"Dado" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hotel. They would have to: except architects. A modern architect, like modern architecture, doesn't pay. But then I know only one architect and you are hiding him somewhere from me. I believe that he is as extinct as the dado, of which now only fossil remains are found, chiefly in the vicinity of Brompton, where they are sometimes discovered by workmen excavating. They are usually embedded in the old Lincrusta Walton strata, and ...
— Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde - with a Preface by Robert Ross • Oscar Wilde
... compartments. A coved ceiling sprang from the cornice, and both ceiling and walls were decorated with paintings, in distemper, of mythological subjects; the lower portion of the wall, however, having what is, I believe, termed a dado, ornamented with a diaper pattern, each square of which contained a conventional representation of ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood
... dozen with transverse swags of carmine floral design and top crown frieze, staircase, three continuous flights at successive right angles, of varnished cleargrained oak, treads and risers, newel, balusters and handrail, with steppedup panel dado, dressed with camphorated wax: bathroom, hot and cold supply, reclining and shower: water closet on mezzanine provided with opaque singlepane oblong window, tipup seat, bracket lamp, brass tierod and brace, armrests, footstool and artistic oleograph on inner face ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... Rica de todo lo descubierto y por esta causa Ubieramos de tratar y comencar a escrivir della pero por aver sido la de cubu la primera qe se poblo y que de Alli se a salido a conquistar todo lo demas y tambien por auerme Va Sa dado tam breue tiempo para hacer esta Relacion y tenerla yo mas de la ysla de cubu y de las demas sus comarcanas que llaman de los pintados, comencare della pa que se Prosiga despues mas largamte en lo que toca A esta ysla ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume V., 1582-1583 • Various
... floors, two final flights. A little hopelessly he swung up the first. And as he did so the blackness above him was riven by a tongue of fire, and a bullet, singing past his head, flattened itself with a vicious spat against the marble dado of the walls. Instinctively he pulled up, finger closing upon the trigger of his revolver; flash and report followed the motion, and a panel of ribbed glass in a door overhead was splintered and fell in clashing fragments, all but drowning the sound ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... parties and several large dinners. Mrs. Yorba shuddered sometimes at the weakening of her inborn and long-nurtured economical faculty, but thoroughly enjoyed herself—forming an important item of the dado—and hoped that her husband's ...
— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... the archway were covered, to a height of six feet, with a permanent dado of mud formed of the splashes from the gutter; for, in those days, the foot passenger had no protection from the constant traffic of vehicles and from what was called the kicking of the carts, but curbstones placed upright at intervals, and ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... prosiguio el montero, a que, segun el afirma, y lo jura y perjura por todo lo mas sagrado del mundo, los ciervos que discurren por estos montes, se han dado de ojo para no dejarle en paz, siendo lo mas gracioso del caso, que en mas de una ocasion les ha sorprendido concertando entre si las burlas que han de hacerle, y despues que estas burlas se han llevado a termino, ha oido las ruidosas carcajadas con ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
... una de las cartas que le ha dado.) Qu cabeza! sta, para Cesreo, no va... Aguarda, voy a concluir ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... will answer admirably, and be fairly washable. It has even one advantage—it does not become unbearably hot to the touch, should the bather lean against the walls, whereas, with a highly glazed surface the walls become burning hot, and need lining with a dado of felt or other non-conducting substance. And since this latter method overcomes the objection named, the best possible material for lining the walls is glazed brickwork. In cases where elaboration is desired, ...
— The Turkish Bath - Its Design and Construction • Robert Owen Allsop
... are wide open at one end of the great room. The walls are tinted with terra cotta, and the woodwork is painted in Indian red. Above the high wood dado runs a row of illuminated pictures of animals,—ducks, pigeons, peacocks, calves, lambs, colts, and almost everything else that goes upon two or four feet; so that the children can, by simply turning in their seats, ...
— Children's Rights and Others • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin |
