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  • As I reached the bottom of the alcove, I saw my mother half lying down, half sitting up on the couch, staring at me with wide eyes.†   (source)
  • The noise seemed to be coming from a large recessed alcove that lay ahead on the right.†   (source)
  • Dozens of framed photographs of family and friends lined the shelves along one wall, and an alcove by the entrance was decorated with memorabilia of Johnny Mercer.†   (source)
  • But I could just be driving into an alcove.†   (source)
  • Several days a week, Madame brings food to Crazy Hubert Bazin, a veteran of the Great War who sleeps in an alcove behind the library in sun or snow.†   (source)
  • For anything major, like a school report, I use Dad's big IBM, which is down in an alcove off the great room.†   (source)
  • They were in an alcove, a cave within the cave, a few feet off the ground and carved into the wall.†   (source)
  • The gloomy light made the place feel haunted, as if the spirits of all the people WICKED had let die were there waiting in the corners and alcoves.†   (source)
  • He'd wanted inglenooks, somebody had said, and an overscaled fireplace and alcoves, built-in window seats and wainscoting, a battered porch base and low stone walls along his entrance walk.†   (source)
  • Klaus had chosen a room with a cozy alcove in it—the word "alcove" here means "a very, very small nook just perfect for sitting and reading."†   (source)
  • She rounded a corner, not ten stacks from the alcove, and came to a halt.†   (source)
  • Armor and uniforms and combat suits fill the alcoves along the walls, all hanging from what I assume are models of Cal's body.†   (source)
  • She found a place in an alcove for the men with crutches to sit, told them not to move, and took the rest up by the stairs.†   (source)
  • Jimmy moved into the junior apartment provided for him in the AnooYoo Compound: bedroom in an alcove, cramped kitchenette, reproduction 1950s furniture.†   (source)
  • "That will be all," he said, and waited until the android had disappeared into an alcove by the entrance, before continuing.†   (source)
  • We're sitting on the floor of the living room, which is squashed up right next to the "dining room" (an alcove that barely holds a table and six chairs), and I'm holding her workbook on my knees, reciting the problems to her, but my mind is on autopilot and my thoughts are a million miles away.†   (source)
  • I quickly ducked into the alcove entrance of the nearest building, my heart racing.†   (source)
  • The walls were carved with alcoves, each holding a bronze brazier or a golden eagle statue on a marble pedestal.†   (source)
  • They were sitting against the back door of the elementary school, in a little alcove where no one would see them unless they were really looking, and where the snow didn't fall directly on their faces.†   (source)
  • Falling to the ground, grimacing, diving into alcoves.†   (source)
  • Wet shoes squelching in the stillness, I walked through to the kitchen— which wasn't much of a kitchen, only an alcove with a two-burner stove, facing an airshaft.†   (source)
  • After passing through an alcove containing a safe, a wardrobe and a big supply cupboard, you come to the small, dark, stuffy back office.†   (source)
  • The manservant ducked into the alcove behind a fourteenth-century knight complete with lance and mace.†   (source)
  • Black statues stood in alcoves, with sticks of incense smoking in their cold hands.†   (source)
  • It has hung in that alcove nearly four years.†   (source)
  • An enormous black-and-white photograph of her deceased paternal grandfather looms at one end against the pink plaster wall; opposite, an alcove shielded by clouded panes of glass is stuffed with books and papers and her father's watercolor tins.†   (source)
  • There was a shadowy alcove at the other end of the cellar, filled with old furniture and other stuff.†   (source)
  • Garbage drifted up the walls and filled the cracks between buildings and the alcove doorways.†   (source)
  • We celebrated my fifty-first birthday with a little party in the de Vrieses' alcove home.†   (source)
  • It had windowless alcoves on both sides, closed off by doors.†   (source)
  • I recognized the fireplace flanked by alcoves on the far wall, the way the light streamed in from the street through slanted blinds; I knew that when I turned to my left there would be glass and green and beyond that the railway line.†   (source)
  • The reflection wouldn't let go of her wrist and pulled her at a fast clip past looking glass halls that branched and snaked into the distance, past mirrored alcoves and dead ends.†   (source)
  • Nadia's flat comprised a studio room with an alcove kitchenette and a bathroom so small that showering without drenching the commode was impossible.†   (source)
  • mantels and the inlaid tables, crowding the curtained alcove of her dressing room, reflected endlessly in tilted mirrors.†   (source)
  • A little more ....a little more ....In his mind he could see the rocker beginning to move in its dusty little alcove; he could see the lock's tongue begin to retract.†   (source)
  • He crept down the hall after her and hid behind the nearest alcove to the girls' room door.†   (source)
  • The rest of the sparse furnishings consisted of a large wardrobe for clothes and linen and a sink that also functioned as a washing alcove behind a shower curtain.†   (source)
  • When they reached the top and the alcove with the alphabetized cabinets, he oversaw the transfer of Felix to the other officers.†   (source)
  • They moved into an alcove beside a coil-slot water machine while the men stirred restlessly in the big room.†   (source)
  • Father and Mum Olga faced an alcove in which stood High Chancellor Thomas, who had begun to marry them.†   (source)
  • I did not want to leave the alcove of the doorway.†   (source)
  • I wonder ....are you in this alcove ....?†   (source)
  • The department head is Alfonse (Fast Food) Stompanato, a broad-chested glowering man whose collection of prewar soda pop bottles is on permanent display in an alcove.†   (source)
  • In a small alcove was the kitchen in which the overhead light was burning.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, that little alcove outside the breakfast room has not been dusted for some time.†   (source)
  • I stared as Wesley walked out of the alcove.†   (source)
  • At the end of the room was a curtained alcove, and barely visible under the curtain was a pair of feet in leather boots.†   (source)
  • It was more like a little alcove in a cave or a tunnel than a room.†   (source)
  • I could feel my heart beating as I ducked around the next corner to an empty alcove.†   (source)
  • A lunch counter, a few tables, an alcove harboring a hot grill, and an icebox and a radio-that's all there is to Hartman's Cafe.†   (source)
  • At the intermission he rose and put on his hat and went down to the lobby and stood in a gilded alcove and rolled a cigarette and stood smoking it with one boot jacked back against the wall behind him.†   (source)
  • A figurine of a little cupid sits inside an alcove under the stairs.†   (source)
  • Blackavar was already slumped in his alcove.†   (source)
  • The staircase widened into a landing with a bay-windowed alcove that looked out over the city.†   (source)
  • The Jennings contingent leaves its name with the hostess and walks back into a long alcove hallway lined with chairs, almost all filled with laughing parent-child clusters, mostly white.†   (source)
  • One alcove was caged off and brightly lit, filled with enough tools to stock a small hardware store.†   (source)
  • We reach the amphitheater gates, and once through, the woman sets me on my feet in an alcove.†   (source)
  • Nowhere at Rowan was Astaroth's elimination of modern electricity more apparent than in this enormous, subterranean space, in which candles and lanterns now flickered from the alcoves.†   (source)
  • The cellar was large, full of nooks and shadowed alcoves where a man could be alone.†   (source)
  • As I turn to leave, I catch sight of Marlena—she must have come in while I was in the alcove.†   (source)
  • Carved into all of the pillars were alcoves bearing torches, illuminating the entire hall in a brilliant white light.†   (source)
  • There were to be beds in alcoves as in France, elongated windows and French doors, a magnificent parquet floor replicated from one he had seen in the country estate of a French friend, as well as ample space to display the paintings and busts, the gilded pier mirrors, clocks, and furniture he had shipped home from France.†   (source)
  • Whoever it is, they're taller than me; it doesn't take them nearly as many steps to get to the alcove where I'm loitering.†   (source)
  • But then he and Nancy and Charlie helped Sharon move, from the rectory to a small apartment that belonged to a rather addled lady, where Sharon occupied a tiny alcove.†   (source)
  • And the sinks in the bedrooms work, their alcoves no longer stuffed with laundry right up to the ceiling.†   (source)
  • He raced down the hallway to the cut-out alcove that housed the two convenience machines and crouched by the right interior wall.†   (source)
  • In one of the protected alcoves, away from the bodies.†   (source)
  • And a kind of alcove for brooms, pitchforks, the curry combs, hoof picks, hooks again for buckets.†   (source)
  • Galt lifted her in his arms, carried her to the kitchen alcove and placed her on a chair by the table set for two.†   (source)
  • He turned on his heel, striding into the kitchen alcove and the AutoChef.†   (source)
  • To the left was an elevator alcove.†   (source)
  • In a tiny alcove the size of a closet, there was the equivalent of an outhouse.†   (source)
  • I was sitting at my desk in the rear of the alcove shining my inspection shoes when I heard the door open and Mark Santoro come into the room.†   (source)
  • He noticed a girl in one of the alcoves, standing on a ladder sorting large volumes.†   (source)
  • We ate in a dining alcove paneled in mahogany veneer.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, on the last night in October I sat in its rearmost room, at the final table before the alcove with the door leading to the alley.†   (source)
  • "Come," she murmured, beckoning toward an alcove.†   (source)
  • In the dark alcove he took her in his arms and kissed her.†   (source)
  • Pippin saw then that they had been standing in alcoves on either side of the door, unseen as he and Gandalf entered.†   (source)
  • His wing contained an office, a living room, a combination bar and kitchen alcove, and bedroom and bath.†   (source)
  • "I can use the chute top as a centerpiece for the alcove table," she said, sliding a plate over the chute, "and I'll think of something artistic to do with the dasher."†   (source)
  • From it he takes an inn sign, which he hangs in the alcove.†   (source)
  • I dressed while I finished the sandwich and beer, then sought out a natural alcove just short of the wards in the passage, one which had been designated the men's room.†   (source)
  • The lamp stood on a bench and lit the alcove harshly from below as though by a footlight.†   (source)
  • Ferns seemed in the early alcoves of twilight to creep, or suddenly to descend like waterfalls in between the deserted porch chairs, and over old man Rainey sitting along the edge of the porch, feet dangling.†   (source)
  • Powell loped down a hall toward the v-phone alcove.†   (source)
  • ...three days of long evenings on her dusky veranda, of strange wan kisses through the late afternoon, in shadowy alcoves or behind the protecting trellises of the garden arbors,   (source)
    alcoves = a recessed or secluded space -- such as in a garden or room
  • Bigwig gave the guard a tremendous cuff on the side of the head, which knocked him clear across the run and into the prisoner's alcove.†   (source)
  • Stepping into a darkened alcove, he shed his coat, revealing the blue blazer he wore underneath.†   (source)
  • Around the back side of the room, opposite the stairwell, nine alcoves were carved into the wall.†   (source)
  • Before them was an alcove housing a bank of vending machines and video games.†   (source)
  • I knelt at one end of the table, so that Nobu would sit facing the alcove.†   (source)
  • Olivetti turned left into an alcove and strode to one of the largest doors Langdon had ever seen.†   (source)
  • One of his men had just found a sling and an army-surplus jacket in an alcove near the east portico.†   (source)
  • I know they were in the alcove for hours with that yellow legal pad.†   (source)
  • They passed more than forty statues, then only dark and empty alcoves awaiting future kings.†   (source)
  • The alcove was empty, and there was no sign of the men in corridors.†   (source)
  • Fache waved off warden Grouard and led Collet to a nearby alcove, addressing him in hushed tones.†   (source)
  • Jason moved his stuff to the corner alcove where his sister had once slept.†   (source)
  • In an alcove at the far side, Pollux smacks a ladder with his hand and points up the shaft.†   (source)
  • I keep it in the alcove, so I can read in that large chair.†   (source)
  • I curled up in the far corner of the alcove with the blanket over my head.†   (source)
  • The alcove was studded with cowries, conches, and scallops.†   (source)
  • The Duke turned to the alcove where Halleck sat, said: "Gurney, please take Paul's place at table.†   (source)
  • I ask the empty hallway, half expecting him to pop out from an alcove.†   (source)
  • Behind them, the roof of the alcove was soot-blackened—someone had once built a fire inside.†   (source)
  • When I walked back through the great room, Mom and Dad had both pulled up chairs in the alcove.†   (source)
  • Fache felt rigid as he stood in the alcove.†   (source)
  • Jason stepped back and examined the row of alcoves.†   (source)
  • A minor chord from the baliset floated out of the alcove.†   (source)
  • Katherine headed off into a nearby alcove, where she saw a desk with a computer.†   (source)
  • He understood why Thalia had slept in this alcove.†   (source)
  • You ought to take that thing in the alcove down, and put up this landscape painting again.†   (source)
  • As the wall curved left, the tunnel opened into a semicircular alcove.†   (source)
  • "In the alcoves!" a voice roars, yelling over the chaos.†   (source)
  • The nymphs disappeared, and water poured from their alcoves—sickly dark water, like oil.†   (source)
  • "This scroll is much more attractive than the one you have in the alcove now, Mameha," he said.†   (source)
  • Kohler was waiting for him in a small alcove at the end of the hallway.†   (source)
  • We passed by Dad sitting in his alcove in front of the IBM.†   (source)
  • From an alcove at Leto's end of the room came Halleck's voice.†   (source)
  • "Mameha," he said, "what happened to that scroll you used to have in the alcove?†   (source)
  • I rolled my chair to the entrance of the alcove so he could see me.†   (source)
  • It seemed the Chigi Chapel was located in the third of four recessed alcoves to their right.†   (source)
  • I dropped my stuff in the alcove and went into the kitchen for a drink.†   (source)
  • I claimed my seat in the alcove at Dad's IBM.†   (source)
  • Between the gods were hidden alcoves thick with shadows, with here and there a candle burning.†   (source)
  • Snipers are in the woods, Helicopters fly alcove us sometimes.†   (source)
  • There's a small kitchen alcove at the far end on the right.†   (source)
  • Sansa found Bryen's old blind dog in her little alcove beneath the steps, and lay down next to him.†   (source)
  • In the alcove, it seemed to bounce all around me.†   (source)
  • In a little alcove not far from me were two people.†   (source)
  • It was dark in the alcove, so dark that Jace was only an outline of shadows and gold.†   (source)
  • But first the host led his guest to a shelved alcove near the stairway.†   (source)
  • Kraken, and others found places in the alcoves.†   (source)
  • One on the door of his bedchamber, a second within, in an adjoining alcove.†   (source)
  • They were in the little alcove at the end of the crude tunnel.†   (source)
  • As the elevator doors opened, he tensed, half expecting to be apprehended here in the alcove.†   (source)
  • Sebastian drew aside the dusty velvet curtain that closed off the alcove, and smiled.†   (source)
  • Vikki stumbled out of the alcove with a look of hurt surprise.†   (source)
  • He'd even boarded up the alcove because she didn't want to be reminded of it.†   (source)
  • He was standing with his back pressed against the stone of the alcove.†   (source)
  • His footsteps echoed loudly as though he were goose-stepping into the alcove.†   (source)
  • A boy was sitting in the alcove, reading.†   (source)
  • Eve tugged her into an alcove resplendent with potted ferns.†   (source)
  • "Fine," he replied, and went back to his alcove.†   (source)
  • He cannot be entombed with us, as he is human, but a hallowed alcove has been set aside for him.†   (source)
  • At each alcove, she would open the shutter a crack, to look for corpses.†   (source)
  • The toilet in the alcove seemed to empty directly into the ground.†   (source)
  • "Bathroom," one of them says, pointing to a little alcove just before the kitchen.†   (source)
  • He glanced over my shoulder at the curtained alcove, and then he got to the point.†   (source)
  • Three deep nooks, like alcoves, were set into the walls.†   (source)
  • When the doors opened on the lower alcove, he was surprised to find it deserted.†   (source)
  • He lurched unsteadily toward the wall and crawled into an alcove onto a hard stone bed.†   (source)
  • "Over here," she giggled, pulling him into the alcove ten feet away from me.†   (source)
  • As he stared at the piano standing exposed in the alcove, she knew she had done the right thing.†   (source)
  • In each alcove lay a tomb carved with a name and clan crest.†   (source)
  • There was a loud shuffle of feet in the alcove and a knock on the door.†   (source)
  • He put them down in a corner of the alcove and wearily began again on the archaeology books.†   (source)
  • Something moved in one of the shadowed alcoves behind the candle; an old grey man clad in rags.†   (source)
  • Weaving through the shelves, Saphira led him to one alcove, where Arya sat.†   (source)
  • I saw the cigar blazing like a lone, abandoned eye in the alcove.†   (source)
  • He was sitting at his desk when I entered his room, his neck and shoulders dominating the alcove.†   (source)
  • When Arya peered around, she saw other alcoves too.†   (source)
  • Tradd was studying in the alcove, and Mark was brushing his teeth in the sink by the door.†   (source)
  • I'm in the alcove room on fourth division.†   (source)
  • The intense heat of the night air was deliciously cool after the steaming alcove room.†   (source)
  • "Too sensitive," they would whisper as they conferred with each other in the alcove.†   (source)
  • There was no one in the alcove and the alcoves were deserted.†   (source)
  • There was no one in the alcove and the alcoves were deserted.†   (source)
  • He stepped out of the alcove to ring Service.†   (source)
  • He takes o ff his steward's coat, picks up his hat; draws the curtain to the alcove†   (source)
  • The empty cartridge lay behind the alcove.†   (source)
  • He went back into the bathroom shut off the massage buffers and inspected the alcove wreckage.†   (source)
  • Halfway down the footway was a public v-phone alcove.†   (source)
  • He stepped into the massage alcove and punched 'Glow-Salt.'†   (source)
  • Any cupboards or dark alcoves?†   (source)
  • There were three doors in the room, two to the left and one straight ahead, between the refrigerator and the pantry alcove.†   (source)
  • All around him early prototypes of Redd's numerous inventions were on display in spotlit alcoves: a seeker with the body of a tuttle-bird and the head of a gwormmy; a dry, withered shrub that had been Naturcide's first kill; a Two Card from The Cut, half steel and half flesh, more vulnerable and not as mobile as the card soldiers that eventually made it to production; a preliminary model of the rose roller; a Glass Eye with one long horizontal crystal for vision-intake instead of the more humanoid orbs in two sockets; even an early version of The Cat himself, with smaller claws and (as The Cat himself liked to think) not as good-looking as the completed assassin had turned out.†   (source)
  • The waltz was driving and so loud she had difficulty hearing herself think as Chaol pulled her into a shadowy alcove.†   (source)
  • It's summer and Marie-Laure is sitting in the alcove behind the library with Madame Manec and Crazy Hubert Bazin.†   (source)
  • Then he slowly turned around—as from the shadows of an alcove the hotel's assistant manager emerged.†   (source)
  • I would have to spend all day in the lavatory, with the door locked on the inside, just as I had locked the alcove doors in the studio.†   (source)
  • They knelt before an alcove at the back of the room and contemplated a shelf on which small bowls of uncooked rice had been neatly arranged.†   (source)
  • He was surprised, but he went on through and was even more astonished to see that the alcove doors were open as well and that there was a terrible mess in the front office.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure follows the odor of Madame Manec's soup through the Place aux Herbes and holds the warm pot outside the alcove behind the library while Madame raps on the door.†   (source)
  • to the alcove.†   (source)
  • Potential tenants came to look at the room almost every day, and when they did I had to hide in one of the alcoves and lock its door on the inside.†   (source)
  • They remained in the main room of the library as she set off through the stacks, heading toward the musty, forgotten alcove where she'd found the majority of the books on the Wyrdmarks.†   (source)
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