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Corridor in sentence

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She kept watch at the end of the corridor and Julien slipped from door to door.
At that moment, he too was coming silently along the corridor, as though listening.
STERNEHe heard a great din in the corridor; it was not the hour for visiting his cell; the osprey flew away screaming, the door opened, and the venerable cure Chelan, trembling all over and leaning upon his cane, flung himself into Julien's arms.
It is a trifle dear, six francs the bottle, but it rejoices the heart.''Bring three glasses,' Julien told him with boyish glee, 'and send in two of the prisoners whom I hear walking in the corridor.'
It consisted of a long corridor from which roughly made doors led out to the separate departments of the attic.
There was no direct source of light but it was not entirely dark as many of the departments, instead of solid walls, had just wooden bars reaching up to the ceiling to separate them from the corridor.
The light made its way in through them, and it was also possible to see individual officials through them as they sat writing at their desks or stood up at the wooden frameworks and watched the people on the corridor through the gaps.
There were only a few people in the corridor, probably because it was Sunday.
They sat, equally spaced, on two rows of long wooden benches which had been placed along both sides of the corridor.
K. didn't concern himself long with the guard or these people, especially as he saw a turning off the corridor, about half way along it on the right hand side, where there was no door to stop him going that way.
"I don't want to see everything," said K., who was also feeling very tired, "I want to go, what is the way to the exit?""You haven't got lost, have you?" asked the usher in amazement, "you go down this way to the corner, then right down the corridor straight ahead as far as the door."
As they approached the corridor, the girl said quietly into K.'s ear, "I must seem to think it's very important to show the information-giver in a good light, but you shouldn't doubt what I say, I just want to say the truth.
It makes me quite sad.""Would you not like to sit down here a while?" asked the information-giver, there were already in the corridor and just in front of the defendant whom K. had spoken to earlier.
He felt as if he were on a ship in a rough sea, as if the water were hitting against the wooden walls, a thundering from the depths of the corridor as if the torrent were crashing over it, as if the corridor were swaying and the waiting litigants on each side of it rising and sinking.
Then, the sudden scream that shot out from Franz was long and irrevocable, it seemed to come not from a human being but from an instrument that was being tortured, the whole corridor rang with it, it must have been heard by everyone in the building.
A little while later, when he looked out in the corridor, they had already gone.
The lawyers' room is on the second floor of the attic; if your foot does go through it will hang down into the first floor of the attic underneath it, and right in the corridor where the litigants are waiting.
It would of course not be enough, if that was to be done, for K. to sit in the corridor with his hat under the bench like the others.
Day after day, he himself, or one of the women or somebody else on his behalf, would have to run after the officials and force them to sit at their desks and study K.'s documents instead of looking out on the corridor through the grating.
Slightly calmed by these thoughts, K. gave the servitor, who had already long been holding the door to the corridor open for him, the task of telling the director, when he was able, that K. was going out of the bank on a business matter.
A long corridor extended in from of him, air blew in from it which, compared with the air in the studio, was refreshing.
There were benches set along each side of the corridor just as in the waiting area for the office he went to himself.
There was a man there, half sitting, half laying, his face was buried in his arm on the bench and he seemed to be sleeping; another man was standing in the half-dark at the end of the corridor.
Through the corridor which led between the rooms he saw Leni, to whom the warning cry of the door opener had been directed, still running away in her nightshirt .
"But why, why?" asked the businessman as he moved forwards towards the door, propelled by the hands of K.Outside in the corridor K. said, "You know where Leni's hidden, do you?"
He seized Becky's hand and hurried her into the first corridor that offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky's light out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern.
They started through a corridor, and traversed it in silence a long way, glancing at each new opening, to see if there was anything familiar about the look of it; but they were all strange.
Instantly Tom answered it, and leading Becky by the hand, started groping down the corridor in its direction.
At the end of twenty steps the corridor ended in a "jumping-off place."
They went on, and presently entered and followed Tom's other corridor until they reached the "jumping-off place."
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