{36} The lines which I have enclosed in
brackets are evidently an afterthought--added probably by the writer herself--for they evince the same instinctively greater interest in anything that may concern a woman, which is so noticeable throughout the poem.
Upon the mantels, and on many shelves and
brackets and tables, were clustered ornaments of every description, seemingly made out of all sorts of metals, glass, china, stones and marbles.
Within the RATHHAUS were a number of huge wild boars' heads, preserved, and mounted on
brackets along the wall; they bore inscriptions telling who killed them and how many hundred years ago it was done.
"See the cunning
brackets to hold candles, and the nice green sild, puckered up, with a gold rose in the middle, and the pretty rack and stool, all complete," added Meg, opening the instrument and displaying its beauties.
"Protests," "Uproar," and "General appeal to the Chairman" were three of the first
brackets which caught my eye.
Archer mounted the stairs, turned up the light, and put a match to the
brackets on each side of the library mantelpiece.
At intervals, apparently at each street intersection, an oil flare sputtered dimly from
brackets set in the walls a trifle higher than a man's head.
Ida was in her boudoir, a tiny little tapestried room, as neat and dainty as herself, with low walls hung with Imari plaques and with pretty little Swiss
brackets bearing blue Kaga ware, or the pure white Coalport china.
"And he pointed to the further end of the chateau, where a ladder stood resting against the stone
brackets supporting the terrace, under the window which I had found open.
But, the little shop is so excessively dark, is stuck so full of black shelves and
brackets and nooks and corners, that he sees Mr Venus's cup and saucer only because it is close under the candle, and does not see from what mysterious recess Mr Venus produces another for himself until it is under his nose.
In all sorts of recesses, and on all kinds of
brackets, stood massive old silver candlesticks with four branches each.
He was no longer astonished when he searched on to find in the register this note, placed in a
bracket against his name: --