Flashed in the train by Shorncliffe's draughty camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses] Reference

"This must be a draughty place in winter," he observed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference

The hothouses have been draughty skeletons for ten years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

Up at the station it was always draughty and generally cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference

Houses having dirt or loose board floors are very often draughty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The corridor was draughty, but Coles did not keep her waiting long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spotted Hemlock]

He and Sylvia huddled into the darkness on broken springs, between draughty windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

We marched down, early one morning, to an engine hangar that was both cold and draughty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in a Tank] Reference

‘I perceive your reason for carrying me to this very draughty tavern,’ he said at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Morals] Reference

"The bottomless pit would probably be refreshingly draughty in comparison with town just now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

But you should beware of cooling quickly afterwards, and of sitting in a draughty or windy place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.] Reference

The Residency is large and lofty, and thoroughly draughty, a high commendation so near the equator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

It must, of course, be protected in a draughty shop; and on this protection something needs to be said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference

Young hogs and sows that are thin are very prone to rheumatism when given wet, draughty sleeping quarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

And, far from remaining in bed to-day, I am writing this from my office, an exceedingly draughty apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914] Reference

If John dreamed, it was of messy farmyards and draughty fields; but it is improbable that he dreamed at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919] Reference

At everybody's beck and call, cooped up in a draughty little den, making shoes with a thousand interruptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference

And therewith, taking the lamp in his hand, he led the way down the long, draughty corridor to his laboratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

She was shut up in the draughty parlor with a mob-cap on her head "cleaning for dear life," as she expressed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Governess] Reference

I DOZED but fitfully, with a fretful sense of sore elbows and neck and many a draughty hiatus among the blankets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riddle of the Sands]

It was cold and draughty inside, so we found a sheltered place in the sun on some piles of luggage, and sat there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

The show was held in a draughty tent, and when it was over the Padre made a short prayer and they all sang a hymn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Goes to War] Reference

Cold, damp, draughty, poorly ventilated poultry houses cause the disease to spread rapidly and become highly acute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

They are admirable for heating difficult rooms -- outdoor porches, and draughty halls, and rooms not heated by furnaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House in Good Taste] Reference

It was raining hard by now and the dreary little station yard was empty except for a deserted and draughty-looking taxi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories]

The room was a little draughty because the fuse of a shrapnel had gone right through the door and the fireplace opposite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference

Unless the shop is draughty, it is by far the best policy to have a few large burners rather than a number of small ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885] Reference

Picturesque old houses are sometimes draughty and inconvenient, but no such defects were ever allowed to exist at the Court.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

At last we reached our goal and marched through a fine old carved archway into a courtyard, and thence into a draughty hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

She should be a penniless artist working a in a cold draughty garret somewhere in the East London badlands dying of pneumonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

All the sisters except Deborah, who was six when they moved, disliked the new house, which was cold, draughty and impractical.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters'] Reference

It was a leaky, draughty old place, but the woman of the cottage had heaped deerskins and blankets on my bed and kept me warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

I can hear the chains rattling behind various ghosts as they make their way through the dark and draughty corridors of your house.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Anthony Ward's clever design shows a pub dining room hung with antlers and landscapes, striving for draughty country-house grandeur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posh; The Empire; Hair] Reference

Animals that are exposed to cold, wet, changeable weather, or kept in cold, damp, draughty quarters frequently suffer from rheumatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

I sat on the floor with my back against the freight, dozing a little; it was very cold and draughty and noisy in the unfurnished shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rainbow and the Rose]

"Oh, but it's cold work!" he cried, as he stopped to warm his hands, for the little room on the roof was draughty, and the snow blew in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film] Reference

Towards the evening the men returned, cold, weary and tired, to a draughty barn, with the dismal prospect of a similar day on the morrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference

I read the previous two on a beach, so I just pray a draughty train carriage will prove as good a place to succumb to this Swedish author.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Christmas presents] Reference