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  • Alongside them were white oaks, beeches, maples, walnuts, sycamores, birches, willows, cedars, pines, and hemlocks, all enmeshed in a lattice of wild grapevine, comprising one of the greatest assortment of forest trees in the Northern Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • At Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar's abandoned sandstone city, they wander among courtyards and cloisters as parrots and hawks fly overhead, and in Salim Chishti's tomb Ashima ties red threads for good luck to a marble lattice screen.†   (source)
  • The flames licked up its sides, eating away at the lattice and swallowing the veranda.†   (source)
  • Temporary tracks latticed the grounds.†   (source)
  • Clary could see his face now—it was dead-white and papery, latticed with a black network of horrible scars that almost obliterated his features.†   (source)
  • Sculpted metal roses wound in vines up the tall posts and formed a bowery lattice overhead.†   (source)
  • He led the way through past a dark honeycomb lattice that directed a cool wash of air across Paul when he passed it.†   (source)
  • Close by was an open-air pavilion made of dark wood lattice screens and rows of column posts supporting its heavy tiled roof.†   (source)
  • Two women in white blouses sit in front of black sewing machines with the word Singer spelled out in gold along the body, pumping one foot on the iron lattice step that moves the needle up and down.†   (source)
  • When I look outside I see the rain has turned to snow, thousands of snowflakes melting down the latticed windows and making the moonlight that comes through the panes look watery and full of movement, shadows twisting and blurring on the floor, alive.†   (source)
  • For the longest while she stared at the blue-ribbon winner, the oven-hot cherries simmering under the crisp lattice crust, and then she was overcome, and hugging Nancy, asked, "Honest, did I really make it myself?"†   (source)
  • When the pitiful little figure had lagged away down the twilight street, holding to Lissy's hand, limping on sore feet, Johnnie stood long on the porch in the dark with gusts of rain beating intermittently at the lattice beside her.†   (source)
  • He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, And there was no way he could turn his head or touch the pipe.†   (source)
  • Aetna made a pie for them once that had a latticed crust.†   (source)
  • Cooper called up to the guards—a pair of Mystics peering from a latticed window— and the Red Branch waited as Rowan's new gates were opened for the very first time.†   (source)
  • The firemage had conjured a ladder in the air, a crackling orange ladder of swirling flame that rose unsupported from the floor of the bazaar, reaching toward the high latticed roof.†   (source)
  • Here the roof, latticed through and through with fine roots, was very strong.†   (source)
  • My room is circular, with a latticed window that overlooks the garden, and then beyond to the hive-like roofs of the lower town, and finally to the endless expanse of sun-spangled water.†   (source)
  • She gestures to a lattice-screen doorway leading to another room.†   (source)
  • There was a parking lot bordered by a post-and-rail fence on the right; several late diners came out of the lattice-framed entrance in front.†   (source)
  • Same walls, same ceiling, latticed with brown roots that looked dead or dying.†   (source)
  • Lourdes looks up through the steel lattice of the bridge coated black with exhaust.†   (source)
  • Grandmother and Elder Sister moved to the lattice window and looked out.†   (source)
  • Moonlight played on the high iron-latticed pavilions.†   (source)
  • This darkness in him is blacker than the cancer, and the girl heals this as well, by the simple expedient of showing Amos the light of God and the strange dimensional lattices of realms beyond our own.†   (source)
  • And a century is a patient thing, she once observed, as we studied the delicate lattice-work of ficus attached to the south face of a carriage house on Legare Street.†   (source)
  • In "the library," inside the mission-style bookcase with its three diamond-latticed glass doors, with my father's Morris chair and the glass-shaded lamp on its table beside it, were books I could soon begin on—and I did, reading them all alike and as they came, straight down their rows, top shelf to bottom.†   (source)
  • Off to the left, it ended against a wall with a latticed window, and there were four more doors, two on either side.†   (source)
  • They had opened the two end lattices to get a breath of the fresh autumn night air, which made the panes sweat.†   (source)
  • Latticed in pawnshop iron, an old saber caught the glint of a street lamp, a mandolin's belly glowed.†   (source)
  • It was a triangular lattice of metal strips held together with bolts.†   (source)
  • And then we went to our bedchamber and I pinned a cloth over the lattice window so it would be dark.†   (source)
  • There were other injuries there too: a darkening lattice of claw marks, each hole red and oozing.†   (source)
  • Then come drums, cymbals, the gongs of explosions, drawing a crimson lattice over the roof.†   (source)
  • On each side was a shady arbor with a latticed covering of jasmine.†   (source)
  • The tarnish is clogging the micro-lattice, and that reduces the surface area.†   (source)
  • Once they left, I sat in my chair by the lattice window.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower and I went to the lattice window.†   (source)
  • So many times sitting at my lattice window I'd imagined walking here.†   (source)
  • Moonlight came in through the lattice window, illuminating Snow Flower's face.†   (source)
  • 1 looked out the lattice window toward Jintian, wishing that I could at least see Snow Flower.†   (source)
  • All the time, I looked out our lattice window.†   (source)
  • Then she sat on a stool with her back to the lattice window.†   (source)
  • I sit at the lattice window and look across the fields to my home village.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower's younger brother visited one day and glued paper against the lattice window.†   (source)
  • I liked to sit at the lattice window and watch her.†   (source)
  • Outside the lattice window the white-hot sky of summer eased into the deep blue of autumn.†   (source)
  • The last notes floated out the lattice window and down the alley.†   (source)
  • I shoved him into the closet and looked out the lattice window.†   (source)
  • Honeysuckle climbed up one wall like a lattice, winding all the way up and over the thick wooden shingles.†   (source)
  • I could hear her teeth chattering when she talked but neither of us wanted to stop looking up at the latticed sky.†   (source)
  • She saw how the Fremen slowed while passing the honeycomb lattice, felt the dampness of the air as she came opposite it.†   (source)
  • Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.†   (source)
  • She loves most of all to draw Paris, a city she has seen in exactly one photograph, on the back cover of one of Frau Elena's romance novels: mansard roofs, hazy apartment blocks, the iron lattice of a distant tower.†   (source)
  • They also came in through any crack or hole in the wall, as well as through the large wooden latticed panels that allowed breezes and light to come in.†   (source)
  • I glued paper over the lattices.†   (source)
  • They'd bent them and twisted them around and through each other to weave a wooden lattice, then hung it high above a deep pit filled with logs, leaves, and kindling.†   (source)
  • Bourne dragged him out of sight into a latticed arbour with a profusion of bougainvillaea that reached nearly 6 feet high.†   (source)
  • Clary thought of medieval paintings of saints consumed in the blaze of holy ecstasy—and the angel's wings flew wide and white before they, too, caught and blazed up, a lattice of shimmering fire.†   (source)
  • Stretched out before her, acres of dead grapevines hung in rows on wooden lattices, like gnarled miniature skeletons.†   (source)
  • The bridge itself was a Latticed arc of timber, like an old-fashioned roller coaster, about fifty meters long.†   (source)
  • Prusias watched the bridge burn in silence, removing the kerchief only when the flowers and their vines were reduced to a smoldering lattice.†   (source)
  • He took out his sketchbook while we waited for the Tribal trader and started drawing, capturing the intricacy of the lattice screens and lanterns with small, quick strokes of charcoal.†   (source)
  • But I found myself studying the protective canopy with its great canted columns, maybe seventy feet tall, and the latticed framework that supported the roof.†   (source)
  • They disappear behind the lattice.†   (source)
  • The lamps had already been lit, illuminating trees whose bare branches formed a lattice against the deepening blue-gray sky.†   (source)
  • I might write: Today Mama taught me how to make sticky rice wrapped in taro leaf Snow Flower might write back: Today I looked out my lattice window.†   (source)
  • The concubines might look out the lattice window and see my palanquin veer to the right toward Jintian.†   (source)
  • But beyond that, I was allowed only to look down from the lattice window to the alley that passed by our house.†   (source)
  • On the chosen day I waited by the lattice window, watching for the palanquin to come around the corner.†   (source)
  • In the afternoons Snow Flower sat with me as I did my embroidery, but she gazed out the lattice window, her mind elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I look out the lattice window to yours.†   (source)
  • I folded the paper and slipped it through the tiny lattice window and into the upstairs chamber of the flower tower.†   (source)
  • At night, in bed together under the lattice window, the moonlight bathing us, we were transported back to our hair-pinning days.†   (source)
  • They were standing outside the threshold, and their conversation carried up to me at my spot by the lattice window.†   (source)
  • I paid the diviner and from Snow Flower's lattice window watched as he got into his pony-drawn cart and trotted off down the road.†   (source)
  • I look out my lattice window to yours.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower's lattice window was even smaller and less decorated than the one in my natal home, though I could see through it to my window in Tongkou.†   (source)
  • Madame Wang guaranteed that Beautiful Moon and I would be able to see Jintian and possibly even Snow Flower's window from our new lattice windows.†   (source)
  • Instead of vertical bars on the lattice window, an intricately carvedwooden screen covered the opening.†   (source)
  • We pushed our bed under the lattice window, hoping to catch a cool breeze, but there was none, just torrid stillness.†   (source)
  • The moon was nearly full, and the blue light that came through the lattice window transported me back many years.†   (source)
  • On another level, we made a women's chamber, with lattice windows done in intricate paper cutouts that provided views in every direction.†   (source)
  • The interior walls are paneled in the fine woods of our hills, while the rooms are highly ornamented with carved columns, lattice windows, and balustrades.†   (source)
  • I wanted to run to the lattice window and peek out, but already my feet ached as the pressure on my bones built and the tightness of the bindings blocked my blood's circulation.†   (source)
  • Snow Flower answered, "Yes, Auntie," but I could tell she wasn't listening, because she was standing on the street, staring straight up to the lattice window, searching the shadows for my face.†   (source)
  • We didn't see any adults—the men worked in the fields and the women stayed in their upstairs chambers behind lattice windows—but the alleys were occupied by other children and the village's animals: chickens, ducks, fat sows, and piglets squealing underfoot.†   (source)
  • I was sad I would be leaving my family, but just as I had with my footbinding I tried to see something bigger—not that tiny slice of life I could see from our lattice window but a panorama like the ones Snow Flower and I saw when we peeked out the window of Madame Wang's palanquin.†   (source)
  • She wanted us to know our alleys, to see what lay down them, to walk to the edge of our village and look out, knowing that soon enough all we would see was what we could glimpse from the lattice window of the women's chamber.†   (source)
  • It was behind the latticed partition.†   (source)
  • But whenever she came on the bicycle she would ride it up into the yard and run the front wheel bang into the lattice, while Cassie was playing the "Scarf Dance."†   (source)
  • The houses glittered with Western-style lattice windows stretching from wall to wall, and not so much as a pane was damaged.†   (source)
  • They were threading through the narrow and one-way streets, past the pale-violet bloom of tired squares, the brown steeples and statues, the balcony with the live and probably famous black monkey dipping along the railing as over a ballroom floor, past the grillework and the lattice-work to all the iron swans painted flesh color on the front steps of bungalows outlying.†   (source)
  • The old summerhouse was still back there, lattices leaning inward and not matching at the joinings, in the shadow like a place where long ago something had been kept that could peep out now; in the sun like a little temple raised to it.†   (source)
  • No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.†   (source)
  • He was watchman too, and slept on rags back of the green lattice before the seldom used front door.†   (source)
  • You knows mighty well Ah's too big ter crawl thoo dem lattices.†   (source)
  • They ascended the path quietly and, mounting two or three steps, went in under the latticed door.†   (source)
  • And as he rushed up the kitchen steps—all the house, save the upper side was off the ground—she came out on the little latticed veranda, her hands floury, her nose stove-red.†   (source)
  • He turned over on his back and looked weakly up into the sky through the high shifting lattices of light.†   (source)
  • It should have been later than it was; it should have been late, yet the yellow slashes of mote-palpitant sunlight were latticed no higher up the impalpable wall of gloom which separated them; the sun seemed hardly to have moved.†   (source)
  • They compel me to leave the pool, and I have to pass again through a moist, slippery shaft, until I come through a little latticed door into the open.†   (source)
  • Beside the garden path was a rose vine clinging to a rough lattice support, the tender trailers tied with bits of string.†   (source)
  • There were still ribbons of red, white, and blue crepe paper twisted in the lattice around the booth, hangovers from the Fourth of July, and the jukebox was blaring out music that rocked to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Goldfield still called the office because her father had called it that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.†   (source)
  • Damn your black hide: horse or mare?' and that she told him and that he stood there for a minute and he didn't move at all, with the riding whip against his leg and the lattices of sunlight from the unchinked wall falling upon him, across his white hair and his beard that hadn't turned at all yet, and she said she saw his eyes and then his teeth inside his beard and that she would have run then only she couldn't, couldn't seem to make her legs bear to get up and run: and then he looked at the girl on the pallet again and said, 'Well, Milly; too bad you're not a mare too.†   (source)
  • Lily led them out quietly, after peering through the lattice into the fog, and listening for a moment.†   (source)
  • The child that heard Swain's cow, the lost boy in the Ozarks, the carrier of news among the blacks, and the boy who went in by the lattice with Jim Trivett.†   (source)
  • There were always latticed doors.†   (source)
  • Through the spattered sunlight of the palms, in the smooth walks, princess and lord were wheeled: in latticed bar-rooms, droning with the buzzing fans, men drank from glacéd tall glasses.†   (source)
  • Sometimes at night he would rush across the country, beside a drunken driver, to Exeter and Sydney, and there seek out the women behind the chained lattices, calling to them in the fresh dawn-dusk of Spring his young goat-cry of desire and hunger.†   (source)
  • And he would go, either struggling clumsily and screaming eloquent abuse at his suppliant captors, or jovially acquiescent, bellowing a wanton song of his youth along the latticed crescent, and through the supper-silent highways of the town.†   (source)
  • Archer nodded, and pushed his telegram under the lattice.†   (source)
  • My mother opened the latticed door which led from the hall to the staircase.†   (source)
  • What are those latticed windows at this end?†   (source)
  • A handsome man leaned idly from the lattice.†   (source)
  • The piece of ordnance referred to, was mounted in a separate fortress, constructed of lattice-work.†   (source)
  • She thrust forth her head from the lattice, and looked anxiously upward.†   (source)
  • Harry cast one slight glance at the latticed window, and jumped into the carriage.†   (source)
  • Its walls were of lattice-work, but there was still a roof which could give shelter.†   (source)
  • The lattice-windows were all thrown open, and we sat just within the doorway watching the storm.†   (source)
  • She turned her head from the lattice, as if unable longer to endure a sight so terrible.†   (source)
  • They fired into the attic through a wooden lattice.†   (source)
  • 'You should have opened a lattice and called out: but I could swear that chit is glad you didn't.†   (source)
  • — to peep up at chamber lattices, fearing life was astir behind them!†   (source)
  • 'And that wind sounding in the firs by the lattice.†   (source)
  • Then the storming lights of down-town; parked cars with ruby tail-lights; white arched entrances to movie theaters, like frosty mouths of winter caves; electric signs—serpents and little dancing men of fire; pink-shaded globes and scarlet jazz music in a cheap up-stairs dance-hall; lights of Chinese restaurants, lanterns painted with cherry-blossoms and with pagodas, hung against lattices of lustrous gold and black.†   (source)
  • She babbled of a low stone house with lattice windows and tulip-beds, of colonial brick, of a white frame cottage with green shutters and dormer windows.†   (source)
  • He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a bat-like soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness, tarrying awhile, loveless and sinless, with her mild lover and leaving him to whisper of innocent transgressions in the latticed ear of a priest.†   (source)
  • And now I pass on to another thread which I have extricated out of the tangled skein, the mystery of the sobs in the night, of the tear-stained face of Mrs. Barrymore, of the secret journey of the butler to the western lattice window.†   (source)
  • Lefferts, who was known to shrink from discussion, raised his eye-brows with an ironic grimace that warned the other of the watching damsel behind the lattice.†   (source)
  • The two stones by the path were painted yellow; the outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all; the last iron dog remaining in Gopher Prairie stood among whitewashed conch-shells upon the lawn.†   (source)
  • The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors.†   (source)
  • Merely the branch of a fir-tree that touched my lattice as the blast wailed by, and rattled its dry cones against the panes!†   (source)
  • And now I see the outside of our house, with the latticed bedroom-windows standing open to let in the sweet-smelling air, and the ragged old rooks'—nests still dangling in the elm-trees at the bottom of the front garden.†   (source)
  • From time to time he paused in front of the dim window with its leaden lattice, listened, looked, and stamped his foot.†   (source)
  • The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion.†   (source)
  • It was averred, likewise, that the lattice window, near the Colonel's chair, was open; and that, only a few minutes before the fatal occurrence, the figure of a man had been seen clambering over the garden fence, in the rear of the house.†   (source)
  • Night was already closing in; oppressive exhalations seemed to proceed from the plants and steal upward past the open window; and Giovanni, closing the lattice, went to his couch and dreamed of a rich flower and beautiful girl.†   (source)
  • On descending, we saw through the lattice-work several boats which were gradually becoming more distinct to our view.†   (source)
  • Looking up the hill, the cottage is seen in the left hand corner of the garden, with its thatched roof and porch, and a large latticed window to the left of the porch.†   (source)
  • Had he been a stranger, he might have bestowed a glance upon the structure as he drew nigh it, and seen all the dimness permitted—a darkened mass, low, latticed, pillared, and domed.†   (source)
  • Goody Cloyse, that excellent old Christian, stood in the early sunshine at her own lattice, catechizing a little girl who had brought her a pint of morning's milk.†   (source)
  • "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;
    Let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery explore—
    Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
    'Tis the wind and nothing more.†   (source)
  • She rose with the rest, and silently withdrew to a remote corner of the great room, where she sat herself on a couch in a window, seeming to watch the reflection of the water as it made a silver quivering on the bars of the lattice.†   (source)
  • He had opened, not only the glass window, but the lattice blind outside it, and he had closed both again, and he shivered through his frame.†   (source)
  • Observing his extreme solicitude, she firmly added, "I myself will stand at the lattice, and describe to you as I can what passes without."†   (source)
  • Well, Smiley kep' the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down-town sometimes and lay for a bet.†   (source)
  • They are in the form of an ordinary door, (a single, not a folding door) except that the lower half is latticed or worked in open trellis—thus affording an excellent hold for the hands.†   (source)
  • Isabel enjoyed it largely and, handling the reins in a manner which approved itself to the groom as "knowing," was never weary of driving her uncle's capital horses through winding lanes and byways full of the rural incidents she had confidently expected to find; past cottages thatched and timbered, past ale-houses latticed and sanded, past patches of ancient common and glimpses of empty parks, between hedgerows made thick by midsummer.†   (source)
  • loud and piercing was the storm, The cottage roof was shelter'd sure, The cottage hearth was bright and warm—An orphan boy the lattice pass'd, And, as he mark'd its cheerful glow, Felt doubly keen the midnight blast, And doubly cold the fallen snow.†   (source)
  • The travellers returned into the High Street, where there were timber houses with overhanging stories, whose small-paned lattices were screened by dimity curtains on a drawing-string, and under whose bargeboards old cobwebs waved in the breeze.†   (source)
  • The one joy after which his soul thirsted was to have a money-changer's shop on a much-frequented quay, to have locks all round him of which he held the keys, and to look sublimely cool as he handled the breeding coins of all nations, while helpless Cupidity looked at him enviously from the other side of an iron lattice.†   (source)
  • As at last the sobs were getting quieter, and the grinding less fierce, a sudden beam of sunshine, falling through the wire lattice across the worm-eaten shelves, made her throw away the Fetish and run to the window.†   (source)
  • With this he was a mere lattice of bones; when he opened his eyes to greet her it was as if she were looking into immeasurable space.†   (source)
  • The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house.†   (source)
  • He closed the lattice again with a fluttering heart, closed the window and the curtain, hastened to Lucie, and told her that her father was assisted by the people, and gone in search of her husband.†   (source)
  • Its reputation was that of a haunted house; derived probably from the infrequent glimpses of poor old Amrah, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in a latticed window.†   (source)
  • The room was, however, less sombre than our indications may have represented, for it had a wide, high door, which now stood open into the tangled garden behind; and the tall iron lattices admitted on occasion more than enough of the Italian sunshine.†   (source)
  • On either side extended a ruinous wooden fence of open lattice-work, through which could be seen a grassy yard, and, especially in the angles of the building, an enormous fertility of burdocks, with leaves, it is hardly an exaggeration to say, two or three feet long.†   (source)
  • A very brief exercise of Mr. Sike's art, sufficed to overcome the fastening of the lattice; and it soon stood wide open also.†   (source)
  • When it was high in the peaceful firmament, it shone through half-closed lattice blinds into the solemn room where the stumblings and wanderings of a life had so lately ended.†   (source)
  • Timidly she crept from her lattice, put her hand on Roderigo's shoulder, and was about to leap gracefully down when "Alas!†   (source)
  • Looking eastward from within instead of westward from without, the latticed window, with its curtains drawn, is now seen in the middle of the front wall of the cottage, with the porch door to the left of it.†   (source)
  • There, at the very brink of the water, stood the wormeaten remains of a fence of posts latticed with laths, whereon a low vine spread out a few thin branches like the fingers of an outspread hand.†   (source)
  • The early sun was striking edgewise on its gables and lattice-windows, touching them with gold; and some beams of its old peace seemed to touch my heart.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bucket, in the foremost emblazoned carriage, uses his two fat forefingers to hold the lattice a hair's breadth open while he looks.†   (source)
  • They approached the door, which was of an arched form, and flanked on each side by a narrow tower or projection of the edifice, in both of which were lattice-windows, the wooden shutters to close over them at need.†   (source)
  • Notwithstanding which, she got out in the night; forced the lattice of a window, that I had nailed up myself; dropped on a vine that was trailed below; and never has been seen or heard of, to my knowledge, since.'†   (source)
  • As they descended the steps, it is averred that the lattice of a chamber-window was thrown open, and forth into the sunny day was thrust the face of Mistress Hibbins, Governor Bellingham's bitter-tempered sister, and the same who, a few years later, was executed as a witch.†   (source)
  • The features of the surrounding picture were, a church with hoarding and scaffolding about it, which had been under suppositious repair so long that the means of repair looked a hundred years old, and had themselves fallen into decay; a quantity of washed linen, spread to dry in the sun; a number of houses at odds with one another and grotesquely out of the perpendicular, like rotten pre-Adamite cheeses cut into fantastic shapes and full of mites; and a feverish bewilderment of windows, with their lattice-blinds all hanging askew, and something draggled and dirty dangling out of most of them.†   (source)
  • "You must not—you shall not!" exclaimed Ivanhoe; "each lattice, each aperture, will be soon a mark for the archers; some random shaft—"†   (source)
  • In truth Mrs. Jellyby required a good deal of attention, the lattice-work up her back having widened considerably since I first knew her and her hair looking like the mane of a dustman's horse.†   (source)
  • The many lattices, with their small, diamond-shaped panes, admitted the sunlight into hall and chamber, while, nevertheless, the second story, projecting far over the base, and itself retiring beneath the third, threw a shadowy and thoughtful gloom into the lower rooms.†   (source)
  • It was a little lattice window, about five feet and a half above the ground, at the back of the house: which belonged to a scullery, or small brewing-place, at the end of the passage.†   (source)
  • This wagon, all lattice-work, was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for former punishments.†   (source)
  • No sooner had twilight, that hour of romance, began to lower her blue and starry banner over the lattice, than I rose, opened the piano, and entreated him, for the love of heaven, to give me a song.†   (source)
  • There was only one window, a long pointed casement, latticed with brass wire and bars of iron, further darkened by fine colored panes with the arms of the king and of the queen, each pane being worth two and twenty sols.†   (source)
  • It threw a gleam of recognition, on here a post, and there a garden fence, and here a latticed window-pane, and there a pump, with its full trough of water, and here again an arched door of oak, with an iron knocker, and a rough log for the door-step.†   (source)
  • The lattice was open, and, as he stepped out, I heard Cathy inquiring of her unsociable attendant what was that inscription over the door?†   (source)
  • All at once, beside her cell, she perceived a priest making a pretext of reading the public breviary, but who was much less occupied with the "lectern of latticed iron," than with the gallows, toward which he cast a fierce and gloomy glance from time to time.†   (source)
  • It was quite a cottage-room, with a lattice-window: around which were clusters of jessamine and honeysuckle, that crept over the casement, and filled the place with their delicious perfume.†   (source)
  • The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it.†   (source)
  • With patient courage, strengthened by the interval which she had employed in mental devotion, Rebecca again took post at the lattice, sheltering herself, however, so as not to be visible from beneath.†   (source)
  • This box was grated, only the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the BOOK SIXTH.†   (source)
  • Quiet among the undertakers and the equipages and the calves of so many legs all steeped in grief, Mr. Bucket sits concealed in one of the inconsolable carriages and at his ease surveys the crowd through the lattice blinds.†   (source)
  • At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out over the road; a house with long low lattice-windows bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the narrow pavement below.†   (source)
  • The only resource left me was to run to a lattice and warn his intended victim of the fate which awaited him.†   (source)
  • The window of the young lady's chamber was opened now; for she loved to feel the rich summer air stream in, and revive her with its freshness; but there always stood in water, just inside the lattice, one particular little bunch, which was made up with great care, every morning.†   (source)
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