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Example sentences for "curtained"

Lexicographically close words:
curtailing; curtailment; curtailments; curtails; curtain; curtaines; curtaining; curtainless; curtains; curtal
  1. With us it means a half-moon table, curtained down, and ruffled over with spotted muslin, and set under a looking-glass.

  2. It has got three galleries, and ever so many places, that look like pulpits and deacon's seats, all cushioned and curtained off beautifully.

  3. Here, as in that Commixture of the Four Elements did the Anarch Old, has an august Assembly spread its pavilion; curtained by the dark infinite of discords; founded on the wavering bottomless of the Abyss; and keeps continual hubbub.

  4. They are closely curtained when women travel in them.

  5. The curtained and closed doors were then opened, and afforded us a full view of the interior.

  6. Stuart's dispensary was merely a curtained recess at one end of the waiting-room and shortly after entering the house he had occasion to visit it.

  7. Its winding shores and secret bays, curtained with veils of mist hanging in festoons from boughs of cedar, birch, maple, and chestnut, were like enchantment in their endless variety of form and shade.

  8. Every one had in it a two-storied bed curtained with calico, neat corner cupboards, and bureaus.

  9. One end of the room is curtained off with calico; this is her bedchamber.

  10. It was the Englishman who stood looking through the tear in that curtained window.

  11. The four large entries, one in each wall, were curtained alike with gloomy purple.

  12. Day still smiled upon the upper peaks, but the lower slopes and the fiumara bed were already curtained with gray sombre shade.

  13. It had grown stronger as events had developed; it was still stronger now as they stood outside the dead man's cottage, the light from the open door and the white-curtained window falling on Cotherstone's excited face.

  14. Now and then a sheet of vivid lightning illuminates the curtained windows, and a peal of terrible thunder shakes the old mansion from garret to cellar.

  15. Presently low voices float out to her from the curtained recesses of the window--Captain Lockhart's and Lord Gordon's.

  16. The house in question looked dark at first sight; but as Villon made a preliminary inspection in search of the handiest point of attack, a little twinkle of light caught his eye from behind a curtained window.

  17. The air was so stifling that I was tempted to raise the heavily-curtained window a couple of inches; and thereby got a useful idea when, by peeping over the curtain, I saw the flat leads of a projecting lower story.

  18. When the train for which she waited came in, the curtained car at its end, she did not wait for the bishop to find her on the platform, but stepped aboard and made her way slowly back.

  19. He had a curious sensation as if, while she spoke, that very name had half framed itself in some curtained recess of his thought.

  20. Soon she felt nothing but a supreme immediate longing that curtained off all futurity--the longing to lie down and sleep.

  21. Falloden, as he took it, glancing up at a still curtained window.

  22. I went into that curtained corner, never for one moment dreaming that what she might say would matter anything to me.

  23. A dozen women were scared almost ill when they came out of her curtained corner.

  24. From where she stood she could see a cove--merely a tiny crescent of sand edged by a thin blade of cobalt water, and curtained by the palmetto forest.

  25. So it seemed, to judge by the stream of female names and titles belonging to the curtained dhoolies, which had passed and repassed the barriers, upon which the editor launched his tongue.

  26. Five minutes after a plain curtained dhoolie left the precincts and swayed past the Great Hall of Audience with its toothed red arches, looking as if they yawned for victims.

  27. A bystander, also in the Moghul dress, laughed broadly at the well-worn inuendo on the possibilities of curtained dhoolies in intrigue.

  28. Zeenut Maihl came out first, swinging along in her curtained dhooli, and Rujjub, who was beside me, called out her name and titles decorously.

  29. It boasted an enamel washstand with taps which yielded hot and cold water, neatly curtained windows, and a deep-seated Morris chair.

  30. There were dainty toilet things, a little dressing-table decked with ivory, a case of books, chairs cushioned with rosebud chintz, windows curtained with the same.

  31. Night had fallen long ere this; when Ben arose the room was in darkness, save for the reflected light which came through the heavily curtained windows from the street lamps.

  32. Lights from within the rooms crept over the curtained transoms.

  33. A naked scimitar lies on the ground and the shadow of a mute darkens the curtained entrance.

  34. As she spoke she drew herself back to the farthest limit of the curtained space in an attitude, not of resistance, for that was useless, but as one unwilling to provoke assault, yet if offered, resolved to repel it to the utmost of her power.

  35. Dorian Gray lifted his golden head from the pillow, and looked at him with pallid face and tear-stained eyes, as he walked over to the deal painting-table that was set beneath the large curtained window.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curtained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.