The willow-pattern plate was daubed with gory streaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Years] Reference

In Shanghai I visited the original tea-house depicted on the well-known willow-pattern china ware.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference

A picturesque effect is produced by these projections, as everybody knows who has examined a "willow-pattern" plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference

On the dresser shelves were lodged some willow-pattern plates, their clear, tender blue bearing witness to an early period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

“This stuff needs a rainy day for poking about in,” she said, holding a willow-pattern butter dish up to the light and squinting at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Shall Be Well] Reference

Flemish po -- portrait painting, with its very high finish and intense concentration of craft, and it is said his mother's willow-pattern china.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America] Reference

We can infer nothing, however, from this as to the movements of people: the vogue of the willow-pattern plate is no measure of our 'yellow-peril'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Civilization] Reference

By signs he invited us to enter a rather nice-looking building, built just like one of those little pagodas resembling card-houses that you see in the right-hand corner of a willow-pattern plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

But the trouble was that Miss Caldegard had never seen a humming bird, and therefore found herself brooding on the blueness of all the blue things in her experience, from willow-pattern china to the waters of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

Some of them (a strange thing in Scotland) are models of internal neatness; the beds adorned with patchwork, the shelves arrayed with willow-pattern plates, the floors and tables bright with scrubbing or pipe-clay, and the very kettle polished like silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference

China and the willow-pattern plate and the golden age and fairyland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Britling Sees It Through] Reference

English crockery, especially that with the old willow-pattern design!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar] Reference

I myself found half a willow-pattern saucer in the crater of Vesuvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference

They were the half-dozen blue willow-pattern cups and saucers which Mother.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference

He cared nothing about the old willow-pattern set usurping the place of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference

"Cross between a willow-pattern plate and a New York slum," was his comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green] Reference

Our eyes of love will see him from far away, there by the willow-pattern tea-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard] Reference

But that is, or was, the Chinese ‘viewpoint, ’—and what a willow-pattern viewpoint!.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Interlude: On Jargon] Reference

(ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny Birmingham plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

I thought it ugly; but I like the old willow-pattern best, and we only use this on great occasions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Semi-Detached House] Reference

I took a hammer and a cracked willow-pattern plate one day, and broke it up in bits and fed him with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure] Reference

Fate has comfortably appointed gold plate for some, and has bidden others contentedly to wear the willow-pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Snobs] Reference

There was a lot of room at the oval table; the china of dark blue willow-pattern looked pretty on the glossy cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

The boat-sheds were astern of them, the willow-pattern harbour, and now his own home, still asleep in the early morning sunshine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coot Club]

There was one of those brown earthenware teapots, and an old willow-pattern soup tureen, without cover or stand, but full of flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middy and Ensign] Reference

The Bhagmutty was crossed by two narrow Chinese-looking bridges, resembling those we have such frequent opportunities of admiring on the willow-pattern plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home] Reference

It helps that he appears in ever more outlandish costumes, designed by Lotte Collett, which at one point involve him tittuping across the stage inside a willow-pattern vase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

'I thought some hot supper would be good for thee, neighbour Smith,' said Mrs. Savery in her gentle voice, as she handed him some coffee in one of her favourite blue willow-pattern cups.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Quaker Saints] Reference

After this achievement -- which she herself did not recognise as a stroke of genius -- she added a narrow shelf running entirely around the room, which carried a decorative row of blue willow-pattern plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Principles of Home Decoration With Practical Examples] Reference

Outside the arch was the bedroom painted chest-of-drawers and the Kidderminster carpet, and the washhand-stand with the riveted willow-pattern jug, and the faded curtains, and the dull light of indoors on a wet day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Amulet] Reference

Some of them (a strange thing in Scotland) are models of internal neatness; the beds adorned with patchwork, the shelves arrayed with willow-pattern plates, the floors and tables bright with scrubbing or pipeclay, and the very kettle polished like silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference

One does feel like one of the little blue people that live in a willow-pattern plate, "said Phyllis, as Nell and Starr sauntered on ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chauffeur and the Chaperon] Reference

Only fancy the willow-pattern plate out here in the hills! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills] Reference

Appear her willow-pattern teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference

Reclining on a splendid willow-pattern well dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841] Reference

“willow-pattern” plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer]