garlands-like

Updated: May 11, 2025

There was a new dean just come in Dean Burscough it was and my father had been 'prenticed to a good firm of joiners in the city, and knew what good work was when he saw it. Crool it was, he used to say: all that beautiful wainscot oak, as good as the day it was put up, and garlands-like of foliage and fruit, and lovely old gilding work on the coats of arms and the organ pipes.

M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James - A Thin Ghost and Others