and-plaster

Updated: May 22, 2025

Away across marshy fields, intersected by pools and rivulets, I saw our men billeted in French and Flemish farmhouses, of the old post- and-plaster kind, like those in English villages.

Philip Gibbs - The Soul of the War

But the huts of these swarming poor have crawled up close to its gates, the superb walls of hewn stone stop all of a sudden with a lath- and-plaster hitch; and capitals, and hewn stones for columns, still lying about on the deserted terrace, may lie there for ages to come, probably, and never take their places by the side of their brethren in yonder tall bankrupt galleries.

William Makepeace Thackeray - From Cornhill to Grand Cairo