There were plenty of rooms in the house, lofty and spacious enough, but as to outline just so many boxes, with four straight walls, and never a niche or an alcove to break the severity of line.
Quick now," he added, "behind that tapestry in the alcove and trust to our stars.
Securely hidden for the moment behind the curtains in the dark recess of the alcove the two men waited.
Above these on the first-floor were three pleasant rooms overlooking the garden, and opening on to a wooden gallery or verandah, at each end of which was an alcove of an old-fashioned and substantial description.
She was found by them when Mr. Mortimer and his brother had withdrawn sitting in her favouritealcove with her chin resting upon her staff.
In the alcove behind the portiere, Jimmie Dale dropped on his knees before the squat, barrel-shaped safe, and opened it.
He rose from his knees, closed the safe, and drew the portiere across the alcove again.
The safe, according to the Tocsin's plan again, was in that sort of alcove at the lower end of the library.
Then she remembered the tokonoma alcove in the teahouse where a rugged vase had held the single white bud, its few petals moist as though from dew.
In her alcove out of sight the visitor found refreshment for her own soul, and a vision also.
A visitor, waiting to see someone, sat in an alcove listening.
It was through the girls that Scarborough got his invitation to the alcove table.
Save for a plain alcove at one end, holding a dwarf pine and a single nanten branch with clusters of bright red berries, it was empty.
In fancy he could feel her slim hand on his sleeve as they danced--could see himself sitting with her in some dusky alcove sweet with plum-blossoms--could hear her say .
He had scarcely taken his seat in the alcove when two men entered and summoned a waiter.
He glanced around the smoke-room, and noticed that it was peculiarly shaped, and then, looking behind a huge palm, he saw analcove which he had not hitherto noticed.
Peppermore drew Brent into a vacant alcove and gave him a significant glance.
There's a quiet alcove there, and my uncle has gone to his room.
Many eyes were turned to the handsome couple as they ascended the richly-carpeted staircase in search of that quietalcove which promised much to Raife, and perhaps some pleasure to the mysterious young girl who accompanied him.
His alcove bed is supported by ebony columns and closed in with green damask curtains.
Behind them is an alcove bed with green curtains, and to the right, in the foreground, a little chair.
When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to wall concealed the altar.
As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's bedroom.
Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a blanket, and an alcove with curtains.
At the end of the suite, in the oratory, there was a detached alcove with a bed, for use in cases of hospitality.
And when the light dance and the revel are done, She bears it away to her alcove alone, Where, fed by her hand from the cane that's most choice, In secret it gleans at the sound of her voice!
Colwyn returned to his scrutiny of the young man at the alcove table, and he and his companion studied him intently for some time in silence.
I am afraid we are going to have trouble over there directly," he added, sinking his voice as he nodded in the direction of the distant alcove table.
He was breakfasting alone at a table not far from Colwyn's, and Colwyn noticed that he kept glancing at the alcove table where the young man sat.
Colwyn nodded in return with a quick comprehension of all the other's speech implied, and pushed a chair towards his visitor, who sat down and resumed his watch of the young man at the alcove table.
As Colwyn looked in his direction their eyes met, and the portly gentleman nodded portentously in the direction of the alcove table, as an indication that he also had been watching the curious behaviour of the occupant.
The clergyman's table was directly in front of the alcove and in a line with the pair of swinging glass doors which were the only exit from the breakfast-room.
A kind of alcove opens off from the southeast corner of this room, the entrance to which could be closed by a curtain.
At the left, alcove for the bed; above, two windows.
In the first room at the right was an alcove for a bed opposite the door; the ceiling of the alcove, in the form of a vault, was lower than that of the rest of the room.
Later he discovered that a switch attached to the wall beside the head of McNatt's bed in the alcove allowed that ingenious youth to put on or off the electric light without arising.
Harmon gravely inspected the curtainedalcove and decided on the left-hand bed.
It was a huge cavern of a room, a whale of a room, with a curtained alcove holding a stately bed, with wide windows overlooking the bay and a low squatty chair beside the fireplace.
They walked quietly while she moved to the least covered and least ornate corner of the apartment--an alcove with a bookcase and a flat writing table.
The room was like an alcove of outdoors, not divorced from the open air and set in contra-distinction, but made a continuation of its space and order and ancient repose--a kind of exquisite porch of light.
In the King's Alcove one stood in a world of white and one's sight was exquisitely won, now by a niche open to a blue well of sea and space, now by silver plants lucent in high casements.
He wandered from the room to the alcove, from the alcove to the room, as if he had lost his way, gazed absently out of the window and lay down on the bench, feeling all the more miserable because no one took any notice of him.
At first, when Mrs. Hearn, talking cheerily and gaily, led us to the alcove occupied by the family shrine, we thought for a moment that she was moved by a feeling of amusement at the eccentric little genius to whom she had been married.
At last, after furtive glances at the door, he rose with an air of decision, and crossed quickly to the alcove of the window.
Still dazed and heavy with sleep, her thoughts obscured and chaotic, she sat down again stupidly at her desk in the alcove of the window.
I was much surprised to see in the half-light of the alcove the reclining figure of the count leaning upon his elbow and observing me with profound attention.
At the end of this long apartment was an arched alcove closed in by deep red curtains, and containing a lofty four-post bedstead with a kind of grand baldacchino covering it in.
Certainly footsteps were approaching, but they ceased before they reached the alcove at the end of the passage.
It was an alcove at the end of one of the long narrow passages in which the ancient hostelry abounded, and the only light it boasted filtered through a square aperture in the wall which once had held a window.
The voices fell away into distance; the band in the ballroom struck up again, and the woman on the settee in the alcove sat up and prepared to rise.
