What is "vases"

Usage examples of "vases".

The most gorgeous vases and plaks and chiner ware of every description and color, and books, and jewelry, and rugs, and fans, and parasols, and embroideries, and laces, and etc.

I was unaware of the extent to which these banker collectors of myrrhine vases differed from the true Israel.

And so Lily had, according to custom, arranged welcoming vases of narcissi, and then iris, and later, roses, to set upon their bureau tops on the days of their arrivals.

A smell of soup and excrements circulates between the stretchers, and seems to insult the slender onyx vases that surmount the cabinet.

She turned on her soft heel and caught sight of herself in the glass of the front-hall secretary desk, her own much considered face floating across the silver sides of the vases, pitchers, bowls, and candlesticks crammed inside.

Water, tipped from the vases of the altar flowers, seeped as it had seeped every Sunday since 1916 into the roots of a house-high rhododendron.

Piles of net fabric, a cluster of white bud vases, rolls of ribbons, pieces of fabric were left lying about in arrangements which obviously ought not to be disturbed.

James Byrne fussed and led Shona into the room where he had carefully placed four brightly coloured cushions and two vases of flowers.

He stayed barely two days in the room, looking with dim eyes at the engravings on the walls, and the Empire bureau on which vases were piled.

There were forms to fill out and stock to order, catalogs - real catalogs full of useful things like flowers and greenery and lovely vases -to peruse.