There was a prodigious number of soft couches of flowered damask, and little tables inlaid with foreign woods and jeweller's work.

"His sonnets inlaid in the Arcadia are jejune, far-fetch'd and frigid....

A folding-bed with an inlay of mirror and a collapsible desk arrangement backed up against those folding-doors.

Inlaid into the floor of the mausoleum is the gravestone of Burns,the very same that was laid over his grave by Jean Armour, before this monument was built.

Its summits were almost wholly devoid of shadow, and their notched and jagged outlines rested flatly against the sky, like ivory inlaid on a table of lapis-lazuli.

The bronze and iron ventilation gratings to the doors gave us glimpses of the coast through fretwork; the rich inlaying of woods surrounded us.

Once I thought he had found the drawer, for a piece of inlay at the side of the table seemed to give a little under the pressure of his fingers; but no hidden spring was touched; no drawer sprang open; no poisoned fangs descended.

Partly on account of the difficulty in obtaining the richly-marked and figured old mahogany and satin-wood of a hundred years ago, which needed little or no inlay as ornament, and partly to meet the public fancy by covering up bad construction with veneers of marquetry decoration, a great deal more inlay has been given to these reproductions than ever appeared in the original work of the eighteenth century cabinet makers.

Most secret drawers are secret only in name; a slight search reveals them; but this one...." He pushed it shut again, and examined the inlay around it.

" It was standing open as we had left it, and Godfrey pushed it back into place, called my attention to the cunning way in which its outline was concealed by the inlay about it.