In the warm May afternoon pigeons tumbled about near-by church spires which cut brown inlays into the soft blue sky.

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.

The veiled lady bent above the table and disposed the fingers of her right hand to fit the metal inlay midway of the left side.

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.