... involuntarily as the olive rolled towards his chair across the shiny parquet floor... — The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Various
... salmon-pink geraniums in a shallow porcelain bowl. Every sensation of touch and sight was thrice-alive in her. The grey-green fur of the geranium leaves caressed her fingers and the sunlight wavering across the irregular surface of the old parquet floor made it seem as bright and shifting as the brown ... — The Reef • Edith Wharton
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