The high carved mantelpieces and wainscotting served admirably to display the glittering plate and strange souvenirs of every known land and sea.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
Whether it was the clamour of the crows, or the rustling of the riotous rats-as they chased one another along the empty shelves, and behind the decayed wainscotting of the old kitchen-or whether the circumstance was due to some other, and less explicable cause, certain it is that the slumbers of Gregory Garth were at that crisis interrupted.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
He put into them all the poetry of the cloister, clothed those bare parlours with a faded scent of wainscotting and of wax, and he saw again the convent gardens through which he had passed, impregnated with the bitter salt scent of box, planted with clipped hedges, intermingled with trellises, whose green grapes never ripened, divided by benches whose mouldering stone kept the traces worn by water; and a thousand details came back to him of those silent lime alleys, of the paths where he ran in the interlaced shade which branches threw upon the ground.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans