1 Her best tile got a splash of water, which left a sepia tear on the Cupid's cheek.
2 As seen from Main Street, Oleson & McGuire's Meat Market had a sanitary and virtuous expression with its new tile counter, fresh sawdust on the floor, and a hanging veal cut in rosettes.
3 She revolted from the complacent ugliness of Mrs. Peniston's black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
4 In a sweeping passion she seized a glass vase from the table and flung it upon the tiles of the hearth.
5 Edna could not help but think that it was very foolish, very childish, to have stamped upon her wedding ring and smashed the crystal vase upon the tiles.
6 Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn.
7 She watched them go--Mrs. Swithin tottering yet tripping; and Dodge unfurled and straightened, as he strode beside her along the blazing tiles under the hot wall, till they reached the shade of the house.
8 She had hoped for tiling, and a kerosene range for summer cooking, but Kennicott always postponed these expenses.
9 A sort of tiled veranda extended along one side of it, lined by several windows and two doors.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 10 The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering.
11 Stephen looked down and studied the tiled floor of the bar into which they had drifted.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 12 And with fear in his eyes, Lord Henry rushed through the flapping palms to find Dorian Gray lying face downwards on the tiled floor in a deathlike swoon.
13 If one opened it, one found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green flowers, at fifteen sous the roll.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS