Gilded eaves of Chinese houses, many-tiered Arab mosques, encrusted with polished tiles of blue and purple, white colonnades of Dutch bungalows, and pointed huts of woven basket-work within wicker gate and bamboo fence, mingle in fantastic confusion to frame a series of living pictures.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
The secluded island, so slightly influenced by the outside world, changes but little with the lapse of time, and the triple-tiered roofs of numerous thatched Messighits rising above the palm-leaf huts of the brown campong, assert the hereditary creed.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
It appeared to Doggie, handing round the three-tiered silver cake-stand, that he had returned to some forgotten former incarnation.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke