![]() It was a broad panelled staircase, with massive balustrades of some dark wood cornices above the doors, ornamented with carved fruit and flowers and broad seats in the windows. Roses covered the walls of the house, draped the cornices, climbed the pillars, and ran riot over the balustrade of the wide terrace, whence one looked down on the sunny Mediterranean, and the white-walled city on its shore. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) ![]() The famous Master of the Ring was clad in honour of the occasion in a most resplendent scarlet coat worked in gold at the buttonholes, a white stock, a looped hat with a broad black band, buff knee-breeches, white silk stockings, and paste buckles-a costume which did justice to his magnificent figure, and especially to those famous balustrade calves which had helped him to be the finest runner and jumper as well as the most formidable pugilist in England. The hall lamp was now lit, and it amused her to look over the balustrade and watch the servants passing backwards and forwards. We all went together, she before us: and a glorious old room it was, with more oak beams, and diamond panes and the broad balustrade going all the way up to it.
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