At the back of the room, opposite to the French window which opened on to the roof, was an arched recess some four feet narrower than the rest of the room, ornamented with plaques of tiles, and delicate lacelike plaster-work above low windows which came to within a foot and a half of the floor.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
They reflect the bright rays upon the tree trunk, where they weave a beautiful lacelike pattern- beneath, their own shadows glide along the sand.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
The nature of men living together in societies, as of the individual man, seems to have its periodic ebbs and floods, its oscillations between the ideal and the matter-of-fact, so that the doubtful boundary line of shore between them is in one generation a hard sandy actuality strewn only with such remembrances of beauty as a dead sea-moss here and there, and in the next is whelmed with those lacelike curves of ever-gaining, ever-receding foam, and that dance of joyous spray which for a moment catches and holds the sunshine."
"Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism"
F. V. N. Painter