase," said her mother; "and that is not for flowers."

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

"But I could use it for a flower-vase, mamma, you know."

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

"Why should you cry, my dear?" said her mother; "it will be of as much use to you now as ever for a flower-vase."

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

There should be a few good pictures or painted plaques mounted in plush hung on the walls; a portrait may be placed on a common easel and draped with a scarf in old gold or peacock-blue, and tiny lambrequins, painted or embroidered, may hang beneath a bracket supporting a bust or flower-vase.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous