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English vocabulary examples in context:   baize

Vocabulary in context: baize -- Example 1.
They came to see him consequently, and found him sitting up in bed in a green baize waistcoat and a red Toledo cap, and so withered and dried up that he looked as if he had been turned into a mummy.

Vocabulary in context: baize -- Example 2.
Police were stationed at the brightly lit entrance which was carpeted with red baize, and not only gendarmes but dozens of police officers and even the police master himself stood at the porch.

Vocabulary in context: baize -- Example 3.
From the carriages emerged men wearing uniforms, stars, and ribbons, while ladies in satin and ermine cautiously descended the carriage steps which were let down for them with a clatter, and then walked hurriedly and noiselessly over the baize at the entrance.

Vocabulary in context: baize -- Example 4.
She understood all that awaited her only when, after stepping over the red baize at the entrance, she entered the hall, took off her fur cloak, and, beside Sonya and in front of her mother, mounted the brightly illuminated stairs between the flowers.

Vocabulary in context: baize -- Example 5.
Government clerks set up their baize-covered tables and their pigeonholes of documents in small rooms.



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