Tiles
[taɪl]
Examples
- With heart drawn fine, Gerald stepped into the hall, whose floor was of coloured tiles, went quickly and looked into the large, pleasant room. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let's have a look at your garden on the tiles, before I go! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fragments of this work have been preserved, exquisite painted tiles, and also painted glass, setting forth the story of Psyche, which Palissy prepared for the chateau. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He also made very beautiful tiles to overlay walls, stoves, and floors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- No, no--see that your tenants don't sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Who could continue to exist where there are no cows but the cows on the chimney-pots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles; no crop but stone crop? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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