1.
It was palatial, with polished marble floors, fine carpets and hangings, ornate wall sconces, soft music, live blooms ringing the ceilings and a large fish tank dividing the front room from the dining area
2.
He ran up all his mats for the light of the week, the dawn light illuminated understated wall hangings of story-knots, replicas of 4th century Thulian work
3.
Golden gates and multicolored hangings acted as a backdrop for palm trees, waving in the sudden breeze
4.
Better a bit of politicking than dozens of hangings
5.
This is murder in any country and the government responded with public hangings of the guilty to prove a point I suppose
6.
* Knowing something of hangings I can tell you it is quick and painless and scientific
7.
Torture methods included beatings, whippings, hangings, water torture, electrocution, attacks by trained dogs, rapes including gang rapes or repeated rapes by the interrogators
8.
7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, so that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the
9.
6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the
10.
2Kin 23:7 And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove
11.
The entrance hall proved to be a huge open room with no furniture, but with various artistic wall hangings and statues set around the walls
12.
He took us around the room explaining each of the statues and wall hangings
13.
It was lavishly furnished with decorative wall hangings and statuary
14.
one hundred and thirty-five hangings
15.
12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten
16.
17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
17.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
18.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver
19.
14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three
20.
15 And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three
21.
16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen
22.
18 And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court
23.
40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
24.
26 And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof
25.
26 And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve
26.
southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an
27.
12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty
28.
14 The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars
29.
17 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging
30.
9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the
31.
12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and
32.
the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the
33.
40 The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for
34.
cabinets and dusted the carpets and wall hangings
35.
Since war and war heroes wasn’t the focus of my wedding, we found ourselves daunted by the various wall hangings that existed
36.
The bed was fitted with red satin sheets and tied-back embroidered hangings
37.
"Is this the welcome you give strangers? By Crom, I'll drench these hangings in blood!"
38.
Light ran suddenly along the hangings like flaming serpents, and incredibly the candles in the golden sticks flared up again
39.
Swiftly they descended the stair, crossed the chamber, descended the next stair, and came into the great dim hall with its mysterious hangings
40.
She began to cast about the chamber, tearing up divan-covers and hangings, and upsetting vessels
41.
Conan glanced down the hall with its rugs and divans and hangings, and stood listening intently
42.
He stared up at the great golden lamp which shed a soft glow over the velvet hangings and carpets of the great tent
43.
The velvet hangings merged with shadows in the corners, but if there had been anyone in the pavilion besides themselves, the general would have seen him
44.
He glanced after her, wondering if he was a fool to trust her; then he shrugged his mighty shoulders and pulled the satin hangings together, masking his refuge
45.
Tarascus was turning toward an inner door when Conan tore aside the hangings and leaped like a blood-mad panther into the room
46.
The chamber was a large one, with marble walls partly covered with black velvet hangings and thick rich carpets on the mosaic floor, laved in the soft golden glow of bronze lamps
47.
Three hangings later on and in the
48.
The bed hangings moved, and I pulled the mattress and baby toward the voice, using the wall to steer
49.
As the story goes the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), held a feast for all his vassals , nobles and chieftains in the grand palace in Shushan The kings and princes were seated in the great palace hall adorned with blue and white hangings fastened with silver rings with gold chairs ,wine was served to them in vessels of gold
50.
I’ve even heard him laughing at the hangings
51.
All hooks, everything you use to hang something on, everything you hang onto a hook, all hangings, all public executions that wrings the neck or cut it off
52.
were more hangings and depictions of wild lifes all
53.
closer to the hangings to get a better grasp of the
54.
sarongs that hung as wall hangings
55.
At these words, Sancho, without uttering one in reply, got up from his chair, and with noiseless steps, with his body bent and his finger on his lips, went all round the room lifting up the hangings; and this done, he came back to his seat and said, "Now, senora, that I have seen that there is no one except the bystanders listening to us on the sly, I will answer what you have asked me, and all you may ask me, without fear or dread
56.
So, striving to divert her thoughts, Emma determined now to see in this reproduction of her sorrows only a plastic fantasy, well enough to please the eye, and she even smiled internally with disdainful pity when at the back of the stage under the velvet hangings a man appeared in a black cloak
57.
They quartered him in a room on the ground floor, where in place of leather hangings there were pieces of painted serge such as they commonly use in villages
58.
covered with tapestry from Mecca, and the hangings of the most beautiful Indian
59.
First a bed with complete hangings all cloth of gold, which cost a thousand
60.
hangings, and heard the following words:
61.
"Where was this window with white hangings?" asked the countess
62.
Why should we not imagine this the apartment of an honest mother? And this bed with red hangings, a bed visited by the goddess Lucina? And that mysterious staircase, the passage through which, not to disturb their sleep, the doctor and nurse pass, or even the father carrying the sleeping child?" Here Madame Danglars, instead of being calmed by the soft picture, uttered a groan and fainted
63.
No one could deny that the rooms were splendidly illuminated; the light streamed forth on the gilt mouldings and the silk hangings; and all the bad taste of decorations, which had only their richness to boast of, shone in its splendor
64.
Gwenda noticed that there were no cushions, no upholstered seats and no wall hangings
65.
In the window was a sumptuous writing-desk, and every detail of the apartment, the pictures, the rugs, and the hangings, all pointed to a taste which was luxurious to the verge of effeminacy
66.
Had he seen around him the splendour of the old Intendencia, the magnificent hangings, the gilt furniture ranged along the walls; had he stood upon a dais on a noble square of red carpet, he would have probably been very dangerous from a sense of success and elevation
67.
Everything was new from the new French hangings on the walls to the carpet which covered the whole floor
68.
The Chinese drawing-room was one I had never seen used; in fact one could not normally go further into it than a small roped area round the door, where sight-seers were corralled on the days the house was open to the public; it was a splendid, uninhabitable museum of Chippendale carving and porcelain' and lacquer and painted hangings; the Queen's bed too, was an exhibition piece, a vast velvet tent like the baldachino at St Peter's
69.
The air was thick with rumors of wholesale hangings by the whites by the negroes
70.
Cotton hangings and lampshades were printed with a voguish abstract pattern
71.
The walls were covered with rich dark overdraped with plum-colored plush hangings that shut out most of the sunlight
72.
She began to prepare for his coming, began to do up her room for him, to clean the furniture, to wash and put up new hangings and so on
73.
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
74.
hangings, sofas, and that sort of thing
75.
hangings of dull gold sheen unfigured
76.
broidered hangings, and strewn with skins: and there at a small table sat
77.
And the hangings of the bed were of green and white, but upon the king was laid the great cloth of gold up to his breast, and upon that
78.
The Golden Hall was arrayed with fair hangings and it was filled with light, and there was held the highest feast that it had known since the days of its building
79.
I’faith, I had read horrible Accounts of the Burnings and Hangings of earlier Times and I knew such Things were not yet quite finish’d, tho’ the educated Persons of the Modern Age were quite divided upon the Subject of Witchcraft
80.
much the worse for them- did not go up to the dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its silken hangings
81.
In addition to a library adjoining his chamber, he had a boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, with magnificent hangings of straw, with a pattern of flowers and fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV
82.
Crude raptor-feather hangings covered the walls, of the sort featuring peasants with bottle bodies and bubble heads outside cottages noticeably shorter than they
83.
The strewn garbage, broken chairs and crockery, ripped-up feather screens and hangings, the things that had been cast aside in the hunt for valuables to steal—or simply vandalized from frustration or fun
84.
I saw the outline of a form under the clothes, but the face was hid by the hangings: the nurse I had spoken to in the garden sat in an easy-chair asleep; an unsnuffed candle burnt dimly on the table
85.
scrubbing and setting to rights; and when I passed the room, in going downstairs to dinner, I saw through the open door that all was again restored to complete order; only the bed was stripped of its hangings
86.
There was the great four-post bed with amber hangings as of old; there the toilet-table, the armchair, and the footstool, at which I had a hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me uncommitted
87.
He lifted the hangings from the wall, uncovering the second door: this, too, he opened
88.
However, on this night, she set fire first to the hangings of the room next her own, and then she got down to a lower storey, and made her way to the chamber that had been the governess’s—(she was like as if she knew somehow how matters had gone on, and had a spite at her)—and she kindled the bed there; but there was nobody sleeping in it, fortunately