I could not proceed to the schoolroom without passing some of their doors, and running the risk of being surprised with my cargo of victualage; so I stood still at this end, which, being
windowless, was dark: quite dark now, for the sun was set and twilight gathering.
All round were high and turreted walls, with at the corner a bare square-faced keep, gaunt and
windowless, rearing up from a lofty mound, which made it almost inaccessible to an assailant.
The quarter has an air of modern opulence and convenience which seems at variance with the ascetic institution, and the impression made upon Newman's gloomily-irritated gaze by the fresh-looking,
windowless expanse behind which the woman he loved was perhaps even then pledging herself to pass the rest of her days was less exasperating than he had feared.
He discovered himself to be in a bare room which was
windowless, nor could he see any other opening than that through which he had been lowered.
In the town were some substantial
windowless houses of stone scattered among a wilderness of thatched cabins; the streets were mere crooked alleys, and un- paved; troops of dogs and nude children played in the sun and made life and noise; hogs roamed and rooted contentedly about, and one of them lay in a reeking wallow in the middle of the main thoroughfare and suckled her family.
It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy,
windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
From where they were, nothing was to be seen but a
windowless wall of framework and a rope ladder.
At the former's request Virginia was hidden away in a dark sleeping closet in one of the
windowless living rooms which opened along the verandah for the full length of the house.
Looking out the window she could see the
windowless rear brick wall of the box factory on the next street.
Dismantled houses here and there appeared, tottering to the earth, propped up by fragments of others that had fallen down, unroofed,
windowless, blackened, desolate, but yet inhabited.
It was a
windowless erection used for storage, and from the open door there floated into the obscurity a mist of yellow radiance, which at first Tess thought to be illuminated smoke.
Let the reader picture to himself the hall of the vastest cathedral he ever stood in,
windowless indeed, but dimly lighted from above, presumably by shafts connected with the outer air and driven in the roof, which arched away a hundred feet above our heads, and he will get some idea of the size of the enormous cave in which we found ourselves, with the difference that this cathedral designed by nature was loftier and wider than any built by man.