All 24 Uses
alcove
in
The Lords of Discipline
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- 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.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Mark's fist caught Pig in the left temple, and the blow sent him spinning wildly into one of the steel presses near the alcove.†
Chpt 1.10
- Mark wheeled and sprinted out the door laughing maniacally, almost helplessly, as Pig, spitting on the floor and swearing, raced to the sink and began brushing his teeth furiously, brushing his teeth over and over again, brushing his teeth and coughing, as Tradd and I rolled on the floor of our alcove room, laughing until tears rolled down both our faces.†
Chpt 1.10
- I'm in the alcove room on fourth division.†
Chpt 1.11
- I wondered if the grotesque phantoms of their damaged spirits haunted the alcoves of the barracks for all times, recruiting others into their defiled tormented ranks with howls of gratitude as they watched the others come apart at the soul.†
Chpt 1.14
- They herded us into the large alcove room on the first division, dressed in our bathrobes, underwear, fatigue caps, and flip-flops.†
Chpt 2.16
- I would never be able to appreciate the music of the Beatles, never be able to define my coming of age through their joyous lyrics, because of that one radio playing that one song as I moved into the alcove room for the opening ceremonies of Hell Night.†
Chpt 2.16
- In the shimmering greenhouse of the alcove, we sweated and waited in melancholy silence for the entrance of the full cadre.†
Chpt 2.16
- His footsteps echoed loudly as though he were goose-stepping into the alcove.†
Chpt 2.16
- The intense heat of the night air was deliciously cool after the steaming alcove room.†
Chpt 2.16
- Three days later the entire freshman class of R Company met in the first division alcove room to discuss the problem of Bobby Bentley.†
Chpt 2.17
- In February, Tradd and I moved into the fourth division alcove room with Mark Santoro and Dante Pignetti.†
Chpt 2.18
- Mark touched my shoulder, motioned toward the door, and the four of us broke out of that room and ran undetected and unobserved to our alcove on fourth division.†
Chpt 2.19
- He took it to the room and, upon reaching the alcove, threw the bottle half the length of the gallery, shattering glass across the cement in front of the latrine door.†
Chpt 2.20
- Tradd was sitting at his desk in the alcove with his back toward the rest of us, filling a fountain pen with ink.†
Chpt 3.22
- Tradd was studying in the alcove, and Mark was brushing his teeth in the sink by the door.†
Chpt 3.22
- We dried ourselves quickly and returned down the gallery to our alcove room in time for the all-in check.†
Chpt 3.22
- I saw the cigar blazing like a lone, abandoned eye in the alcove.†
Chpt 3.29
- He was sitting at his desk when I entered his room, his neck and shoulders dominating the alcove.†
Chpt 4.39
- I was a theme writer again, I thought, as I began to hear the old familiar sound of cadets whispering outside the alcove, of messages being passed, and rumors being borne along the arches of the galleries.†
Chpt 4.41
- There was no one in the alcove and the alcoves were deserted.†
Chpt 4.41
- There was no one in the alcove and the alcoves were deserted.†
Chpt 4.41
- "Too sensitive," they would whisper as they conferred with each other in the alcove.†
Chpt 4.42
- There was a loud shuffle of feet in the alcove and a knock on the door.†
Chpt 4.43
Definitions:
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(1)
(alcove) a recessed or secluded space -- such as in a room or gardenThe alcove of a room is a smaller room attached to a larger room and separated by an arch or other architectural feature other than a door.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)