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Updated: May 7, 2025
But we don't want marble floors. We are not building a palace or a showplace, but a house to live in. Happily, when we come to floors we find that those which may be depended upon to endure and to give their share of home comfort are also the best to look upon. It would be agreeable to say, further, that they cost least, but that would be misleading.
These details were public property. "The Safe" was a showplace and its directors held that no harm could come of displaying a strong hand. Accompanied by the observant eyes of Parkinson, Carrados gave an adventurous but not a hopeful attention to these particulars.
Hattie, she wanted to buy all sorts of truck and fix it up with cushions and curtains and Japanese gimcracks like she see a den in a book, and make a showplace of it. But Jim held out and had his way. There ain't nothin' in it but books and chairs and a couch and a big table; and they're all old except the books so Hattie don't show it much, when she's showin' off the house.
In the smaller towns, where there was no exchange, the principal tavern was usually selected as the "showplace," where high and low traded in tulips, and confirmed their bargains over sumptuous entertainments.
The range seems to rise in terraces, and just one abrupt gap about the centre discloses the peak of a conical hill behind. The whole is a perfect idyllic picture, not to be described in a breath; for this is the showplace of the Kaipara. It is Te Puke Tapu, famous in Maori history as the scene of a great battle.
He must still stay an unwilling prisoner in this garden of studied indolence, this playground of invalids and gamblers; he must still dawdle idly about these glittering, stagnating squares, fringing a crowd of meaningless foreigners, skulking half-fed and poorly housed about this opulent showplace of the world that set its appeasing theatricalities into motion only at the touch of ready gold.
"Krag won't want any, and one must do something. I feel restless." "Let us take a look at the country." The cup, which was on its way to Maskull's lips, remained poised in the air. "Have you anything in view, Nightspore?" "Let us walk out to the Gap of Sorgie." "What's that?" "A showplace," answered Nightspore, biting his lip. Maskull finished off the cup, and rose to his feet.
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