"Baluster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the house was distressing to behold; the walls, once whitewashed, were now discolored, and stained to a man's height by constant friction. The staircase with its heavy baluster and wooden steps, though very clean, looked as if it might easily give way under the feet. On the other side of the house, opposite to the entrance door, another door opening upon the kitchen garden enabled the Abbe de Rastignac to judge of the ...
— The Village Rector • Honore de Balzac
... at Ripon, Brixworth Church, the church within the precincts of Dover Castle, the towers of Barnack, Barton-upon-Humber, Stow, Earl's Barton, Sompting, Stanton Lacy show considerable evidences of Saxon work. Saxon windows with their peculiar baluster shafts can be seen at Bolam and Billingham, Durham; St. Andrew's, Bywell, Monkwearmouth, Ovington, Sompting, St. Mary Junior, York, Hornby, Wickham (Berks), Waithe, Holton-le-Clay, Glentworth and Clee (Lincoln), Northleigh, ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield
... "I would rather that you would help Jennie. I will take hold of the baluster, if you will ...
— Rollo in London • Jacob Abbott
... looked over the baluster, and repeated firmly, "No, Cecil; it would be denying Christ to work where His Name ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... the staircase and she stopped, leaning against the baluster and smiling up at him. "Surely you've had your reward in the ...
— Sir Dominick Ferrand • Henry James
... remain behind. Something subtly fascinating in Martha seemed to draw him after her, and he followed on upstairs, swinging himself athletically along, hand over hand, upon the baluster-rail, almost at ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann
... Mary Stuart, held their sumptuous court, is divided in the centre by a hexagon tower, in the empty well of which winds up a spiral staircase,—a Moorish caprice, designed by giants, made by dwarfs, which gives to this wonderful facade the effect of a dream. The baluster of this staircase forms a spiral connecting itself by a square landing to five of the six sides of the tower, requiring at each landing transversal corbels which are decorated with arabesque carvings without and within. ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac |
