Johnnie then, though badly burnt, pulled the curtains, valance, and all down on to the floor, and beat out the flames with his hands and feet.

Once a week, when a bedroom is to be thoroughly cleaned, the house-maid should commence by brushing the mattresses of the bed before it is made; she should then make it, shake the curtains, lay them smoothly on the bed, and pin or tuck up the bottom valance, so that she may be able to sweep under the bed.

Turning up the valances of the bed, he found a piece of paper crumpled up; this was sent to an analyst on the following day.

Secure in the pocket of her valanced brown skirtfor at that time and in that place it had not yet occurred to any woman that pockets were a superfluitya private half-sovereign lay in the inmost compartment of her purse; this coin was destined to recompense Mr. Cannon.

There was a hesitating movement on the unseen stairs above, and then Hilda could see Sarah Gailey's felt slippers and the valance of her skirt.

And she saw the pale blinds drawn down behind the dressing-table, and the valance at the top, and the draped curtains; and herself darkly in the glass.

frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp.

And yet I saw too far, for in the mist to which we were making a sternboard, I saw a white line like a fringe or valance to the sea; and then I looked to starboard, and there was the same white fringe, and then to larboard, and the white fringe was there too.

Sometimes the sable valance and portières were heavily trimmed and fringed with silver; at others there was only the scantiest display of time-worn black cloth.

Our passports duly conned over, the functionary, with a sour glance at our valanced faces, inquired if we had letters for any one in the island.

It was one of those rooms whose spacious and consistent ugliness grows old into a sort of beauty, formidable and repellent, but impressive; an early Victorian room, large and stately and symmetrical, fullbut not too fullof twisted and tortured mahogany, green rep, lustres, valances, fringes, gilt tassels.

Dusky in far corners or sharply drawn near the firelight, stood, in those days, chests and tables and forms and doubtless a bed too with its valance and curtains.

The Man who shot Liberty Valance.

The Man who shot Liberty Valance.

After satisfying myself of the fastening of the door, I began to walk about the room, peering round each article of furniture, tucking up the valances of the bed, and opening its curtains wide.

That leaves the black net dress and sun-parlour valance.

"... Travelled through the vale of Nith, here little like a vale, it is so broad, with irregular hills rising up on each side, in outline resembling the old-fashioned valances of a bed.

Hardly had she withdrawn the table and chair and placed the hatwell bentbeneath the low stool whereon she had been sitting, and arranged the folds of her heavy brocade like a valance about her, when the door was thrown open.

They lifted the heavy valance and one got upon his knees and prodded beneath with his sword.

Its appearance is a little unfamiliar, of course, but all the muddle of dust-collecting hangings and witless ornament that cover the earthly bedroom, the valances, the curtains to check the draft from the ill-fitting windows, the worthless irrelevant pictures, usually a little askew, the dusty carpets, and all the paraphernalia about the dirty black-leaded fireplace are gone.

There were green paper shades at the windows, some faded chintz valances about the bed, and two or three easy-chairs covered with chintz.

I went near no moors, I looked no more out of my window, I only sat on the stool by my bedside and kept my face hid in the valances; and the little gray governess would sit beside me and cheer me, and tell me it was not so bad when all was said, and beauty was but little worth, and years would efface much, that my hair was still as dark and soft, my eyes as shining, myBut all to what use?

I had a vague consciousness that some hand had recently parted them, and the tassels on the valance were quivering still with the impulse they had thus received.