Some wall moldings

Usage examples of cornices.

The room was panelled, with cornices of heavy carved work, in which flowers and grotesque faces were strangely intermingled, and a row of black-looking portraits stared mournfully at me from the walls.

Here may often be found the family of a petty tradesman, with its trumpery furniture, burrowing among the relics of antiquated finery in great rambling time-stained apartments with fretted ceilings, gilded cornices, and enormous marble fireplaces.

Already Jan had gone off to the eternal realm of card houses and castles in Spain, where men believe in happiness, whereas the Home Guards and I -- for at this moment Oskar counted himself among the Home Guards -- stood amid brick walls, in stone corridors, beneath ceilings with plaster cornices, all so intricately interlocked with walls and partitions that the worst was to be feared for the day when, in response to one set of circumstances or another, all this patchwork we call architecture would lose its cohesion.

The gutters had begun to secede from the cornices and the city light reflecting down off the clouds showed through the rust-perforated iron.

It could be seen in the many cornices and gable ends, chimneys, roof tiles, and gateposts.

The twelve-foot walls were painted in a soft white with the most exquisite cornices meeting the ceiling.

Together they had nioved furniture, checked drawers, inspected moldings, cornices, anything that might have been pried away and used as a hiding place.

All the rooms had high ceilings with ornamental cornices and matching centre-pieces.

Droplets dribbled off mantels and cornices and anything else that ended in a point.