It is painted white for the sake of coolness and has wooden venetian blinds instead of windows.
Another type of cart has four wheels and curious cage-like sides, while the wooden cover is provided with blinds and there is a rack for baggage on the roof.
I am always frightened and uneasy; and as for mother, she keeps the blinds down all day and never sticks her nose outside.
I should like to live in a house with lots of windows and keep the blinds drawn up all the time so that any one who wanted to could look in.
This was, no doubt, the subject which the angry shadows on the blinds had been so vehemently discussing the night before.
The blinds were down as usual in the drawing-room windows, and there seemed to be rather an extraordinary flush of lights within, as if some commotion was going forward.
The blindswere undrawn, and he could see the bare walls of the rooms, the fireless grates, and that cold bleakness of aspect peculiar to an untenanted habitation.
In this experiment cool air was allowed to enter by the windows being opened at the same time that the blinds were pulled up, so that in spite of the sun shining on the plant the temperature was not raised.
Late in the evening the blinds were successively removed, and as the plants had been subjected during the day to a very obscure light, they continued to bend towards the window later in the evening than would otherwise have occurred.
In the evening the blindswere taken away, one by one.
By hanging up one or more blinds before the window where the seedlings stood, it was easy to dim the light, so that very little more entered on this side than on the opposite one, which received the diffused light of the room.
She liked to see the shops with their eyes all shut tight for Sunday, and to watch for the naughty shops, here and there, who kept a corner of their blinds up, just to show a few toys or goodies underneath.
People may pull down the blinds and shut the shutters and draw the curtains, and do their very best to keep the sunshine away.
The windows must be closed because I was afraid, but the blinds must remain open so that I could see the moon.
The patient told me of her moon walking: "I always wanted to sleep by the open blinds so that the moon could shine upon me.
It had been little used for some weeks, and the venetian blinds were down, obscuring the light and shutting out the summer sunshine.
In the Forest it was cool even at noontide, but in Dringenstadt the heat was oppressive, and in spite of the sun-blinds the glare of light even indoors was excessive.
In the room my sister and I called our nursery, however, we always welcomed it withblinds rolled up to the very top; and, as we had no carpet, no damage was done.
The sunlight, subdued by blinds and curtains, stole into rooms furnished with every grace and luxury that could be procured in a country that then accounted itself the most highly-civilized in the world.
Here and there in the Walk a faint light appeared behind drawn blinds and closed curtains.
There are phials upon the table, and a strong smell of camphor; a bandage is around her forehead, and the blinds are closed, and Charley is not there, but she hears him crowing below stairs.
In many cases they are openly and avowedly a general tribute paid at intervals to society, for and in consideration of which you are to sit with closed blinds and doors and be let alone for the rest of the year.
At first we don't think of such things; desire blinds us.
And think of not being able to open one's window blinds without having to look that corpse in the face.
Dick complied, though with apparent reluctance, and, as he passed through the hall with Priscilla hanging on his arm, he could see the landlady peeping at him through the yellow gauze blinds of the tap-room window.
By degrees the shutters were opened, the window-blinds were drawn up, and people began passing to and fro.
The blinds of its principal windows were down--not because of the war; they were often down, for at least four other houses disputed with Lechford House the honour of sheltering the Marquis and his wife and their sole surviving child.
The lights were turned on, theblinds drawn, the stove replenished, the fire replenished.
Planchet left, and D'Artagnan remained, devouring with his eager gaze from behind the half-closed blinds what was taking place just before him.
Porthos complied, but could not see anything, for the blinds were lowered.
Truchen had closed the outside blinds to keep the first rays of the sun from the leaden-lidded eyes of her guests, like a kind, good housekeeper.
Blinds were all down, and nobody observed our arrival, so our boatman had to shout from the quay across the garden to the hotel porter.
On this our second journey to Cannes, the blinds on both sides of the carriage were ruthlessly closed by the ‘foreigners’ sitting next them, so that we had no chance of seeing the lovely views to be had from the windows.
If there be, most mercilessly, and without leave asked, much less obtained, down go the blue blinds on both sides of the carriage.
On this occasion we had the carriage to ourselves, and eagerly availed ourselves of the opportunity to draw up blinds and gaze out right and left.
Lanceanum flourished with a vigour almost embarrassing, putting forth such enormous leaves, as it hung close to the glass, as made blinds quite superfluous at midsummer.
The law of works, and the righteousness of the flesh, which is the righteousness of the law, blinds their minds, shuts up their eyes, and causeth them to miss of the righteousness that they are so hotly in the pursuit of.
He rose, pulled up the blinds noiselessly, and opened the windows.
The lively French taste had brightened the cottage with colour: the fair white window curtains were tied with rose-coloured ribbons, the blinds were gaily painted, the chimneys were ornamental, the small garden was a paradise of flowers.
She knew that the windows of the sick-room were closed on the inner side, and the blinds were still down.
What exquisite kindness it must be," she said, "that blinds a clever man like you to obstacles which anyone else can see!
It does not mean a black carriage, nodding feathers, nor blinds drawn, and tombstones with inscriptions.
The blinds were drawn up when they got back to Church House, all the windows were open, the people who had not loved her came and went freely now; it struck Dolly strangely to hear Mrs. Palmer calling Julie over the stairs.
She would have shut out the evening and drawn down the blinds if they had not prevented her.
The blinds of the house wore down and all the rooms were bathed in a green twilight.
You funny dear, not to have the blinds down and to sit staring into the beastly street like that .
She looked up at the windows; the blinds were not down; her aunt was yet alive; she paid the taxi and rang the bell.
The window was open, and the blinds only half closed.
As for a hotel, there it was straight ahead of me; that biggish house with the new blinds on it.
