Has the chocolate-box portrait of Raine, Countess Spencer, resplendent with lacquered back-combed hair and bare shoulders -- the picture that rubbed shoulders so anachronistically with Van Dycks and Gainsboroughs -- been removed from the staircase? BNC
Lucinda was pretty, Vi acknowledged -- chocolate-box pretty. BNC
From chocolate-box pretty Windermere to the decidedly spooky atmosphere at Wastwater there is water, water everywhere. BNC