| 单词 | drafty |
| 例句 | “It’s just as well. That old building was too drafty anyway.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Each week the autumn grew colder and wetter, and the inn, although dirty and drafty, was much cozier than any barn or dung heap to be found outside, so she remained, empty of heart. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The hall was dark stone, high ceilinged and drafty, full of drifting smoke, its stone walls spotted by huge patches of pale lichen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Radiators clanged and hissed in the drafty hall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Every night the moon made its slow passage over Stonetown, and every night Reynie Muldoon gazed up through the window of the drafty old house, remembering the moonlit meetings of the Mysterious Benedict Society. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The morning of the exam I limped to the testing center and sat in the drafty hall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Your lord father had no cause for concern. Why would I want a rock? My manse is large enough for any man, and more comfortable than your drafty Westerosi castles. Master of coin, though...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside, the hall was immense and drafty, even with a fire roaring in its great hearth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was cold — the way my jacket felt when I first picked it up in the morning, hanging in the drafty hallway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I apologize for not stopping to chat after you let me out of that drafty diya, Aru,” said the Sleeper, “but I had business to attend to. Things to gather.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He gave Blanca varying amounts of money to maintain the dark, drafty, rambling, almost empty house, but she never had enough to cover all her expenses. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The common room was long and drafty, with a row of huge wooden kegs at one end and a fireplace at the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At first, I pretend I’m a girl living in a drafty castle that I hate because my parents don’t got enough candles to light the place. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The sun had already set, and the vast interior space of the shell house was drafty and uncomfortable. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The solar was as damp and drafty as ever. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A moment later he’s bounding into the kitchen fully dressed, as if he’d pulled on his clothes while careening down the steep wooden staircase of our drafty Victorian house. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z While the Gryffindor common room and the Great Hall had roaring fires, the drafty corridors had become icy and a bitter wind rattled the windows in the classrooms. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She hated the drafty floors and frigid corners, and the perpetual animal reek of heavy clothes hung about the fireplace to dry. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The barn was awfully drafty, too, but I guess I ought to be grateful that it was. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The king's command traveled like an echo from guard to guard up the stone stairway to a small chamber in the drafty north tower. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z So tables were placed end to end along the center of the Great Hall, an enormous drafty spot that was given to being chilly even in the summertime. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "A cold night," he said casually, "and the High Hall is so drafty. I don't wish to catch a chill. Mord, if you would be so good, fetch my cloak." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “By the magic hairs of Monkey’s tail, you’ve been living in this smelly, drafty place?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of Holcomb speak of their post office as “the Federal Building,” which seems rather too substantial a title to confer on a drafty and dusty shed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sound was the crackle and hiss of the log burning in the hearth at the end of the long, drafty common room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As each person was “cleared” a Fruit of Islam man ushered him or her to a specific seat in the drafty interior of the 7500-seat coliseum. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond their own voices they could hear, drifting down the drafty halls, a frenetic, muted tapping—the sleepless Number Two on her computer keyboard—and from somewhere above them the occasional creak of a floorboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The stove was warming, with orange light showing around the lids and the soft thunder of drafty flame leaping past the open damper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Owlery was a circular stone room, rather cold and drafty, because none of the windows had glass in them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z This courtroom, Judge Llewellyn Fielding’s, down at the end of a damp, drafty hallway on the third floor of the Island County Courthouse, was run-down and small as courtrooms go. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Old Mr. Westing probably died of a heart attack—or pneumonia—it was drafty in there. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven grabbed her friend’s hand, and they ventured into the dark, drafty halls of the Goody Garlick Academy for Magic and hustled toward the potions room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Hopefully long enough for you to not mind the drafty corridors, freezing mornings, and days without sunshine.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The room was too drafty; the meal was ill prepared; a housemaid had acted above her station; one of the other pupils wore rouge. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And so Meggie heard her father read aloud, for the first time in nine years, in a drafty old church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was drafty, rickety, perched on thin stilts over the river, with showers that pumped foul-smelling water directly from the Hudson over the boys’ heads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He says they are much warmer than our drafty houses. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Hermione waved her wand to ignite the old gas lamps, then, shivering slightly in the drafty room, she perched on the sofa, her arms wrapped tightly around her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Within two years, the burgeoning lab had outgrown its drafty quarters. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In short order they were given toothbrushes, pajamas, and warm slippers—it was drafty in the old house at night—and shown to their rooms. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And she came to know the corners of the drafty stone house well. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had once come into his barn and discovered jockey Farrell Jones lying on a cot in the cold, drafty tack room, desperately ill with an infection. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shieldhall was one of the older parts of Castle Black, a long drafty feast hall of dark stone, its oaken rafters black with the smoke of centuries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She missed the familiar drafty classrooms, the textbook pages sticking to her cheeks. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “My darling, must we remain in this drafty hall?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The house was large and commodious, though often drafty. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As a dining hall, it left much to be desired—it was dark, dirty, drafty, and hard to heat in winter, its cellars infested with rats, its massive wooden rafters worm-eaten and festooned with cobwebs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It didn’t help that a steady rain driven by a chilling wind continued to blow across the Langer See almost continuously, and that the police barracks soon proved cold and drafty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the vacation cabins the pilots had been living in all summer turned out to be drafty and freezing cold in the winter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The house is large and drafty—much too large, Molly thinks, for an old woman who lives alone. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a big drafty building with a large door. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The apartment is drafty during winter, and in summer, intolerably hot. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The windows were closed, but I pulled my sweater tightly around myself I loved our house, but it was drafty at night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He and his companions were a muddy handful of scratchers, crouching in a narrow, drafty pit in lonely country. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The hotel is drafty and the dining room is empty, but the waiter is excellent. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Even though it was April it was freezing cold at night and she said You wouldn’t believe what it costs to heat this drafty old house. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She found her son surrounded by his father's lords ban- nermen, in a drafty hall with a peat fire smoking in a black hearth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She wrote "Gone Girl" in the same drafty basement as the other books, but the reaction was different and immediate. Thrills, chills for Gillian Flynn in adapting 'Gone Girl' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z As the sun rose over rococo Paris, the chic awoke in stylish single beds in niche bedrooms, leaving ballustraded beds in drafty state bedrooms unoccupied. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z It wasn’t only American women who upgraded England’s drafty real estate. The Aesthete: An Exuberant Catalogue of Dreams 2014-01-29T05:00:00Z I was living in a big drafty place in the winter in upstate New York — it felt haunted. A Movie That Creeps to Its Own Choreographic Beat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Not only are drafty windows inconvenient, but they can have a big impact on your heating bills during the winter. How to fix drafty windows before winter weather arrives 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The wooden ones they are obliged to keep were drafty, she said. The Town That Charles Built 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z There are several reasons your windows might be drafty, the most common being age. How to fix drafty windows before winter weather arrives 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z The show was performed in Catholic’s Ward Recital Hall, a drafty building that resembles a small-town Gothic church. Concert of late Renaissance music inspired by an unlikely source 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z He points out that La Rondinaia is cold, drafty and uncomfortable. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z When it visits Levin, the film exchanges the trappings of theatricality for a lyrical naturalism, inhaling the fresh air of open fields and the homely aromas of a drafty wooden manor house. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z But I found myself moved by Arnold's vision, and by Brontë's — who long ago, in a dark and drafty parsonage, captured on paper the wildness of her quiet heart. Dark passion envelopes 'Wuthering Heights' 2012-10-18T20:17:06Z She is drafty and oracular at the same time. Review: In Jorie’s Graham’s ‘From the New World,’ Flux Is a Whirling Constant 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z In 1966 he presided over the company’s move from its drafty old music hall on West 55th Street in Manhattan to what was then the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. Julius Rudel, Longtime City Opera Impresario, Dies at 93 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Combing his nose hairs on his way home from Mardi Gras, Ralph suddenly realized why his nether regions were feeling so drafty. Style Invitational Week 1429: Yuk of the draw — winning cartoon captions 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z So many homeowners target those drafty wooden windows for replacement. 7 mistakes homeowners make when renovating older properties 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z We recently moved to a drafty old house with lots of bookcases, so I’ve been gleefully arranging my books into the rooms where they seem most at home. By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The garden was a jungle, the windows were drafty, the walls were damp, and the abbot at the time was tired of his job, according to Abbot Choriol. A Stained-Glass Gift, From God and Gerhard Richter 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z The bed is in Lulworth, a drafty pile that belongs to a bachelor duke. Books of The Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse 2011-06-26T21:00:06Z It’s the lingering myth of the drafty garret housing the starving artist, the amplitude of whose genius can be traced alchemically back to the degree of her suffering. Learning to Look at L.A. 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Hard bitter words in drafty rooms: poor Dickie. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: The Crawleys Should Have Sent Their Regrets 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The basement space was drafty, not a surprise for Detroit in the winter. Exploring Detroit’s Underground Railroad Sites 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Dan Henderson, one of the doctors overseeing the center, said the cathedral was a perfect space for vaccinations, as its large, drafty space lowers the risk of catching the virus. An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The sculptor Augusta Savage abruptly left her home in Harlem in the early 1940s for a drafty farmhouse in Saugerties, N.Y. Augusta Savage’s Rural Escape and Clementine Hunter’s Murals 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Their cottage is drab rather than cozy, and the second act takes place not in a forest but in a drafty abandoned ballroom. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Tom Hollander, who created the show with James Wood, plays the Rev. Adam Smallbone, an Anglican priest from Sussex who has been given a drafty, sparsely attended London church. ‘Rev.’ and ‘The Yard,’ Two Short Series on Hulu 2012-06-13T16:30:55Z “The Past” might sound like the tragedy of a broken tea cup, but even in this bucolic countryside, Eros and Thanatos waft in under the drafty door. Family tensions simmer in Tessa Hadley’s exquisite novel ‘The Past’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z At the same time, my mother discovered the price of heating oil for a drafty New England colonial home, died of shock, and then rose again to buy down booties and electric blankets. Rediscovering my family's history through cornmeal dumplings 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z For drafty basement or attic windows, try gluing a piece of foam board to 3/8-inch drywall and fitting it snugly into the window frame. 17 Simple Ways to Save Money Around the House 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Out behind the house there is a drafty barn, which he uses for a studio. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z The office was drafty, so Bob’s desk was surrounded by ancient space heaters that looked like they might spontaneously combust and made a horrible, stuck-pig sound when they got knocked over. My Life as Bob Silvers’s Assistant 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z That was your human correspondent, writing on a laptop in a drafty apartment in Manhattan and advancing an argument that’s been plausibly made for centuries: that literature is dead. A Human Wrote This Book Review. A.I. Wrote the Book. 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Whoever first said that probably had a drafty manor house that was always chilly. California Cabernet Sauvignon, From Beyond Napa Valley 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The storm assaulted the drafty, wooden structure with violent gusts and pounding hail, making it feel like a ship on a roaring sea. Overnighter: Astoria, Oregon, Discovers a Waterfront Chic 2011-03-25T18:55:00Z Or maybe he just prefers to linger in other kinds of rooms, like the often drafty and high-ceilinged lofts where he has spent thousands of unbilled hours listening to artists talk about their work. Calvin Tomkins Continues to Chronicle Artists 2011-10-04T20:34:15Z Expansive and drafty, it has remained largely unchanged since 1973, when Gillen met its departing occupant, the painter Norman Lewis, at a party, and arranged to move in. Ann Gillen: Sculpting in Plain Sight 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Isis, by contrast, has spent all this time stalking vermin and lying round in drafty hallways and wagging her tail on cue – not to mention absorbing and filtering the human toxins of longing, loneliness, rage. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Prayers for Isis 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z I hiked to the far north of Venice to see the church where he prayed, the drafty Madonna dell’Orto, where his bones lie beneath the tiles. 3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In the winter, I seal the windows to keep in heat, and seal the drafty kitchen door, closing it off for the season. Can you afford to be green when you're poor? I kept a diary to find out 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Fall is here and it’s getting drafty at my house. How Low Can You Go (Sofa-wise)? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Sven had long ago moved to Glasgow from Stuttgart, and seemed perfectly at home in this quiet, drafty environment. A Glasgow Architect’s Masterpiece Is Damaged, but Not His Magic 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z She begins with her father’s decision to plonk his family down in a drafty castle in Suffolk, England. Perspective | Audiobooks can help get you through forced family time. Here are picks for listening together. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z She lives on an abandoned commune in a bleak, drafty cabin. Review: A Teenager Bears Witness to Backwoods Intrigue in ‘History of Wolves’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with terrible plumbing. English Country Goes Rock-'N'-Roll 2011-03-10T12:15:00Z The process of turning drafty, leaky old structures into homes isn’t for the faint of heart. Home, Reimagined 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The second best thing is that all 72 exhibitors are in a single room, albeit a large and drafty one: You can take it all in with a leisurely stroll. Women Win at the Art Show 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z With stout watchtowers, parklike ramparts, and a creaky, drafty interior, this place was a royal hub for centuries. Sweden’s Glass Country sparkles 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z One of the main hotels, a graceless rectangular prism, became a drafty concrete husk. Skiing Kosovo, Abandoned Lifts and All 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z They were the house's original single-pane windows, and as you might suspect, they were extremely drafty, rattling around in the wind and letting lots of cold air into our home. How to fix drafty windows before winter weather arrives 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z In 1911 the brilliant harpsichord pioneer Wanda Landowska discovered the piano languishing in the same drafty monastery where Chopin and Sand had stayed. An Ingenious Frédéric Chopin 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Most of the original castle was destroyed in the English Civil War, but you can still get a sense of how imposing, drafty and unpleasant it must have been in its day. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z Of all the things that haunt me about my drafty, tired old house, it is the books, sitting boxed up in the basement without sufficient shelving to hold them, that give me the most distress. Vivian Gornick Can’t Stop Rereading 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Wilkie Collins liberated the mystery story from drafty castles and clanking chains. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The wood is in good shape, but the windows are drafty, and we get lots of condensation when the weather first turns cool in the fall or during cold snaps. Can I keep the look of bow windows and still stop the drafts? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Aziz entered a drafty, cavernous warehouse on the grounds of the airport and walked by teetering stacks of cardboard boxes. At JFK Airport, every day is wild for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspectors 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Department of Energy estimates that heat loss through windows is responsible for 25 to 30% of residential heating energy use, which means that fixing drafty windows can help lower your monthly utility costs. How to fix drafty windows before winter weather arrives 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z However, there are other causes of drafty windows, too. How to fix drafty windows before winter weather arrives 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z I’m standing in a dark and drafty parking garage, where I’ll be vetted before being allowed anywhere near the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Cater-waitering the Oscars: My glamorous night at the Academy Awards, feeding canapés to hungry stars 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z At the railroad stop, the lover of the downtrodden buys fourth-class tickets so he can be with the peasants, but hours in the drafty, unheated railcar give Tolstoy chills and fever. The Literati: Tolstoy’s Last Chapter 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z “Do you wish to see her live a life devoid of industry and moral worth? A hollow existence in a large and drafty house with a man who bores her to death?” 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Rumble With Lord G! 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z They preserved warmth and muffled sound in drafty castles. ‘Grand Design’ Showcases Pieter Coecke Tapestries at the Met 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It was held in a drafty school gymnasium, the spectators under blankets. Fashion Review: At C?line, a Tough Follow-Up 2010-03-08T04:45:00Z This past year, I’ve spent most of my time in my drafty office in Harlem, where the water leak from the lintel above the south-facing window has reappeared after some bad weather. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The Natural Resources Defense Council advises that people check their baseboards and attic hatches for openings that can be sealed to make the living space less drafty. Want to know if your gas bill will increase this winter? SoCalGas can warn you with a text 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z But even with air conditioning, those with the lowest incomes face higher costs than their wealthier counterparts — in part because they are more likely to live in older, less insulated and drafty homes. Millions scramble to afford energy bills amid heat waves, but federal program to help falls short 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Radon can develop in anyone’s home, new or old, basement or no basement, drafty or sealed. How to safely detect (and remove) radon gas in the home 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Compared to Western regions of the United States, Northeastern and Middle Atlantic states may have more old buildings, which means people may be exposed to greater amounts of pollution through drafty windows and doors. Explainer: What health experts say wildfire smoke novices need to know 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z “It’s big, Victorian and drafty. Imagine sitting in a monstrous room with a ceiling that is triple height and with huge windows. It’s not a normal home with a sofa and the telly.” Buckingham Palace: Coronation backdrop, tourist attraction, unloved home 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z One way to reduce the need for new electrical capacity is to plug the leaks in your drafty home by sealing cracks, weatherstripping windows and doors, and adding insulation. Ready to switch from gas to electric appliances? Here's how 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z On a drafty February morning, two volunteers with Vostok SOS, one of the few aid groups able to evacuate people with disabilities, lifted her father into a wheelchair. War forces thousands of disabled Ukrainians into institutions 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z With high winds and heavy snow expected the next day, Ms. Blodgett knew the house would be drafty, as cold air pushed through gaps around the windows and doors. Highest Heating Costs in Years Strain Many in New England 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z So it may be even more difficult for a drafty house to stay comfortable. What you should know about heat pumps in the Pacific Northwest 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Noise from the bar below, as well as possible mold, dust and drafty windows, are just some of the triggers for her complaints. Review | Yes, life is messy. ‘The Sweet Spot’ finds joy in the chaos. 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Tons of heat can escape through drafty doors or single-pane windows. How to make your home more energy efficient — and get a tax break too Many residents make do in drafty, run-down trailers. In Maine, a Rare Influx of New Residents, and a Housing Crunch 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In Sao Paulo, they bounced from the airport floor to a church stockroom to a drafty NGO event space for months. Hundreds of Afghans risk 11-country trek to seek haven in United States 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z With no money for heating, little food besides bread and tea, and drafty windows in their mountainside home, several of their eight children quickly fell sick. Parents grieve for three-month old baby, a victim of Afghanistan's deadly winter 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Your tree will stay fresher if it’s away from sources of light, drafty air and fire-hazard-creating heat sources. How to pick the perfect Christmas tree 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z For example, check your baseboards and attic hatches for openings that you can seal to make your living space less drafty. How to beat the Southern California chill without raising the gas bill 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z A good way to reduce gas bills is to slash the amount of energy you use, although that may require some investment if you live in a drafty, aging house. Natural gas bills could be huge for Southern Californians this month. Here’s what you can do 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Poor building insulation is a chronic problem in Britain, which is reputed to have the draftiest homes in Europe, and progress on insulation faltered over a decade ago. Britain’s Soaring Energy Costs Strain Crisis Responders 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z If your heat is working, you can retain heated air and save on electricity bills by keeping curtains closed and using adhesive barrier tape or other materials to seal drafty windows. How to Prepare Your House for the Extreme Holiday Weather 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Those drafty, poorly-insulated homes are expensive to heat — as was especially clear this week, when a dusting of snow covered much of Britain and temperatures dropped below freezing. In the city with U.K.’s highest cost of living, leaving home to stay warm 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Your tree will stay fresher if it’s away from sources of light, drafty air, and fire-hazard-creating heat sources. How to pick the perfect Christmas tree 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “Right now, millions of chilly women are sitting in their very drafty apartments without boyfriends,” said Nwodim at the top of the fake ad — set to a dramatic rendition of “Hallelujah” sung by Thompson. Megan Thee Stallion brings hot girl humor to 'SNL': See the best sketches 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z From a rubber dinghy adrift in the Caribbean to a safe house in New Orleans to the drafty English manor where the women’s training began decades earlier, the book sweeps through place and time. Review | The women in ‘Killers of a Certain Age’ are no coastal grandmothers 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The idea was to convert drafty old row houses into solar and electric heat-pump-powered, well-insulated homes that reduced their CO2 emissions to near zero. U.S. Jump-Starts Effort to Curb Residential CO 2 Emissions 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z As long as it’s extended, anyhow: the richness goes away when fully retracted, sounding more like a Polycom in a drafty conference room, which wasn’t a thing with the original. The SteelSeries Nova Pro Wireless is close to the be-all, end-all gaming headset 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Blankets, issued to keep inmates warm in drafty cells, were confiscated. Abuse-clouded prison gets attention, but will things change? 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The life of a Windsor is one of such drab constraint — endlessly tedious public appearances, gloomy holidays spent in drafty castles — even Brown can’t figure out why Kate would want it. Review | Tina Brown’s royal revelations spare no one, especially Meghan Markle 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z The area is lined with quaint if drafty individual dorm rooms with fireplaces. Opinion | Why the University of Virginia is becoming a battleground for speech 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z They are drafty in the winter and ill-prepared for the warmer summers climate change will bring because the buildings lack central air conditioning. U.S. Jump-Starts Effort to Curb Residential CO 2 Emissions 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Dowds and Campion were part of a sea of people crammed into a large, drafty Ray Dolby Ballroom after the show. Oscars parties deliver on good times following a tense telecast 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Adams and his family occupied the unfinished executive mansion that later generations called the White House, still so raw that Abigail hung her laundry in the vast and drafty East Room. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z For the next 17 days, Mao literally cooled his heels waiting during a freezing Moscow winter inside a drafty dacha where, as he later recalled, "I got so angry that I once pounded the table." The geopolitics of the Ukraine war 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Anne-Sophie Corbeau, a global research scholar at Columbia University's Center for Global Energy Policy, said that Europe's poorest citizens are also those living in poorly insulated, drafty houses. Europe’s next climate challenge: Getting off Russian gas 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Rounding the final curve, his quads bulged and his arms slashed through the drafty air before he eventually lifted them high above his head. Speedskater Nils van der Poel hoped to win a gold medal in Beijing. He did much more. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Our house is old and drafty, and only has one bathroom, and it is the only space that has heated floors. Judge John Hodgman on Letting the Dog Into the Bathroom 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Q: Winter is here and it’s getting drafty at my house. How low can you go (sofa-wise) and other home queries 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z No one should live in “leaky buildings,” ones that are uncomfortably drafty, cold and even moldy from moisture coming in. Addressing the housing and climate crises — together 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z It’s also a good way to find leaks elsewhere, including in the basement, where air that seeps in creates a chimney effect, making rooms above feel drafty. How to upgrade the insulation in your home (start with air gaps) 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z My sister, with all of a few months in New York under her belt, marched me into the building’s drafty, unlit foyer and up the stairs. ‘I Decided the Smell Must Be Coming Through My Open Window’ 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z This test is also a good way to find leaks elsewhere, including in the basement, where air that seeps in creates a chimney effect, making rooms above feel drafty. How to upgrade the insulation in your home 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Cold air from a door, window or other drafty spot will give plants a shock. Tips for caring for houseplants during the winter 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Pay special attention to drafty windows, said Mr. Anderson of Energy Star. Tips for Holding Down Your Winter Heating Bills 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Her rent was $950 a month, not bad, she thought, for a four-bedroom house, even if the windows were so thin and drafty that the monthly heating bill could reach $500. Opinion | ‘The Moratorium Saved Us. It Really Did.’ 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Plus, check doors and windows to ensure they’re sealing properly and not letting in drafty air. 12 ways to cut down your energy bill | Provided by 1st Security Bank 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z They sleep in doorways, on verandas, and at drafty bus stations, hospitals, and schools. Celebrating Women Photographers: Francine Orr 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The Yitang Crawfish restaurant, which specializes in the popular Wuhan dish, is full, except for a table by the drafty front door. A Year Later, the First Post-Pandemic City 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z The rooms are a warren of art, furniture and collectibles; a drafty warehouse in the back is stuffed floor to ceiling with things that don’t fit up front. Founded in 1888, this Asian antiques shop hopes to put 2020 in the past 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Start with the right location: 65 to 70 degrees, not adjacent to a heater or a drafty window. D.I.Y. Microgreens You Can Grow on Your Kitchen Counter 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Her school was a sad and drafty place where classrooms were heated by a single charcoal stove. She Helped South Korea in Its Time of Need. In the Pandemic, It Repaid Her. 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z One of the women is sick — a cold, they say, that she caught because of the drafty air. At Front Lines of a Brutal War: Death and Despair in Nagorno-Karabakh 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z They lived in a drafty apartment in Highlander Hall, a Trump building in Queens, and at one point she was hospitalized with pneumonia. The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z They sat above it, in every other seat or so throughout the drafty visitors gallery that has sat empty since tours were canceled March 12. 6 feet, at least: Distance no problem in House virus debate 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Just imagine all those miniature feuds that characterized your high school experience and now imprison the players in whispery chapels, oak-clad dining halls and drafty bedrooms for 24 hours a day. The boarding school novel's #MeToo reckoning 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The door is purposely drafty, and there are fans. Indiana blacksmith shows off skills in blacksmithing classes 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z The drafty home of the poor Hummel family down the road highlights the social classes even further. How the Oscars' best-picture nominees used architecture to tell stories of inequity 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z When they saw their room at the new hostel, Andy panicked: it was drafty. The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z “But it was this big, old, drafty, abandoned church, and he turned that into his set for this movie.” Popular Idaho drive-in to rise from the rubble 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Inside the bare-bones offices, more than 100 young engineers worked in a drafty open-plan space, some wearing winter coats for extra warmth. The next China trade battle could be over electric cars 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Time was, accessory dwelling units in California were often just slapdash drywall jobs, turning drafty garages into passable but unpermitted guesthouses and granny flats. Granny flats and converted garages are going upscale 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Last month, after Fonda’s fourth arrest, she slept on a mattress-less cot in the jail, where she loaned her signature red coat to a fellow shivering inmate inside the drafty building. Jane Fonda may turn 82 behind bars after fifth arrest at a D.C. climate change protest 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z And sometimes the fascination lay in the sheer unlikelihood of such an author existing at all, amid the most inauspicious circumstances: a houseful of children, a ne’er-do-well husband, a spindly desk in a drafty hallway. The Women Who Helped Build Hollywood 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Being rich meant living in a big drafty house with no privacy because the footman and parlor maid you clobbered with your bustle were always poking around. Opinion | It’s time to make rich people uncomfortable again 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Newer homes are more airtight and less drafty, warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. Breathing easier: How to maintain indoor air quality during a remodel | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Energy conservation crews start the assessments by talking with households and finding out areas of concern, such as drafty areas or appliances that may not be working efficiently. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z As Farah and I shared a hookah and milk chocolates in the drafty, bare-walled apartment that Rana now calls home, the subject turned to family. The Saudi Government’s Global Campaign to Silence Its Critics 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z If one part of the house is a little drafty, the sensors will tell your heating system to send more heat to that part of the house. How to choose the best smart thermostat for your home | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z For instance, he refuses to install heat in his drafty house and won’t buy a couch for the living room. From a tell-all by Steve Jobs' daughter to a Russian homecoming novel, the year's best books were amplified by current events 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z His seatmate prosaically responds, “Why yes! The plane must be drafty!” The larger-than-life huckster dialogue of Stan Lee 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The upstairs rooms, Radest said, are now far less drafty in the winter, and her daughter’s, which has two exterior walls, was cooler this summer than it had been before. Home-energy audit can make a house more efficient | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Standing in a drafty V.F.W. hall strung with American-flag bunting and Christmas lights, he told an audience about the time he went to a White House event on education reform. He’s a Long-Shot Senate Candidate With a Message: ‘Capitalism Unchecked Is a Complete Disaster’ 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Their induction ceremony took place not in a drafty tent but in the club suite of a modern 19,350-square-foot museum and exhibition space overlooking the south goal of Toyota Stadium. U.S. soccer gets a place to honor its history and the people who made it - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Adding more insulation to ceilings and walls is relatively simple, but replacing drafty windows presents lots of choices. Warm up for winter with expert advice on home improvements | Provided by Seattle Home Show 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Replacing drafty, outdated windows with a more energy-efficient alternative will create a cozier, more comfortable home interior this winter. 10 items to check off your fall home to-do list | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z It was a drafty Georgian house crammed to the attics with women and children who’d fled from violent men. What will the pope have to say now that Ireland’s dirty secrets are out? | Susan McKay 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z “English castles are often cold and drafty, and I think his attitude will be quite appraising of the fixtures and fittings, which is something the queen has never cared about.” The queen and the boy from Queens: Inside Trump’s long fascination with the British royals 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Joints of freshly butchered lamb are hung in a wooden shed, known as a hjallur, that is chinked with drafty gaps, allowing the islands’ incessant winds to blow through it. Koks, the World’s Most Remote Foodie Destination 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “The most common reason for people to replace windows is that they are drafty or they are fogging up between the panels,” Andy Zerbel, an estimator with Window World of North Puget Sound, says. Warm up for winter with expert advice on home improvements | Provided by Seattle Home Show 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “It has heating now—fancy,” she says, chuckling as she compares it to her drafty old workspace. With Three New Shows, Artist Mary Corse is Finally Having Her Moment 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z She ticked off a litany of problems that the dearth of funding has spawned: leaky roofs, drafty windows, balky heaters. Fed up with school spending cuts, Oklahoma teachers walk out 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He advises homeowners to replace worn weather stripping or storm doors and consider caulking any drafty areas. Planning your home improvement projects by the seasons 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Joints of freshly butchered lamb are hung in a wooden shed, known as a hjallur, that is chinked with drafty gaps, allowing the islands’ incessant winds to blow through it. Koks, the World’s Most Remote Foodie Destination 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Maybe they will gather in one of the long, drafty corridors inside the Alamodome or off to the side of the raised court. Against the longest of odds, two basketball players from Los Angeles Loyola High end up in the Final Four 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Their new two-and-three story houses, made of drywall, are drafty and appear flimsy compared to their old thatched-roof adobe cottages heated by wood-fired stoves, some said. Displaced by mining, Peru villagers spurn shiny new town 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z What was important there in the design was that Matt wanted the sense that the prisoners were absolutely freezing, and that it was a drafty, cold space where light kind of dripped in on them. Game of Thrones’ first AD on the challenges of Eastwatch 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z As “Pinstripe” opens, you move in side-scroller fashion back and forth through shaking, drafty train cars. Review | ‘Pinstripe – An Adventure Through Hell’ is an indie game funded by Kickstarter and worth your attention 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But when he arrived he found a campus of drafty cinder-block buildings and barren lawns that smelled like sewage. Cannibalism, prostitution and other racist myths that confront Africans studying in India 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The neighborhood became a sort of engine for Western culture after World War II, with Beats, artists, musicians and oddballs flooding the cheap, drafty rooms in rundown brownstones. The New York Building Inhabited Entirely by Creative People 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Their new two-and-three story houses, made of drywall, are drafty and appear flimsy compared to their old thatched-roof adobe cottages heated by wood-fired stoves, some said. Displaced by mining, Peru villagers spurn shiny new town 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z But failing that, my advice would be to keep taking the vitamins, pack some Lemsip and stay away from drafty windows when you're travelling abroad. Reality Check: Your questions answered - BBC News 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Suffice it to say they probably liked the drafty Northlands Coliseum better since the Kings lost only one of their last 10 games there. Kings lose third straight to finish trip on low note 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Twitter and Facebook were calling out to me, but the novel represented another world, offering me the chance to be Cassandra Mortmain in a drafty castle with her strange family. In hard times, reading fiction reminds us we are human in a way Twitter never can | Hope Whitmore 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z When she lived there, she renovated the drafty fortress into a royal home, one of several dwellings she and the king occupied. Not a Big Fan of Dracula: The Owner of This Romanian Castle 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The challenge for India is seen in the stricken faces of the parents who gathered one morning in the drafty old lobby of the main courthouse in Srinagar. Young men in Kashmir are disappearing from their homes. Friends say they're going to fight India 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Yan said, through a translator, that she planned a major restoration of the home, starting with the removal of the dark and drafty addition on the rear of her home. When to Subtract a Home Addition 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “Demagogue,” “buffoon” and “wazzock” — a semi-obscure Britishism meaning, roughly, “twit” — were among the insults that echoed off the drafty stone walls in the mother of all parliaments. Across Europe, revulsion at Trump but little idea of what to do about him 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Still others want to earn money by fixing up drafty houses that waste huge amounts of energy, just as millions of houses, with their leaky windows and barely insulated attics, do across the country. New York Plans to Make Fighting Climate Change Good Business 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z "But at the end, it opened to the bay. It was drafty and you couldn't close it off. It was too big a space." Craig Gillespie jumped at the chance to direct 'The Finest Hours' 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The whole thing seemed cheap and sordid, and I felt sorry for the girls for having to take their clothes in such a cold and drafty place. Growing up in Sonic Youth 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Every day, she woke up before sunrise to sell eggs in the village's "old town," a stretch of drafty wooden homes along a narrow concrete thoroughfare. In China, a cremation order has driven some elderly to desperate acts 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The fact is, the property is a drafty wreck. Brokedown palace: the decrepit state of Canada's 24 Sussex Drive 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z I live in an old house in Connecticut with drafty hallways, creaky floors and more than a few darkened corners. For Halloween, a Few Words About Being Afraid of the Dark 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In a drafty hearing room on Capitol Hill, Republicans on a select committee established to investigate the Benghazi attacks berated her for 11 hours. Hillary Clinton's triumphant October sees political observers' doubts fade 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The earth is just a silly ball To them, through which they pass Like dustmaids down a drafty hall. Why we should care about the Nobel Prize for the neutrino 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Of course, a lot of money is badly spent and the White House wish list includes its share of projects of dubious economic merit, from weatherizing drafty houses to high-speed rail. Budget Priorities Don’t Bode Well for Future 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z When the family outgrew the original trailer, they added makeshift rooms, which were drafty. The Student and the Stranger Who Helped Pay for College 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z There was also velvet, silk chiffon, and - for those poets toiling away in drafty attics, perhaps - some luscious Mongolian lamb jackets. Fashion Week: Carnations, espadrilles at Oscar de la Renta 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z There was also velvet, silk chiffon, and — for those poets toiling away in drafty attics, perhaps — some luscious Mongolian lamb jackets. NY Fashion Week: Sexy is the new black at Vera Wang, Carnations at Oscar de la Renta 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Bishop Matthews and her staff occupy a drafty hall previously used for Sunday school classes, meant to be their home for just three months. Christchurch Struggles With Shaky Recovery From 2011 Quake 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “Thin walls, drafty windows, and a general feeling of being in the middle of nowhere for so much money,” said Ms. Diaz-Pines, who missed basic conveniences such as a nearby pharmacy. Priced Out of Brooklyn? Try Manhattan. 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z "Let's talk in my office," he said in Spanish as he pushed his way into a cluttered and drafty equipment room. Galaxy trying to find an edge 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Ito bought a drafty old house up on a bluff that barely escaped the deluge, but is splitting his time between Ogatsu and Sendai, where he’s pushing his sales and keeping tabs on the restaurant. Japan fisherman in post-tsunami town sees hope in 'dream oysters' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z On this day, he was the only resident of the Brooklyn Developmental Center in its cavernous cafeteria, drafty and lit with the bleakness of an earlier era. For Special-Care Residents, State Policy Means Leaving Home 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z For every hour of light on Wednesday, Dorinne Concepcion sat on a folding chair in a drafty box truck, in front of a propane heater, wrapped in a blanket. Industry Will Vanish, Along With Cellphone Ban 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Once you locate the drafty areas in your home, it’s time to get to work. Want to Save Money? Winterize Your Home 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Outwardly, he seemed to live in shabby eccentricity and with aimless brilliance, in a damp and drafty house not far from Oxford, where he busied himself in studying Greek poetry and inventing verse forms. The Trials of Penelope Fitzgerald 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z In their drafty old Oxfordshire manse, she and her sisters hid in a linen cupboard heated by water pipes and made up secret languages. Deborah Cavendish, Duchess With an Uncommon Touch, Dies at 94 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In his senior year, he started an Occupy Dartmouth encampment on the college green, moving from the fraternity basement into a drafty tent. America’s Best and Drunkest “It was kind of drafty, and it didn’t always heat that well,” said Sandy Weaver, who moved to North Dakota from Montana in 2002. Beulah Mormon church grows thanks to oil country 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z If you don’t want to upgrade all of your windows with inserts, installing them only in your most drafty windows will still help. How to keep heat from escaping out the window | EcoConsumer 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Opening the door across from the Bierstube reveals a railing that overlooks the two-story, drafty, old boiler room complete with twisting pipes and a small, entirely brick wine cellar. D.C.’s Heurich House brews up Victorian-style mystery 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Chestnykh, who traverses the drafty stacks in a purple knit poncho, is the collection’s main overseer. Inside the Soviet Union's secret pornography collection 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But the goal of championship is still valid, Prokhorov declared when he met with reporters for about 10 minutes in a drafty alcove off a corridor in the O2 Arena. Nets 127, Hawks 110: In Rare Visit, Nets’ Owner Offers His Support 2014-01-17T01:06:57Z THE HAGUE—Jamal Aziz, once a trainer in the Iraqi army under Saddam Hussein, now calls a drafty, abandoned church in this rainy Dutch city his home. Iraqis in Europe Land in Limbo 2014-01-09T00:14:40Z This is a country where, until not so long ago, cold baths were part of boarding school packages and drafty Victorian houses stay chilly no matter how much they are heated. London Journal: Defying Winter’s Dreariness With an Arctic Embrace 2013-12-20T01:08:37Z When the children visit, they spend most of their time upstairs, sleeping on a drafty wooden floor beneath a Roman-numeral clock that is permanently stopped at 2:47. Homeless Girl in the Shadows 2013-12-09T07:26:35Z The sounds of children crying echo through the drafty chambers. Surviving "death boat", Syria Palestinians locked up in Egypt 2013-11-19T14:15:03Z He had lived by himself in a drafty brick house unaltered since the early years of the century, except for the addition of a refrigerator and a television set. Alice Munro: “The Bear Came over the Mountain.” 2013-10-14T04:00:00Z "I have boundless confidence in the army," Sayed said, sitting in his sparse, drafty house, a picture of deposed president Mohamed Mursi hanging on the wall next to a framed verse from the Quran. Mursi's brother stands by Egyptian army in home village 2013-07-25T17:54:13Z To go there to sit in a drafty farmhouse and look out and all you see is snow-covered flatness and these little pathetic dead stumps of corn. Fox Sports 1's Strategy vs. ESPN: 'Jockularity' 2013-07-18T10:00:54Z "It was a leaky, drafty, poorly insulated house and there wasn't much architectural merit," says O'Flaherty. Can sustainable eco houses become mainstream? 2013-07-12T12:02:33Z Forget drafty village halls showing worthy propaganda films, China is now the world's fastest-growing cinema market. Week in China: Three Gorges Dam 2012-11-02T03:41:56Z But after years spent in drafty rinks watching her son Ryan play, she also likes to bring a good book to help her get through long practices. Slap Shot: Opening Day Without the N.H.L.: Long Drives Are Worth It for DePaul Team 2012-10-11T21:31:55Z The room where Bluefire resides is as drafty as a minor-league hockey rink, and it’s loud enough that hearing protection is suggested. The Weatherman Is Not a Moron 2012-09-07T21:02:28Z Why not just tear down drafty old houses and build energy-efficient ones in their place? For 'Eco Flippers,' There's Green in Foreclosed Homes 2012-06-21T22:41:57Z But even between good neighbors, the neutral zone represented the geopolitical equivalent of a drafty open window. | Borderlines: Put It in Neutral 2012-05-01T23:49:01Z Ocean currents, he said, “blow through the ship like a drafty house with all the windows open.” Titanic May Hold Passengers? Remains, Officials Say 2012-04-14T17:41:31Z She obtained hack work of a sort, lived in the typical drafty garret so dear to unrecognized genius, and earned for a time only fifteen francs—three dollars—a month. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z And you standing all this while in the drafty, cold passage in your wet clothes. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Several Northeast states reduce federal home heating aid benefits to poor families 2011-12-11T10:20:04Z Tunnel-like and drafty, the open gate revealed an immense length of gloom, raftered and roofed with beams and vaults of darkness, upheld by double rows of dim columns of enormous girth. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Unhappy buyers at the sister building, One Northside Piers, were complaining about construction defects, including drafty windows. The Hunt: The Hunt: A High-Rise Change of Plans 2011-10-15T22:57:20Z I have known people who went on a crowded excursion and had to stand for several hours confident that, standing in the drafty aisle of the car on their way home, they had acquired rheumatism. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z We have our “drafty prose” as they had their “drafty riming.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z That may be why the gawky Kirchner caught her eye in the drafty corridors of La Plata University's law school. Special Report: Widowhood, Peron nostalgia, Argentine politics 2011-05-10T15:44:14Z He got houses mended, having rails put on leaking roofs, and Indian mats hung over drafty huts. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z It was a drafty old place, he explained. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Here in Diyala Province, in the northeast, once the country’s epicenter of female suicide attacks, the group’s leaders are straining to find money to pay electric bills and rent on its drafty headquarters. Iraqi Women Work to Halt Bombers, but Paycheck Is Elusive 2011-02-28T03:40:48Z With the monotony varied occasionally by some local engagement like this, we dragged through the hot, fly-pestered days, and cold, drafty, vermin-infested nights of September and early October. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z His family occupied what must have been a drafty home until 1940. | Dining Brunch: A Meal Worth Eating, and Seeing, Too 2010-12-24T23:05:00Z But since the new owners have replaced the old drafty windows, she said, “I’m probably going to eat way too many burgers now.” A Blessing of the Burger to End a Restaurant Jinx 2010-12-07T03:50:00Z But in many ways — from their pampered lifestyles to their inherited wealth, to their chauffeured aloofness and drafty castles, they show, too, that they stand eternally apart. Letter From Europe: Another Incident to Raise Questions About Britain?s Royals 2010-12-03T13:10:00Z How about cutting down on energy waste in a drafty old home? Green: Dr. Chu Talks Efficiency 2010-10-15T13:01:00Z The occupants of a drafty New England farmhouse, meanwhile, might be energy misers by habit, favoring blankets and sweaters over dialing up the heat. Can We Build in a Brighter Shade of Green? 2010-09-25T22:18:00Z The garage floods, windows are drafty and backed-up toilets flood apartments with sewage. Zombie Buildings Haunt Spain 2010-09-16T17:12:00Z "It's drafty in here: don't you think so?" she asked suddenly, looking back of her. The Window at the White Cat Over crowding in a cold drafty hutch in severe weather may so weaken the mother that she bears weak ones. The Raising and Care of Guinea Pigs A complete guide to the breeding, feeding, housing, exhibiting and marketing of cavies The wind blows in a little, and it's drafty. The Curlytops Snowed In Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds Women, too—I've seen them hanging about drafty corridors for hours on the off chance of seeing her. The Return of the Prodigal He heard my petition in a drafty hallway through which a small army of boys and girls were pouring, each one stopping to insert a key in a time-register. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself What with Christmas only two days away, and a lot of shopping to be done, I can't linger in this drafty station for thanks. Seven Keys to Baldpate Cold, damp and drafty quarters are usually the cause. The Raising and Care of Guinea Pigs A complete guide to the breeding, feeding, housing, exhibiting and marketing of cavies The first is healthy so far as pure air is concerned, but drafty and uncomfortable. Rural Hygiene It would inevitably be his fate to cower in these cold and drafty purlieus until—— No, it wouldn't either! The Life of the Party Does not like his bed, considering it drafty. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern With the monotony varied occasionally by some local engagement like this we dragged through the hot, fly-pestered days and cold, drafty, vermin-infested nights of September and early October. World's War Events, Vol. I Jasper Morena had stood for an hour in a drafty passage of that dirty labyrinth known vaguely to the public as “behind the scenes,” listening to the wearisome complaints of a long-nosed young actor. The Branding Iron Every form of conveyance you have mentioned is drafty. The Silver Butterfly "Now when you want to let in the cold water you've got to sit up, reach down and turn it on and that's cold and chilly and drafty as the mischief, isn't it?" Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World The powers in the Kremlin sniffed and blew and wept genuine tears on drafty days, while senatorial debates on earth-shaking issues paused reverently upon the unplugging of a nose, the clearing of a rhinorrheic throat. The Coffin Cure It had been built in Elizabethan times and was cold, drafty and uncomfortable, with not one modern convenience. Greener Than You Think These cold, biting winds generally blew from north or east, the main streets being like drafty narrow gorges. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta "It will be lots of fun standing out in a drafty hall looking for Amanda while you girls are having a feast." Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion The long, drafty subterranean passage was chilly and dusty, and my candle flared and made the shadows cower and quiver. The Red Room I dreamed I was an FBI agent, he thought sadly, in my drafty BVDs. Brain Twister The best place to catch them is not out-of-doors, or even in drafty hallways, but in close, stuffy, infected hotel bedrooms, sleeping-cars, churches, and theatres. Preventable Diseases "I hope you will not find it too drafty with the window open so wide," ventured Phil, standing up at once and bowing elaborately. Every Man for Himself "It's quite drafty," she said, looking pointedly past Trigger. Legacy And she kept a fire in the small sheet-iron stove, for fear that the old, drafty wood furnace might not send up a steady enough heat through the register. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Babies should not be allowed to sit or play on cold, drafty floors. The Mother and Her Child Don't you know that floors are always drafty? Sunny Slopes Again, if the cellar has no plaster ceiling, a drafty floor can be remedied by lining the under side of the flooring with felt paper or like material. If You're Going to Live in the Country He knelt on the drafty hearth, placed the bag of gold beside his knee, and thrust both arms into the black maw of the chimney. The Harbor Master Bessie is sitting over on Maple Point in a big drafty house with two maids and a butler, a two-thousand-acre estate, and her pockets full of Victory Bonds. Poor Man's Rock It was always cold and drafty back there, except when it happened to be suffocating. The Real Adventure In old times when the houses were draftier they was troublesome about flickering, candles was; but land! think how comfortable we live now to what we used to! A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches It is true that our forefathers lived, many of them to a ripe old age, with only fireplaces to heat their drafty homes and with no heat at all in their public buildings. If You're Going to Live in the Country We left the victorious company behind, making their way toward whatever church bedded down with straw, or coach-house or drafty barn was to house them for their rest period. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front The shrieking whirl suddenly stopped and there was no more drafty air flowing about them and the lights went out. Scorched Earth Certainly you would have to inhabit for six, eight—perhaps ten months—a drafty, moist jail, without exercise, most indigestible food abominably cooked, limited society. Murder in Any Degree She changed the large, drafty rooms of the old palace into charming reflections of her own personality. The Purple Heights Nothing is more uncomfortable in winter than cold and drafty floors. If You're Going to Live in the Country It was impossible to believe that for many years they had done the hardest kind of work, often outdoors and generally in a poorly heated drafty shop. The Soul of a Child A drafty areaway with an oblique of gaslight and a black well of descending staircase. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 And he bought another piano and put the white mice back in it—because they said the bureau-drawer was drafty. The Story of Doctor Dolittle In winter the interior of the university library was hardly warmer than the outside, and it was terribly drafty. Violists My friends, abhorring rheumatism and like complaints, refused to sleep over night in the drafty, almost paneless structure. A Fool and His Money There were places, in canyon- and pocket-drifts, where they crossed snow hundreds of feet deep, and they crossed tiny glaciers, in drafty rifts, wind-scurried and bare of any snow. Smoke Bellew Almost before she knew what she had done, she was in the drafty, damp stairway, and the heavy door was between her and her unsuspecting captors. Castle Craneycrow When we investigate, we will find conditions like these—houses absolutely without plumbing, beds without sheets, rooms as hot or as cold as the outer air, only far more drafty. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life Once in a while there comes along an Englishman who is windy, and frequently you meet one who is drafty; but there was never a breezy Englishman yet. Europe Revised His head was already aching from the wine and he did not feel comfortable in the drafty old building. The Case of the Lamp That Went Out It grew much colder; the air was damp and drafty. A Voyage to Arcturus |
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