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After the theater I induced him to come round to the Cecil, and in the wicker chair in the big portico before the entrance we sat to smoke our final cigars.
Nothing but an empty bedstead, an old wicker chair and a table which had plainly been dragged there from the servants' quarters, comprised the furniture.
Smiling, the woman turned the back of the chair to the brightest glare of sunshine, draped a light rug over the invalid's knees, and seated herself in a wicker chair, facing him.
It was a straight-up-and-down basket of tough, light wicker, no larger and very little deeper than an ordinarily fair- sized hamper for soiled linen.
When I saw, confined under a wicker basket, two animals with yellow fur and flat heads that moved ceaselessly, my heart sank.
On the open, waste spaces between the bastions, boys had spread their limed cords to catch singing birds, with chirping decoys placed here and there in wicker cages.
Taking advantage of this weakness, the plan of placing a mirror, which balanced a sort of wicker cage or coop, was adopted.
Arnold did not understand, did not even hear, leaning back, long, relaxed, apathetic, in his great wicker-chair and rolling a cigarette with a detached air, as though his hands were not a part of him.
She sat squared up in the wicker chair with her fists clenched, looking straight ahead, trying in vain to think of some plan for avenging herself upon the whole race of bachelors.
He was lying in the long wicker chair, his straw hat drawn over his eyes, for the sun was finding its sharp, white way through the leaves of the beeches.
When the firemen reached the place and put down their long ladders they found him standing calmly in his wicker basket, entirely unhurt.
He intended that the apparent misunderstanding about the wicker chair should have been but a thing of the moment, quickly past and forgotten.
These, however, I very gently placed in wicker baskets, made on purpose for them, and between the pot and the baskets, stuffed it full of rice and barley straw, and these I presume would hold my dried corn, and perhaps the meal when the corn was bruised.
Her hat was still ornamenting the center-table and her wrap lay upon a wicker rocker, where, with a quick movement of irritation, it had been cast aside.
Settees and wicker chairs were scattered in cozy groups through the shrubbery, and there was a faint odor of burning incense.
Wicker basket of June garden pinks (white and pink) with shower of tiny bells hung on pink ribbons above them from the chandelier or ceiling.
To stand on the pier on a fine day during the season looking down on these long lines of wicker chairs, turned seaward, is an astonishing sight.
When the hives are made of wicker work they should be coated evenly within and without with ox dung so that the bees may not be driven away by the roughness of their roof.
He slumped into a wicker chair at one end of the porch and sat with his chin resting on his chest while he smoked cigarette after cigarette and tossed the butts idly over the rail.
Her hand satchel was open on her bureau, and she could see the edge of a handkerchief and the little brown wicker neck of a cologne bottle.
"I'm sure if Corbett was only once settled on shore in a nice little cottage, with a garden, and a blackbird in a wicker cage, I should try who could sing most, the bird or me."
The approach is generally through an avenue, defended by three stockades, with narrow wicker gates, and only one entrance.
Replied he, "I have been on a visit to the sparrows; and when I came away, they gave me this wicker basket as a parting gift."
He leaned back in his big wicker armchair and looked quizzically across at his niece Celia, who lay upon her couch at the other side of the room.
She leaned back in her wicker chair, fanning herself slowly, and smiling at him with that air of mingled innocence and provocation which he found the most captivating of her charms.
The second floor was arranged in a large assembly room, which was decorated with scenes in green and filled with light wicker furniture.
The floors were covered with soft wicker mats, and presently they were all seated in a semicircle at one end of the room.
The wicker creaked in the strain of his grasp, but he himself remained lying back with eyes half-closed in compulsory inaction.
Tin baths, wicker chairs and baskets, all had to be counted and recounted, until one got weary of the word "luggage;" but that is the penalty of drafting babies about the world.
Our hives are made commonly of rye straw and wattled about with bramble quarters; but some make the same of wicker, and cast them over with clay.
After an interval which seemed to him interminable, though it was only of a second's duration, he turned his eyes again to the occupant of the wicker chair.
As he shut the pages a creaking of the wicker chair again attracted his attention, and he heard distinctly sounds such as would be made by a person raising himself from a sitting posture.
As one of them, the deep wicker chair that Jamison had occupied, suddenly gave a little creak of itself, as wicker will when released from a strain, his smile broadened to a grin.
As soon as I was advised of this occurrence, for I had not gone ashore on this day also, I sent at once as many men as possible from the galleys, with axes, shovels, spades, and wicker baskets.
In the same manner their basket and wicker work are most ingeniously made; the former in patterns of a thousand different kinds.
At length the great man reached his office, and threw himself, with great danger to his furniture, into his capacious wicker chair.
It stood away back in a corner, with two wicker armchairs before it, and, behind, a stationary lounge against the wall overhung by a huge palm.
At the end of that time knead them again, put the paste into wicker molds, and leave the cheeses to drain until they are quite dry.
This trellis room is beautifully proportioned, and large enough to hold four long sofas and many chairs and tables of wicker and painted wood.
From his position, a little behind the visitor, he had an excellent view of her as she sat erect in the wicker chair, her parasol across her lap.
He was sitting near me as I mused, immersed in the American mail, while momma and his Aunt Caroline insensibly glided towards intimacy again on two wicker chairs close by.
In the house one kept within the cool, darkened rooms with matting on the floors and comfortable, deep wicker chairs, the windows wide to the least stirring of the breeze.
The morgue keeper's men lifted the fast stiffening body and were about to place it in the wicker carrier when Carroll, who was watching them rather idly, uttered an exclamation.
She had everything else: a beautiful kitchen, a stove with everything to use on it, some pretty china dishes, a table to put them on, and a neat little wicker chair to match the table.
A couple of huge wicker baskets were slung across her broad back, and one was filled to the brim with gold coins, and the other with jewels, diamonds, pearls and rubies.
Into the cleft thus opened by the axe of human sympathy the man in the wicker chair presently inserted a wedge of cautious inquiry touching another matter.
Turning to the wicker table beside him, the priest dug down into an old cigar box filled with the odds and ends that smokers accumulate.
There was an improvised table in there and some wicker armchairs which Jorgenson had produced from somewhere in the depths of the ship.
He fenced the raft all round with wicker hurdles as a protection against the waves, and then he threw on a quantity of wood.
Nobody interferes, and right in the midst of it she breaks off, marches over to a wicker porch table where the mirror and washcloth had been left, props the glass up against a vase, and goes to work.
Fred rose from his wicker chair and, crossing to his young bride, touched her hair fearfully with the tips of his fingers.
Elise rose with a strange little laugh and looked at a yellow silk stocking which dangled over the side of a wicker table.
The work is executed in wicker, stained in such bright tints as were considered appropriate to the various features of the costume.
They were as pleased as she, and Rose hunted about the house until she found a large wicker cage that belonged to a blackbird she once had.
He bellowed, and, not to lose more time, he dashed up the steps of the deserted veranda, thrust his basket deep underneath a wicker settee, and ran violently after his elusive cousin.
This, indeed, seemed their only concern in life; while their ill-thatched houses, forsaken of the adobe that once clung to the wicker walls, stood grinning in rows, like emblems of our mortality.
When the slave with the wicker basket came closer he could see that the contents were not food but some powdery stuff that was dipped out with carved spoons into the eager hands of the slaves.
He became bored at the long hours in the bright sun, yawned in his wicker chair, smoking pipe after pipe, not knowing what to talk about.
A sudden recollection crossed his memory, the florid color rushed back over his face, and he drew from his pocket a wicker-covered flask.
She exclaimed, almost piteously, dropping into a big wicker armchair by the verandah and putting her hands over her eyes.
Then he sought to embrace me, and I threw a young cobra, which, coiled in a wicker basket, had been placed in my hand, full in his face.
She was comfortably propped up with pillows in a large wicker chair, and her thin white fingers were busily engaged on her dainty work.
The sharp eyes had recognized the fat, blue volume buried under a miscellaneous litter of books and pamphlets on a wicker table.
He then stepped to the rear of the stage and picked up a little wicker basket, into which he scooped the dummy envelopes from the small table where they lay in full view.
The unfortunate bird is kept in a very small wicker cage, so small that he can't turn round, the long tail feathers escaping through an aperture and drooping to the ground.
Sarah retaliated by kicking viciously, and they were in eminent danger of upsetting the wicker table and porch lamp when Doctor Hugh strode out and separated them.
Bottles may be procured that have been molded with points of glass projecting from the outside which make them rough to the touch, or they may be covered with a wire mesh or with a wicker covering which may easily be told from the other bottles in the case.
Two portmanteaus and a wicker-crate, plausibly conjectured to contain between them all his worldly possessions, had accompanied him on the journey.
At their ease here upon the balcony, reclining in long wicker chairs of the Chemist's own design, as he proudly admitted, they felt at peace with themselves and the world.
One of these was a large bunch of pure white lilac which stood on the window sill in a brown mug, and the other was a wicker cradle in which lay something very much covered up in blankets.
Very soon the two boys, with Dr Budge looking seriously on, had taken Jack out of his basket and put him, in spite of pecks and struggles, into the wicker cage.
The boys had observed on the sled of these Indians who owned the beaver house a little wicker-like basket well-lined with rabbit skin.
There, in one of those high wicker chairs that insulate their occupants from the world, he saw his tutor leaning back, head a little to one side, and tips of fingers pressed together.
After breakfast, Alice gathered what was left into a wicker basket, and, flinging her plaid about her, presented her cheek to Edward for "the stranger's kiss."
From every other doorway, shielded by cloth or wicker screens, came the sounds of twanging harps and scraping fiddles, the click of glasses and the shrill chatter and laughter of discordant voices.
Half a dozen doves, released from their wicker baskets, took to flight amid the despairing lamentation of their owners: "Oh, my doves; who will compensate me for this loss?"
Agnes pointed to the window of the opposite turret, where the tiring-women slept, and outside of which was hung a luckless lark in a small wicker cage.
Well, after a little talk, the big Dream Bird came out of his wicker cage and said: "I'm going to take Mary Louise for a ride," and away he flew, while the little white sailor duck went back to his boat and sailed away, too, over the ocean big and blue.
Some time before the birds make their appearance, a number of wicker hedges are constructed, running perpendicularly out from the bank, and at the distance of a few yards from each other.
He sat near me, amidships, huddled down among the cushions of one of the wicker chairs, not sleeping, but staring straight out, motionless.
Nelly was gazing with pitiful eyes at the sleeve fastened away, while the wasted left hand drew forward a great wicker chair into the circle of the moonlight.
The mate, frowning heavily, nodded, and the pair of them entered and passed between the wicker chairs with the manner of being unconscious of their occupants.
Jack had peeped into the barred window and had seen the wicker car of the balloon standing on the cement floor, filled with the folded silken covering for the globe of the balloon.
The young wife meanwhile had gone to the bowl of knowledge, a wooden vessel enclosed in wicker, decorated with feathers and with birds carved in wood along the rim.
My horse was grazing quietly a few yards off, and beside me stood a man with folded arms, holding a wicker-covered flask in his hand.
By its soft light he discovered his wife, fast asleep in the low, wicker armchair, whose gay chintz cover contrasted strangely with her neat dark dress.
The boxes of biscuits and the tin cans and a lot of bottles in wicker covers were piled up on one end of the room, and everything in the lockers and drawers was jumbled together.
Patrick, and, resolving to abandon the temptations of the world, had embarked on the sea in a wicker boat without oar or helm.
The watch was then sent below again for the short time remaining to them, and I composed myself comfortably in a capacious wicker chair to abide the issue of events.
A good many stories lower there is a bit of roof that is set with wicker furniture and a row of gay plants along the gutter.
Twice she had passed a terrible half-hour, while he had sat, for the most part silent, in an old wicker chair by her bedside.
"He's asleep," she reported, as they stepped out onto the porch and settled themselves in comfortable wicker rockers. "What was the uprising?"
He found him smoking a large corona and lounging in one wicker chair with his feet on another, beside a very large whiskey and soda.
Though only a few were slain, many threw away their light shields of wicker or woodwork, which became the prey of the conquerors.
Here, too, were to be seen wicker baskets, much resembling orange crates, full of common sparrows, representing a regular supply for a regular demand.
It was their own domain, a pleasant, breezy place, with deep wicker chairs, gay chintz curtains, flower boxes, and wide casements opening on a balcony.
He inspected the gracious room, its chintz hangings, four-poster bed, low wicker chair by the fireplace, fresh Cherokee roses on the mantel; a room of cheerfulness and open spaces.
Buried in the sand, at the bottom of the pool, and secured in wicker baskets, were found those poisonous berries, which the natives had concealed there.
Their shoes or sandals are very ingeniously made of wicker work, and confined to the foot by means of a strap between the larger toes of each foot.
On raising a corner of a tarpaulin which covered the nearest I recognized the familiar wicker crates, which contained something heavy.