"Unframed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... behind him, he was aware of a respite from alarms. The room was quite dismantled, uncarpeted besides, and strewn with packing cases and incongruous furniture; several great pier glasses, in which he beheld himself at various angles, like an actor on a stage; many pictures, framed and unframed, standing, with their faces to the wall; a fine Sheraton sideboard, a cabinet of marquetry, and a great old bed, with tapestry hangings. The windows opened to the floor; but by great good fortune the lower part of the shutters ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)
... was a memory of the dead woman. The pictures which dazzled the callers were hung low, down on the level of the eyes, on easels, or fastened to the wall, amid the sumptuous furniture; up above, reaching to the ceiling were arranged the studies, memories, unframed canvases, like old, forgotten works, and in this collection at the first glance Renovales saw the ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... placed against the opposite wall. On its polished surface, above its innumerable little shelves and drawers, a Crown Derby tea and coffee service was set forth. Standing in the midst, propped between a basin and a cup, was the unframed photograph of a woman. This the man removed. Holding it loosely between his finger and thumb, still talking to his wife, he returned with it to his old position on ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... left of the house door ran the corridor, from whose walls hung another exhibit of black canvases, most of them unframed, in which could be made out absolutely nothing; only in one of them, after very patient scrutiny, one might guess at a red cock pecking at the leaves of ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja
... and this terrestrial ball, And heaven's high canopy, that covers all, One was the face of Nature—if a face— Rather, a rude and indigested mass; A lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, Of ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson |
