He stood out against the chocolate-ocher wallpaper and a framed Declaration of Independence, hanging left.

The only thing which still spoke of old times was the wallpaper with the tiny red and blue flowers.

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Among her publications are "In This Our World," "Women and Economics," "Concerning Children," "The Home," "Human Work," "The Yellow Wallpaper," "The Man-made World," "Moving the Mountain," "What Diantha Did," and "The Crux."

When the elevator doors opened at the top floor, Oliver was disoriented by the orange carpet, the color-coordinated flowery wallpaper, and the sunny windows.

When now and again I went into one of the master's studies and felt a carpet under my feet, and saw a pleasant litter of pipes and novels lying on the table, it seemed to me that I was in a holy place, and I looked at the hearthrug, the wallpaper, and the upholstered chairs with a kind of desolate love for things that were nice to see and touch.

"] Too many of our modern buildings are a sham from beginning to endsham marble, sham stonework, sham wallpapers, sham wainscoting, sham carpets on the ground, and sham people walking about on them: even the very bookcases are sham.

The Romans, who did not use wallpapers, were in the habit of colouring their plaster with various pigments.

His idea was that the pattern would act as wallpaper and pictures combined.

The four rooms became immaculately cleansweetened up with soap and water, with neat wallpaper, with paint and furniture.

Dentistsa houseful of themspittoons, revolving basins; patients going upstairs with sinking feelings; wondering at the pattern on the wallpaper; going down triumphant.

Her Sanctum was only too evidently an intellectualised bedroom, and a cheap wallpaper of silvery roses peeped coquettishly from among her draped furniture.

Wallpaper, its history, design, and use.

Historic wallpapers.

Wallpaper, its history, design, and use.

Historic wallpapers.

A yard or more of the carpet was ruined, the wallpaper and bedclothes spattered, and the poor victim was unfit to be seen for a week at least.

I was about to abandon the search when a finger penetrated the paper, revealing a round openinga pipe hole, left uncovered except for the wallpaper.

To the eyes of the ultimate school of contemporary fastidiousness, the universe is indeed an ill-drawn and over-coloured picture, the scrawlings in circles of a baby upon the slate of night; its starry skies are a vulgar pattern which they would not have for a wallpaper, its flowers and fruits have a cockney brilliancy, like the holiday hat of a flower-girl.

However dull and commonplace it is, you keep on saying to yourself, 'That was what his eyes rested on, those were the books he handled; how could he bear to have such curtains, how could he endure that wallpaper?'

It was a pretty room, with a set of maple furniture, and amber and white wallpaper, and amber and white chintz curtains and coverings.

Veronica, in some mysterious way, had contrived to dispose of the white margin of the picture, and the saint looked out from the soft ashy tint of the wallpaper.

The places on the whitish woodwork and the pink wallpaper that had been touched oftenest had become smudgythe edge of the door, the paint around the lock of the closet and the wall alongside the window where one pulls the curtain cords.