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  • When Ashoke arrives, Patty is taking Ashima's blood pressure, and Ashima is reclining against a pile of pillows, the child wrapped like an oblong white parcel in her arms.†   (source)
  • Piggy bumped into him and a twin grabbed him as he made for the oblong of paling stars.†   (source)
  • The cabin was mostly white, oblong, and about the size of a smallish restaurant.†   (source)
  • He was a giant among us, casting a huge, oblong shadow that hung over us children like the Lincoln Memorial, which he had visitedtwice.†   (source)
  • It is perfectly smooth and oblong, clear on the outside but cloudy in the center.†   (source)
  • Some are while others are oblong.†   (source)
  • There was a flat, oblong case in the white envelope, the kind of case you get when you buy a watch.†   (source)
  • The throat diameter that I had so carefully calculated and Mr. Caton and his buddies had so precisely machined was now an ugly, oblong, pitted abomination.†   (source)
  • If Mammachi had guests, relatives, or perhaps an old friend visiting from Delhi, Chacko would appear at her tastefully laid dining table—adorned with her exquisite orchid arrangements and best china—and worry an old scab, or scratch the large, black oblong calluses he had cultivated on his elbows.†   (source)
  • "Give me your phone," Clary said, grabbing the black metal oblong out of his shirt pocket.†   (source)
  • He put an object on the table between them — black, oblong, no larger than the end of Paul's thumb.†   (source)
  • Our front door had a small oblong window at eye level, four inches wide by eight inches long.†   (source)
  • Sunlight measured itself out in regular oblongs on the shabby, but soft red carpets, and a whiff of fresh-cut grass sweetened the air.†   (source)
  • Their offices sat empty behind glass partitions at the prow and stern of the oblong floor—an abandoned suit hanging in its dust cover on a hat rack in one—while the rows of open-plan desks between them remained largely occupied, including Nadia's, at which she was often to be seen on her phone.†   (source)
  • She walked to the small oblong of glass in the middle door and looked inside.†   (source)
  • It was studded with brown oblong shapes—petrified tree logs—and whitish fragments—pieces of petrified bone.†   (source)
  • It was a long time before she opened her eyes, and then she was startled by both the darkness and the beauty all around: a small oblong of light, reflected off the glass doorknob, quivering on the wall.†   (source)
  • Her hair was white, a mineral glisten, cropped close about her oblong face with a decorative fringe across the forehead.†   (source)
  • The light of the shaft fell directly on a table in the middle of the room: a single oblong block, about two feet high, upon which was laid a great slab of white stone.†   (source)
  • With a pensive expression on his oblong, rather pale face, he allowed his gaze to settle on several of the high bushels filled with red plum tomatoes that stood in rows against each of the walls.†   (source)
  • Each one had eyes fashioned of round or oblong disks of abalone shell, but the rest of their faces were blank.†   (source)
  • Stepping beyond the curtain, she saw the oblong of a window at the end of a long, narrow space, with books along one side and a daybed and armchair against the other.†   (source)
  • The door closed behind Maggie Bloom, and I watched her walk away through the oblong window in the conference room.†   (source)
  • A white oblong had been wedged in a piece of broken wood, and there were toeless footprints in the sand.†   (source)
  • There was a darker space on the ground in front of us, a big oblong around which the entire human population stood in a loose half circle.†   (source)
  • "There's one," Eugenides said, pointing to a black oblong in the cliffside, a hole in the stone suspicious for its squareness.†   (source)
  • The vice president sits in the president's chair at the center of the oblong table in the Cabinet Room.†   (source)
  • The pale, oblong smear at the level of his elbow was the face of Wesley Mouch, who was seated on the floor.†   (source)
  • The valley looked like a large oblong bowl that gently sloped to a flat base.†   (source)
  • It was a huge oblong cage with wooden bars that rose almost twenty feet from the ground and a mesh of reed serving as a roof.†   (source)
  • She had brought into the bathroom a small, oblong package wrapped in white paper and tied with gold tinsel.†   (source)
  • "The asteroid we're constructing Troy from is fairly oblong."†   (source)
  • The two men carried machines that looked like miniature vacuum cleaners, a cylindrical nozzle in one hand, an oblong black box in the other.†   (source)
  • He stood at her door, behind him the oblong pool shimmering silent in a mild diffusion of light from the nighttime sky, saying, "Mrs.†   (source)
  • Nor indeed could I. Here on Fourteenth Street in the frosty cider air of an early autumn night, with L'Enfant's stylish oblong spaces luminescent all around us, it was plain that Sophie and I could appreciate neither the symmetry of the city nor its air of wholesome and benevolent peace.†   (source)
  • I stooped and picked it up: an oblong of stiff paper, an envelope, which had apparently been pushed in beneath the back door.†   (source)
  • He lowered himself to the straight chair that was the only furnishing of the stage except for an oblong object covered in black cloth that had been placed before it.†   (source)
  • Now the oblong of night was blank; Moses was not there.†   (source)
  • I don't want to be a dancer, my feet in the air, my head a faceless oblong of white cloth.†   (source)
  • Whatever they were, they were definitely coming out of their oblong homes.†   (source)
  • There's an oblong of dusty grass in front, a few parched weeds growing beside the walk.†   (source)
  • The embellishments in the oblong room, though old and faded, were replete with familiar symbology.†   (source)
  • He was used to a thin orange oblong with a smokestack coughing black fumes.†   (source)
  • The Compound is shaped like an oblong, and there are five other gates.†   (source)
  • AKARSO: a plant native to Sikun (of 70 Ophiuchi A) characterized by almost oblong leaves.†   (source)
  • But instead she found an oblong case covered with blue velvet.†   (source)
  • Bernie Kosar is done growing; his hair has fallen away, replaced by oblong scales.†   (source)
  • The darkness, save for the useless oblong of stars, was blanket-thick.†   (source)
  • The oblong pill made me feel exceptionally groggy, but only from the bridge of my nose up.†   (source)
  • He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face.†   (source)
  • We were perched on the cloak-room settee, with the oblong mirror behind it.†   (source)
  • She gives me an oblong of purple cardboard from a stack of them on the table.†   (source)
  • Soon the mutilation became symbolic only: an oblong blue tattoo at the V of the collarbone.†   (source)
  • There were meaningless marks on the white oblong, but on the other side were some pictures.†   (source)
  • Oblong gods braced in narrow corners and a pair of seated pharaohs that flank an air conditioner.†   (source)
  • It's a vertical oblong, larger than the other paintings.†   (source)
  • It's recently built, oblong in shape, flat-roofed, undecorated, unrevealing, sort of like a factory.†   (source)
  • It's a pocket mirror, the small plain oblong kind without any rim.†   (source)
  • "Look," he said, switching on a small, intense lamp, handing her an oblong magnifying glass.†   (source)
  • The forty or so oblong pods where the Grievers rested and charged looked like they'd been sealed closed since the Gladers had come through weeks earlier.†   (source)
  • Twelve oblong petals around a filled-in circle against the daisy-white paint, and daisies, white daisies, and I could hear her saying, What do you see, Pudge?†   (source)
  • It stands in the centre of the table, which is oblong and made of oak; and they sit around it, silent, expectant, decorous and wary, like a jury before the trial.†   (source)
  • There is a Herati rug on the floor, beaded cushions to sit on, and a framed photo of Mecca on the wall They sit by the open window, on either side of an oblong patch of sunlight-Laila hears women's voices whispering from another room.†   (source)
  • That is the landscape I focus on, a field of oblongs, gently undulating where the earth beneath has buckled, from decade after decade of winter frost.†   (source)
  • He emerges into a bright oblong space.†   (source)
  • Besides, this diamond was oblong-like a kite-hardly an example of the flawless symmetry for which the Illuminati Diamond was revered.†   (source)
  • The prayer rug, the one with the oblong, woven Mecca, came loose from the wall at one point and landed on my head; the dust from it made me sneeze.†   (source)
  • In fact it wasn't perfectly oblong: the two long walls were raked round in a slight parallel curve, and all the angles and corners of the cabin were contoured in excitingly chunky shapes.†   (source)
  • The stones in the modern part were crude and cheap, and here and there a grave was rimmed with marble, like an oblong bathtub full of dirt, and rusty metal containers stuck up about where the person's navel would be, full of plastic flowers.†   (source)
  • It collapsed into a flat, oblong pile of fat and gears, its protruding appendages falling to the ground, limp.†   (source)
  • The truth of the matter is that it would have been a great deal simpler and more practical to build the cabin as an ordinary three-dimensional oblong room, but then the designers would have got miserable.†   (source)
  • I still have the makeup kit they gave me, fitted out for a person with brown eyes and brown hair: an oblong of brown mascara with a tiny brush, and a round basin of blue eyeshadow just big enough to dab the tip of your finger in, and three lipsticks ranging from red to pink, all cased in the same little gilt box with a mirror on one side.†   (source)
  • An oblong of blackness relieved with brilliant spangles hung before them and there was the hollow sound of surf on the reef.†   (source)
  • On the gravel-shot lawn, where the syringe had lain crushed in the rainwater, an oblong of grass and weeds caught his eye.†   (source)
  • I also took my regular medication, and then a few minutes later an oblong white pill I'd been told to use when panicky.†   (source)
  • Then there would be footsteps descending; then silence, a black outline looming outside the closed oblong of my bedroom door.†   (source)
  • The Prayvaganza is to be held in the covered courtyard, where there's an oblong space, a skylight roof.†   (source)
  • Except that the mirror over the sink has been taken out and replaced by an oblong of tin, and the door has no lock, and there are no razors, of course.†   (source)
  • The abandoned quarries are still there on the outskirts, deep squares and oblongs cut down into the rock as if whole buildings had been lifted out of them, leaving the empty shapes of themselves behind.†   (source)
  • But no matter what I do, sitting here in the dark, with the searchlights illuminating the oblong of my window, from outside, through the curtains gauzy as a bridal dress, as ectoplasm, one of my hands holding the other, rocking back and forth a little, no matter what I do there's something hilarious about it.†   (source)
  • The mirrors have been replaced here too by oblongs of dull gray metal, but the urinals are still there, on one wall, white enamel with yellow stains.†   (source)
  • Something equipped with a double row of teeth running the length of its oblong body, which was smeared with icing and dusted with broken glass like a layer of glittering sugar.†   (source)
  • Up ahead there are huge oblong towers, all of glass, lit up, like enormous gravestones of cold light.†   (source)
  • She was seated on the counter now, holding up an oblong metal object—her phone—as if it would ward the demon off.†   (source)
  • It had taken one instant, but in the next his foot went down on the brake, tearing the engine to a stop: for in the moment when his headlights had swept the ravine, he had glimpsed an oblong shape, darker than the gray of the weeds on the slope, and it had seemed to him that a brief white blur had been a human hand waving for help.†   (source)
  • He looked at the white oblong again.†   (source)
  • He picked up a fashion magazine and held it open to a looming photo of some casually muscled bisexual, maybe a white guy, maybe not—dangled it over the bed as if to indicate how dated he was in his own body, his very life, Brian himself, a man without a fitness video to sling in the oblong groove.†   (source)
  • She's short, and oblong in shape, so that her irongray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist.†   (source)
  • The new man starts to walk down the aisle of the plane, his oblong, three-holed head turning from side to side.†   (source)
  • I walk the next blocks, turn the corner, expecting to see the familiar dingy oblong of the school, in weathered red brick the color of dried liver.†   (source)
  • My present is a Brownie box camera, black and oblong, with a handle on top and a round hole at the back to look through.†   (source)
  • If you stood in a two-dimensional universe you would only be perceived at the point of intersection, you'd be perceived as two oblong discs, two two-dimensional universes, seven-dimensional ones.†   (source)
  • My brother knows that if he were to raise his he would see a runway, shimmering with heat, and beyond that a dun landscape alien as the moon, with a blinding sea in the background; and some oblong brown buildings with flat roofs, from which reprieve will come, or not.†   (source)
  • The gravestones are few and recent: blockish oblongs of granite polished to a Presbyterian gloss, the letters cut plainly and without any attempt at prettiness.†   (source)
  • What they now saw was a wide oblong space flagged with smooth stones and surrounded by grey pillars but unroofed.†   (source)
  • After several moments, I was satisfied that there was a small, oblong object, probably metallic, about eight inches beneath the surface.†   (source)
  • …a bit smaller than any medicinal capsule she had ever seen, and was also metallically reflective, so that as he held it inches above her face where she lay against the pillow—wiggling it between thumb and forefinger and causing the pinkish oblong to do a little midair pirouette—she could see shimmering along its surface the miniature conflagration which was only a captured image of the autumnal leaves outside, set afire by the sunset… Drowsily Sophie inhaled the odor of cooking from…†   (source)
  • Then he gave some care to his extended right foot, which the black oblong object was there to accommodate as a rest, and care most of all to his fingers-flexing all ten of them, stretching them leisurely upon his thighs like a cat testing her claws on a cushion.†   (source)
  • A huge red billboard stood beside the road ahead, and it threw a great oblong shadow.†   (source)
  • Oblong, glossy, varnished black all over, it vaguely reminded me of the pen trays in the office.†   (source)
  • The tub was an oblong wooden box lined with zinc.†   (source)
  • He looked out across the narrow oblong, noting the height of the rocks on either side.†   (source)
  • The players take the square and place it upon the oblong.†   (source)
  • You know me-e. Feet scuffed outside, descended slowly into the oblong of light.†   (source)
  • Across the vague oblong of open door fireflies drifted.†   (source)
  • An oblong slip of newspaper had appeared between O'Brien's fingers.†   (source)
  • And now there they lay, tiny, oblong pieces of white bone, cushioned in grey ashes.†   (source)
  • It was an oblong wire cage with a handle on top for carrying it by.†   (source)
  • The oblong has been set upon the square; the spiral is on top.†   (source)
  • The oblong table was pushed to the front of the room.†   (source)
  • A square is stood upon the oblong and we say, "This is our dwelling-place.†   (source)
  • The structure is now visible; what is inchoate is here stated; we are not so various or so mean; we have made oblongs and stood them upon squares.†   (source)
  • The rattling of the tiny lumps against the tin sides of the chute came loudly to his ears as the oblong mound of red fire turned gradually black and blazed from the fanwise spreading of coal whirling into the furnace.†   (source)
  • He watched the dirty little ball of leaves and grass and fleas for a moment, curled up tightly inside its hole, then grunted and moved off toward the badger's sett, following his own oblong footmarks backward in the snow.†   (source)
  • There's something about those business envelopes with the transparent oblong address part that my soul runs away from.†   (source)
  • The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall.†   (source)
  • Which was: An oblong field where white lines mathematically gridded the turf which was arsenical green under the light from the great batteries of floodlamps fixed high on the parapet of the massive arena.†   (source)
  • At the opposite end of the corridor of the dark, the oblong of light was narrow-the door slightly ajar.†   (source)
  • Instead of the trim, geometrically laid-out cantonments and the larger oblongs of the hangars, nothing was visible but an opaque mist veiling an immense, sun-brown desolation.†   (source)
  • A number of police officers jumped out of the car and unloaded coils of rope, a ladder, and two big oblong packages wrapped in oilcloth.†   (source)
  • From the scabbard on the right of his saddle projected the stock and the long oblong clip of a short automatic rifle.†   (source)
  • It is three feet long and, eighteen inches high--a neat oblong presenting its face to who passes and its back to him.†   (source)
  • Then on the table before Quentin, lying on the open text book beneath the lamp, the white oblong of envelope, the familiar blurred mechanical Jefferson Jan 10 1910 Miss and then, opened, the My dear son in his father's sloped fine hand out of that dead dusty summer where he had prepared for Harvard so that his father's hand could lie on a strange lamplit table in Cambridge; that dead summer twilight—the wistaria, the cigar-smell, the fireflies—attenuated up from Mississippi and into…†   (source)
  • The window was open, my bed was made up with blankets and my things hung on the wall, the gas mask in an oblong tin can, the steel helmet on the same peg.†   (source)
  • Not caring about clients who might be mentioned on pages one and two, she detached the front sheet of the newspaper and folded the sheet into a careful oblong, watching the creases come under her thumb.†   (source)
  • He saw the oblong double line of men and horses dark against the snow as they forced at an angle up the hill.†   (source)
  • Then it is just a familiar low oblong shape without any significance at all, low at the street end of the shallow lawn; it too might have grown up out of the tragic and inescapable earth along with the low spreading maples and the shrubs, without help or hindrance from him.†   (source)
  • To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.†   (source)
  • The old man leaned far over the edge handing down the oblong blocks of explosive and Robert Jordan reached up for them, shoved them in where he wanted them, packed them close, braced them, "Wedges, _viejo!†   (source)
  • He looked and saw the two white-coated attendants pushing an oblong, sheet-covered table through the crowd and down the aisle. what's this?†   (source)
  • Robert Jordan felt his own breath tight now as though a strand of wire bound his chest and, steadying his elbows, feeling the corrugations of the forward grip against his fingers, he put the oblong of the foresight, settled now in the notch of the rear, onto the center of the man's chest and squeezed the trigger gently.†   (source)
  • This time the shaded area had deepened from both the north and south, leaving a small square of white in the middle of the oblong Black Belt.†   (source)
  • There is a square; there is an oblong.†   (source)
  • The man called Toorman reached out his foot and kicked an oblong bone from the ashes" it slid a few inches over the concrete floor.†   (source)
  • Then in some Hall I parted the boughs of music and saw the house we have made; the square stood upon the oblong.†   (source)
  • Wren's palace, like the quartet played to the dry and stranded people in the stalls, makes an oblong.†   (source)
  • His eyes rested wistfully on the still oblong white draped form under the sheet on the table and he felt a deeper sympathy for Bessie than at any time when she was alive.†   (source)
  • A square stands upon an oblong.†   (source)
  • Like the oblong mound of fresh clay of a newly made grave, the red coals revealed the bent outline of Mary's body He had the feeling that if he simply touched that red oblong mound with his finger it would cave in and Mary's body would come into full view, unburnt.†   (source)
  • He kicked at the door several times, each kick making it give slightly until he saw snow, sunshine, and an oblong strip of sky The wind came stinging into his face and he remembered how weak and cold he was.†   (source)
  • On the sled, securely lashed, was a long and narrow oblong box.†   (source)
  • Stephen looked coldly on the oblong skull beneath him overgrown with tangled twine-coloured hair.†   (source)
  • We had paused, on the path from the gate, by a low, oblong, tablelike tomb.†   (source)
  • Curious: 'How serves that oblong capsular?†   (source)
  • "Stop thief!" and he ran obliquely across the oblong towards the yard gates, and vanished.†   (source)
  • And then, across the narrow oblong box, each nodded to the other.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, through two oblong openings, daylight appeared on both sides of the lounge.†   (source)
  • Its oblong body ended in a very long caudal fin and its lateral fins in actual fingers.†   (source)
  • The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.†   (source)
  • It was the hub of an oblong wheel, and from it, at regular distances, like spokes, ran the outgoing canyons.†   (source)
  • Also there was a corresponding big, oblong hole in the ceiling, and one could see above, over the fence of the top floor, some machinery; and right away overhead was the glass roof, and all light for the three storeys came downwards, getting dimmer, so that it was always night on the ground floor and rather gloomy on the second floor.†   (source)
  • A clock, in a splintered and battered oblong box of varnished wood, she suddenly regarded as an abomination.†   (source)
  • AS I drew near the house I saw that the light shone from the open door of my room; and then I heard coming from out of the darkness at the side of that orange oblong of light, the voice of Montgomery shouting, "Prendick!"†   (source)
  • He inspected the oblong white torso joined abruptly to the brown limbs and head, and said, laughing gravely: "You are all new like a baby."†   (source)
  • One of these cases had been removed from its place and stood on the desk, which was bestrewn with oblong slips of paper blackened with minute handwriting.†   (source)
  • This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas flame was like a speck rather than a disc of light.†   (source)
  • A low, pale oblong detached itself suddenly from the darkness of the Island, spitting forth the reverberate sound of a racing motor-boat.†   (source)
  • A skylight of moderate dimension was overhead and at each end of the oblong space were two sashed port-hole windows easily convertible back into embrasures for short carronades.†   (source)
  • The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy.†   (source)
  • The oblong white ceiling, with this scarlet blot in the midst, had the appearance of a gigantic ace of hearts.†   (source)
  • Presently two oblongs of yellow light appeared through the trees, and the square tower of a church loomed through the gloaming.†   (source)
  • The light upon the railway puzzled me at first; there were a black heap and a vivid glare, and to the right of that a row of yellow oblongs.†   (source)
  • The pond, oblong in shape, had a width so scant compared to its length that, with its ends out of view, it might have been taken for a scant river.†   (source)
  • But Tess, really tired by this time, flung herself upon an oblong slab that lay close at hand, and was sheltered from the wind by a pillar.†   (source)
  • A house in which no one ever dined at home unless there was "company"; a door-bell perpetually ringing; a hall-table showered with square envelopes which were opened in haste, and oblong envelopes which were allowed to gather dust in the depths of a bronze jar; a series of French and English maids giving warning amid a chaos of hurriedly-ransacked wardrobes and dress-closets; an equally changing dynasty of nurses and footmen; quarrels in the pantry, the kitchen and the drawing-room;…†   (source)
  • The oblong skull beneath did not turn to meet this shaft of thought and yet the shaft came back to its bowstring; for he saw in a moment the student's whey-pale face.†   (source)
  • Aft, and on either side, was a small state-room; the one room temporarily a jail and the other a dead—house, and a yet smaller compartment leaving a space between, expanding forward into a goodly oblong of length coinciding with the ship's beam.†   (source)
  • It was an oblong hut, built of mud and clay; it had at one end a wide door of stout planking, which so far had not come off the hinges, and in one of the side walls there was a square aperture, a sort of window, with three wooden bars.†   (source)
  • The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible.†   (source)
  • In spite of all that has happened since, I still remember that vigil very distinctly: the black and silent observatory, the shadowed lantern throwing a feeble glow upon the floor in the corner, the steady ticking of the clockwork of the telescope, the little slit in the roof—an oblong profundity with the stardust streaked across it.†   (source)
  • Having decided to remain where she was, Tess sat down among the bundles, out of sight of the ground, and began her meal; till, by-and-by, she heard footsteps on the ladder, and immediately after Alec appeared upon the stack—now an oblong and level platform of sheaves.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hall's eyes, directed straight before her, saw without seeing the brilliant oblong of the inn door, the road white and vivid, and Huxter's shop-front blistering in the June sun.†   (source)
  • There were other things on the sled—blankets, an axe, and a coffee-pot and frying-pan; but prominent, occupying most of the space, was the long and narrow oblong box.†   (source)
  • That night, when supper was finished and they sat on the oblong box and pulled at their pipes, the circle of gleaming eyes drew in even closer than before.†   (source)
  • Her eyes had immediately glanced from him to the place where the bookcase had hung; there was nothing now but the oblong unfaded space on the wall, and below it the small table with the Bible and the few other books.†   (source)
  • The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.†   (source)
  • Aramis, in a black gown, his head enveloped in a sort of round flat cap, not much unlike a CALOTTE, was seated before an oblong table, covered with rolls of paper and enormous volumes in folio.†   (source)
  • In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblong-square tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint of chocolate, with brown bread, and an iron spoon.†   (source)
  • When he has helped himself, Phil follows suit, sitting at the extreme end of the little oblong table and taking his plate on his knees.†   (source)
  • The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on the garden.†   (source)
  • During this interval we had fairly unearthed an oblong chest of wood, which, from its perfect preservation and wonderful hardness, had plainly been subjected to some mineralizing process—perhaps that of the Bi-chloride of Mercury.†   (source)
  • Twelve or fifteen steps carried him into a court-yard, oblong north and south, and in every quarter, except the east, bounded by what seemed the fronts of two-story houses; of which the lower floor was divided into lewens, while the upper was terraced and defended by strong balustrading.†   (source)
  • The manager's voice recalled him from a more careful inspection of the building, to the opposite side of the proscenium, where, at a small mahogany table with rickety legs and of an oblong shape, sat a stout, portly female, apparently between forty and fifty, in a tarnished silk cloak, with her bonnet dangling by the strings in her hand, and her hair (of which she had a great quantity) braided in a large festoon over each temple.†   (source)
  • At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass.†   (source)
  • Here he stayed till the thin shades thickened to opaque obscurity, and the loft-door became an oblong of gray light—the only visible shape around.†   (source)
  • It was not at the bird, nor at the cat; it was at an oblong package tied in paper, and lying between them.†   (source)
  • The envelope was of paper as thick as bark; on the oblong yellow paper there was a huge monogram, and the letter smelt of agreeable scent.†   (source)
  • For what is usually called social intercourse she had very little relish; but nothing pleased her more than to find her hall-table whitened with oblong morsels of symbolic pasteboard.†   (source)
  • The dining-room was scarcely less striking than the room he had just left; it was entirely of marble, with antique bas-reliefs of priceless value; and at the four corners of this apartment, which was oblong, were four magnificent statues, having baskets in their hands.†   (source)
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