hall-flags

Updated: June 22, 2025

If the effect of this transference of the nymph's arm to its companion statue was rather burlesque than ornamental, the disconnected limb itself was certainly not without its use, small fragments of it being broken off from time to time for the purpose of whitening the door-steps and the hall-flags when the hearthstone could not readily be found.

Theodore P. Wilson - True to his Colours: The Life that Wears Best