What is wanted is merely the transmutation of stucco into marble, painted pine into oak, and pseudo-Italian arabesques into American frescoes and mosaics.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
It was not, perhaps, more fascinating than other windows in that wonderful street, but it had a great store of delicate ivory carvings and lovely mosaics.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
All through Scandinavia one meets these bright mosaics of the soil with a sense of surprise, they are so delicate, so frail, creations of such short life, yet lovely beyond compare, born upon the very verge of eternal frost.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou