And then Hogboom himself burst in a side door, and it took seven of us to prevent him from reducing Perkins to a paste and Frescoing him all over the chapel walls.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch
The casino, standing among the simpler town buildings on the plateau above the gardens, would be a little inclement, for all its Frescoing and stuccoing by the sixteenth-century arts, and in its noble halls, amid the painted and modelled figures, the new American proprietor would shiver with the former host and guests after the first autumn chill began; but while it was yet summer it Avould be as delicious there as in the aisles and avenues of the garden which its balustrated terrace looked into.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Pictures, unless it were now and then a scriptural or historical print, there would be none on the plain walls with their heavy beams; varnishing and Frescoing would be but rare vanities, if indeed such could be anywhere discovered at all; as for rare vases, or bronzes, or marbles, such things were assuredly unknown.
"The Nation in a Nutshell"
George Makepeace Towle