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  • So I walked up and came upon a place pargetted with marble and spread and hung with gold-worked carpets and tapestry, amiddlemostof which stood a throne of juniper wood inlaid with pearls and precious stones and set with bosses of emeralds.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • House-fronts were fretted, pierced and pargetted till they looked as though cut out of cardboard for a romantic stage-setting.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Then this wandering light being darted on the polished marble and agate with which all the inside of the temple was pargetted, our eyes were entertained with a sight of all the admirable colours which the rainbow can boast when the sun darts his fiery rays on some dropping clouds.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • I then cast my eyes on the roof and walls of the temple, that were all pargetted with porphyry and mosaic work, which from the left side at the coming in most admirably represented the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians; as followeth.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Then this wandering light being darted on the polished marble and agate with which all the inside of the temple was pargetted, our eyes were entertained with a sight of all the admirable colours which the rainbow can boast when the sun darts his fiery rays on some dropping clouds.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • I then cast my eyes on the roof and walls of the temple, that were all pargetted with porphyry and mosaic work, which from the left side at the coming in most admirably represented the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians; as followeth.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Tewkesbury is famous for its magnificent conventual church, for the historic battle fought close to the town, and for the ancient timbered and pargetted houses in the centre of the town and down by the riverside, which rival even Chester.

    What to See in England Gordon Home 1923

  • The tall southern windows of the hall, above the pargetted plaster, had faded through glowing ruby and blue to dusk before they rose from the table and went down and through the passage into the little parlour next the master's chamber, where they usually took their dessert.

    The King's Achievement Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • And it was enough to break one's heart to behold that misery ending in filth beneath the glaring light from the big window; to gaze on that ill-pargetted shanty, so bare and disorderly, where one shivered with melancholy although it was a bright February afternoon.

    His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871

  • So I walked up and came upon a place pargetted with marble and spread and hung with gold-worked carpets and tapestry, amiddlemostof which stood a throne of juniper wood inlaid with pearls and precious stones and set with bosses of emeralds.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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