How To Use parget In A Sentence
- A stroll through the California State Capitol (10th and L Streets; 916-324-0333; www. capitolmuseum.ca.gov) - a neo-Classical confection of Corinthian and other classic columns, parget plasterwork and mosaic floors - makes everything feel like it's in grand order. NYT > Home Page
- In the Little Shambles, too, there are many curious details in the high gables, pargeting and oriel windows. Yorkshire
- Raising their heads, both men looked up at the little dwelling, which seemed quite lifeless, with its narrow casements and its coarse, violet pargeting, displaying the shameful ugliness of poverty. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
- He havasu real estate purposely to the sandbar in a west stertorous way, and his fans pargeting his gastropoda ninefold. Rational Review
- Sophy Pargeter?" he repeated the name mechanically, but with a sudden wincing. The Uttermost Farthing
- Broken oyster shells are distinguishable in the decorated plasterwork, indicating that the pargeting was done at Jamestown. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
- The prince pulled a golden bell-cord that shone against the green pargeting of the wall. Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ
- Within their doors also, such as are of ability do oft make their floors and parget of fine alabaster burned, which they call plaster of Paris, whereof in some places we have great plenty, and that very profitable against the rage of fire. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
- Unto the parget [3] on their side the which did never meet. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
- The Sun Inn, or "House of the Giants," as it has sometimes been called, from the colossal figures which appear in the pargeting over its gateway, is a building which evidently grew with the needs of the town, and a study of its architectural features is curiously instructive. Vanishing England