In an adjoining room Evadne could see a bed with its gay patchwork quilt of Dyce's making, and in the little kitchen beyond she heard her singing as she trod to and fro.

The patchwork madonna.

"I do sew every day in Aunt Jane's room, ten minutes hemming, ten minutes seaming, and ten minutes basting patchwork squares together.

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The hospitable table was made on the placewell and strongly made; there are braided rugs, and the wooden chairs have patchwork cushions.

Here again the Prussian has no accidental merits, none of those lucky survivals, none of those late repentances, which make the patchwork glory of Russia.

Kugler calls this "a patchwork ideal," which puts the matter in a nut-shell.

Slowly she pushed down the patchwork silk.

Then his mind set to work again on that motley procession of pictures which he had likened to a patchwork film.

It's only a patchwork sort of thing.

Windsor Castle, as it was, was a sad patchwork affair.

In the course of his adventures, the ass was sold to a milla great flour factory employing numerous handsand, with his usual curiosity, he there observed, as he says, the way in which that loathsome workshop was conducted: "What stunted little men met my eye, their skin all striped with livid scars, their backs a mass of sores, with tattered patchwork clothing that gave them shade rather than covering! ...

John Wesley nodded at their unforgotten shapes and pieced this vast landscape to the patchwork map in his head.

The ceiling was decorated with an elaborate and most effective design in wooda fashion very common in Srinagar, consisting of a sort of patchwork panelling of small pieces of wood, cut to length and shape, and tacked on to a backing in geometrical designs.

The general tone of the surroundings was as little in keeping with the patchwork personality of its mistress as one could imagine.

Wright and Forde have almost completed the absolute hut, a patchwork building for which the framework only was broughtbut it will be very well adapted for our needs.

Only by treating the problem as an organic whole, by avoiding patchwork remedies and by building for a distant future, can we hope to remove one of the chief danger-centres in Europe.

"Instead of making them a bill of fare out of patchwork romances and polluting scandal," reads the preface signed by Duncan Campbell, "the good old gentleman who wrote the adventures of my life has made it his business to treat them with a great variety of entertaining passages which always terminate in morals that tend to the edification of all readers, of whatsoever sex, age, or profession.

The walls were white-washed, and the patchwork counterpane made my eyes quite ache with its brightness.

* Evadne stood in Dyce's little room, beside the bed with its gay patchwork cover.

It was a very small apartment; on one side was a large glass case full of holy images, on the other a great bed looking very clean with its quilted-silk patchwork coverlet.