"Decorator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and glistened with its fervor of devotion. And yet so untouched was I by this artistic display, that when I found strength to shout "Toddie!" it was in a tone which caused this industrious amateur decorator to start violently, and drop his mucilage-bottle, open end first, ...
— Helen's Babies • John Habberton
... son of a journeyman carpenter who had died of consumption when the boy was only five years old. After that his mother earned a scanty living as a needle-woman. When Frank was thirteen he went to work for a master decorator who was a man of a type that has now almost disappeared, being not merely an employer but a craftsman ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... residence for the study of a young architect; and the superior knowledge of the leading principles of mediaeval art, now exhibited in their adaptation of the style to home events, is a clear proof that the fact has been felt and acted on. The "infinite variety" of the old decorator is everywhere apparent, and the play he gave to his invention. We give in Fig. 53, as one instance, the ornamental mouldings of the Chapel of St. Nicholas, in the Cathedral of Aix; in this instance the rigidity of the rule which enforces geometric form ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt
... still as men who were bowing the knee to Baal. We put in a word for Gaudenzio Ferrari, but they had never heard of him. Then they played Raffaelle as a safe card and we said he was a master of line and a facile decorator, but nothing more. ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler
... nothing," answered he; "but you know that this Andre, in addition to being a painter, is an ornamental sculptor and house decorator, and so is often on lofty scaffolds. Have you never heard that accidents frequently happen to ...
— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau
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