plaster-work

I did no more than stand inside the door, feeling no wish to examine the intricate plaster-work more closely, and I could not help wondering if Baring-Gould ever came into this room.

The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

It had a plaster-work ceiling, rather crude strap-work several hundred years old and a Saxe blue wallpaper of a much later date.

A Kind Of Magic Neels, Betty 1991

In Norwich most of the plaster-work was done by two men, a third being added occasionally, and the aggregate of this item in the expenses was $1,626.75.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

The same plaster-work arch repeats itself occasionally in the rough stone - and mortar-work of the houses, all of an inferior quality, short-lived and rebuilt again and again on the _débris_ of successive years, until they stand in time right above the cobble-stones of the narrow streets.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Court Room, exhibited some fine specimens of old plaster-work.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832 Various

One writer says that plaster-work is as "cleanly as any cooking operation, and there is no reason why ladies should not engage in it"!

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

It is not on a stretcher that the badly wounded can be carried to the radium-ward, or those for plaster-work or dentistry, or to the surgery for wounds in the head, or to the operating-theatre.

The Diary of a French Army Chaplain Felix, Klein 1915

The hearth or fireplace of the cook-house was built of brick in as secure a manner as possible, to prevent accident from fire; but some of the plaster-work had shaken loose, from its damp state and the tremulous motion of the beacon in stormy weather.

Records of a Family of Engineers 1912

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

The Way of Ambition Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

We may not enter the mosque with boots on, and will not enter with them off, so we admire from the outside the half Indian, half Saracenic plaster-work in the interior of the arcade -- the stalactite domes, diapers, groins, modellings _in situ_, and wish the authority on plaster work, Mr William Millar, was here to enjoy the skill and beauty of the work.

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900