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Example sentences for "wainscot"

Lexicographically close words:
wailing; wailings; wails; wain; wains; wainscoted; wainscoting; wainscots; wainscotted; wainscotting
  1. These forms are air--mere counterfeits Of my imaginous heart, as are the whirling Wainscot and trembling floor!

  2. The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

  3. I was behind the wainscot in the queen's closet, and this is what I heard: if you stay here, when you wake up to-morrow you will be dead!

  4. One night the king's son was lying half-asleep upon his bed, with wise dreams coming and going under the circle of his gold crown, when a mouse ran out of the wainscot and came and jumped up upon the couch.

  5. The side opposite the windows is panelled with mirrors in a manner exactly resembling the old wainscot which I remember in my youth, and which has now given place to stucco, silk, and paper.

  6. Such Nits therefore will come to life by heat, and quit the Walls and Wainscot for better Quarters and Food in the Bed, and so become troublesome to you.

  7. And do you know, apropos of your carved panels, Lady Helena, we found such glorious old wainscot round a room that had been lined with lath and plaster afterwards, and decorated with an abominably ugly paper.

  8. The men had come to the wainscot at last, for it was reared against the walls of the garret behind the barricade of furniture.

  9. The "study," as John Stanburne called it, was a cosey little room, with oak wainscot that his grandfather had painted white.

  10. We have here ample data for the complete restoration of Wenderholme, even in the details of wainscot and tapestry and glass.

  11. What the Duke was most anxious to save was the contents of the lumber-garrets, where lay the dishonored remnants of the old wainscot and carved furniture of Elizabethan Wenderholme.

  12. The Duke had never been to Wenderholme before, and during a lull in the conversation his eye wandered over the wainscot opposite to him.

  13. It was panelled with rich old yew, and in the wainscot were inserted a complete series of magnificent Italian tapestries, in which was set forth the great expedition of the Argonauts.

  14. Chilo Phragmitellus This species is one of those moths known as the 'Veneers,' and is popularly termed the Wainscot Veneer.

  15. Its fore wings are wainscot brown, with lighter rays; and they each have three black dots arranged in the form of a triangle, one in the centre, and the other two between this and the hind margin.

  16. Mr. Piperson pulled off a boot and threw it against the wainscot at the further end of the kitchen.

  17. Samuel Whiskers got through a hole in the wainscot and went boldly down the front staircase to the dairy to get the butter.

  18. The wainscot was said to have been put up by order of a man of humour who went up to Oxford for a degree without "any claim or recommendation.

  19. But finding nothing whatever during the whole of the third day, they purposed on the morrow to strip off all the wainscot of that room.

  20. I would then answer, she said, from behind the wainscot where I lay concealed.

  21. They stuck to their purpose, however, of stripping off all the wainscot of the other large room.

  22. So they stripped off the wainscot all round, till they came again to the very place where I lay, and there they lost heart and gave up the search.

  23. No crack or seam indicated a hidden door, yet I knew there must be one, and gently pressed the wainscot with my shoulder.

  24. But at that instant I heard the voices of the ladies on the landing below, so quickly opening my wainscot niche I thrust the dangerous paper within, closed the panel, and hastened away down-stairs to avoid comment for my absence.

  25. The wainscot cupboard I had so cunningly devised was swinging wide.

  26. Through the wainscot I could hear the low rustling of paper; and I seemed to sense some heavier movement within, though the solid floor did not creak, nor a window quiver, nor a footfall sound.

  27. When she talked like that, as she often did, it was hard for the little mouse to sit inside the wainscot and listen and not to be able to defend herself.

  28. She had a comfortable home behind the wainscot in the forester's dining-room, right under the window.

  29. Who knows, thought I, but he has come, By Charon kindly ferried, To tell me of a mighty sum Behind my wainscot buried?

  30. He then removed the wainscot from the three walls opposite the large windows facing the sea.

  31. Behind the wainscot were immense concave mirrors of burnished steel.

  32. They were all sonorous, showing that the wainscot was not in immediate contact with the masonry.

  33. And even if the Mauprats are not hidden behind some wainscot listening to us, is she not sure to give them an account of everything that takes place?

  34. All at once a terrible shudder ran through his frame, for a rustling and squeaking behind the oak wainscot startled him.

  35. In the great room, where is a goodly library, on the right hand of the door, is a small wainscot closet, furnished with rare manuscripts.

  36. The wainscot of the choir is rarely inlaid and carved.

  37. He took the light, and viewed the wainscot from which the tapestry had been torn away, and some strong boards broken down; one beam projected, and barred the entrance to the niche.

  38. I cannot deny it," said the Count; "the wainscot and door are so thin, that not a word escaped me.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wainscot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.