Ornamental carving done with a saw

Usage examples of fretwork.

He looks very small against the massive filigree of the birdcage, a white plastic spaceman doll floating in front of a shifting, faceted fretwork of spun glass.

Number twelve was a semi-detached cottage with bullnosed corrugated-iron roof and a Victorian fretwork castiron trellis beneath the eaves.

Number twelve was a semidetached cottage with bullnosed corrugated-iron roof and a Victorian fretwork castiron trellis beneath the eaves.

Their doorways and deep-set windows were framed with carved fretwork and pillars of ancient design.

A full moon bleached the open fretwork of a dozen new homesites behind them.

It was surrounded firstly by wide verandas and white fretwork eaves and then by five acres of lawns and flowering trees.

Clothes and ornaments, were broidered and purfled and picked out in sindle-whorls and fretwork, spirals and enamel inlays.

White stars arrayed a fretwork of black boughs, and the green star of the south was a shining leaf among them.

There was the village church, glistening white in its pre-Revolutionary splendor, the massive houses, the giant elms, the mar-velous green common with a fretwork bandstand in the middle where Charles Bromley often delivered patriotic addresses, and straight ahead the lawyer's residence from which Mrs.

Quarter-ton limestone building blocks mixed widi gargoyles and fretwork and fragments of glass avalanched across the pavement.

The fingers of one hand idly stroked the fretwork on a Chinese Chippendale table, and her insides foundered like the storm-tossed boat in the painting.

There was only the Viewer, slumped forever in his sour seat, the bald shells of his eyes boiling in pictures, a biblical flood of them, all saturated tones and deep focus, not one life-size, and the hands applauding, always applauding, palms abraded to an open fretwork of gristle and bone, the ruined teeth fixed in a yellowy smile that will not diminish, that will not fade, he's happy, he's being entertained.

Caged in supporting fretwork, the aero-keel rose in a perfect curve far above her head, to where the great hull opened out like a giant lily.

General dealers and tailors and tinsmiths and halaal butcherk occupied the ground-floor shops of the decrepit Victorian building while from the cast-iron fretwork of the open balconies above him a festival of drying laundry, and the convoluted streets were clarr.

It was lightly built, of cast bronze fretwork, but inlaid with gold and gems in a pattern that flared out behind the seat like a peacock's tail.