| 单词 | low-ceilinged |
| 例句 | They entered a low-ceilinged chamber, and as they did, the light flickered under the weight of the darkness. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The sweet scent of hay filled the low-ceilinged building. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Father looked tall in the low-ceilinged hospital corridor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep under ground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was a large, low-ceilinged room, with naphtha lamps on side tables and two or three anbaric standard lamps beside the armchairs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The tree’s thick limbs draped all the way to the ground, forming a kind of low-ceilinged room surrounded by the waxy evergreen leaves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We squeezed our bags through the doorway and stood blinking in the sudden gloom of a low-ceilinged pub. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The low-ceilinged sea-green room wavers with the flames and incense of a hundred candles. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Once past this barrier, however, Taran saw they had entered a kind of gallery, long and low-ceilinged. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z The crowd noises grew louder as they walked down the corridor and into the back of a square, low-ceilinged meeting hall. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Crowded with out-of-work fishermen, the dark, low-ceilinged room smelled of river water and spirits. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But gradually, as the months and years went by, if they’d not been placed elsewhere, they were shunted farther and farther back, to the dark, low-ceilinged, airless rooms at the tail of the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z With his savings he acquired a printing press, a box camera, and a damp, low-ceilinged office in the rear of a fish-precessing warehouse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a small, low-ceilinged room, with a cutting table at one end. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Slowly, wheezing a little, she climbed to the upper landing, turned immediately right, and led him into a low-ceilinged bedroom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She glanced down the long, low-ceilinged livingroom at the double row of women, women she had merely known all her life, and she could not talk to them five minutes without drying up stone dead. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The tunnel was low-ceilinged: They had had to double up to move through it nearly four years previously; now there was nothing for it but to crawl. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It wasn't a big company, just a small rural enterprise run by a couple of brothers operating out of a low-ceilinged concrete building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Joy guided Mr. Corenswet past a wall of photos in which various women posed fetchingly on the wings of single-prop planes, and into a low-ceilinged room lined with flight simulators. David Corenswet, a Breakout Star in ‘The Politician,’ Takes Flight 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Its collection was displaced to Jersey City, its school stayed in Midtown and its museum drifted to a low-ceilinged home on the Bowery. International Center of Photography Refocuses in a New Home 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Each is spotlighted on its own gray pedestal in the gray-walled, low-ceilinged gallery. Jeff Koons: ‘Jim Beam — J. B. Turner Engine and Six Individual Cars’ 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The low-ceilinged, somewhat frayed venue is reminiscent of the original nonvegetarian cafeterias in Chennai, known as “military hotels,” supposedly because they catered to soldiers who were more likely meat eaters. Indian Chains in New York, Worthy of Their Flagships 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z How they got the giraffe into the low-ceilinged gallery is a mystery. Eddie Peake: from naked football to giant giraffes 2013-05-09T16:51:49Z These voices, and views of the low-ceilinged spaces dense with visitors and images, convey some of the wounded openness of the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z The dim, low-ceilinged room provides the surroundings for a creative drink list, including the JPO, a tequila-based creation with mezcal and Aztec chocolate bitters. Restaurant Review: The Rest in Salt Lake City 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The Kampot market today still feels clamorous and claustrophobic — a maze of low-ceilinged stalls seemingly selling everything: mangoes, rice, cabbage, watermelon, pickles, shrimp, fermented fish, flowering chives, laundry soaps and toothbrushes. In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z About a third of the paintings are relegated to low-ceilinged galleries on the ground floor, where the show starts, and where they are interspersed with blaring videos exemplifying Warhol’s involvement with television. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z The kitchen is similarly unpretentious, whipping up affordable Nordic-modern dishes for 30-something media types and young professionals who pack into the low-ceilinged, minimalist white space. 36 Hours in Copenhagen 2010-07-08T18:04:00Z It’s a low-ceilinged local haunt, frequented by artists and designers leaving work at galleries along La Cienega Boulevard, stalling their long eastward commutes toward the gentrifying East LA neighborhoods they call home. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z With six zones — some international, some domestic — spread across two low-ceilinged, ill-lighted terminals whose depths often block cellphone signals, travelers require a virtual Ph.D. in urban spelunking to navigate. Frugal Traveler: Frugal, but With Plenty to Give 2009-12-16T18:23:00Z The play opens in a low-ceilinged yellow box. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The action had kicked off the night before, in the low-ceilinged Golden Lion pub, whose stable houses the older of the two hobby horses. The Weird, Mystic Pull of Southwest England 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z They often chose to be nude, posing in vacant lots and low-ceilinged rooms. Even when the sitters appeared fully clothed, the results were unnerving, an alloy of vulnerability, bravado, and nerves. Katy Grannan’s Modesto on the Edge 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Before I could say “thank you,” two of them began to sing, filling the low-ceilinged space with the resonant tones of the first verses of “Rajula Malushahi.” Following a Folk Tale Through the Himalayas 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Atmosphere A low-ceilinged and low-keyed Brooklyn tavern with few overtly Mexican gestures apart from the culinary mural on the wall. Oaxaca on the Gowanus: The Charms and Chiles of Claro 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Upstairs is a low-ceilinged loft where NGOs can meet free. Immigrant Food connects bowls with a cause near the White House 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z That spoken-word event in a dank, low-ceilinged bar sounded like fun when you told me about it three weeks ago! If You Don’t Want to Go, Say No 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z But for atmosphere, this was what I needed: a dark, nearly windowless, low-ceilinged room plastered with black-and-white photos of forgotten performers. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z He strikes an avuncular, professorial figure at home in his low-ceilinged cottage just outside of Oxford. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z She led us down into a network of low-ceilinged stone chambers and passageways decorated with fragmentary murals from the dawn of Christianity. Explorer: The Island of Sant?Antioco, off Sardinia, Italy 2010-03-26T07:58:00Z The bays that divide the Guggenheim’s big spiral ramp are small, low-ceilinged and they tilt. Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It was a low-ceilinged, fluorescent-lit warren of cluttered desks and aisles, with enormously large pillars breaking up the space. Review | A new building erases the last physical traces of a newly vibrant newspaper 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Dim, dank and low-ceilinged, the basement may be the least likely room in the house to be basking in the spotlight. What Lies Beneath 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Even the normally problematic fourth floor, with its low-ceilinged and windowless galleries, looks sharp. Art Review | '185th Annual': Academy Gives Art Some Wiggle Room 2010-02-19T05:57:00Z When they stand, on a diagonal, and sing into twinned microphones, their golden voices fill the room and this blank, low-ceilinged space feels crowded with life. ‘Islander’ Review: Two Young Women Lost and Found at Sea 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Outside it was pouring rain, and the carpet squished as Septime Webre, the Washington Ballet’s artistic director, walked around the low-ceilinged basement of a housing project in Adams Morgan. Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre turned company into a big tent 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Above the living area are two small, separate low-ceilinged lofts, accessible by ladders. House Tour: Great Barrington, Mass. 2010-07-29T21:37:00Z At least that’s how it feels when you’re directed past the open kitchen to one of the handful of tables crammed into the low-ceilinged rooms that are more flea market than Danish modern. Bites : Restaurant Report: Manfreds & Vin in Copenhagen 2012-09-28T18:20:04Z To demonstrate that classic American paradox: impossibly distant horizons set against close, low-ceilinged cabins. Iain Sinclair: 70x70 – an autobiographical journey in film 2013-07-16T15:23:41Z The low-ceilinged space is too much like a saloon, the tables too close together, the restaurant’s many ardent admirers too accustomed to treating it as a place to catch up over an excellent weeknight dinner. Restaurant Review: Blue Hill in Greenwich Village 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Poorer families were crowded into the low-ceilinged rooms. Reviving the Renaissance Temples of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Indoor destinations include a light-filled bar and dining room, warmed up with a double-sided fireplace and overlooking the lawn, and a cozy, low-ceilinged tavern with booths downstairs, host to live music Wednesday through Friday nights. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 6 favorite places to eat right now 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The evening unfolds in a low-ceilinged dining room that fuses yesteryear with today. Review | Ruse celebrates ‘approachable luxury’ on the Eastern Shore 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Honestly, I’ve had sunnier service encounters at the DMV, and the sole splash of color in the square, low-ceilinged dining room is a screen above the counter displaying photos of meatless dishes. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 7 favorite places to eat right now 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z My grandmother used to say, “Low-income people don’t have to be low-ceilinged people.” Review | The message of Michelle Obama’s new book is familiar but much needed 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z She didn’t want assessments; she wanted to know the people, to talk with them as they paced the low-ceilinged halls. Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z They stood inside the cramped, low-ceilinged morgue, where there were bodies on the floor and on every gurney and the smell was overpowering. Collecting the dead in Bucha 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z In the low-ceilinged basement rooms there is joy and fear among the staff and patients. In a Ukraine maternity ward, newborn Katya brings hope amidst the horror 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z For years, powder hounds would bring their own sleeping bags and camp out in the low-ceilinged space. In the Canadian Rockies, an independent ski resort that feels all yours 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Tucker Carlson huddled in a low-ceilinged dungeon that had served as a holding pen for Africans bound for enslavement in the United States. How Tucker Carlson became the voice of White grievance 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z The trial began after lunch, in a small, low-ceilinged room in the Orleans Parish courthouse. I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Once, O'Donnell recalls, Trump was walking through a low-ceilinged room in a building that was in the midst of renovation. Trump presidency's final days: 'In his mind, he will not have lost' 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Back at home, Jake’s world shrank to the space of his low-ceilinged room. 'Is anybody in there?' Life on the inside as a locked-in patient 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Bands rehearsed sitting down in a low-ceilinged basement, while all-nighters were pulled to assemble records. $5 gigs, not $10m deals: the story of US punk label Dischord Records 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z I missed the disinhibition of dancing in a dark, low-ceilinged club. The power of crowds 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Tucked in the back corner of the U-Haul parking lot, the two sheds of base camp are themselves like low-ceilinged bookstores. Their beautifully curated vintage-book pop-ups were thriving. Along came coronavirus. 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z He wages a constant battle against cockroaches and the sewer smell emanating from the low-ceilinged, musty space that is his toilet and laundry room. For Seoul’s Poor, Class Strife in ‘Parasite’ Is Daily Reality 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z McClellan’s Retreat: “Washington’s only Civil War-themed cocktail bar” sounds like a novelty, but this low-ceilinged Dupont spot is worth your time, with plush banquettes, delicious drinks and a strong whiskey selection. A guide to the best bars without TVs in the D.C. area 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Keeping quiet wasn’t easy in the cramped, low-ceilinged board room. In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship of their own. Mya Kretzer changed that. At the time, I was a mid-level magazine journalist, working in a dark, low-ceilinged office in New York, spending hours upon hours rewriting prose sent in by correspondents from abroad. I joined a tech start-up in 1998, before the bust. Today's scene feels familiar 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z At an event in a low-ceilinged hotel conference room, the tour guide encouraged the visitors to sing a hymn in a local language, gently chiding them for not yet knowing the tune. Ghana cashes in on slave heritage tourism 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z “Coo-ee!” a voice assailed me as I walked downstairs into a damp, low-ceilinged basement. 'Rejection didn’t hurt my pride - I had none left': confessions of a failed actor | Rhik Samadder 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z I pull through and find myself in a low-ceilinged room, five feet high at its highest, with chisel marks visible on the stone. The Invisible City Beneath Paris 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The oldest paintings, etched in reddish-orange, are found in a low-ceilinged side chamber. This 40,000-year-old cow painting marks a key moment in the evolution of art 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z On primary night, Newsom, his wife, and twelve members of his team huddled in a low-ceilinged room upstairs at Verso, a San Francisco night club owned by PlumpJack, while his supporters drank downstairs. Gavin Newsom, the Next Head of the California Resistance 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z The event was held in a large, low-ceilinged room at a community center, decorated with black tablecloths and a red ribbon around each black-draped chair. Will Florida’s Ex-Felons Finally Regain the Right to Vote? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The men and women were separated, with 14 men on one side of an ordinary, low-ceilinged meeting room with fluorescent lights, and 11 women on the other. Inmates Question Prospective Prosecutors in Jailhouse Campaign Debate 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z For instance, low-ceilinged rooms look cluttered faster than lofty, prewar apartments with grand moldings. Minimalism is Overrated: How I Learned to Love a Little Clutter 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z The low-ceilinged back dining room has been painted the proper shade of “Rust-Oleum red.” After surviving a fire and a flood, Quarry House Tavern is set to reopen Sunday 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Down in the low-ceilinged, dungeon-like basement was a set of sculptures based around an entirely different understanding of play, more rule-bound and cerebral. Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z It has been nearly 20 years since Mike Judge's "Office Space" set a tone for narcotic workplace stories, set in airless, drab, low-ceilinged, cubicle-filled, soul-sucking expanses through which characters drift hollow-eyed. Clever and cutting 'Corporate' mines comedy from cubicle culture 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Like Loretta’s itself — a paragon of a neighborhood bar, it’s low-ceilinged and wood-paneled, like being inside a cabin or a cigar box — it’s arguably perfect, in its own old-fashioned way. The fourth-best burger in America — it’s in South Park? 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z The bedrooms are typically accessed via a hidden staircase that leads up to a small, low-ceilinged room with 6 to 10 beds, a bathroom, and sometimes in-flight entertainment. 11 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Airplanes 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Photos show the guests seated shoulder-to-shoulder in the low-ceilinged cabin, with red-jacketed band members playing the accordion and guitar. JFK’s last birthday: Gifts, champagne and wandering hands on the presidential yacht 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Our barkeeper, a gregarious one, held court in this low-ceilinged lair on Capitol Hill. Cheetos on the menu? Quirky Cook Weaver adds some interest to happy hour 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z At the bottom of the stairs was a low-ceilinged passageway that led to the basement’s outdoor entrance. Behind the Cellar Door 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Below street level, the low-ceilinged 57th Street Books, meanwhile, is where Obama launched his two books. Chicago cheers adopted son Obama as he returns for farewell speech as president 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The broad but low-ceilinged room contained pool tables and a bowling machine, but it was difficult to police. A dark night alone at the West Virginia State Penitentiary 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z She showed me the low-ceilinged room where she does yoga, and then the shed where Hakuta meditates, the walls hung with paintings of nature scenes. Ali Wong’s Radical Raunch 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Nowadays, whenever I descend those steps into the very low-ceilinged waiting area, I always find it packed with mostly young Central American men and women and children. Escape to New York 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z For just 25 cents, anyone could go watch him work at the 5th Street Gym, an airless, low-ceilinged hotbox up a wood staircase in a slummy part of Miami Beach. When Ali was still Clay, the old white sportswriters didn’t know what to think 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The Bar A dozen stools at the bar and two more at a wall counter, squeezed into a narrow, low-ceilinged room, to the far left of the main entrance. Review: Comfort Food Is Celebrated at Confetti Restaurant in Plainville 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A functional low-ceilinged box, it earned comparisons with Soviet architecture rather than the stately art deco landmarks of other American cities, or London’s Fleet Street. Washington Post bids farewell to office where it broke Watergate 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z On another day, the group visits five gypsy families living 30 miles or so outside the city of Timisoara in a cluster of low-ceilinged huts, each about the size of a one-car garage. Abandoned children, answered prayers: 1 week in Romania 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z “This is fellowship hall,” Larry said, walking into a low-ceilinged room that smelled like burned coffee, its peach walls hung with a needlepoint Last Supper. One church’s sunset means a new day for another 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z It was noticed by the patrons of the Quarry House, a venerable, low-ceilinged, subterranean dive bar that is now a sodden, smoky mess. A fire in old Silver Spring 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But when I entered, it was a forlorn, low-ceilinged establishment with a few stools, a formica bar and K-Pop playing in the background. Meet the Unlikely Airbnb Hosts of Japan 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z I pulled down the overhead stairs and ascended after him, apologizing for the suitcases, trunks, boxes, photo albums and other impedimenta that filled the dusty, low-ceilinged space. ‘It’s Buckingham,’ he said. ‘It’s expensive, but it lasts forever.’ The story of the slate on my roof. 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Fisher and Gene Deckerhoff, “the voice of the Florida State Seminoles,” sat at a table in the low-ceilinged ballroom on Wednesday night. Florida State Fans Spare Coach Jimbo Fisher the Tough Questions 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z A light is switched on and we find ourselves in a dusty low-ceilinged tunnel. What lies beneath London? 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z His patient, an elderly man in the last stages of cancer, is sitting in an armchair in the low-ceilinged kitchen with his wife at his side. GP: 'My surgery is breaking apart' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The boy touched his temple, hot with rage: a low-ceilinged parlor came into view, with its filthy window, further shaded by a ragged net curtain, the whole musty hovel lit by candles. Zadie Smith: “Meet the President!” 2013-08-05T04:00:00Z On the walls of the low-ceilinged function room are quotes about unleashing your inner potential and colourful images of golden eggs. Trialling 'learn to trade' stock market websites: can you get rich quick? 2013-07-20T06:00:00Z The school was a series of low-ceilinged cement buildings in a circle, enclosing a large grassy field with rusty metal poles at each end that marked soccer goals. A 16-year-old’s worthwhile summer 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z His office in the Statehouse was a low-ceilinged vault that had formerly been used by the state treasurer, and Mr. Lucas, at 6-foot-4, had to duck whenever he entered. Riding Herd on G.O.P. Effort to Produce a Farm Bill in the House 2012-08-02T01:28:11Z "Inspirational Pure Cain" is a 37-minute-long video of Herman Cain giving a speech in a badly lit, low-ceilinged hall to a group of university students. Herman Cain's bizarre venture in web TV: a livestream of consciousness 2012-07-06T12:30:01Z Later, down in the low-ceilinged caf� of the Hotel zum Elephant, I overheard a group of citizens, officers, merchants—all cronies—discussing Weimar. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Going in, we found ourselves in a long, low-ceilinged apartment that might have served for a type of a smugglers' den. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z But in her heart she was not fond of Genevieve's abode; she preferred the low-ceilinged rooms of L'Hommedieu, shabby though they might be. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z After my bare-floored, low-ceilinged attic at the farm, the apartment into which I was ushered seemed a very temple of luxury. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z There was but one stairway, and the children were in one of the low-ceilinged rooms above. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z He was ushered into a low-ceilinged, pleasant chamber looking out on to the quiet street, and left alone what time Mr. Chadber went in search of Sir Anthony. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z The address was read in a low-ceilinged legislative assembly room, with wide French windows commanding a wonderful view of city and harbour. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z She lay upon a small wooden bed, in a low-ceilinged little room, the only furniture of which was a small chest of drawers and a chair. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z The long, low-ceilinged card room was all but deserted, the shades drawn, the lights turned low. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z Then Carroll came down, and a few moments later Mrs. Chisholm appeared and they went in to dinner in a low-ceilinged room. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z The stranger had been shown into the low-ceilinged but snug old-fashioned parlour, and rose and bowed as Steve entered. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Once on the porch of the villa they were ushered into a large, low-ceilinged room at one end of which a fire of pine knots was burning brightly. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z The little, low-ceilinged series of rooms, just below the level of the street, were crowded; filled with smoke, talk, and laughter. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z The room in which she found herself, although low-ceilinged, was a spacious one. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z It seemed to be no trouble at all to paper the little low-ceilinged cottage, and, oh! how beautiful it was when it was all done. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z The leaders usually sit around a vast oval table in the low-ceilinged wood-paneled room. Do EU summits need a health warning? 2011-10-27T20:22:46Z But at the other end of the hall from his own low-ceilinged, little boy's room, he found one like it, rather more cheerful. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z He led the way to the back of the house, through a low-ceilinged room paved with red tiles. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z She could still see the low-ceilinged entrance hall where the eagerly whispered words had been uttered. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z They went down, Chatterton fuming, Dane struggling with a desire to laugh; and two men rose to meet them when they entered a long, low-ceilinged room. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The stage, such as it was, was a low-ceilinged recreation room and the cast was a troupe of felons who had just stepped in from the dusty yard of the California Rehabilitation Center. A Safety Valve for Inmates, the Arts, Fades in California 2011-06-30T15:01:04Z Who was it, who, before Neale, had sat in this low-ceilinged room and had caught that glimpse of timeless infinity? Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z It was a low-ceilinged, soothing place with soft brown walls, low cushiony seats, a richly-glowing Persian rug, some brass, and a few pictures. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z But he felt unwontedly restless, and soon he began moving about the low-ceilinged, square room with dragging, heavy footsteps. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z We found the custodian, a little old lady, in a penny shop across the street, and she was glad to show us through the tiny, low-ceilinged rooms. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z He must see—he must make sure—— He found himself in a tiled passage, opening into a low-ceilinged room lighted by a single window. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z The living quarters of the Ambassador took up the third floor, while the low-ceilinged fourth floor, originally designed for soldiers, was now given over to servants' rooms. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z In the little low-ceilinged apartment of the small inn, at a table very amply and as temptingly covered, sat a large and, for his age, singularly handsome man. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z The Americans for Prosperity rally started at 1 p.m. in a low-ceilinged, medium-sized conference room off a narrow hallway. Dispatch from a Divided Wisconsin 2011-03-10T04:30:41Z A long, low-ceilinged room, containing three beds, and each bed containing four women and a few supplementary children, one affected with a whooping-cough that was evidently fast racking it to death. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z Drea did not speak until they stood all three in the shelter of the familiar low-ceilinged room. Vestigia Vol. II. 2011-02-04T03:00:22.950Z He had insisted, however, that the wide, low-ceilinged, comfortable sitting-room should remain a good deal as his father had left it to him; and there the fireplace held its wood-devouring own. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z There was a vast, low-ceilinged hall, with just the right sort of furniture, and an odd invention—a cross between hammocks and hanging sofas—suspended here and there by chains from the roof. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z An adjutant sat smoking and reading his newspaper in a small, low-ceilinged room. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z The drawing-room is a cool, low-ceilinged apartment at the farther end of the house. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The Wilmington’s low-ceilinged black-wallpapered room was packed to hear the latest findings on this month’s theme — “Happiness” — from the fields of medicine, behavioral psychology, market research, economics and cognitive neuroscience. Academics Making Forays Into Stand-Up Comedy 2010-12-19T22:35:10Z As the water level continued to drop, rescuers with rubber rafts squeezed through the narrow, low-ceilinged passages late Sunday and pulled out the first nine survivors just after midnight. "Miracle" in China: 115 trapped miners rescued 2010-04-05T12:49:00Z It was an apartment larger than one would have looked for in a house of the size, and was low-ceilinged and lighted by two diamond-paned windows which looked over the moor. The Princess Galva A Romance O'Bannon was in his study at home, the low-ceilinged room opening off the dining room. Manslaughter It was long, and low-ceilinged, and dark from the screen of tangled ivy and honeysuckle and jasmine that grew up about the low window. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune A leaded glass door that shows fanlight above opens into a broad, low-ceilinged hall. Remodeled Farmhouses A servant soon appeared and ushered them into a large low-ceilinged room, with fireplaces of antique fashion, the chimney-pieces of dark oak, surmounted by massive coats of arms glowing in all the colors of heraldry. Tony Butler They crossed quickly to the designated opening, along a short narrow hall, through a second doorway and on into a low-ceilinged room whose furnishings bore mute testimony that Dylara's guess had been right. The Return of Tharn I had not noticed that there was anyone else in the dark, low-ceilinged place except the obsequious proprietor who had served me my cigar and coffee. The Long Arm Barbara had been in the low-ceilinged passage for some time when she came in contact with a solid wall. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds It was a charming, low-ceilinged room, with a network of old beams, leaded windows with wide sills where bowls of flowers stood, and delightful chintz chosen by Rosemary herself. The Brightener In the low-ceilinged bar-room, where the smoke from strong pipes almost stifled her, she stood, an Amazon before whom the fighters fell back sullenly. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 She came into a large, low-ceilinged room, lighted by candles in beautifully carved wooden brackets affixed to the walls. The Return of Tharn In a great low-ceilinged chamber full of artificial sun-rays there was a garden with strange blooms. Stamped Caution "Go wherever you like," said the regimental commander, looking up from the outspread maps on the kitchen table in the low-ceilinged stone farm-house that he had adopted as headquarters. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" It was beautiful in its simple way: low-ceilinged rooms, many with great beams, and exquisite oak panelling of linen-fold and other patterns. The Brightener He found himself in a low-ceilinged, box-like, little room lighted by a flaring gas jet, with two astonished-looking Chinese gazing at him with slant eyes that seemed to be almost popping from their heads. The Mark of the Knife A polished zinc bar runs the length of the low-ceilinged room; a narrow, winding stairway in one corner leads to the living apartments above. The Real Latin Quarter He stepped into a low-ceilinged bare and dingy room. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story Cigarette smoke filled the low-ceilinged room with blue layers, through which the lamp light shone. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" He felt the wild convulsive struggles of Lanier against the thing; and then suddenly the tunnel ended, debouched into a far-stretching, low-ceilinged cavity. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Me—I settled down below in a little, whitewashed, vaulted, and low-ceilinged room, much like a nun's refectory. Letters from my Windmill They were in a small chamber, low-ceilinged, with dark panels of old wood. The Skull He was in a low-ceilinged room that was almost unfurnished. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 It was a large, low-ceilinged room, bare and cheaply furnished, with dirty curtains at the windows, dirty collars and shirts on the floor. The Harbor He laughed and looked around at the hot, smelly, low-ceilinged little room with its locked doors and windows. Death Wish It took about two hours before they reached the fisherman's hut, a nondescript, low-ceilinged shelter of logs, driftwood and untarnished metal plates off some wreck. The Martian Cabal Its flickering orange glow illumined the narrow, low-ceilinged room as Stillman seated himself on one of three chairs facing the table. Small World The low-ceilinged but handsome parlour was all bright and tidy, and the plates stood on a sideboard ready for supper. Miss Grantley's Girls And the Stories She Told Them I came to a bare wooden building, climbed some stairs and entered a large, low-ceilinged room which was evidently a meeting hall. The Harbor As she had herself once said, the cistern was as dry as possible, and was in reality like a low-ceilinged little room, with the manhole for sky-light. The Brass Bound Box Many a civic, sociological, and industrial reform came into existence in the low-ceilinged, sanded-floor main rooms of the city's early coffee houses. All About Coffee The bereaved wife made the bed in the low-ceilinged attic room for them and what more natural than they should stay on? The Comings of Cousin Ann A layer of the same paste divides the bottom of the chamber from the low-ceilinged gallery, the work of the grub's active life. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles It was a broad, low-ceilinged apartment, and served as a common living-room to the master of Arcadia House and his guests. The Doomsman The large, low-ceilinged room ran the entire length of the house. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk In the large low-ceilinged dining-hall wax candles burned in great silver sconces, and the cloth was laid for supper. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The house was a three-storied stone structure, built fifty years before, steep of roof, gabled, low-ceilinged, old-fashioned and delightful. The Adventures of Bobby Orde The room was long, narrow, and low-ceilinged, and was divided into two unequal portions by a great chimney, on either side of which a passage had been left. Bert Lloyd's Boyhood A Story from Nova Scotia The low-ceilinged room seemed huge and cavernous, with deep niches and crannies and bulky, shadowy objects. Stubble He left his horse unattended and, leading the way, pushed open the swing doors of the restaurant and passed down a long, low-ceilinged room crowded with diners, to a table at the far end. The Book of All-Power The front door of Four Winds opened directly into a wide, low-ceilinged living room, furnished with simplicity and good taste. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Within, in the low-ceilinged living room, with its worn, uneven floor and its blackened walls hung with fish nets and oilskins, four people were sitting. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 The room was low-ceilinged and dim, hung with red damask, and with odd, square windows high up under the eaves and a dark wainscoting all around it. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 It was a low-ceilinged apartment, long and narrow, with windows back and front, as it extended the whole depth of the house. The Opal Serpent A tall and handsome young man entered, striking his head violently against a beam as he stepped into the low-ceilinged kitchen. Once a Week Did she ever think of her mother and the little white cottage under the maples, and the low-ceilinged, dim room where she had knelt to say her childhood's prayer? Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 This is the drawing-room,” and he threw open the door of the handsome low-ceilinged, old panelled chamber, with most of the furniture dating back so that it was nearly as old as the house. The New Forest Spy And then, while somebody ran up to the post to summon the adjutant, Case, pressing his hands to his head, began striding up and down the low-ceilinged, half-darkened room. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War The door opens directly into a small, low-ceilinged room almost filled by two double beds. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 I looked at the low-ceilinged room with its whitewashed wall and its rows of bodices, petticoats and shiny caps hanging on lines stretched from one side to the other. The Choice of Life It is a pretty old-fashioned, low-ceilinged kitchen, full of quaint corners and impossible cupboards so high up in the wall as at first sight to be pronounced useless. Molly Bawn To the left of the low-ceilinged, spacious, rather dark scullery was Anna’s own bedroom. Good Old Anna It consisted of two rooms, a light-closet and a kitchen, and was low-ceilinged and poorly furnished, but there was a distinct air of cleanliness about it, with a consequent tendency to comfort. The Young Trawler Inside, a mob packed the wide, low-ceilinged room, clustered around gambling devices in the form of towers, tables and basins. Gambler's World I could make out very little of the large, low-ceilinged room. The Choice of Life She would have given everything for a little house of two or three small, low-ceilinged rooms close to the sidewalk on a street where people passed up and down. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story They were facing each other in the low-ceilinged, dim, badly-lit bedroom. Good Old Anna The attic was a long, low-ceilinged room, dark and fragrant with the odor of the cedar. Madge Morton's Secret His enlightened gaze traveled from one point to another of the long, low-ceilinged living-room, sunny with new windows, and with walls and hangings of soft browns and golden yellows. Under the Country Sky He pushed on into a long, low-ceilinged room lined with bunks, the air heavy with the acrid dead smoke of opium. The Seventh Noon It was a pleasant room, long and low-ceilinged, with oak beams and high panelled doors. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls The rooms were low-ceilinged with windows of tiny panes, whose white muslin curtains were trimmed with ball fringe made by Aunt Susan. How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl I felt more than ever proud of my Scottish blood as I stood in that low-ceilinged cottage; and I wondered if Sir S. had the same glorious thrill. The Heather-Moon It was long and narrow, and low-ceilinged, and very plainly furnished. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel Margaret Craven was alone in the dark, low-ceilinged drawing-room, standing, in her black dress, before the great deep fireplace, as though she had known that he would come and had been awaiting his arrival. The Prelude to Adventure Following in the direction of the voices, I came to a dark, low-ceilinged room with a pine bed, on which lay a withered-looking woman with sparsely lashed eyelids and fine, straight, straw-colored hair. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story It was a low-ceilinged apartment, the beams of the roof sloping slightly upward from west to east. The Golden Scorpion These are most effective in the large central halls of the more formal country home but produce a distinctly odd appearance in the tiny, low-ceilinged rooms of the story-and-a-half farmhouse. If You're Going to Live in the Country Derby waited in the dim, low-ceilinged passageway, which suggested anything but the antechamber of an archbishop's palace. The Title Market They stood together on the threshold; the room was long and low-ceilinged, with a window at each end. The Second Honeymoon The place was low-ceilinged, but roomy, and the ventilation was excellent, considering. The Princess Elopes At last Mrs. Crofton settled herself down into her low-ceilinged, square little sitting-room, and, looking round at her new possessions, she told herself that outwardly her new home was perfect. What Timmy Did She found Hester in the large, low-ceilinged room in which she slept. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" In a twenty-four-story office building, on a smooth gliding elevator, up seventeen stories, down a low-ceilinged corridor, past fireproof doors labeled: "Clerk's Office," "Judge's Chambers," "Witness Room," we find the typical modern court. The Man in Court Then she walked on quickly into the quaint, little, low-ceilinged bedroom. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story The interior into which I now stepped, with my clanking spurs, my rattling chaps, the dust of my sweat-stained garments, was a low-ceilinged, dim abode with faint, musty aromas. The Killer It was a sharp, insistent knock, and before she could call out "Come in," the door opened, and a singular-looking figure advanced into the luxurious-looking, low-ceilinged bedroom. What Timmy Did Yet he comforted himself, as he lay there in the clean, low-ceilinged room, staring at the tiny crockery stoup gleaming against the door-post, by recollecting the principle on which he had come. The King's Achievement Behind the shop there was an old-fashioned, low-ceilinged room with small tables and chairs dotted about it. The Story of Jessie She forthwith went to the piano, he following; and at once there was silence in the long, low-ceilinged drawing-room. Prince Fortunatus It was a very large room, low-ceilinged, but well enough lighted by a couple of windows, which looked into a close behind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. The long, low-ceilinged room was dim with tobacco smoke, noisy with ribald jests and laughter. In Friendship's Guise He likes a dark, low-ceilinged, and not too obtrusively sanitary place to take his ease. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned In the bar at the Casa Blanca, a long, wide room, low-ceilinged and with cool, sprinkled floor, a score of men had congregated. The Bells of San Juan Following the editor, he passed through a large, low-ceilinged room, filled with desk-tables, each bearing a heavy crystal ink-well full of a fluid of particularly virulent purple. Success A Novel They passed through a large, low-ceilinged room into a smaller one, in which were only four beds: a small iron stretcher beside the window was pointed out as Baubie's. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Poppy instantly tripped forward, and in quite a demure manner took the girls up some broad stairs, and into a long, rather low-ceilinged room on the first floor. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls It was a low-ceilinged room with wainscoted walls, and at first glance one received an impression of the past. The Princess Passes The long, low-ceilinged room, lit by candles, reeking of dinner and of wine. Stories of the Border Marches Handkerchief linen tablecloths embroidered and lace-inserted are also, strangely enough, suited to all quaint, low-ceilinged, old-fashioned but beautifully appointed rooms; the reason being that the lace cloth is put over a bare table. Etiquette The dining-room was low-ceilinged and occupied the front basement and seemed to be ventilated solely through the kitchen. No. 13 Washington Square There is a low-ceilinged sitting room with a blazing fire. Shandygaff It was at the end of the season, and there were not many people in the low-ceilinged dining-room. Evelyn Innes It was the center of village life, the big, low-ceilinged room, its windows curtained with white muslin, its walls bright with fresh paper and colored pictures, like any sitting-room in a village home. Hillsboro People The parsonage is entirely unchanged: there is Sydney's study, a low-ceilinged room supported partly by pillars, level with the garden and opening into it. Sydney Smith Then and there Prescott stood up in the low-ceilinged tent and tossed his campaign hat up to the ridgepole. Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life It is long and rather low-ceilinged, and one end comes almost to a point like the bow of a ship. Penny Plain The living-room of our house is quite low-ceilinged, and part of it is under the roof, so that you can hear the rain on it. Us and the Bottleman A certain genial personage gathers around him several times weekly, in a small, low-ceilinged room in the palace, a small but select circle of men on whom be bestows his confidence. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It was a large room, low-ceilinged, with three windows, the walls of bare logs whitewashed, the floor freshly swept, the only furniture a table and a few chairs. Love under Fire When work for the day was over he stayed by it until the light grew dim in the low-ceilinged, dusty office. The Wrong Twin It was as if a tornado had whirled through the vast, low-ceilinged kitchen. From out the Vasty Deep As she listened and felt herself growing drowsy, it seemed to her that she was being floated away, safely away from the low-ceilinged room where personalities clashed, out to cool, star-lit spaces. The Bent Twig Often have I sighed in those low-ceilinged rooms, yet disappointments have come neither less nor lighter since I quitted them. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Paul's little low-ceilinged room was a soft whirl of ruddy light from the sun that was setting over the sea and swinging shadows from the fir trees that grew close to the square, deep-set window. Anne of Avonlea She turned the knob and entered a small, low-ceilinged room whose general grime was streaked here and there with smears of soot. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise After dinner she sat, for a moment, before the log fire in the low-ceilinged room, with its log walls, its rustic benches, and its soft-toned green and brown cushions. Fanny Herself The girls put off their aprons and slipped into the big, low-ceilinged living-room, singing like a great sea-shell with thrilling violin-tones. The Bent Twig The room in which she lay was cold and dark and low-ceilinged, and even poorer and barer than the scene of Mary Hyatt's earthly pilgrimage. Summer It was a long, low-ceilinged room, with more windows than wall space. Black Jack She climbed three steep flights and was in a large, low-ceilinged room where perhaps seventy-five girls were at work. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise He looked very powerful and compelling, there in the low-ceilinged, luxurious room. Fanny Herself Carroll came down, and a few moments later Mrs. Chisholm appeared and they went in to dinner in a low-ceilinged room. Vane of the Timberlands Gerald, thus objurgated, walked through into a large room, low-ceilinged as are all rooms situated on the entresol floor of a Paris house. The End of Her Honeymoon Five bed-rooms opened out of this low-ceilinged, close-smelling corridor; the numbers of these rooms were indicated by squat black figures painted upon the panels of the doors. Lady Audley's Secret They passed the front stairway, went back through the hall, through the big low-ceilinged living-room with its vast fireplace now covered for the warm season by a screen of flowered wallpaper. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise For ten years he had had the same bedroom, an old low-ceilinged room with queer bulges in the wall, a crooked fireplace and a slanting floor. The Cathedral We were the guests of a burly farmer, who lived in a queer old house, half timber and half brick, with low-ceilinged rooms. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories The long low-ceilinged sitting-room above the grocer's shop was tenanted by ladies of whom in days gone by he had felt a certain awe. Mrs. Day's Daughters He led the way into a low-ceilinged, inner bedroom with the shades all pulled down. Georgina of the Rainbows She was seeing a low-ceilinged room, the walls almost dripping with the dirt of many and many a hard year. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise They went into a low-ceilinged room whose windows looked into a garden. Windy McPherson's Son Though so low-ceilinged it was very large and good to be in when I returned from a long ramble on the downs, sometimes wet and cold, to sit by a wood fire and warm myself. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs It gave insufficient light for the low-ceilinged, narrow length of the place. Mrs. Day's Daughters Now Davie slackened his toil and opened all the windows of the house to freshen the low-ceilinged rooms for Elizabeth's returning. Life at High Tide When I entered the low-ceilinged, lamplit room in which he sat, he rose to meet me, and all rose with him, like a court. Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft They passed through a door and into a long, low-ceilinged room. Windy McPherson's Son We entered a low-ceilinged room, or pen, sparsely lighted by wax candles. The Log of a Noncombatant He led us at once into a room, half library, half smoking-room, that opened out of the low-ceilinged hall. Three John Silence Stories We found ourselves in a fairly big, low-ceilinged apartment, lighted by a couple of French windows opening on to the side garden. A Rogue by Compulsion Dinner was served in the long, low-ceilinged dining-room, with the wide fireplace in one corner. A Soldier of Virginia The single room was dark and low-ceilinged, with no light but the hearth fire, which played strange shadows across the rough stones and wooden bracings. Highland Ballad The rooms were low-ceilinged, the upper rooms especially so. Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch All the same Felice adored the stable yard and would have dearly loved to climb the narrow stairs up to the low-ceilinged rooms above the stables where Marthy liked to sit. Little Miss By-The-Day It was a large, low-ceilinged apartment, broken up by square pillars, but as luck would have it I spotted my two men at the very first attempt. A Rogue by Compulsion And Dan found himself in a low-ceilinged attic having a sloping roof and one shuttered window. Tales of Chinatown I see the dining-room, large and low-ceilinged; the cheerful glow of the autumnal fire; the little faces in the soft candle-light, for glaring gas was there unknown. The Recreations of a Country Parson She was very fond of milk, and she made a very good breakfast as she sat looking about the low-ceilinged room. Understood Betsy The little low-ceilinged room, with its square window, into which he took her, was filled with the flotsam and jetsam of his roving life—things beautiful and odd and strange beyond all telling. Further Chronicles of Avonlea It was very charming in the little low-ceilinged cabin, with the lamp swinging overhead and no sound outside but the soft lapping of the tide upon the sides of the boat. A Rogue by Compulsion In the old, low-ceilinged room above the archway Mahommed Khan paced up and down and chewed at his black mustache, kicking his scabbard away from him each time he turned and glowering at the priest. Told in the East With this caution he led the way into the tavern and back through the bar to a low-ceilinged room where Murrell and Slosson were already at table. The Prodigal Judge She led Betsy into a low-ceilinged room with geraniums at the windows, where about a dozen children of different ages sat behind their desks. Understood Betsy As it was, she only shut the gate carefully, so that no night- wandering cattle might disturb the repose of her grandparents, laid carefully asleep by Meg in their low-ceilinged bedroom. The Lilac Sunbonnet In the low-ceilinged bungalow Winterman had to grope for the lamp on his desk, and as its light struck up into his face Bernald's sense of the rareness of his opportunity increased. Tales of Men and Ghosts While she babbled she glanced wild-eyed around the long, low-ceilinged room. Told in the East Up one flight of stairs to a large, low-ceilinged hall that was jammed to suffocation. The Gates of Chance The low-ceilinged room was very warm, its comfort seemed enervating, and he felt braced as he thought of the windswept prairie. The Girl from Keller's Cow Farm was a rambling building, with dark, uneven stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, queer, odd corners, and sudden unexpected doors. Jeremy It was a roomy place, low-ceilinged with blackened rafters running parallel across its dirty yellow wash. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza I sat one evening in a traktir-a kind of lower-class inn-across the street from the gates of Smolny; a low-ceilinged, loud place called "Uncle Tom's Cabin," much frequented by Red Guards. Ten Days That Shook the World At the end of a long low-ceilinged room a table was spread with omelettes, chupa, cakes, chocolate, grapes, and melons, around which half a dozen attendants stood gravely in waiting. The Argonauts of North Liberty Her voice, which had, however, a ring of honest intention in it, was somewhat over-strained, and evidently had not yet adjusted itself to the low-ceilinged, conventual-like building. Susy, a story of the Plains They sat down in the low-ceilinged room of a tavern, at whose door hung black nets. Madame Bovary We stood at gaze, the length of the little low-ceilinged chamber between us, both of us breathing hard. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza The spacious, low-ceilinged refectory downstairs was still a dining-room. Ten Days That Shook the World It is called the Cromlech Hotel now, and is under new management, and during the season some four coach-loads of tourists sit down each day to table d’hôte lunch in the low-ceilinged parlour. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green She flung herself out of the door without a reply; but on entering the dark low-ceilinged drawing-room she was surprised to find that Susy was not there. Susy, a story of the Plains Paul was glad to accept any excuse for being alone, and, thanking his hostess, followed a servant to his room—a low-ceilinged but luxuriously furnished apartment on the first floor. A Ward of the Golden Gate In the dim light of the low-ceilinged room, those eyes seemed all of her that was visible. The Fawn Gloves One thing Ellen Green had said, in answer to a question put by an inquisitive juryman, had raised a laugh in the crowded, low-ceilinged room. The Lodger The low-ceilinged room twinkled and shone as the polished surfaces of tables and chairs reflected the rosy glow from the plethoric stove. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Alone, inside that low-ceilinged chamber, stood Ruth and Wilding face to face. Mistress Wilding She turned through the narrow door into the lighted, low-ceilinged parlour where the company were chatting busily. The Riverman |
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