All 29 Uses of
niche
in
Angels & Demons
- Niches.†
Chpt 61-62
- Around the perimeter, interspersed with the tombs, a series of semicircular niches were hewn in the wall.†
Chpt 61-62
- The niches, although not enormous, were big enough to hide someone in the shadows.†
Chpt 61-62
- "You certainly seem to be enjoying those niches!" the docent said, looking delighted.†
Chpt 61-62
- Langdon nodded, not hearing a word as he prepared to examine another niche.†
Chpt 61-62
- They moved methodically, checking behind statues, inside niches, closets, under furniture.†
Chpt 63-64
- Chapels were less rooms than they were hollows-semicircular niches holding tombs around a church's perimeter wall.†
Chpt 65-66
- Vittoria slowed as the third niche loomed before them.†
Chpt 65-66
- He had descended past a hollowed niche in the wall before him and suddenly found himself face to face with a collection of skulls.†
Chpt 67-68
- As he caught his breath and looked around him, he realized the wall at this level was honeycombed with shelflike openings-burial niches-all filled with skeletons.†
Chpt 67-68
- Partially hidden in its niche.†
Chpt 69-70
- On both sides, hollow niches lined the walls.
Chpt 85-86 *niches = shallow recesses (each like a single space built into the wall to hold something)
- The men dug in again, and with an almost primal growl of stone on stone, the lid rotated off the top of the tomb and came to rest at an angle-the Pope's carved head now pushed back into the niche and his feet extended out into the hallway.†
Chpt 85-86
- They were nearing the Niche of the Palliums-the sunken area in the center of the basilica.†
Chpt 89-90
- Chartrand enjoyed being out of the heavy goggles, and he stretched his neck as they descended into the sunken niche to scan the area.†
Chpt 89-90
- As he moved across the niche, he came to a bulkhead grate covering a hole in the floor.†
Chpt 89-90
- The niche smelled intoxicatingly sweet.†
Chpt 89-90
- The guards had completed searching the Niche of the Palliums and were moving across the basilica again when their walkie-talkies went off.†
Chpt 89-90
- As the bullets erupted behind him, Langdon dove yet again, sliding out of control across the marble floor before crashing in a heap against the railing of a niche on the right-hand wall.†
Chpt 93-94
- He rolled his body over the banister into the niche.†
Chpt 93-94
- Langdon felt like a cornered animal as he scrambled deeper into the semicircular niche.†
Chpt 93-94
- Rising before him, the niche's sole contents seemed ironically apropos-a single sarcophagus.†
Chpt 93-94
- Langdon was now face to face with the rear wall of the niche.†
Chpt 93-94
- As the chief surveyed the damage, trying to recreate what possibly could have gone on here, he saw a niche riddled with bullet holes.†
Chpt 97-98
- The camerlegno had arrived at the Niche of the Palliums-the sunken chamber lit by ninety-nine oil lamps.†
Chpt 117-118
- The lamps in the niche shone up from beneath, illuminating him like a ghost.†
Chpt 117-118
- The camerlegno felt like he was floating as he descended into the Niche of the Palliums.†
Chpt 133-134
- But as he moved across the Niche, the camerlegno paused.†
Chpt 133-134
- In the Niche of the Palliums, the camerlegno had followed God's will and anointed his body.†
Chpt 133-134
Definition:
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(niche) a smaller market within a larger market -- such as the market for scissors designed for people who are left-handed
or:
a role for which someone is especially well-suited
or:
a shallow recess, cranny or crevice