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These are wicker contrivances that hang between three wheels.
The brown face, thin and comically small, wore a mask of inky shadow under a wicker bowl hat.
Then the men said that they'd have to search the house to see if there was a wireless and then the old gentleman got angry; then all of a sudden he sat down in one of the wicker chairs on the porch and began to laugh and laugh and laugh.
For the rest, the hotel was of yellowish-brick, half-surrounded by a wooden porch where at milder seasons of the year in deep wicker chairs men and women were always rocking with the air of people engaged in serious and not unimportant work.
Wicker baskets to carry clothes or provisions, are hung on either side of the horse's shoulders.
Danforth, the private secretary, roused from his nap in the wicker chair, was able to produce a serviceable revolver.
He carried the wicker suitcase he had taken away, and wore the same clothes.
Finding a wicker settee among some palms at one side of the orchestra, Deacon sat drinking in the scene.
The big gourds for water, and the wicker baskets, are placed on the ground, or hung on the poles.
The raven was silent, because, imprisoned in his wicker cage, he had been placed in some dark spot below the counter.
She snatched the discarded wrap from its place on the wicker rocker as she glared at him.
On metal and wicker plates they are bringing in piles of cakes and tarts.
It was a gourd, with handles like ears, covered with wicker.
The central floor spaces are kept everywhere free except in the restaurant, the sides and angles being filled in with leather-covered sofas, wicker and wooden chairs and tables, arranged in groups favorable to comfort and conversation.
There was grog in a wicker jar in the cabin.
A blackbird sleeps in its wicker cage.
And then, after all had been served and had eaten, the scraps and fragments which were gathered up filled many wicker baskets and were distributed to the poorer people in the company for tomorrow's use.
And he threw himself into a chair, the very creaking of the cane wicker expressing annoyance and dissatisfaction.
Moore was especially gracious to Old Lady Lloyd, and insisted on her taking the wicker rocker in the parlor.
Tommy hunched himself in his wicker chair with his chin on his chest.
Sometimes pens of wicker work are fixed to enclose the fish after they pass the holes in the fence.
Around the room is a divan, or low bench of boards or wicker work, serving as a sofa by day and a bed at night.
He remembered as he went up to it that at this precise spot four months ago he had lost sight of the man's figure which he saw rise from the wicker chair, and at the memory felt an involuntary shudder.
With the cessation of the music an absolute stillness fell upon all; the light of the single candle scarcely reached the darker corners of the room, but fell directly on the wicker chair and showed it to be perfectly empty.
Or a small wicker basket that is shallow and inconspicuous will do.
A wicker frame might well be interposed.
It is formed entirely of the backs of serpents, wattled together like wicker work.
His hands on the arms of the wicker chair clenched.
The villages of Third Mesa make colorful twined or wicker baskets and plaques, just the one kind and no pottery.
Yet when they came close, it was but a wicker framework, covered with skins, the two men kneeling on the floor, and using narrow, single-bladed paddles, one on either side or both on the same side as need might be.
Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper.
Wooden and wicker containers were also used, although because of their perishable nature none was unearthed.
The game is played with a narrow scoop-like wicker basket or racket which is fastened to the wrist.
It was a little wicker cradle, enveloped in a woolen cloth, and strongly tied to a buoy.
Jane was in a long wicker chair, with her pot of coffee on an hour-glass table.
Deep armchairs and tables, rugs and a wicker divan furnished a portion of the piazza.
It probably was a creak from one of the wicker chairs that stood in a corner.
She bent to kiss Pamela, then curled herself up in a wicker chair and yawned.
The laity (mostly women) arrive bearing wicker trays on which are vessels containing rice and delicacies.
Silence fell for a little time, and then the younger man in the wicker chair smote his palms together.
She ran into the garden, flew to the palanquin just as she heard the leopard crash through the flimsy wicker door.
For the living room, which is in quiet green tones and chintz-upholstered wicker furniture, I gathered Shirley poppies.
Then the creaking sound as of the lid of a wicker basket being opened.
Behind him walked four big boys, carrying two large wicker baskets, hanging from poles across their shoulders; and behind them came the whole village, men, women, and children, their faces shining with a new joy.
It had soft, bright-colored rugs and chintz-cushioned wicker chairs.
"This is a restful place," said Cousin Ethel, as she leaned back comfortably in her wicker rocker.
He got up with alacrity when he saw her, fetched her a big wicker chair, evidently inclined to let her divert him.
Her purpose was effected; the belligerents were diverted, and Noble lifted the light wicker settee.
The new hangings, the new wicker furniture, the oriental treasures were all duly inspected, commented upon and admired.
It is plaited of serpents' backs, wattled together like wicker work, whose heads turn inwards, vomiting poison.
Truly, his eyes have never shined before as they do to-night; nor has his little wicker satchel ever jingled so lightly.
Actually, Granny behaved to Lady Betty as to a person of superior station, and persisted in rising and making room for the purpose of sharing with her the wicker seat; and there they sat, the old queen and the young.
Then, as it scrambled to its feet and shook itself, and headed for the water, she seated herself in a low wicker chair and wiped the dust from her long riding boots with the silk handkerchief she wore loosely tied about her neck.
The clay vessel is an intruder, and usurps the place and appropriates the dress of its predecessor in wicker.
When Addison had got to his feet in the loft, the Senator passed him a wicker lunch basket and a tin pail.
I noticed that refreshments, including several bottles, had been placed on a big wicker table under the arched veranda.
She crossed behind the wicker clothes hamper and picked up something from the floor.
One or two yelled taunts about the doll carriage, and John was tempted to throw the wicker-bodied pest into the street.
Minnie was made superintendent and sat sewing in a wicker chair beside the table, where she could give advice.
They were formed of wicker work, and covered outside with lacquer.
He found Honor limply relaxed in a long wicker chair.
A large wicker hamper was lifted from one of the cars and carried to a clear space near the cameras.
For a while he believed himself well alone, before he discovered that directly facing him sat another man, a man lounging in a wicker garden chair, alone, idly smoking a cigarette and gazing at him somewhat intently.
In front of the stove, two battered wicker rocking chairs.
From this storehouse the young man drew a wicker flask of whiskey, and handed it, with a tin cup of water, to the woman.
His wicker chair creaked as he shifted his weight.
At the far end stood a bedstead, and by its side a large wicker hamper.
Then the stove and the wicker chair claimed her again, as did the suspense of waiting, with its burden of apprehension.
Near him on the ground lay a charred heap that was once the wicker car of the balloon.
At first the flames barely rose above the ground, but presently they grew higher and higher until a circle of flaming tongues of fire taller than any of their heads quite surrounded the hill on which the wicker castle stood.
Miss Bond was half reclining in a wicker chair us we entered.
Unscathed, I looked back along the wreckage-strewn path, like a man who has been riding a whirlwind in a wicker chair.
I practice putting Cat back in the wicker hamper to see if I can keep him in that sometimes, but he meows like crazy.
I put Cat in a wicker hamper and tied it on the back of my bike.
Denis sixty sarcophagi of granite, there remained but a platform of pine and a wicker coffin.
A deep gloom pervaded the wide apartment, in which there were but two wicker chairs and a table.
She ran towards the place, and saw that a thick wicker screen had been fastened outside, closing the door.
Strapped to the bulging back was a wicker suitcase partly covered by tarpaulin.
He had a wicker crate in one hand, and in the other, in a small square valise, the materials for the Holy Sacrament.
They have to cross an impetuous river on a trembling wicker bridge which is very dangerous.
Languid ladies were seated in wicker chairs upon the piazzas, and frail anemic girls filled the corridors.
He stole out of the room, and, throwing himself on a wicker bench, mused over his troubles in solitude.
"Of course I would, Gertrude," and Cora jumped up from the wicker divan.
She threw the fifth envelope disdainfully on the wicker table at her side.
"Here, by all means," she answered, subsiding gracefully into a wicker chair.
I had thrown myself into a wicker chair near the end of the terrace, and, with a cigarette, was pondering deeply, when, of a sudden, I saw a female figure, wrapped in a pale blue shawl, coming in my direction.
They reached the small marquee, two or three wicker chairs lay about the lawn outside it, and they sat down.
French windows opened on the porches, where comfortable wicker chairs and hammocks were plentiful.
Did one wicker basket equal so many fine products of superlative technology?
Some comfortable wicker chairs were placed under a large elm at the bottom of the lawn.
When she came to Bruce her hands clenched the arms of her wicker rocking chair.
He had brought a light cart on which there stood a large wicker hamper.
Wicker looked exactly like a venerable, wizened old man, when Chris knew perfectly well he was not.
Wicker looked, as if casually, at the clothes Chris now wore and which fitted him as though made to his measure.
Wicker in their joined apricot glow.
Wicker rose from his chair, and now he stood six feet, no longer wizened, no longer feeble.
Wicker, so thin and wizened he seemed only bones and wrinkles.
Wicker, pouring out the steaming drinks, "we shall refresh ourselves, and you shall listen, if you will."
No wonder the great bird circled and swooped curiously over the wicker basket which was floating on the waves.
Light rockers, camp chairs, wooden or wicker settees are pretty, and in harmony with the rustic nature of the reception.