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" Right. The dining-room." And they began their survey. The dining-room was big, but over- furnished. Chelsea would have moaned aloud. Mr. Wilcox had eschewed those decorative schemes that wince, and relent, and refrain, and achieve beauty by sacrificing... "
Stylistics and Social Cognition - Page 112
by Poetics and Linguistics Association. Conference - 2007 - 277 pages
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Howards End

Edward Morgan Forster - 1911 - 450 pages
...After so much self-colour and self-denial, NpMargaret viewed with relief the sumptuous dado, the a frieze, the gilded wall-paper, amid whose foliage...derive the modern capitalist from the warriors and :>" i ' jjj/-^ I hunters of the past, saw it as an ancient guest-hall, "}\l \./(j^ I where the lord...
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Howards End

Edward Morgan Forster - 1921 - 352 pages
...sumptuous dado, the frieze, the gilded wall-paper, amid whose foliage parrots sang. It would nevei do with her own furniture, but those heavy chairs,...and Margaret, keen to derive the modern capitalist frormh^~WaTriors~gnd~1ningers oLjhg_jjast, saw it as an ancient guest-hall, where the lord sat at meat...
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The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror

Simon Joyce - 2007 - 225 pages
...with relief the sumptuous dado, and frieze, the gilded wall-paper, amid whose foliage parrots sung. It would never do with her own furniture, but those...presentation plate, stood up against its pressure like men. . . . Even the Bible — the Dutch Bible that Charles had brought back from the Boer War — fell into...
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