The interior walls of unpainted boards, which had been grateful in August, were forbidding in the chill.
Dilapidated ploughs and harrows--their wooden teeth worn down to the stumps--lay hither and thither round the great gaunt, unpainted doorways.
In a very great proportion of cases, the windows of these dwellings are utterly unglazed; and when the rough, unpainted outside shutters are closed, the whole interior is in darkness.
The stock of groceries was small; two barrels of corn-whisky and one of molasses were the dominant elements; a quart cup and some glasses stood on a dirty unpainted poplar counter, beside a pair of scales.
The unpainted carved box, or coffin, shaped something like a palanquin, was borne on the shoulders of four men.
There is a larger one for dining purposes, and asunpainted pine has always a most dreary look, F.
Near the centre, and fronting the east, stands an unpainted wood cabin of the humblest appearance, the shape and size of which is an oblong of some thirty by fifteen feet.
When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods.
TANDY Until she was seven years old she lived in an old unpainted house on an unused road that led off Trunion Pike.
The old man lived in one of the unpaintedsheds back of the farmhouse and puttered about all day in the fields.
I looked at the stout, unpainted deal door and then at some kaffir curios fastened to the wall on either side of it in rather picturesque groups.
More simplicity in the bedroom: white mats, a white dressing-table ofunpainted wood, a sheet of mirror in a white frame, a large white double bed.
Simple finish, unpainted wood, a general distribution of water through the dwelling, will enable a very large house to be cared for by one pair of hands, and yet maintain a creditable appearance.
The celebrated zebra-wood with its golden stripes cannot exceed in quaint beauty the grain of unpainted chestnut, prepared simply with a coat or two of oil.
And in almost every group I notice some quite new, or freshly planed unpainted white wood, standing beside others grey or even black with age; and there are many, still older from whose surface all the characters have disappeared.
Notes for Chapter Seven 1 Thick solid sliding shutters of unpainted wood, which in Japanese houses serve both as shutters and doors.
The streets were lined with small unpainted frame houses and dirty faced children ran screaming in the dusty roadway.
He was a dealer in coal and lumber and owned a number ofunpainted sheds facing a railroad siding west of town.
Her house was a little way down the road, unpainted and gambrel-roofed, but so low that the old lilac-bushes which clustered round it were as tall as the eaves.
I thought it might be some record of a great storm or other notable event in his house or parish, but I was amused to find that he had written there on the unpainted wood some valuable recipes for the medical treatment of horses.
Along the paths oleanders were set out in unpainted wooden tubs and the rose bushes had gone so long untrimmed that they were now of great size and covered with tiny white and yellow flowers.
Accustomed as she was to the poverty of frontier architecture, even the crumbling walls of the old hacienda she had just left seemed picturesque to the rigid angles of the thin, blank, unpainted shell before her.
First of all, of course, the place had to be thoroughly cleaned, then whitewashed as to the ceiling, and scoured over and over as to the unpainted wood.
As she stood alone on the rough unpainted boardwalk in front of the passenger-room a sense of desolation crept into the very marrow of her bones.
Apple and peach trees hang over thickly-planted gardens within the unpainted long board fences before many of the houses.
In the dusk, I dismounted here, tossed my horse’s bridle to a barefooted boy, and then lugged my saddle-bags to the porch before the unpainted front of a new addition on an old house.
By four o'clock in the afternoon buggies and wagons began to arrive at the big unpainted building in front of Olaf's house.
Bob well knew that, even nearer the source of supplies, such mining camps as this appeared to be were most often but a collection of rude, unpainted shanties, huddled together for a temporary need.
A double row of unpaintedboard shanties led straight to the water's edge.
Now among the trees at the upper end gleamed the yellow of new, unpainted shanties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unpainted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
