Zorzi was roughly dragged towards it, and he saw that he was surrounded by about twenty masked men.
Half-way along the main corridor was a large room, whose steel walls were masked by tapestries, where renters could examine their treasures on marble tables.
I remember I noticed the masked door was ajar on my return.
This was the masked comedy to which the Italians so tenaciously clung, and in which, as all their own and imitable by no other nation, they took so great a pride that even Goldoni was unable to overthrow it.
Tinelaria) there is a mixture of languages even stranger than that of dialects in the Italian masked comedy.
The poet, masked and unattended, rejoined his friend without a word; and Odo guessed in him an eye and ear alert for pursuit.
The Marquess hastened out and presently reappeared with two masked and hooded figures.
The masked nun had in fact retreated to a corner of the room and stood there, drawing her cloak about her, rather in the attitude of a frightened child than in that of a lady bent on a gallant adventure.
Odo looked about for any one resembling the masked beauty of the market-place; but he beheld only ill-dressed dowagers and matrons, or ladies of the town more conspicuous for their effrontery than for their charms.
The brightly-illuminated bridge leading to the square of Santa Chiara was decked with a colonnade of pasteboard and stiffened linen cunningly painted, and a classical portico masked the entrance gate.
The time too was well-chosen; for the sisters had prevailed on the Reverend Mother to celebrate the saint's day by a masked ball, and the whole convent was engrossed in the invention of whimsical disguises.
These appendages belonged to a troop of men and women, some masked and in motley, others in discoloured travel-stained garments, who pressed about the soprano with cries of joyous recognition.
The masked man within the doorway scrutinized the unexpected and evidently unwelcome visitor, at whom he still held his menacing revolver.
Father Brown, also leaning motionless on the parapet, moved one finger for an instant into the direction of the soot-masked niggers singing on the sands.
And though the broad black scarf completely masked the lower half of Todhunter's visage, they did grow conscious of something struggling and intense about the upper part of it.
The rest of his face was almost undiscoverable, being masked with a matted beard and whiskers through which the nose could barely thrust itself, and further buried in a squalid red scarf or handkerchief.
Behind was the black cave, maskedwith green thorn, so low that it was hard to believe that a man could enter it.
He turned, his masked face close to mine, so close that even in the dusk I caught a flash of glittering eyes.
The slim young owner, three ladies, two very slender and young, and the chauffeur, all five masked or goggled, so that it was impossible to see their faces.
Finally he not only agreed, but offered to help me enter the Duchess of Carmona’s house as one of her masked guests.
A masked ball the old Duchess is giving in honour of Princess Ena.
Señor Waring has told me about the masked ball, and how you played Romeo to somebody’s Juliet.
She delighted in masked balls, and it was her pleasure to move in the crowd of guests, masked, without being recognized.
This telegram arrived one evening when a masked ball was being held at one of the Casinos.
At the beginning of the ball I had seen a masked lady who appeared to me just perfection.
The masked crook held carefully the ends of two wires attached to an electric feed, and sending his pal to keep watch outside, he entered the cellar of the Dodge house through a window whose pane they had carefully removed.
Later I recalled that there seemed to be a slight noise downstairs, as if at the cellar window through which the masked man had entered the night before.
Over him bent a masked man and another man stood nearby, endeavoring by improvised bandages to stop the flow of blood.
Scarcely had the sound ox their footfalls died away in the outside hallway when the door of the cabinet slowly opened and a masked face protruded, gazing about the room.
That night," he said, "warily, the masked criminal of the Clutching Hand might have been seen down below us in the alley.
In the darkened recesses of the car was the Clutching Hand himself, masked as usual.
Elaine had returned and as she sat down at the desk to go over some papers which Bennett had left relative to settling up the estate, the masked intruder stealthily and silently withdrew.
I go upstairs, mechanically, into my own room--I and this masked man.
Downstairs the masked master criminal had already attached a voltmeter to the wires he had installed, waiting.
One crook was masked by a handkerchief drawn tightly about his lower face, leaving only his eyes visible beneath the cap with visor pulled down over his forehead.
At that very moment, if they had known it, the Clutching Hand with his sinister, masked face, was peering at the two girls from the other side of the portieres.
Without waiting a moment longer than necessary, the masked criminal advanced again and actually put his hand down through the top of the safe, pulling out a bunch of papers.
A low whistle from the masked crook, now again in the shadow, brought his pal stealthily to his side.
It was late that night that a masked figure succeeded in raising itself to the narrow ornamental ledge under Elaine's bedroom window.
Recessive qualities are constantly being masked by dominant ones and emerging again in the next generation.
Their brotherhood is masked by unanalyzable differences; theirs is a dispersed collectivism; their churches are only a little more extensive than their individualities and intenser in their collective separations.
When dressed to represent the Church he harangued the people wherever he chanced to meet them; the night-hawks saw him disguised and masked running to the dens of his conspirators.
The previous winter he had invited the Bourgeoisie of Paris to the Hôtel-de-Ville to contemplate their ghastly monarch masked for the carnival, dancing his grand pas.
We crossed an antechamber whose heavy carpet muffled our footsteps, and we halted before tapestry curtains that masked a door, Here, curbing my fierce impatience, I paused.
At the room's far end, by the curtains that masked the door of the chamber where Farnese sat at dinner, stood an usher in black velvet, staff in hand, who took no more interest in us than did the Swiss.
Another example is afforded by the masked crab (Corystes cassivelaunus).
The point of junction between these two garments is masked by a broad sash.
Here the main valley still trends forward; but, as we descended from the village, our guides doubled back to the left and dived into a masked ravine which had hitherto lurked invisible behind a shoulder of the heights.
Probably no man can imagine the wicked side of convention upon the subject of missions until the masked batteries of its malevolence have been trained against him.
This apprehension soon changed into impatience, and then Paris from afar sounded its fanfare of masked balls with the laugh of grisettes.
But Duncan, whose guns had been masked by McIntosh's advance, now resumed his work upon Casa Mata, and in a short while the Mexicans were in flight, pursued by the unerring missiles of the battery.
Consequently, instead of waiting, as had been the plan, until the 24-pounders had perceptibly shaken the mill, the stormers advanced and masked those guns when some ten rounds had been fired.
Her eyes met his with their faint scornful smile which she felt masked so much.
He almost expected to see a shimmering, masked Harlequin tap on the cabin door with his supple wand and a dainty Columbine pirouette out in response.
One would think that we were back in the days of armed bandits, when masked men held up trains at the point of a gun.
A masked battery played with great effect upon this point, dismounting our pieces, and blowing up our tumbrils.
At an early hour, also, the queen, who had just retired to rest from a masked ball, received a written order to remove instantly from Copenhagen.
At a distance he heard the masked cadets stealing swiftly along through the woods.
There was a moment of silence and then one of the masked figures advanced slowly.
Hans did not get far, for a foot send him sprawling, and by the time he was again on his feet four masked cadets had him by the hands and arms, so that he could not get away.
All of themasked cadets were startled and looked in that direction.
Then the crowd of masked cadets left the den, leaving the door wide open behind them.
You are now initiated," said one of the masked cadets, when the laughter had somewhat died away.
There was a moment of silence and one of the masked cadets stepped to the front.
He looked curiously at themasked cadets, wondering if he could recognize any of them.
Just across the street," said Jane, entering into the spirit of the maskedconversation with interest.
Determining within herself to keep fast hold on the beginning she had made, she masked her real thoughts and let her face express frank disappointment.
By the manner in which she threw the branch in the fire, and pulled her hood over her masked face, Ernanton perceived that she had heard him enter, but she did not turn.
Was it not only a month since a carriage containing some German royalties had been stopped and robbed by masked peasants on the Rocca di Papa road?
For it was masked in the gloom of the overhanging trees; or hidden behind dropping veils of ivy; or lit up by straggling patches of broom and cytisus that thrust themselves through the gaps in the Roman brickwork and shone golden in the dark.
But after the laugh, the face reappeared, hard and a little menacing, like a rock that has been masked by a wave.
