The blue ball was on the floor at the foot of the chair, and the firelight leapt upon the frieze that Peter had so carefully chosen-giants and castles, dwarfs and princesses running round the room in red, and blue and gold.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
The things in the nursery were packed away, but there remained the room, the frieze with the dragons and princesses, the fire-place, the high broad window.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
You also see them set like some strange mosaic on the fronts of the houses, stuck in mortar, and making a deep frieze; the effect is not beautiful.
"Cornwall"
G. E. Mitton