The sails consisted of three stripes of sailcloth or matting, united by a kind of lacework, thus forming one whole sail for light winds. From Wordnik.com. [In the Eastern Seas] Reference
The jubé, or roodloft, is a perfect lacework of stone. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Apaches were turning the side of the globe into lacework. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
Its two show windows were a lacework of dust and flyspecks. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Three small, lofty windows are filled with carved lacework. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
A favourite design, apart from the lacework samplers, was the. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
The mountain's peak was a fantastic lacework of stone castle. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The leaves were just enough developed to make a diaphanous lacework of green. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
He was shocked to see how thick the lacework of energy around them had become. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
She dashed away into the greenery under an arched lacework of flowering vines. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
One needed a binding, and some lacework, but otherwise they were in good shape. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
He first used the word cells to describe the lacework of rigid walls seen in cork. From Wordnik.com. [1657] Reference
He had a deeply lined face with a lacework of tiny wrinkles around the slanted eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
The grubs then eat away the soft portion of the leaf, causing it to look like lacework. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The wormhole faded to nearly invisible lacework explosions against the darkness of space. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
The tracery of this tower is like delicate lacework, and no one can imagine half its beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
"Why, boys! how late you are," said my pretty mother, looking up from the lacework in her lap. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Andalus from head to foot; from the rose in her hair, to the fairy shoe and lacework stocking. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Irving] Reference
The crowd murmured in wonder as a lacework of burning gold light grew around the couple on stage. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
There were no feathers on its face, which was covered with a lacework of what seemed to be veins. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Space Beagle]
They recognized a screened divan, its sides enclosed in an exquisite lacework of ebony and ivory. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
A huge lacework of tiny pipes emerging from their tails led back to the start of the extraction tube. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Winter was a harsh season, following the frozen lacework of frost trailing from the Autumn Lord's wake. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
The embroidery of letters upon lacework is costly; and we saw single letters which had required a week's work. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
The mall's intricate mosaic floors and Victorian iron-lacework recall a period of great prosperity in Melbourne. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne] Reference
That ever-changing lacework of saidar bent itself around something else, something unseen that made the column solid. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
It is only 6 inches by 6-1/2 inches, and is entirely lacework, and apparently has been intended for part of a sampler. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
"It sure will be wonderful if we can build a locomotive that will do such fancy lacework as that," observed Tom eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference
If the thoroughfare had not been so narrow and busy, he would have reined about and gone to sample the lacework pancakes. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
The lacework executed here is uncommonly rich, and, you know, is very famous; but, I am sorry to say, also very expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Now broken squads of Kentuckians re-formed; a battered lacework of what had been companies, regiments, joined the newcomers. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
And yes, there is a spa, a 27,000-square-foot airy white lacework frame that is a kind of pale marble temple to the human body. From Wordnik.com. [Being a Paying Guest of the King] Reference
The sampler in question is just one row of cut and drawn work and another of fine Venetian lacework, worked in "punto in aria.". From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
She could smell the heavy scents in the lacework gold boxes that the Windfinders wore around their necks, and separate one from another. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
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