PINE in Classic Quotes

1  Jackson Elder's small planing-mill, with the smell of fresh pine shavings and the burr of circular saws.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

2  A screened porch with pillars of thin painted pine surmounted by scrolls and brackets and bumps of jigsawed wood.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

3  But she was unexpectedly cheerful, and her dining-room, with its thin tablecloth on a long pine table, had the decency of clean bareness.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

4  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

5  It was furnished with discarded patent rockers, lopsided reed chairs, a scratched pine table, a gritty straw mat, old steel engravings of milkmaids being morally amorous under willow-trees, faded chromos of roses and fish, and a kerosene stove for warming lunches.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

6  She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled over her: the awkward knuckly L-shape of it; the black walnut bed with apples and spotty pears carved on the headboard; the imitation maple bureau, with pink-daubed scent-bottles and a petticoated pin-cushion on a marble slab uncomfortably like a gravestone; the plain pine washstand and the garlanded water-pitcher and bowl.

Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV