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Updated: May 31, 2025
These little marks of thoughtfulness never fail to be appreciated, and add much to the grace of entertaining. An elaborate centre-piece may stand upon a rich velvet mat, or on a flat mirror provided for the purpose. The latter is a clever idea for a centre-piece of pond-lilies or other aquatic plants, simulating a miniature lake, its edges fringed with moss or ferns.
I saw that Marryat, not less than Homer, Milton, and Virgil, profited by the choice of a familiar and legendary subject; so that he prepared his readers on the very title-page; and this set me cudgelling my brains, if by any chance I could hit upon some similar belief to be the centre-piece of my own meditated fiction.
Does not yours, if you have a pleasant neighbour? a lovely creature, say, of some five-and-thirty, whose daughters have not yet quite come out they are the best talkers. As for your young misses, they are only put about the table to look at like the flowers in the centre-piece.
So they spake in the spring woods; and meanwhile, in Mittwalden Rath-haus, the Republic was declared. THE reader well informed in modern history will not require details as to the fate of the Republic. Herr Roederer, with too much of an author's licence, makes a great figure of his hero poses him, indeed, to be the centre-piece and cloud-compeller of the whole.
She had looked at the sallow prints on the walls and at the lonely magazine, a year old, that combined, with a small lamp in coloured glass and a knitted white centre-piece wanting in freshness, to enhance the effect of the purplish cloth on the principal table; she had above all, from time to time, taken a brief stand on the small balcony to which the pair of long windows gave access.
By cramming the toilet place with bedding, khudsticks, a five-foot brass lamp-stand, and the four soda-water bottles, we made shift to stow portmanteaux, bags, tiffin-baskets, &c., under the seats and ourselves upon them, and then arranged a sort of centre-piece of Jane's big tin bonnet-box, surmounted by Freddy in his cage.
I have finished 'David Balfour, I have another book on the stocks, 'The Young Chevalier, which is to be part in France and part in Scotland, and to deal with Prince Charlie about the year 1749; and now what have I done but begun a third, which is to be all moorland together, and is to have for a centre-piece a figure that I think you will appreciate that of the immortal Braxfield.
Afterwards I saw the lance it reached from the floor to the ceiling of his cottage and for years to come in the village of Rouville it will be the centre-piece of a thrilling tale. Other peasants joined my friendly gravedigger, and one of them the giant of his village told me of his own escape from death. He was acting as the guide of four British officers through a part of the forest.
The ceiling was whitewashed, and decorated in the middle with a plaster centre-piece, from which hung a massive chandelier sparkling with prismatic rays from a hundred crystal pendants. There was a handsome mantel, set with terra-cotta tiles, on which fauns and satyrs, nymphs and dryads, disported themselves in idyllic abandon. The furniture was old, and in keeping with the room.
As she sat beside Margaret and embroidered assiduously, and very unskilfully, some daisies on a linen centre-piece, the other woman eyed her critically. "You should not wear that shade of green, if you will excuse my saying so, dear," she remarked presently. Annie regarded her with a charming, loving smile. She would have excused her idol for saying anything.
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