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Curtains in sentence

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Having carefully drawn the curtains of his bed on the outside, Mr. Pickwick sat down on the rush-bottomed chair, and leisurely divested himself of his shoes and gaiters.
The only way in which Mr. Pickwick could catch a glimpse of his mysterious visitor with the least danger of being seen himself, was by creeping on to the bed, and peeping out from between the curtains on the opposite side.
Keeping the curtains carefully closed with his hand, so that nothing more of him could be seen than his face and nightcap, and putting on his spectacles, he mustered up courage and looked out.
He shrunk behind the curtains, and called out very loudly--'Ha-hum!'
'Gracious Heaven!' said the middle-aged lady, 'what's that?''It's-- it's--only a gentleman, ma'am,' said Mr. Pickwick, from behind the curtains.
'Shaving-water, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick, from within the curtains.
In ten minutes' time, a waiter was laying the cloth for dinner, the curtains were drawn, the fire was blazing brightly, and everything looked (as everything always does, in all decent English inns) as if the travellers had been expected, and their comforts prepared, for days beforehand.
The lawn in front, the garden behind, the miniature conservatory, the dining-room, the drawing-room, the bedrooms, the smoking-room, and, above all, the study, with its pictures and easy-chairs, and odd cabinets, and queer tables, and books out of number, with a large cheerful window opening upon a pleasant lawn and commanding a pretty landscape, dotted here and there with little houses almost hidden by the trees; and then the curtains, and the carpets, and the chairs, and the sofas!
Sitabhai, the gypsy, behind her silken curtains, had both heard and seen this interview between the Rajah and his Political, and had laughed.
On looking around him, however, as he could perceive no threatening object, as nothing indicated that he ran any real danger, as the bench was comfortably covered with a well-stuffed cushion, as the wall was ornamented with a beautiful Cordova leather, and as large red damask curtains, fastened back by gold clasps, floated before the window, he perceived by degrees that his fear was exaggerated, and he began to turn his head to the right and the left, upward and downward.
D’Artagnan even fancied he could recognize amid this strange disorder, fragments of garments, and some bloody spots staining the cloth and the curtains.
The curtains were half drawn, and only admitted the mysterious light calculated for beatific reveries.
I drew aside my curtains before I went to bed and looked out from my window.
But he says that he will be here next week, and this is Thursday, and the best curtains unhung, and no lavender in the sheets!"
Within was a large room with faded red curtains, a sanded floor, and walls which were covered with prints of pugilists and race-horses.
A footman answered our knock, and we were ushered into a large drawing-room with sombre furniture and melancholy curtains.
She must own that she was tired of seeing great houses; after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains.
The rising sun now shone on the cliff and they could see the windows, the shutters of which were closed, through the curtains of foliage.
The richest and glossiest of curtains and tapestries draped the walls, looped back here and there to expose some richly-mounted painting or Oriental vase.
The walls of this upper end of the hall, as far as the dais extended, were covered with hangings or curtains, and upon the floor there was a carpet, both of which were adorned with some attempts at tapestry, or embroidery, executed with brilliant or rather gaudy colouring.
The bed was adorned with the same rich tapestry, and surrounded with curtains dyed with purple.
"No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses, and Free Companions are grown keepers of dying folk's curtains, when the castle is about to be assailed.--To
'I want to move Anna downstairs, only the curtains must be changed.
According to him it was necessary to reupholster the furniture with new cretonne, to put up curtains, make the garden tidy, plant flowers and build a bridge by the lake; but he forgot many other things which were essential, and thus caused Dolly a great deal of trouble.
The backs of the seats were thrown back, bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by an ingenious system, berths were suddenly improvised, and each traveller had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed, protected from curious eyes by thick curtains.
In fact, there stood, outside the dining-room door - the nearest of the five glass doors opening on the playground - a grey-headed woman, leaning forward and trying to look through the curtains.
At the other end of the room hung curtains to conceal an alcove.
He went to raise the curtains at the back of the room and disclosed a big low bed covered with old gilded books, lutes with broken strings, and chandeliers all thrown in a heap.
A faint yellow light bathed the curtains of the alcove.
Sitting up on the bed he pushed his head between the curtains.
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