But that evening after supper he told the most wonderful tales of Oxford, while Taffy listened and hoped his mother would forget his bedtime; and Humility listened too, bending over her Guipure.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The Irish Guipure is Zdena's work; the music comes from Wenkendorf.
"'O Thou, My Austria!'"
Ossip Schubin
For the last twenty minutes his spirits had been slowly sinking before the drifting procession past the carriage windows of dull gray and brown hills-mammiform in shape, but so cold and sterile in expression that the swathes of yellow mist which lay in their hollows, like soiled Guipure, seemed a gratuitous affectation of modesty.
"The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories"
Bret Harte