Tapestries in example sentence

While the objects around me—while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to which, or to such as which, I had been accustomed from my infancy—while I hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this—I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.

More example sentences with word tapestries

He would takes the fruits of each week's reading and he would weave these intricate tapestries of ancient and humanist thought.

But as I began to read historical documents and contemporary descriptions, I found there was a kind of a missing component, for everywhere I came across descriptions of tapestries.

Tapestries were ubiquitous between the Middle Ages and, really, well into the 18th century, and it was pretty apparent why.

Tapestries were portable.

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