How To Use Wicker In A Sentence
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Eleanor, out walking, wheeling the wicker perambulator in the sharp October sunshine.
THE GOLDEN LION
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We simply do not have the space for well-organised drills of vegetables that lead to a wicker gate opening out onto a woodland meadow.
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The three of them sat in the wide wicker chairs on the front porch, watching as the sun set.
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The opening at one end of the shrine is closed not by the paneled doors characteristic of temples but by a pair of low gates carved to represent wickerwork and surmounted by a row of inverted dentils.
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The toboggan consists of a wide wicker basket with a cushioned seat, set on wooden runners.
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From here on my wicker chair it seems incredible that just short decades ago this garden was a dust-bowl, a sterile desert.
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The town has another curiosity - the farm shop, which has ballooned into Britain's poshest supermarket, complete with wicker trugs instead of shopping trolleys and quails' eggs by the dozen.
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In old country-houses in England, instead of glass for windows, they used wicker, or fine strips of oak disposed checkerwise.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
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A wicker basket, especially one used by anglers for carrying fish.
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Perhaps nothing can bring about racial equality, Wicker notes grimly.
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In Europe armourers have invariably been workers in metal, but in other parts of the world materials such as wickerwork, bone, and coconut fibre have been used.
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Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur.
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Claire spent the morning in a wicker rocker on the screened porch with a book.
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This wicker hamper is packed with delicious goodies and costs ￡64.92, inclusive of nationwide delivery.
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I think pothouse is a place wherein the fishermen keep their wicker lobster pots, wicker fish pots and etc.
The intire account of fome incidents from 257 years ago
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Indeed, almost as wide and as deep as the car it sits on, the slide-and-tilt sunroof is so spectacularly capacious that the interior could, given a wicker chair or two and a magazine tidy, usefully double as a conservatory.
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He put rarely - used things into the wicker bag.
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Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
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You can find wicker baskets at your local ‘pound shop’ and paper from your shredder makes great lining.
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Build a wicker treehouse while you're up there.
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She pictured it the way she remembered it: light purple walls with a dark purple carpet, white wicker furniture and a small vanity in the corner.
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Well the wicker baskets sound nice anyway.
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It comes complete with a tiny wicker basket full of fruit, a dressing table and a washstand and towel rail.
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He coaxed the mouse onto his hand and put it into a tiny wicker basket.
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Rooms have exposed stone walls and original beams, modern art, wicker sofas and designer lamps.
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When it rained the smallest drops of water could drip on your body through the wicker.
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The antique vehicle is also a treat to look at, with its red coachwork, gold lining on the bonnet, antique lamps and a wicker picnic basket on the side.
Baby, You Can Drive My Car
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Many of these products flowed off the stalls and onto the ground, where decaying wicker baskets protected them from the dust and dirt.
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Two luffly wicker baskits-£1.50p an a build it yersef toy robot bran noo still seeled fer a quid!
Mom gator takes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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There is a lot of settling back in the wicker chairs occupied by the great and good in the Royal Box.
Times, Sunday Times
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There followed a brown wicker chair, a mattress and lamps of minimalist Scandinavian design.
Times, Sunday Times
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If this house is later sold to someone who doesn't need the additional room to accommodate a wheelchair, it can be nicely used for laundry hampers or wicker storage baskets.
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The tables are large, the wicker chairs are padded and comfortable and the service personnel were happy, dressed in bright floral outfits.
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Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it.
The Imperialist
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Due to my brief foray into the lore of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic worlds, I was aware of the nature of a wicker man before I saw this film.
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Aristotle noted the principle on which the camera obscura depends, having observed how the round image of the sun passed undistorted through the angular interstices of wickerwork.
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Chairs are woven wickerwork, though there are some padded alcove booths along the sides as well.
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The three of them sat in the wide wicker chairs on the front porch, watching as the sun set.
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Our first ‘camp’ was Eagle Island, which boasts 12 luxury canvas chalets, complete with air-conditioning and decked verandas with wicker chairs and hammocks.
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There are enormous bags of scarlet chilis, sacks of tobacco and piles of wicker baskets.
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So it's goodbye to chintzy bedspreads, and hello to pale wood headboards, sultry low-lit bathroom marble, capacious glass walk-in showers and whacking wicker furniture.
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He stared for one more minute then collapsed into his wicker chair, exasperated.
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The toboggan consists of a wide wicker basket with a cushioned seat, set on wooden runners.
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On Saturday night, Robbie and his partner Ola were tasked with performing the cha-cha-cha, a dance of Cuban origin that apparently involves a bewildered looking man in a black rhinestone-studded hoodie standing ram-rod straight and occasionally flapping his arms about, while his partner gyrates suggestively around him in a manner not dissimilar to a naked Britt Ekland on the other side of Edward Woodward's hotel‑room wall in The Wicker Man.
Bad boy Robbie Savage finds life tough outside his comfort zone | Barry Glendenning
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Furnitures such as Rattan, Bamboo, Wicker, Decorative Candles and Candle Holders Furniture, Furniture Fittings and Fixtures.
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Move one upholstered chair out of your living room and replace it with something in wicker, rattan, or woven water hyacinth.
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Alternatively, construct the chair's carcass like this but weave the seat from strips of hessian or wicker-type cane.
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He had a kind of wicker hat on his head, and under it was a face that would have shamed a gorilla -- huge flat nose, pocked cheeks, little yellow eyes and big yellow teeth.
Flash For Freedom
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Barrie Zwicker, Canadian media commentator and journalist: "At a certain point, the term conspiracy-theory becomes just an excuse not to do your homework.
Two words, part two
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Slung across his shoulder on a leather strap was a wicker basket.
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A cylindrical wicker basket filled with earth and stones, formerly used in building fortifications.
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The wicker chairs on the lower floor are the perfect place for a spot of forward planning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Armed with a wicker trug and the very brilliant bible for the county's foodies - I head off to the organic superstore.
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The superior knowledge, skill, airmanship, and timely actions demonstrated by Lt Col Vanderburgh and Capt Wickering resulted in the safe recovery of two irreplaceable crewmembers and a valuable national asset.
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The living room is furnished simply with wicker furniture.
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Wicker chairs dotted the garden and in the centre was its famed swimming pool.
Times, Sunday Times
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Service is slick, blues and jazz play quietly in the background and the wicker chairs are blissfully comfortable.
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The lounge was an unhomelike room, with coco-nut matting on the floor, and wicker chairs and tables which were littered with shiny illustrated papers.
Burmese Days
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These roundhouses were generally fashioned from double-walled, woven wicker or from posts and wattle.
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Such incendiary observations may have alarmed some anglophone New Brunswickers, and the 1967 results essentially reproduced those of the previous two provincial elections.
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Lifting the small child from the wicker cradle, Julius lifted his daughter high for all to see.
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When he came on to the porch, she stood up from her wicker chair and kissed him on the cheek.
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This piece is loose woven using 6mm thick natural or artificial wicker which is painted in a colour to suit you.
New lighting from Yellow Goat Designs
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Yes B: Nude tramp carrying wicker basket 5 V: More information on the hover mower.
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Very ornamental, this cupel is an interesting mixture between wood and wicker.
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‘There is a pair of brown work pants and a white blouse in that basket,’ she stated, pointing to a wicker basket by the clothes line.
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If you have room, consider adding a piece of outdoor furniture like a wicker chair or table.
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These wet colloidal negatives had to be prepared on site, so Francis Frith, so the label said, had a special wicker-work dark-room wagon made for his expeditions.
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Judith sighed and invited Molly on back into the sunroom, an uninspiring expanse of wicker and glass.
BAD MEDICINE
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Synthetic wicker is a recent design trend, gaining popularity quickly due to its durability and resistance to extreme temperatures and sun exposure.
Pierantonio Bonacina’s Wiry Modular Garden Furniture
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Its Mercado de Artesanías features ceramics, handmade amate paper, wicker basketry and all kinds of gemstones.
Tequisquiapan: provincial Mexican charm in Queretaro
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He and his twelve companions crossed the sea in a currach of wickerwork covered with hides.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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You could label the wicker/cloth basket on the school side.
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Our phylogenetic analysis including P. wickerhamii shows that this green algal mtDNA does cluster with corresponding sequences from lower and higher plants.
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Nobody asked her what was in the wicker basket she had put under the seat.
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As we were heading out of the section I saw some rather nice wicker wall baskets that have Marigold and Snowflake plants in them.
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Last week I wrote about a wicker bodied car made in Europe in 1924.
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Before the 20th century, wheelchairs with rigid frames and bath chairs made of wood, wicker and iron were cumbersome contraptions.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shock aroused by his incidental frankness is travestied in H.C. Earwicker, who reproaches himself for indecent exposure.
James Joyce
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Another kind of receptacle for records was a small turned box, called a "skippet," and another was the "hanaper," or hamper, a basket made of twigs or wicker-work.
Forty Centuries of Ink
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But the guests lolling on bedlike lounges and deep wicker chairs seem blissfully unaware of the drama behind the scenes at one of South Beach's hottest hotels.
Keeping Chic in a Miami Storm
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Everyone would sit in the wicker armchairs and on the hard chairs from around the dining-room table.
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Tale
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Lilac plumbago, red hybiscus, and golden allemanda mingle with pink and purple lantana, yellow daisies, and hedges of scarlet tassels, enclosing wicker huts in patches of banana and cocoanut.
Through the Malay Archipelago
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So what's in those big wicker baskets by the window?
Times, Sunday Times
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Whence the verb crib, which meant "to filch" under cover of wicker anything -- some liquor,
Review of The Best of It by Kay Ryan
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Those readers whose grannies favour calendars featuring cheeky kittens peeping out of wicker baskets will get the idea.
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But now, as under the spell of a new encompassment of her own weaving, she seemed to revert to her former self, sinking, relaxed, into a wicker lounge beside the basin, one long and shapely hand in the water, the other idle in her lap.
The Inside of the Cup — Complete
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There was also a framed picture of "The House"; a tambourine painted with purple iris by Miss Isabel's own hands; an old bannerette in cross-stitch pendent from the mantelpiece, a collection of paper mats, shaded from orange to white, the glass-covered vase of wax flowers which had attracted Ron's notice, one or two cheap china vases, a pot of musk placed diametrically in the centre of a wicker table, a sofa, and two
Big Game A Story for Girls
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I am confused about 'corach' which the OED knows as an alternative spelling of 'currach' or 'coracle' - a small wicker boat used in ancient times in Scotland and Ireland - hardly the usage here.
The Old Foodie
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The Dark is based on Simon Maginn's 1994 novel, Sheep, and is designed to provoke memories of classic supernatural chillers set in rural settings such as The Wicker Man.
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And in the garden there's a little nest: a kind of wicker orb built into the wall to float above the astroturf, filled with cosy sofas.
Big Brother 2010: inside the Big Brother 11 house
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She directed me to a wicker chair placed in front of a round bamboo table covered by a red velvet cloth.
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The living room is furnished simply with wicker furniture.
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Beyond, near the bow, was a large saloon with a round table and wicker chairs.
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When I finally got there, a small clutch of ladies were engaged in wheeling a drinks trolley in that seemed laden with bottles and little wicker baskets of snacks.
The Book Club « Tales from the Reading Room
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Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road.
Kesh & Loaning
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Of old time, our country houses, instead of glass, did use much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Cribs, cradles and bassinets are traditionally woven from wickerwork.
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She was sitting in an elegantly woven wicker chair in front of a large tree in a forest, and her face shone with a smile.
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If Hannah had not been in Spain she would have got in touch with her and begged for her help, and it struck Rue, as she sat in a wicker chair in the conservatory wondering what on earth had happened to her old strength and energy, that although she had many, many acquaintances, there was no one she could actually turn to for the kind of succour Neil had given her.
So Close and No Closer
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Build a wicker treehouse while you're up there.
Times, Sunday Times
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Environmentally-friendly ones include cardboard, chipboard, papier-mâché and wicker coffins.
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Along with mother's wicker basket , I returned to the times of youth, youngster and childhood.
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Tea served in wicker armchairs at three am gives a colonial feel to the place.
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Along with mother's wicker basket , I returned to the times of youth, youngster and childhood.
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The only complaint is that the flat is not edgy enough (it has wicker furniture).
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Outdoor wicker furniture provides a comfy place to take a break, and tortoiseshell shades can be lowered for privacy.
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A second pillar at the entrance to the Grade I listed Parade House on Wicker Hill was damaged over the weekend when an apex stone, was snapped off.
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There was a wicker bodied car made in Europe in 1924.
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Over the years, some of the most successful rituals at Rites of Spring have centered around such images: a wicker figure, the Maypole, a bifacial Goddess puppet, a gigantic multi-colored web, an earthen Great Mother protruding from the ground.
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Wicker, himself a great chronicler of the civil rights movement, observed in San Francisco, “In the long future power will be more avidly sought by and more widely distributed among those who in the long past could only suffer its consequences.”
The Good Fight
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There is a wicker basket for oven gloves and a white-tiled splashback that smirks like a Hollywood movie star.
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There's a large, lively pool area with funky wicker loungers, a pizza oven and canopied salas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Use ladderback chairs, rocking chairs, benches, wicker furniture and Windsor chairs.
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Other images bask in incongruity, as when a hulking elk lounges in a wicker chaise at what might be a company picnic.
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Try dressing your room with wicker baskets, and look for flounced or ruffled curtains, tablecloths and bedding.
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This versatile style features a richly stained frame with a wicker inset.
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There are toys for the girls: soft dolls and wicker houses.
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A sedate scattering of planters, wicker chairs and Balinese chests evokes mansions of old.
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(These are also countries where you will genuinely still see people carrying their shopping around the local city markets in wicker baskets, some even with gingham linings.)
Life without the plastic bag…? | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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Seats are leather, baskets wicker, and the riding position is comfortable.
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Cashel waited for two porters carrying a handbarrow and a woman with a large wicker basket of washing to pass the obstruction going the other way.
Lord of the Isles
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These materials, as well as wicker and cane, have low moisture absorption capability.
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Avoid wicker baskets as plant holders, as they can harbour mould.
Stay Well This Winter
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A stretch of flowing water set aside for catching fish by the use of wickerwork or basketry traps attached to artificial structures placed on the bed of the river or stream.
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There will be exhibitors offering garden furniture, pots, wickerwork, gardening tools and implements old and new, wrought ironwork and various craft stalls.
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In Europe armourers have invariably been workers in metal, but in other parts of the world materials such as wickerwork, bone, and coconut fibre have been used.
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A uniformed man just inside the entry handed them each a small nosegay of flowers from a large wicker basket next to him.
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Settling back in a wicker chair, shaded from the glorious sun by a large brolly, I take stock of the astonishing value of a week's holiday in this beguiling and little known country.
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Wicker waste paper baskets and bathroom sponges are guaranteed to be disintegrated at an alarming rate if left in the open.
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The thin cotton of his pyjamas did nothing to cushion the discomfort of the wicker scraping his bony body.
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We find little Piurivar souvenirs here prayer sticks, bits of feathers, small clever wickerwork cups.
MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
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It had a wicker, flower-girl basket of pinks and daisies in its mouth.
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The little lug on its left side is made to look like basketwork, which makes me think the shape of the whole vessel might imitate a wicker or maybe leather container.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Cambodian Bronze
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Wickersham sold the title agency in 2003 and his contract with Alyeska was a condition of the sale, said Randy Strong, Alyeska president.
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News
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She soaped herself thoroughly with the gardenia guest soap which was kept in a little wickerwork basket.
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In the sixth century Saint Brendan set off from the west coast of Ireland in a small currach made of wicker and oxhide to search for the Isles of the Blessed.
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She looked for him in the oven, the fridge, the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk.
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David Finkle: Books, Books and More Books, or Tote That Bookbag
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David Wickers opens up a sack of exotic adventures.
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Their houses are made of wickers, and withes, wrought aboute trees, moch like vnto those that we calle frankencence trees, and in suche sorte that they may tourne them rounde euery waye.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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His world was the big old square wicker perambulator, the dark walls of which hemmed him in on three sides, the fourth consisting of his featherbed, beneath which, throughout the summer, he lay unresistant.
Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
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Hire a coracle, a buffalo-hide-and-wicker boat, or wade over.
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Yet Wicker, along with Cochran, had by then already sponsored earmarks in the spending bill that would fund an airport expansion in Tunica ($1.75 million), new riverwalk lights in Columbus ($300,000), improvements to a hiking and biking trail in Hattiesburg ($700,000) and improvements to an assortment of bridges, highways, trails, railways and streets across Mississippi.
Republican senators say they'll vote against their own earmarks
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The quivers were close by them, with the jaw-bone of the fish pirai tied by a string to their brim and a small wicker-basket of wild cotton, which hung down to the centre; they were nearly full of poisoned arrows.
Wanderings in South America
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I collected the eggs in a large wicker basket, which could hold several dozen.
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I rushed out of the tent, past the wicker basket stall and narrowly avoiding the Victorian steam organ, and pushed a couple of small children aside to ensure I had an unobscured ringside view at the racing arena.
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However, in opposition to Mr. Wickers, I have always found that carbonate of lithia, used even in larger doses than those recommended by this author, was not sufficiently active, and that development had to be too much prolonged in order to obtain prints of good intensity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
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Wickersham Land Torpedo (1917) - Another ill-fated warbot, this one was startlingly close in looks to the PackBots of today, with its two tank treads.
Gizmodo
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There will be exhibitors offering garden furniture, pots, wickerwork, gardening tools and implements old and new, wrought ironwork and various craft stalls.
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Along with mother's wicker basket , I returned to the times of youth, youngster and childhood.
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Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wicker basket.
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In one photograph, this table holds a wicker basket piled high with cherries; in another, a tightly stoppered glass jar in which two peaches gently float.
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The wicker is very delicately plaited, and is ornamented with a pattern in chenille which is very easy to work.
Beeton's Book of Needlework
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The first buffet area is a fisherman's haul of shrimp, sushi, sashimi and fish-egg rolls prepared fresh on the other side of the counter and laid in individual wicker baskets.
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Instead of glass there was much lattice, and that made either of wicker or fine rifts of oak in checkerwise, and horn was also used.
A Short History of English Agriculture
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When she had finished, Rebekah picked up the empty wicker basket and turned to go inside.
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Another kind of receptacle for records was a small turned box, called a "skippet," and another was the "hanaper," or hamper, a basket made of twigs or wicker-work.
Forty Centuries of Ink
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The catalogue is also packed with wicker and sisal baskets for storage or waste paper.
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What are called extraordinaries, or post-chaises, are little wicker carts, uncovered, with moveable benches or forms in them, execrable in every respect.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
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An hour and a half would probably do it, they must have thought as they settled into the wicker chairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Brazilian sun flashed through the strong wicker prisons, bursting with bananas and nectarean fruits that eschew the temperate zone.
Prue and I
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Judith sighed and invited Molly on back into the sunroom, an uninspiring expanse of wicker and glass.
BAD MEDICINE
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Our neighborhood in Wicker Park, just northwest of downtown, is a mix of Polish bakeries, Mexican apothecaries, and dilapidated brownstones with men who sit on stoops and sing as I pass by: Que bonito culo!
The Memory Palace
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Other items remained recognizable as parts of domestic or industrial objects, including the curving back of a wicker love seat, bundles of chair and table legs, and the back of a bentwood rocker.
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Three vertiginous pillars of wicker baskets and colourful textiles frame the back of the stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are many designs of sets of small tables and chairs made with good lines, and the wicker ones with lovely cretonne cushions are very attractive.
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Glancing around the porch she saw new wicker furniture that went well with the old home.
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Baskets are made from palm leaves, rushes, reeds, or wicker.
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During these movements the object happens to rub against the wicker of the bassinet.
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Each has a balcony, complete with wicker chairs and a hammock - many guests choose to sleep in the latter.
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Incredibly one of Mrs Greening's stolen dogs, a pregnant bitch called Ellie May, was found sitting in a wicker basket outside a shop in a village near Frome on Monday.
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I know of only two vehicles that could be purchased ex works with a wicker or woven cane body.
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From here on my wicker chair it seems incredible that just short decades ago this garden was a dust-bowl, a sterile desert.
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Give a gift to Gomez and Wicker-let them take the glory and hope for halfa gold star.
Devil's Waltz
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And so on the sprawling grounds of the twins festival, the Wickert twins were lost in a sea of identical twins dressed alike down to their shoelaces, twins so alike that in one case they share a similarly crooked right incisor.
At a Convention Full of Them, It's Apparent Not All Twins Are Created Equal
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According to her, the basket they had found at the office door was woven of the finest wicker and lined in batiste; Eliza's nightgown was worked with French knots and the sheets edged with Brussels lace, and topping everything was a mink coverlet, an extravagance never seen in Chile.
Excerpt: Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
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The walls of the Spanish pavilion jutting out at all angles, are covered with wicker.
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In Europe armourers have invariably been workers in metal, but in other parts of the world materials such as wickerwork, bone, and coconut fibre have been used.
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A wicker basket anglers for carrying fish.
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I was staying in an 'open room', one of three such rooms at the top of a normal hotel (still within my budget for accommodation) made from a material that I would call wicker, not sure if there is a more specific name for it though.
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At the housewarming party she hosted she felt like a bride in wicker as she lashed open packages: festive corning ware, Provençal platters, a pitcher shaped like Lord Chanticleer, walnut cheese boards, a beveled chip and dip bowl, a smoothie dispenser, a hand-held massager, and a tea kettle that whistled "This Little Light of Mine.
To-die-for
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His remedy was to divide the garden with a wicker arch into two sections, to create an illusion of space.
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So as I went to the University rather out of shame of abiding the cellar under his very house, wicker bottles dangling over even the chief entrance into the Palace, serving for a vintner's bush.
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Otto placed baby Bonnie, nestled in her white wicker basinet, on the opera seat of the Buick.
The Nervous Breakdown
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As Mrs. Bhaer spoke every one bustled about, and in five minutes the three little girls and Teddy were packed into the "clothes-basket," as they called the wicker wagon which Toby drew.
Little Men
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We perch next to it on metal wicker chairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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A scruffy, hand-delivered envelope had been placed on the flimsy wicker post-table in the communal entrance hall.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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It had been years since he had carried a fascine to war, a great wicker cylinder that was filled with soil and provided an instant battlement to protect men and guns from enemy artillery.
Sharpe's Gold
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Had Alvarez allowed his eye to stray one entry beyond OED's kesh, dialect for kex, an umbelliferous plant, he would have come upon kesh-work with a cross reference to kish, Irish for a wicker basket, and by extension to a causeway built up on wicker baskets of earth or stone, and to a corduroy road.
Kesh & Loaning
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It's a chirpy little place with clean bright red tablecloths and wicker padded chairs on the terrace.
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Yemenis still practice traditional handicrafts such as silver and copperwork, dagger manufacturing, carpentry, boat building, pottery, weaving and dyeing, wickerwork, and leather tanning.
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Communities gathered on hill tops and lake shores to collect the berries in specially designed rush and wicker baskets.
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Old wire potato-harvesting baskets cost from 19, and round wicker 'potato mollies', from 30, are perfect for patio planting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arts & Crafts : all kinds of straw - woven & wicker baskets.
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The two bodies lay under canvas sheets on wickerwork mats supported by wooden trestles.
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Mr Chaffanbrass collected his papers, with the assistance of Mr Wickerby — totally disregardful of his junior counsel, and the Attorney and Solicitor – General congratulated each other on the successful termination of a very disagreeable piece of business.
Phineas Redux
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Every time she discharged a small stack of fodders from the full wicker basket.
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She looked around, then made a beeline for a nearby stall, unadorned flat planks displaying wickerwork baskets.
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And a girl looking like an Ovaltine Dairy Maid who throws buns at the crowd from a wicker basket.
Hallaton bottle kicking
