Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling.
There are two sets, crossing each other and going up and down as they cross, just as you see your mother crossing the threads of wool when she darns your stockings.
She had let them touch the beautiful dark red buttons that buttoned the basque up the front, and she had shown them how neatly the whalebones were put in the seams, inside, with hundreds of little criss-cross stitches.
Reuben says, " There are several big trees there, so it's a blind corner with limited visibility." A " corner" (corner) is another word for an intersection where two streets cross, two or more streets cross.