As, if buying you sweaters ain't enough without your leaning plumb up against the fire escape and stamping a whole decalcomania of red stripes on your back like as if you were a convict.
"Carl and the Cotton Gin"
Sara Ware Bassett
The mantel-piece of black marble veined with yellow was supported by fluted columns; on it were two blown-glass vases of decalcomania decoration, then two gilt lustres with prisms, then two hand-screens of woolwork, and in the middle an ormolu clock-"Iphigenia in Aulis"-under a glass shade.
"The Awakening of Helena Richie"
Margaret Deland