1.   The patterns show every lace doily, rose window or Persian carpet you can imagine.

2.   A visiting reporter submitted to a reading, held in a pleasant room overlooking the bay, at a table covered by a lace doily.

3.   But the lightest snowfall catches on its twisted stems, and then it looks like a lace doily draped over the weathered old building.

4.   In one house missing its front wall, a woman shook the dirt off a lace doily, then shoved it into a garbage bag with other household items.

5.   The lyrics seem quaint as a lace doily.

6.   This delicate Swedish version looks more like a lace doily than anything else and is bursting with the flavors of fresh garden herbs and pungent black pepper.

7.   One stamp showed a smiling Deng reclining in a salmon-colored sofa decorated with lace doilies.