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...Vom Gyps und vom Stucco ist eine Anleitung zur Herstellung von Gypsfiguren, nebst benötigter Formen, sowie zur Imitation des Marmors mittels Gyps, nebst leicht begreiflich dargestellter Anweisung zur Verfertigung verschiedenfarbiger Gründe. V...

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...ggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...g and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed. “ Wake up, Philip... ... station at Farnley and took a cab to Doc- tor South’s. It was a broad low stucco house, with a Virginia creeper growing over it. He was shown into th...

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...tes. Aztec pattern lines shock electric at all sides. Wallpaper trappings of crying cherub limelight sing organic smile symphonies of tears and Incan stucco into cluster groupings of Sephiroth Argus eyeballs – staring hallucinating mind frames into Mozart paradigms of ‘Ode to Joy’ perception processions, while brain hemispheres synch worldly pleasures around themselves, co...

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...velvet brocade curtains drape man-sized windows. Tinkling chandeliers hang from the stucco-decorated ceilings. It reminds me of a Habsburg-era opera...

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...into the night. Dragging in slow, deep breaths, he leaned against the rough stucco of the hotel and ground the heels of his palms into his eyes. Th... ... her, willing or not, outside in a dark hotel parking lot, against the rough stucco walls. Shit, he was hard. He had to think about something else....

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...inst a wall and sunshine spreads and I feel everything impregnate me, the stucco, earth floor, the bench, the broken handle of the saw, Father batti...

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...ward his destination -- and his destiny. The taxi finally stopped at a small stucco house with a wrought iron gate. He pulled on a chain that hung ... ...kirts of DC. The outside looked as if it needed refurbishing. Large pieces of stucco were missing, leaving huge, black jagged patches across the fac...

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...inst a wall and sunshine spreads and I feel everything impregnate me, the stucco, earth floor, the bench, the broken handle of the saw, Father batti...

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...hite marble of the noble works of art about them stood out against the red stucco walls, and made strong contrasts with the rich T urkey carpets. Clad...

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...here was so little for it to feed on unless he counted the blisters of our stucco or saw his way to do something with the roses. 18 The Death of the ...

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... namely, in the direction of New Petra, a grif- fin-like house of wood and stucco, in the highest style of ornamental art, graced with four chimneys i...

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...amway. The Capitol—a vast structure, false classic, white marble, iron and stucco, which has assez grand air—must be seen to be appreciated. The godde...

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...ugh he had known what their use would be. A simple airy ante- room, with a stucco dado, formed an entrance into a draw- ing-room and dining-room. Out ...

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...rs between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real an... ...under the roof. It is built of rough stone, and covered with the yellowish stucco that gives a mean appearance to almost every house in Paris. There a... ... house, decorated in the most osten- tatious fashion; the walls lined with stucco, the landings of marble mosaic. Mme. de Nucingen was sitting in a li...

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...and pleasure. Take those two words for a lan- tern, and explore that great stucco cage, that hive with its black gutters, and follow the windings of t...

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...by his inheritance of a terrace of three palatial but structurally unsound stucco houses near Bromstead Station. They were big clumsy residences in th... ...dmit it’s a puzzle… . “Those damned houses have been the curse of my life. Stucco white elephants! Beastly cracked stucco with stains of green— black ...

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... 190 Palladian walls, Venetian doors, Grotesco roofs, and stucco floors: 169 ‘Tips with silver:’ occurs also in the famous moonlight... ...to save them in a trice! (It was by Providence they think, For your damn’d stucco has no chink.) ‘An’t please your honour, quoth the peasant, This sam...

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...d, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of bro ken glass were plentifully intermixed; s... ...grams, suitable to the quaint taste of the age which had been drawn in the stucco, when newly laid on, and had now grown hard and durable, for the adm...

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...l decorated with a chromo-lithograph in one of those frames festooned with stucco flowers to represent wood-carving. The furniture, in cashmere and el...

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... fumble at beauty. A one-room shanty of boards recently covered with rough stucco. A show-window delicately rich in er- ror: vases starting out to imi... ...ick schoolbuilding in its cindery grounds. 40 Main Street The State Bank, stucco masking wood. The Farmers’ National Bank. An Ionic temple of marble.... ...n. Here, the combined churches could afford a splendid club-house, maybe a stucco and half-timber building with gargoyles and all sorts of pleasing de... ... very attempts at diversity: the same bungalows, the same square houses of stucco or tapestry brick. The shops show the same standardized, nationally ...