This was how it looked the night we anchored, and Artemisia came up to me as I stood by the engine-room skylights with my binoculars.
It was one of a number of apartments in a long, low building with large skylights in the roof, a large window and a transom over each door.
By the installation of skylights in the attic the old building had been made to accommodate the overflow of pupils.
The serious speakers in favor of the new building had left the audience cold, when a young man arose and said he had been up into the attic and had seen the wonderful skylights that were supposed to meet the needs of the children.
Having reached the gallery, he plunged into a door that opened toward the west, and hurried through chamber after chamber, each lighted by skylights or green fire-jewels.
Skylights in the ceiling illuminated the room, in which light the fire-gems winked pallidly.
High up in the vaulted ceiling skylightswere set in slot-like openings--translucent sheets of some crystalline substance.
The room in which he found himself had but one door, that by which he had entered, and the ceiling ran up with the peaked roof, in which were skylights for light and air.
He saw that the skylights were being lowered by someone in the room and he breathed more freely as he felt that he had not been discovered.
Still gazing upward Will saw the stars fade from view, and the skylights rattled, showing that the clouds had obscured the sky and a wind was springing up.
By noon there were other skylights put in, and not a sign left of the way he made his entrance--not that the way mattered a bit, no, not a bit.
The shaft below one of the skylights went away to the bottom of the building, and it stands to reason that the old fellow must have fallen way through.
But, in truth, it could not be denied that he had practically left one circle for another,--was showing himself much more disposed to favour the skylights of the studios than the footlights of the rostrum.
The housing had long been taken down, and the upper deck had been partially cleared of snow, so that daylight was once more admitted through the skylights and illuminators.
Snow walls were also built up round the porches, and in fact round the hatchways and skylights not in use, so as to render them all the more impervious to the cold air.
All skylights and hatchways were carefully covered up, two only of the latter being kept open as a means of ingress and egress.
It was not until the middle of May, whilst the sledge travellers were absent, that the skylights were cleared and the snow removed from the upper deck.
What I had from the higher building taken for the glow of skylights had been really the light of windows on the top flat of the other prison block, and its roof was wholly unbroken.
But these things compelled my attention less than the skylights that were masked internally by pieces of canvas nailed roughly on them.
For we were come to the end of the high building, and twenty feet below us, at right angles, we could plainly see the glow of several skylights in the long prison to which it was attached.
Extra lashings were thrown on boats, water-butts, spars and other movables, and the skylights were closed and battened with planks to protect from waves that might break inboard.
The deck was a fathom deep in flapping sails and up forward a water-butt and a salt beef barrel were having a lively game of tag, but neither of the boats had started its lashings and none of the skylights was smashed.
The downpour was so fierce as to threaten for a while to break in theskylights and flood the cabins.
The chill of the air gradually melted away as the day advanced, and the opportunity to open skylights and portholes was warmly welcomed by the Mater and Claribel who had been kept to the cabin for nearly two days.
Nellie Austerly sat on a locker in the cockpit, and her father on the saloon skylights with a cigar in his hand.
It apparently occurred to Valentine that he was hearing too much, for he stood up, swaying while the Sorata plunged, and called to Austerly through one of the open skylights of the saloon.
He strove to divert his thoughts, and listened to the flow of language that rose through the open skylights from the Shasta's engine-room.
I can remember the huge sloping roofs with their skylights arranged after the manner of the ports of an old three-decker man-of-war.
The skylights appeared to be the best exit from the room, and under one of them there was a convenient beam.
It would then remain to be seen whether it was feasible to get out of these offices by way of the skylights or other windows at a late hour.
I was glad to go on deck, also; for the skylights being battened down made the cabin somewhat close.
A thorough draught can thus always be obtained by having the foremost and aftermost skylights open at the same time; in a warm climate, an absolute necessity.
Of course we all slept on deck; the skylights and deck were strewn with mattresses and figures lying at full length.
Hatches are battened down, ports closed, skylights carefully covered over, for a dozen lighters are alongside preparing for the dreaded operation of coaling.
They could hardly keep her gagged all this time, and at night a scream would be heard though theskylights were closed.
They would suspect that I was away if they did not see the saloon skylights lit up.
Then they peep down through the open skylights into the cabin below, where the most attractive prints and the gaudiest articles of apparel are temptingly displayed, alongside a few bottles of rum and brandy and a supply of tobacco.
The maids, however, were very frightened, as some of the sea had got down into the nursery, and the skylights had to be screwed down.
The skylights and hatches were fastened down, and those of our party who did not like being shut up below took their places on the bridge, where, for the first time since we left England, it felt really quite cold.
All the skylights were fastened down, and the tarpaulins put over.
It was quite spacious, floored with polished marble slabs, and lighted in the day by skylights in which colored mica served as glass.
The decks were quite dark, for the skylights were covered, even those of the engine-room, and the men at work down there in the stifling heat knew not what the next moment might bring.
The sea was quite rough, and we had the skylights battened down; but because of the clearness of the sky we did not expect very nasty weather.
We had the skylights and hatches battened down, too.
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