A curtained alcove. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She shrugged again, expression curtained by hurt. From Wordnik.com. [Savor Me Slowly] Reference
And as they peeped through each dark-curtained door. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
The long windows were curtained with old needlework. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Fitting room (a curtained alcove), each 10.00 upward. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
The good thing about that room was the curtained window. From Wordnik.com. [Prickly Heat] Reference
All the windows were curtained and there was no sign of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
"Old nuisance!" she remarked, as the half-curtained door closed. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
In a curtained box, at the St. Charles, sits Mr. Snivel and George. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
On the other, through a curtained alcove, he could see a tiny lavatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
The window is the size of a bathroom window, small and heavily curtained. From Wordnik.com. [Shopgirls] Reference
Besides, the friendly rain had curtained him and kept away the spoil-sports. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
At last she climbed out of her bed and looked out the lace-curtained window. From Wordnik.com. [The Palatski Man] Reference
The flap of the curtained litter, the sick man inside borne to the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Hass: On Whitman's 'Song Of Myself'] Reference
Four slaves, bearing a crimson curtained litter, came to the wharf and stopped. From Wordnik.com. [The Players] Reference
A curtained tabernacle stood on the little altar, before which hung a ruby lamp. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"Aw, and what is that?" he questioned, standing and looking at the curtained box. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
A blue-curtained press conference in Florida appeared transmitted from Planet Awkward. From Wordnik.com. [The Unsettling Sight of a Tiger Tamed] Reference
Here the windows had glazed sashes reaching to the ground, and opening on curtained verandahs. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Rachel turned briskly round in time to see Ruth disappear from a white-curtained upper window. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
Mrs. Mills went to the half-open door, that was curtained only in regard to the lower portion. From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
One end was curtained off for the bedroom, with snowy white curtains tied back with pink ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
"What's this to be?" asked Tom, as he stopped at one corner of the hall that was closely curtained. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Sitting on the edge of the huge curtained four-poster bed, he ponders on the events of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Presently they stopped before a curtained recess, and drawing aside the curtain Mrs. Nelson passed in. From Wordnik.com. ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference
With a bound she sprang toward the curtained archway and, pushing it aside, peered sharply into the room. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Claudia returned smiling, and all eyes turned to the curtained entrance at the far end of the aisle of palms. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
She released one of his hands, and by the other led him to a causeuse near one of the splendidly curtained windows. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
One rainy day my mother was sick and was lying in her bed which was curtained off from the rest of the living room. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
The front windows were curtained in rich purples, and before the house was a great front garden, and tall old trees. From Wordnik.com. [Supermind] Reference
She threw open the heavy door which had a curtained window at eye level and looked out in the direction of the shot. From Wordnik.com. ['Every Knee Shall Bow'] Reference
It was to her left, against a wall, a booth with two small, curtained compartments flanking a larger one that had a door. From Wordnik.com. [s Confession] Reference
But after I had sat up once -- once parted with the dreary prospect of the chintz and lace which curtained my bed -- I was. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
The city smells salty, orange light sneaks around his shower-curtained window, cabs call like geese, or mothers of missing children. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Micros] Reference
At the far end of the car on either side of the heavily curtained portion, were two stained glass windows, one blue, and the other red. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
But perhaps, we didn't want to really find out and break the beautiful spell cast through the half-revealing-half-hiding curtained veil. From Wordnik.com. [Masturbatory] Reference
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