Fibre of all sorts. Wadded stuff." "Stonehenge draped! It's really a delightful idea;" said the father of the family, enjoying it. "It's quite a possible one," said Sir Richmond. "Or they may have used wicker," the young lady went on, undismayed. She seemed to concede a point. "Wicker IS likelier." "But surely," said the father of the family with the expostulatory voice and gesture of one who would recall erring wits to sanity, "it is far more impressive standing out bare and noble as it does. In lonely splendour." "But all this country may have been wooded then," said Sir Richmond.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
Jim was walking around with his hands in his pockets, looking unconcerned, and, as the furniture began to go off, he came and sat down in the midst of it. Every one noticed his indifference. Some of them said that after all he couldn't have been very ambitious. He didn't seem to take his failure much to heart. Every one was concentrating attention on the cooking- stove, when Jim leaned forward, quickly, over a little wicker work-stand.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
He laid the boy down where he could get the full warmth of the fire; and then, turning round, took a wicker-covered bottle from his pocket, and said, "If it hadn't been for the brandy--" He stopped suddenly--started--put down the bottle on the bench near him--and advanced quickly to the bedside.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
At this moment, Francois was raising his father's head to look closely at him. A faint spasm had indeed passed over the deathly face; the lips quivered, the jaw dropped. Francois shuddered as he looked, and moved away hastily from the bed. At the same instant Gabriel started from the wall; his expression altered, his pale cheeks flushed suddenly, as he snatched up the wicker-cased bottle, and poured all the little brandy that was left in it down his grandfather's throat.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
He stopped before the door of his own cottage, which was the fourth one from the main building and next to the last. Seating himself in a wicker rocker which was there, he once more applied himself to the task of reading the newspaper. The day was Sunday; the paper was a day old. The Sunday papers had not yet reached Grand Isle. He was already acquainted with the market reports, and he glanced restlessly over the editorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Pontellier was by that time thoroughly awake. She began to cry a little, and wiped her eyes on the sleeve of her peignoir. Blowing out the candle, which her husband had left burning, she slipped her bare feet into a pair of satin mules at the foot of the bed and went out on the porch, where she sat down in the wicker chair and began to rock gently to and fro.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
Yeah, when we first joined, We used to sit around in wicker chairs, - Drinking margaritas and just looked at the flowers. - Oh, I'd kill for a margarita.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
You're okay with money as long as it comes in one of those little wicker baskets you pass around.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》