stencilings

Updated: May 22, 2025

Inside, cream distempered walls with brown stencilings; in the roof, bare beams of pitch pine, stained and varnished; north and south, clear glass windows shedding a greenish light; one brilliant stained-glass window above the altar at the east end. Up and down the aisles between the open pews of pitch pine went the workers of the Mission, marshaling the men into their seats.

May Sinclair - The Combined Maze

The house in Alameda Square was dark when he went up the walk; and while he was feeling for the bell-push his summoner called to him out of the electric stencilings of leaf shadows under the broad veranda. "It is too fine a night to stay indoors," she said. "Come and sit in the hammock while I scold you as you deserve." And when he had taken the hammock: "Now give an account of yourself.

Francis Lynde - The Grafters