Sentence examples for shelves lining from inspiring English sources
He says he has read every one of the 6,000 books arranged alphabetically on the floor-to-ceiling shelves lining his living room.
Once she found a place for her extensive book collection, in custom-built shelves lining a long hallway, she settled easily into the circa 1830 farmhouse, she said, and into country life.
The concrete shelves lining the inside walls, where members of the wartime Special Operations Executive stored their parachutes, still survive largely intact, now bedecked in dusty wreaths of paper poppies, curling photographs of men in uniform and tiny cardboard crosses.
There is a Howard Hodgkin painting above the fireplace, a Bridget Riley to the right and – unsurprisingly – books everywhere, stacked on the ceiling-height shelves lining the walls and piled neatly on surfaces and tables.
The volunteer librarian Arash, a 23-year-old computer engineer and interpreter from Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan, is tidying the shelves, lining up Sherlock Holmes stories alongside Anna Karenina and Our Man in Havana.
But this is no stodgy place to simply consider bouquets: on weekends a D.J. starts spinning at 10 p.m. Next door, the restaurant-wine bar diVino (Penny's Balcony, 522/3 Thonglo 16, Sukhumvit 55; 66-2-714-8723; divinobkk.com) offers Bangkok's largest selection of Italian wines, most of which are displayed on shelves lining the cozy dining room.
Visits to bookstores reveal shelves lined with nothing but the president's works.
During my recent visit, I found the store's shelves lined with laptop computers.
Tim Duncan's trophy cabinet is stuffed, its shelves lined with more precious metals than the periodic table of the elements.
"Everything's made by designers from Wales and the UK," Patrick explains, gesturing towards shelves lined with colourful homeware.
The understatement was echoed upstairs, where herringbone floors, bouquets of pink peonies and shelves lined with distressed-leather volumes beckon to brides with an eye to tradition.
