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  • Lord Carew resided in in a gracious mansion, five stories tall, with draped and valanced sash windows on either side of a grand columned entrance.

    The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

  • Lord Carew resided in in a gracious mansion, five stories tall, with draped and valanced sash windows on either side of a grand columned entrance.

    The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

  • Lord Carew resided in in a gracious mansion, five stories tall, with draped and valanced sash windows on either side of a grand columned entrance.

    The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

  • Lord Carew resided in in a gracious mansion, five stories tall, with draped and valanced sash windows on either side of a grand columned entrance.

    The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

  • Lord Carew resided in in a gracious mansion, five stories tall, with draped and valanced sash windows on either side of a grand columned entrance.

    The Thief Taker Janet Gleeson 2004

  • So stood my father, holding fast his fore-finger betwixt his finger and his thumb, and reasoning with my uncle Toby as he sat in his old fringed chair, valanced around with party-coloured worsted bobs — O Garrick! — what a rich scene of this would thy exquisite powers make! and how gladly would I write such another to avail myself of thy immortality, and secure my own behind it.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • So stood my father, holding fast his fore-finger betwixt his finger and his thumb, and reasoning with my uncle Toby as he sat in his old fringed chair, valanced around with party-coloured worsted bobs — O Garrick! — what a rich scene of this would thy exquisite powers make! and how gladly would I write such another to avail myself of thy immortality, and secure my own behind it.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Our passports duly conned over, the functionary, with a sour glance at our valanced faces, inquired if we had letters for any one in the island.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • In the commodious kitchen of Eleanor's former home two old people were sitting in calico valanced rockers, one by either window.

    Turn About Eleanor F. Graham [Illustrator] Cootes

  • She loved the dotted Swiss curtains blowing, and the white-valanced little bed, and the white-valanced little dressing-table all dim and misty save where a broad shaft of light gave a divine patch of illumination to undress by.

    Missy Dana Gatlin

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