lattice-bars

Updated: August 26, 2026

All this court, cheerful in the sunshine, cheerful with the astonishing brilliancy of the eyes peering out from the lattice-bars, was as mouldy, ancient, and ruinous as any gentleman's house in Ireland, let us say. The paint was peeling off the rickety old carved galleries; the arabesques over the windows were chipped and worn; the ancientness of the place rendered it doubly picturesque.

William Makepeace Thackeray - From Cornhill to Grand Cairo