1 Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FIR TREE 2 On the table was spread a snow-white tablecloth; upon it was a splendid porcelain service, and the roast goose was steaming famously with its stuffing of apple and dried plums.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL 3 A large vase of Japan porcelain, filled with flowers that loaded the air with their perfume, stood in the salon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 50. The Morrel Family. 4 Monte Cristo smiled at her unusual humility, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could produce.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 62. Ghosts. 5 Ah, madame," replied Monte Cristo, "you must not ask of us, the manufacturers of fine porcelain, such a question.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 62. Ghosts. 6 Haidee took the porcelain cup in her little slender fingers and conveyed it to her mouth with all the innocent artlessness of a child when eating or drinking something which it likes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 7 The barbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and the rich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies.
8 Near the bed stood a table holding her breakfast tray, with its harmonious porcelain and silver, a handful of violets in a slender glass, and the morning paper folded beneath her letters.
9 He painted and papered her rooms for her that spring, and put in a porcelain bathtub in place of the tin one that had satisfied the former tenant.
10 Fashionable women kept their bodies bright like delicate porcelain, by external attention.
11 There was nothing inside the porcelain; but she was not even as bright as that.
12 The material of the Palace proved on examination to be indeed porcelain, and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character.
13 He halted on the landing before the door and then, grasping the porcelain knob, opened the door quickly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 14 Remembering with difficulty why I had come I went over to one of the stalls and examined porcelain vases and flowered tea-sets.
15 White porcelain feet, if you like.