The wainscot was painted a pleasing color of green to contrast with the rest of the wall. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used with object) : a room wainscoted in oak. From Dictionary.com.
The wainscot could be a wallpaper, like Lincrusta, or it could be wood. From Wordnik.com. [Brownstoner] Reference
Whether we may not, for the same use, manufacture divers things at home of more beauty and variety than wainscot, which is imported at such expense from Norway?. From Wordnik.com. [Querist] Reference
This feeling is very strong in many apartment houses where small rooms are overburdened by this kind of wainscot, and to make matters worse, the top is used as a plate-rail. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
In 1623, a wainscot-chair, owned by John Atkins of. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
For the most part it lay between wall and wainscot. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
"'The mouse behind the mouldering wainscot shriek'd.'". From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
There was a faint scuffling sound behind the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11] Reference
Byron liked new-papered rooms, and pull'd down old wainscot of cedar. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
Then opening a door in the wainscot near the fireplace he flung it in. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
It was completely hung with an old figured tapestry framed in gray wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The walls were of wainscot, painted white, and were graced with two paintings. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
It may be used in connection with paneling or cover the wall above a wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Plain tinted walls and ceilings in fresco or wainscot are also frequently used. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
If open, I walked round and round the room, brushing the wainscot with my tail. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
If any one of these friezes is placed above a simple wainscot, the effect is charming. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
The partitions and walls were of wainscot-work, with mouldings about the doors and windows. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
Flosi sat down to the board, and all his men; but they laid their arms up against the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
But while living like a mouse in his father's wainscot, he hadn't much chance of making enemies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The audience had quieted now; but I could feel them on edge, rustling like mice in the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The angle of the room at the right side of the window was cut off by an oblique turn in the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The Room in the Dragon Volant] Reference
In one of these intervals, I heard a scratching sound -- just such a sound as a mouse makes behind the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
A rat scampered behind the wainscot, rain splashed in the bucket, and the wind gusted sudden and loud in the chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
It is composed of layers of wainscot oak and beech, the direction of the grain being alternately longitudinal and lateral. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
This encourages the souldiers in their work, and makes them the more eager in breaking down all the rest of the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral] Reference
The second ante-room had mirrors, console tables, carved and gilded woodwork, and sometimes tapestry was used above a wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
Leather (used with paneling or above wainscot), modern tapestries, fabrics of all kinds are suitable for covering dining-room walls. From Wordnik.com. [How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration] Reference
The trees were painted white to the height of a wainscot and from a distance the park seemed set with white posts arrayed at random. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
While stools and benches were commonly used for seats in the early seventeenth century, a wainscot chair as shown above was in use at. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
It was obscurely hid in the wainscot under the wardrobe, where nobody could possibly see them going in and out -- just to her liking. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
And the king with great despatch, forthwith ordered a strong body of cavalry, for -- there was a mouse scratching behind the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832] Reference
It was in one of these excursions to this spot, that she observed the following lines written with a pencil on a part of the wainscot. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
The earliest chairs were cumbersome, being fashioned of oak with solid square backs, often panelled, and thus were known as "wainscot chairs.". From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
It is a wainscot mouse, and a blood-relation, we believe, to the very mouse that shrieked behind the mouldering wainscot in the lonely moated grange. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
When once I had begun, I cannot pretend that I found the actual washing of the wainscot particularly distasteful, although it seemed rather hard, after. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
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