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Plastic flowers stand in vases here and there
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Gerde was indeed delighted with the flowers, scurrying around happily finding vases and chattering about the latest gossip
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She went to the garden in the backyard and cut some Hydrangea and put them in vases and set them throughout the house
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Pottery vases and dishes trailing ribbons and silken cord stood before effigies of tulips and lilies in pink, white and turquoise behind rows of ornate glassware balanced on the shelves
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He of course did not want an actual answer to the question, because the answer was so immediately obvious; a whole bunch of wild imps were currently creating mischief all over Trouble Valley, stealing pies, breaking vases, and pulling Lucy’s hair
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“Well, actually, the imps were just breaking vases and stealing pies
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Down the middle of the table were earthenware vases with fresh flower arrangements, evenly spaced
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He pulled her to an alcove between two polished oak tables with bright flowers in porcelain vases as he asked, “What has changed between us? Don’t you love me anymore?” Jean glared at him with her ocean blue eyes before she replied, “I still love you, Adem
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Gorgeous State umbrellas, enormous kinkassies or wardrums, brass-studded chairs, beautifully carved stools, European and native swords, native spears, Ashanti daggers and knives, executioners' blades and torture instruments, brass studded cases, leather fetish caps, silken and cotton cloths, execution stools with recent blood stains, valuable old English chinaware, common table knives, large glass vases, carved wooden sandals, silk and gingham pillows of down and soft cotton, a few tusks, ivory pieces for playing “po” and drafts, a few bottles of brandy, common blunderbusses, old flint locks, a few Sniders, and so on ad infinitum
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However that may be, the fireplace, with its vases and pictures and
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not to educate, and glass vases of strange colours and extraordinary
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The only sign of life came from the vases that burst with extravagant bouquets on every flat surface, the smell of the dying flowers hanging heavy in the still air
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Now is the right time to plant the three of them in the lovely old hyacinth vases with a bulbous cup at the top
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Just the size to hold one bulb over water in its base, these vases allow a hyacinth to grow on a window sill, back-lit by sun so you can watch roots growing down into water while the nub-like protuberance of green on top grows into fleshy leaves and star-like flowers
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The pictures on the walls were crooked; the rugs were awry; the vases were full of faded flowers; the dust lay in heaps--literally in heaps
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vases resting upon the pinewood table on his left, lain out below
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Asian vases are strategically placed on end tables and in glass display cases against the wall
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My uncle had some butcher paper that we spread over all the tables for tablecloths and every other one had floating candles in glass vases that we found wholesale at a craft store
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well as some of the vases Beth cared so much about
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the shattered vases everything seemed normal
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There’s a bunch of pretty vases and lamps, also an old mahogany rocking chair, three pedal-operated sewing machines
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As it swung inwards, he realized that this room always took his breath away with its circular design, the walls dripping with gold leaf and complex cream cornicing, vases, busts and art placed in every conceivable free space, all illuminated by a domed stained-glass window in the ceiling that shot out different tints of light at oblique angles over the masterpieces on the walls
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Systematically, serenely, in the same parsimonious way in which he had papered the house with banknotes, he then set about smashing the Bohemian crystal ware against the walls, the hand-painted vases, the pictures of maidens in flow-er-laden boats, the mirrors in their gilded frames, every-thing that was breakable, from parlor to pantry, and he finished with the large earthen jar in the kitchen, which exploded in the middle of the courtyard with a hollow boom
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the form of flower vases
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Lining the aisle between seats, alongside a runner of soft white satin, were vases of coral lilies
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But the tables had real tablecloths on, rather than paper ones, and little vases with real freesias in them
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was of the same vintage as the building; old blue and white porcelain plates and vases stood on every
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the young men filled the vases with wine
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and much wine they took from the vases
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others had unusual looking flowers and plants in vases
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They create really beautiful flowerpots, vases, pitchers, mugs and plates
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She probably put them in the vases around for me
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Chairs laced with gold thread, ornaments and vases of solid gold, or at least what looked like solid gold to Michael, and various other artefacts made of precious materials from platinum to diamond
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Varahi, holding jewelled vases filled with the five nectars,
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Terra-cotta vases, which later on would be a blaze of geraniums, Wemyss explained, stood at intervals on each side of the path
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The value of the paintings, vases, sculptures and other artworks—all with a touch of gold—was probably higher than the whole contents of my house too
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things, like vases for your house-plants)
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But what did they really know about Ming vases, now a comedy trope, an overused device: if there is a Ming vase, it will be broken
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He was asleep in seconds, slow motion dreams of tigers pacing inside enormous vases that could hold the world
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Two great golden vases were at the two sides of the room, one
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where he decorated vases and table ornaments
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everything she could imagine: “plants, furniture … vases … chandeliers
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were artfully arranged in vases that lined the walls and
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The worshiped vases, tables, anything they could polish and revere as an icon representing their new affluence
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houses and turn the water in their jugs and vases and
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The walls of glass shattered and tinkled to the floor in sparkling piles, as ceramic pots and vases exploded all around us
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hours rounding up vases and placing flowers throughout the castle
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Roses, lilies, carnations in particular, looked over the rims of vases and surveyed the bright lives and swift dooms of their artificial relations
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Clara Durrant procured the stockings, played the sonata, filled the vases, fetched the pudding, left the cards, and when the great invention of paper flowers to swim in finger-bowls was discovered, was one of those who most marvelled at their brief lives
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The parlor struck her as looking uncommonly shabby, but without stopping to sigh for what she had not, she skillfully made the best of what she had, arranging chairs over the worn places in the carpet, covering stains on the walls with homemade statuary, which gave an artistic air to the room, as did the lovely vases of flowers Jo scattered about
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"I ought, but I don't," thought Amy, as her eye went from the bright page to May's discontented face behind the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty work had once filled
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Jo couldn't resist giving that little slap, but May took it so meekly she regretted it a minute after, and fell to praising the great vases, which still remained unsold
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"Buy the vases," whispered Amy to Laurie, as a final heaping of coals of fire on her enemy's head
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That satisfied Amy, and when she got home she found the vases paraded on the parlor chimney piece with a great bouquet in each
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Then across an open space appears a white house beyond a grass mound ornamented by a Cupid, his finger on his lips; two brass vases are at each end of a flight of steps; scutcheons*
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She remembered the great candlesticks that rose above the vases full of flowers on the altar, and the tabernacle with its small columns
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When he was coming she filled the two large blue glass vases with roses, and prepared her room and her person like a courtesan expecting a prince
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She breathed in the perfumes of the full-blown flowers in the large vases, and listened to the stillness of the church, that only heightened the tumult of her heart
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There was a small iron fender with fire-irons to match, and on the mantelshelf stood a clock in a polished wood case, a pair of blue glass vases, and some photographs in frames
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A high wall surrounded the whole of the hotel, surmounted at intervals by vases filled with flowers, and broken in the centre by a large gate of gilded iron, which served as the carriage entrance
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The rest of the furniture of this privileged apartment consisted of old cabinets, filled with Chinese porcelain and Japanese vases, Lucca della Robbia faience, and Palissy platters; of old arm-chairs, in which perhaps had sat Henry IV
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The wallpaper was old and discoloured; a few almanacs and unframed prints were fixed to the walls, and on the mantelshelf were some cracked and worthless vases and ornaments
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About two-thirds of the way along the Faubourg Saint-Honore, and in the rear of one of the most imposing mansions in this rich neighborhood, where the various houses vie with each other for elegance of design and magnificence of construction, extended a large garden, where the wide-spreading chestnut-trees raised their heads high above the walls in a solid rampart, and with the coming of every spring scattered a shower of delicate pink and white blossoms into the large stone vases that stood upon the two square pilasters of a curiously wrought iron gate, that dated from the time of Louis XII
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This noble entrance, however, in spite of its striking appearance and the graceful effect of the geraniums planted in the two vases, as they waved their variegated leaves in the wind and charmed the eye with their scarlet bloom, had fallen into utter disuse
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It had plate-glass windows, resplendent with gilding, marble-topped tables with snow white covers, vases of flowers, and all the other appurtenances of glittering cut glass and silver
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Every delicious fruit that the four quarters of the globe could provide was heaped in vases from China and jars from Japan
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Monte Cristo and Morcerf drew their seats towards a small table, on which were arranged music, drawings, and vases of flowers
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Then he arranged all his beautiful Turkish arms, his fine English guns, his Japanese china, his cups mounted in silver, his artistic bronzes by Feucheres and Barye; examined the cupboards, and placed the key in each; threw into a drawer of his secretary, which he left open, all the pocket-money he had about him, and with it the thousand fancy jewels from his vases and his jewel-boxes; then he made an exact inventory of everything, and placed it in the most conspicuous part of the table, after putting aside the books and papers which had collected there
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The lining of it, embossed cloth, represented a wild forest foliage, from the top, down to the sides, which, in the same stuff, were figured with fluted pilasters, with their spaces between filled with flower vases, the whole having a pay effect croon the eye, wherever you turned it
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The long open gallery was in shadow, with its screen of plants in vases along the balustrade, holding out motionless blossoms, and all the glass doors of the reception-rooms thrown open
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The old neglected palazzo, with its lofty carved ceilings and frescoes on the walls, with its floors of mosaic, with its heavy yellow stuff curtains on the windows, with its vases on pedestals, and its open fireplaces, its carved doors and gloomy reception rooms, hung with pictures—this palazzo did much, by its very appearance after they had moved into it, to confirm in Vronsky the agreeable illusion that he was not so much a Russian country gentleman, a retired army officer, as an enlightened amateur and patron of the arts, himself a modest artist who had renounced the world, his connections, and his ambition for the sake of
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The décor is rustic: random chairs and tables with gingham tablecloths, wild flowers in little vases
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'Chinky vases from Aunt Betty,' said Cordelia
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The furniture, the hangings, the candles, the vases and the very flowers in their baskets, of which I could almost have told whence they came and what they cost, were bound to confine my imagination to the limits of a drawing-room quite as commonplace as any that, at least, had the excuse of not being in the cellars of the Opera
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Then across an open space appears a white house beyond a grass mound ornamented by a Cupid, his finger on his lips; two brass vases are at each end of a flight of steps; scutcheons* blaze upon the door
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I found the phone twenty minutes later, but not in any of the bouquets or vases
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He notices a curio cabinet in the corner filled with vases in various sizes and colors
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What a bullet you dodged! You might have ended up with me, and not some adoring graduate student who fills your Indian vases with flowers
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From behind the crystal decanters and fruit vases the count kept glancing at his wife and her tall cap with its lightblue ribbons, and busily filled his neighbors’ glasses, not neglecting his own
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In the chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed from the oratory
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"Of course," said His Lordship, "if you really want to be saving, there are a dozen exquisite Ming vases in the house—"
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The sounds of closets being rummaged, suitcase locks snapping, vases being smashed, and of a final door crashing shut, all had faded away
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‘Of course,’ said his Lordship, ‘if you really want to be saving, there are a dozen exquisite Ming vases in the house—’
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White porcelain vases, brimming with freshcut hothouse flowers, kept their serene fires burning on four small tables about the room
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Thursday came: all work had been completed the previous evening; carpets were laid down, bed-hangings festooned, radiant white counterpanes spread, toilet tables arranged, furniture rubbed, flowers piled in vases: both chambers and saloons looked as fresh and bright as hands could make them
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The hall, too, was scoured; and the great carved clock, as well as the steps and banisters of the staircase, were polished to the brightness of glass; in the dining-room, the sideboard flashed resplendent with plate; in the drawing-room and boudoir, vases of exotics bloomed on all sides
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They were delighted with the renovation and decorations of their rooms; with the new drapery, and fresh carpets, and rich tinted china vases: they expressed their gratification ungrudgingly
