wicker-work
Example Sentences
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Instead, the versatile Joseph, as if to keep up his character for versatility, has taken to a new calling altogether—that of basket-making, with the construction of bird-cages, and other kinds of wicker-work.
From Gwen Wynn by Mayne Reid
But perhaps the most senseless of all these absurdities is the making an earthen jug in imitation of wicker-work when if so formed it would be useless as a water-vessel.
From Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser
This elongates the bag, and brings a heavy pressure upon the mass within, causing the juice to ooze out through the wicker-work of the bag.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch
It was an elderly woman, richly dressed, with a wicker-work picnic basket in her hand.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
The amount of medicine for the prevention or cure of seasickness, which was taken by my fellow-voyagers from flat bottles covered with wicker-work, would have astonished the most ardent upholder of the old allopathic practice.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
