The court-room is capable of accommodating perhaps fifty people, dingy, with a pyramidal skylight above, and a single window on one side, opening into a gloomy back court.
I think it would have pleased me more to have seen a clear vaulted roof, instead of this intricacy of wooden points, by which so much skylight space is lost.
Looking through the skylight I saw the old man quietly making up the two bottles from one, by the simple process of adding water to fill up.
True, he had seen through the skylight Malvina and the mate in what might be construed as a compromising position, but trusting in this as in all else to Cilia's management, he took it for granted that she was a party to the affair.
Here, save that the glass of the skylight of the main cabin had been broken, and some portion of the framework shattered, there was no extraordinary litter; so that it appeared to us as though she had been no great while abandoned.
The light from the after-skylight fell upon his face, and Browne saw that it was a countenance cast in a singularly handsome mould.
Putting in my skylight and shingling the rest of the roof will take care of dampness from above, but I must look after the floors and foundations.
As she was willing to pay what seemed to the landlord an extraordinary rent--though he carefully concealed his feelings on this point--he somewhat grudgingly agreed to put in the skylight and shingle the roof.
The bullet struck the woodwork of the skylight close to my head.
She laughed as she paused between my two names, and seated herself on a corner of the skylight with a revolver in her lap.
Through the cabin skylight I could see her, or at least the curve of her chin, and her tanned throat and one shoulder pressing inward under the skylight shutters.
By that I knew that the stranger was troubling him] Through the skylight I saw Captain Blaise take the chart from Ubbo, unroll and scan it.
With one hand Captain Blaise held the chart so Shiela still could read it; with the other he reached through the skylight opening for his long glass.
But she was not forgetting me; every few minutes she thrust her head beneath the raised skylight hatches and looked down to see that I wanted for nothing, and always she smiled.
The skylight and companion-way were wide open; he had no wish that his note of temper should penetrate.
At that moment a hoarse cry in the skylight made them spring to their feet.
Mr. Tweed walked the weather side of the quarter-deck; his sextant lay upon the skylight cover.
Captain Jan van Hoes, the skipper of the botter Maas, was sitting on the brightly painted skylight of his craft.
A crash, just audible above the roar of the elements, announced that one of the panes of the cabin skylight had been broken.
The motion, as compared with the straining and plunging while under tow, was fairly easy, and after lashing an awning over the broken skylight the crew of the Diomeda were able to "stand easy".
Two scuttles in the rise of the cabin-top and a skylight overhead were sufficient to impart plenty of light, but owing to the flying spindrift these were securely fastened.
That was finally broken by the descent through the skylight of a torrent of water.
The deck overhead was very low at each side but rose shoulder high for a space in the middle, where a 'coach-house roof' with a skylight gave additional cabin space.
Chilling and opaque as the fog that filtered through the skylightthere flooded my imagination a mist of doubt and fear.
You can chuck your things down the skylight on to your berth as you unpack them,' he remarked.
What does it matter if you eat watery oatmeal and live in a skylight room; are you not an artist, a resonant instrument of poetry and music and mirth, a true actor of the best parts?
It was thus that he dragged his feet up the boarding-house stairs to his skylight room, night after night, carrying the two heartless fardels, Hope and Memory.
There she was, so near now that he could almost have tipped a rope-end down her skylight from the skylight of the Torch, every line of her exquisite body new-washed in gold and shivering under the touches of the dawn.
She was a fair size for her kind, and from the sounds that came up through her cabin skylight he judged that she had a party on board.
The first thing Hill saw when he and his truck approached the cottage, was young Jim Batley, mounted on the roof and hammering away at the skylight with his freezing hands.
One of them looked towards Crabb Ravine; the other was only lighted by a skylight in the roof.
One thing Jim persisted in--that the boots he saw through the skylight must have been David's boots.
The cabin's skylight was taken off, and the boxes of gold handed up, while the party outside the cabin door maintained the conflict with the crew of the Yungfrau.
To sit stupidly here at the window until it is quite dark and leave the skylight open too.
The skylight he found exactly as he had left it, and he slipped in as easily as he had gotten out.
Then he jumped into the middle of it, said his charm, and was out through the skylight immediately.
Early as was the hour he was already half-drunk, and every now and then would stagger against the rail or knock against the wheel or skylight flaps.
Then he went aft again, and sat on the skylight smoking his pipe, and now and then looking shorewards through the fast-gathering darkness.
Shortly after four bells had struck, as the chief mate was seated on the skylight smoking his pipe, and thinking of the unnecessary violence of Captain Rawlings, Barradas, who had the watch, stopped in front of him.
That the sick man also was affected unfavourably was evident, for his shouts came up through the after skylight with positively startling distinctness as his delirium grew more acute.
I went to the skylight and quite unnecessarily reported, "The schooner has opened fire!
I was resting on a skylight on the hurricane-deck, watching the working of the ship very slowly about, that she might head for England.
A boy with a bag of books in his hand and a slate under his arm, emerged from below, concentrated himself in my neighbourhood (espying a convenient skylight for his purpose), and went to work at a sum as if he were stone deaf.
They were all spoiled: a lump came in his throat, Being vain of his attempts, and tender skinned-- Beneath the skylight watching reefers grinned.
A small window with a shutter on each side, and a skylight in the roof, gave it light by, day; and after dark there was a lamp always burning.
A knot of them made one rush of it, cutlass in hand, against the door; and at the same moment, the glass of the skylight was dashed in a thousand pieces, and a man leaped through and landed on the floor.
Of its five apertures, only the skylight and the two doors were large enough for the passage of a man.
So he continued his toilsome ascent till he was able to grasp the edge of the skylight opening, up to which he dragged himself, and sat listening, astride, as he had been before the attempt was made.
For the skylight had fallen back with a crash, and some of the broken glass came musically jingling down, some of it sliding along the tiles, and dropping into the alley below.
At last they reached the topmost landing, which was lit by a skylight opaque with spiders' webs and dust.
There were windows at either end and a long skylight overhead.
