The well-known itinerant painter Rufus Porter offered the following instructions on how to make a stencil and use it to decorate a floor or a floorcloth. |
The linkage is further suggested in the entrance hall by the floor and glossy floorcloth, both painted grass green. |
Swinney, widely tipped to be used as a floorcloth by McConnell at question time, did better than expected. |
Dark drops fell on the floorcloth one after another, with a sound of ticking growing fast and furious like the pulse of an insane clock. |
In one part of the room an old woman was kneeling down scrubbing the floorcloth. |
And I realise that the sense of purpose and achievement that pervades an elite academic community pulses down the ranks and can turn a floorcloth into a tool to advance human progress. |