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Example sentences for "uncurtained"

Lexicographically close words:
uncultured; uncurbed; uncurled; uncurling; uncurrent; uncustomed; uncut; und; unda; undah
  1. He could see her as she would be at this hour, sitting at the wide window in her room, which she kept uncurtained so that the Thames estuary and the silver fingers it thrust into the marshes should lie under her eye like a map.

  2. Molyneux's book appeared in 1698, with a short, respectful, but manly dedication to King William.

  3. It was a hot June morning, and the heavy scent of syringa came in through the high uncurtained windows of the lecture-hall.

  4. Some young maple leaves had made a lovely pattern on the blue northern sky outside the uncurtained windows of the lecture-hall.

  5. Standing by the uncurtained window I felt for my watch; it had not occurred to me before to ascertain the time.

  6. Through an uncurtained window on the top floor I saw the snow descending thick and fast, the wind whirling it furiously onward and upward.

  7. The bare, uncurtained windows loomed up boldly in the searching sunlight, which spared nothing.

  8. The bare, uncurtained windows gave no sign of human occupancy.

  9. On the bare floor and straw, lighted by the cold glimmer of the moon, shining through uncurtained windows and making the slumberers' lids quiver restlessly.

  10. The candle had burned low in the socket, a star glinting through the torn clouds shone through the uncurtained windows.

  11. Watching for him she could see through the uncurtained French windows the starry brilliance of the night, and the moon now in its middle quarter.

  12. And there, through the uncurtained window, she saw him sitting awaiting her.

  13. She enjoyed glimpsing in through uncurtained windows, into sordid rooms where human beings moved as if sordidly unaware.

  14. They had been pacing up and down the terrace while they talked, and now one by one the dark windows were uncurtained by an invisible hand, and panes of light fell regularly at equal intervals upon the grass.

  15. The dinner-table was set between two long windows which were left uncurtained by Helen's orders.

  16. Going upstairs in the light pouring in from some uncurtained window, she would cease for a moment to breathe.

  17. She was standing full in the light shining through the uncurtained window of the Marconi room; tall, slim and white in the windless night--a curiously and wonderfully desirable vision.

  18. They stood silent for a moment, looking through the uncurtained window at the February breezes ruffling the holly bushes in the plantation, each unusually aware of the other's presence, each unusually self-conscious.

  19. He went to the little window, uncurtained as usual and peered in, but all was still and dark; there was not a glimmer of light on the hearth, where he had always seen some glimmering embers.

  20. The little room was scarcely lighted by it, and looked all the darker for the blackness of the small uncurtained window, through which the ebony face of night was peering in.

  21. All the village might have witnessed their interview through the uncurtained windows.

  22. There was no one else in the large room, but the night was peering in through half a dozen great uncurtained windows, which might hold many spectators watching them, as he had watched her a minute ago.

  23. The great arms strained her close as he stumbled on, coming with each uncertain step nearer to the glimmering light till it fell full in his face from the uncurtained window and he flung open the door and strode in.

  24. The snow had ceased to fall, and through the uncurtained window he caught a glimpse of light shining.

  25. The great height, the bare stone, the shattered windows, the aspect of the uncurtained bed, with one of its four fluted columns broken short, all struck a chill upon his fancy.

  26. Now he sat with a bowed head, now walked precipitately to and fro, now went and gazed from the uncurtained window, where the wind was still blowing, and the lights winked in the darkness.

  27. Without another word she left him, as she had left him once before, alone in the long parlor with the faintly snapping fire, and the darkness pressing against the uncurtained windows.

  28. He stood a long while with his back to the fire, staring at the lamp or the darkness of the uncurtained window.

  29. Then he saw her, sitting motionless out there by the uncurtained window.

  30. He motioned me to a chair facing the window, a great uncurtained affair, through which the north light came flooding in, whilst he himself sat in the shadows.

  31. He looked out of my uncurtained window into the night.

  32. We passed the village hall, brilliantly lit; the shadowy forms of a closely packed crowd of people were dimly visible through the uncurtained windows.

  33. Directly opposite to me was that black uncurtained window.

  34. The twilight that penetrated the office through uncurtained windows, however, discovered a delicate, pale face framed in tendrils of soft chestnut hair and alight with eyes of the same indescribable tint.

  35. As he passed one of the uncurtained windows of the drawing-room, whence a belt of light fell out upon the terrace from the shaded lamps within, he paused and half involuntarily drew Mrs. Effingham's letter to Drummond from his pocket.


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