Use curtains in a sentence
Sentences starting with curtains
- Curtains of mauve and saffron-red were hung behind them, and through a break of cloud fringing the horizon a yellow glow poured, to touch the tips of the pyramids with poignant splendour. [11]
Sentences ending with curtains
- There was a wonderful sunset beyond the Capitol, but Mr. Balch did not talk about the sunset, although Jethro was watching it from behind the curtains. [9]
- Every inch of the walls was hung with red curtains. [11]
- It was the look that lasts after death, the look shot forward from the Hereafter upon a living face which has looked into the great mystery, but has not passed behind the curtains. [11]
- In the dim light let into the farther room we saw a four-poster bed, old and cheap, with ragged curtains. [9]
- Her eyes--if somebody comes along and draws the curtains! [11]
- Colonel Varney uttered an oath, and strode across to the window, where he stood looking down into the street from between the lace curtains. [9]
Short sentences using curtains
- The curtains were drawn. [9]
More example sentences with the word curtains in them
- The long windows, with the curtains drawn in the deep, panelled arches; the carved white mantelpiece; the glint of silver on' the sideboard, with its wine-cooler underneath,--these, spoke of generations of respectability and achievement. [9]
- A doorway, closed with light curtains, opened on to a long balcony with a finely-worked balustrade of copper-gilt, to which clung a climbing rose with pink flowers. [10]
- A 'poudre' day, with its steely air and fatal frost, was an ill thing in the world; but these entangling blasts, these wild curtains of snow, were desolating even unto death. [11]
- Her sunny drawing-room, with its gathered silk curtains, was especially beautiful; whatever the Leffingwells or Allisons may have lacked, it was not taste. [9]
- The southwest wind, with a whiff of the channel salt in it, blew the curtains at our backs. [9]
- But she sat where she was until the maid came in to pull the curtains and turn on the lights, reminding her that guests were expected. [9]
- For a whole week after her instalment Honora was in a continual state of excitement and anticipation, and the sound of wheels and voices on the highroad beyond the hedge sent her peeping to her curtains a dozen times a day. [9]
- In a business-like way Armand motioned them to chairs, opened the curtains, and rang the bell. [11]
- Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
- Meantime his mother was inspecting a card which had disclosed itself upon the floor when she cast the curtains back. [5]
- It was the upholsterer Specht, who had often put up curtains and done similar work for us, a good and capable workman. [10]
- On the side toward the room the curtains were drawn back far enough to allow those who were permitted to approach the regent to see her head and the upper portion of her body, which was wrapped in an ermine cape. [10]
- Then he went to the window, and as he looked through the parted curtains out upon the water--the room hung over the edge of the cliff-he bound his own shoulder. [11]
- She hastily tried to draw the curtains aside from the window, but this was not accomplished as quickly as she expected--they had been care fully fastened with pins. [10]
- Mr. Flint walked to a window at the far end of the room and flung apart the tightly closed curtains before it. [9]
- As they passed through, a hand drew aside the curtains on the other side of the room which they were leaving. [11]
- That parlor Cynthia thought a handsome room, with its high windows and lace curtains, its long mirrors and marble-topped tables. [9]
- It was as though the gates of hell had been closed and the curtains of heaven drawn for the eyes to see. [11]
- Behind curtains of thick faded brocade was her bedstead, a heavy structure of enormous width. [10]
- As I stood there, looking at the window that interested me most, the curtains were drawn, the window was opened, and a form appeared in a white robe. [4]
- Yet there was the warm sun streaming through the doorway of the music-room, making the beaded curtains shine like gold. [11]
- The curtains of the stage waved continually by the repelled forces that were given to them, which caused Leos to behold Ambulinia leaning upon the chair of Elfonzo. [5]
- The curtains of the sick-room were lowered and a small lamp, burning behind a screen, shed but a feeble light. [10]
- The window of the room had no curtains, for that side of the house had long been unoccupied, and through this window he caught sight of something which surprised and interested him. [5]
- The curtains in the pink bedroom were drawn, and on the bed, in all its splendour of lace and roses, was spread out the dinner-gown-a chef-d'oeuvre of Madame Barriere's as yet unworn. [9]
- Yes, there in the north-west was gathering a dark- blue haze, hanging like small filmy curtains in the sky. [11]
- In front of the gate was a shabby carriage with top and side curtains, hitched to a big bay horse. [9]
- Then she drew the curtains, searched for the switch, and flooded the room with a soft glow--that beautiful room in which he had so proudly installed her four months before. [9]
- Looking out between the curtains, he espied Mr Garland, Mr Abel, the notary, and the single gentleman, gathered round the Marchioness, and talking to her with great earnestness but in very subdued tones--fearing, no doubt, to disturb him. [12]
- He sat behind the curtains, and he must have kept the figures in his head. [9]
- He buttoned down the curtains and took her in his arms. [9]
- She herself raised the curtains and looked up the chimney. [10]
- We fastened down the curtains and even caulked them with clothing, but the rain streamed in in twenty places, nothwithstanding. [5]
- Leading from the study was a passage in which a partition with ragged curtains could be seen. [2]
- While she was still recalling the display at the Adonis festival, the curtains began to close again. [10]
- It seems a sort of sacrilege to disturb the glamour of old romance that pictures her to us softly from afar off as through a tinted mist, and curtains her ruin and her desolation from our view. [5]
- We were no sooner started than she pulled the curtains and opened her portmanteau, which I saw was near filled with things for my aid and comfort. [9]
- On the farther side, in an alcove, was a huge dressing-table; a fire was laid in the grate of the marble mantel, the curtains in the bay window were tightly drawn, and near by was a lounge with a reading-light. [9]
- Thick silk curtains shut out the bright May sunshine from the quiet room. [10]
- From the door she watched him till the curtains of dust rose up about him and hid him from sight. [11]
- Eh, voila, I see light, as I said, and I push aside heavy curtains ver' little, and there is the Chamber of the Joy below. [11]
- Each car had seating capacity for half-a-dozen persons; and when the curtains were up one was substantially out of doors, and could see everywhere, and get all the breeze, and be luxuriously comfortable. [5]
- Is that ancient seat of power deserted, and does Jethro Bass sit there alone behind the curtains, in his bitterness, thinking of other bright June days that are gone? [9]
- I am the Scarlet Woman," she went on; "I made this red robe from the curtains of Hell--" Poor soul! [11]
- So Mr. Vane remained for a full minute after the door had closed, and then he raised his head sharply and gave a piercing glance at the curtains that separated Number Seven from the governor's room. [9]
- She got up quickly just as Nicholas entered, almost ran to the door which was hidden by curtains, struck her head against it, and rushed from the room with a moan either of pain or sorrow. [2]
- For, at the question, curtains seemed to drop from all around me, and leave me in the midst of pains and miseries, in a chill air that froze me to the marrow. [11]
- And where a princely face looked through The curtains of the play Of life, O star, you paused; I knew The comrade of my day. [11]
- Certainly the spotless pillows, the pretty curtains, the pincushion, and charmingly valanced bed and shelves, cheap though the material was, showed a woman's very friendly care. [11]
- As the curtains parted for his exit, he faced Harrik again. [11]
- Ditmar, removing one of the side curtains that she might see, with just a hint in his voice of a reverence she was too excited to notice, pointed out the stern and respectable facades of the twin Chippering mansions standing side by side. [9]
- You may think of me hiding in the curtains, watching you, though you knew it not till you touched the window and I came out quietly, startling you, so that your heart would beat beyond counting. [11]
- As she had not shut her eyes the night before and, from dread of the ball, had slept very little during the preceding one, she soon, though the moon was shining in through the parted curtains, lapsed into a condition midway between sleep and waking. [10]
- At mid-night last night we heard screams up stairs--Susy had set the lofty window curtains afire with a candle. [5]
- The clouds lift more and more, and still hanging overhead, but with no more rain, are like curtains gradually drawn up, opening to us a glorious vista of sunshine and promise, an illumined, sparkling, illimitable sea, and a bright foreground of slopes and picturesque rocks. [4]
- The walls were moldy and hung with ancient cobwebs; the curtains and beddings were rotten; the furniture was rickety and ready to fall to pieces. [5]
- A pennant of many colours hung where two soft pink curtains joined, and at the window and over the door was an ancient cross in bronze and gold. [11]
- The Prairie Star made quivering and luminous curtains of red for the windows, and Jen's mind was quivering in vivid waves of feeling just the same. [11]
- Another, and then madame beside me, as I spring back, throw aside the curtains, and cry out, 'No, m'sieu'! [11]
- The "gahs" was lighted, but the curtains, or more properly, the painted shades; were not down. [6]
- When her sister left her Eva herself drew the curtains before the window, and sleep soon ended her thoughts and yearnings, her grief and her hope. [10]
- It was too late; for the curtains of the audience-room were already withdrawn, and Caracalla approached. [10]
- In order to keep out the noonday sun and produce a salutary half-light for the blind queen's eyes, her windows were shaded by curtains of green Indian silk. [10]
- If, before the judgment seat above, intention and faith are weighed with the same scales as works, few who close their eyes behind silken curtains will be so sure of a favourable sentence as this poorest of the poor. [10]
- For glimpses of it they had caught Beyond the curtains when the priests That served the altar came and went. [5]
- All these door-ways, into what seemed to be at once the dining and sitting-room of the steward, were bereft of doors, and could only be closed by stuff curtains, just now drawn wide open. [10]
- Tom sat up in bed and gazed out from the heavy silken curtains upon this fine company. [5]
- With the furniture in and the curtains up the house is very pretty, and not unhomelike. [5]
- Only light curtains hung at the doors of the high-priest's hurriedly furnished rooms, and no one noticed Melissa's entrance into the adjoining chamber. [10]
- She had the house scoured from Cellar to rook the curtains washed and put up, all beds pulled to pieces, beaten, washed and put together again, and beguiled the Marchese into putting a big porcelain stove in the vast central hall. [5]
- The curtains of her windows and doors were only closed when the position of the sun absolutely required it; while in Nefert's rooms, from morning till evening, a dim twilight was maintained. [10]
- Eva returned to her room and sat down at the spinning-wheel in the bow window, where Katterle had just drawn the curtains closely and lighted the hanging lamp. [10]
- Painfully disturbed by her reserve, he had just attempted to induce her to give a less superficial opinion of his work, when the curtains of the dining room parted-the music of flutes, singing, and pleasant odours greeted him and the guests. [10]
- At last she heard doors open, and an invisible hand parted the heavy curtains at her right. [10]
- As she entered he quickly drew the curtains of the windows and turned towards his visitor, a curious, hard, disdainful look in his face. [11]
- I hope I have not disturbed any--entertainment going on here," he added, glancing in turn at the thoughtful occupants of the room, and then at the curtains which hid the folding doors to the apartment of his Excellency. [9]
- That notion he got up here did look as handy as anything in the world; and how him and Si did sit up nights working at it with the curtains down and me watching to see if any neighbors were about. [5]
- And she stood gazing into the drawing room, with its curtains and decorously drawn shades, in a rapture which her aunt and cousins were far from guessing. [9]
- She had crept from her bed and to the window, and before he saw her, she had watched him with a look which slowly became an awakening: as though curtains had been drawn aside revealing a new, strange, ecstatic world. [11]
- Presently she sprang from her bed and drew back the curtains of the windows, gazing rapturously into the crystal day. [9]
- When man shall flee and woman fail, And folly mock and hope deceive, Let cowards beat the breast and wail, I'll homeward hie; I will not grieve: I'll curtains draw, I'll there set free My heart's beloved boon company. [11]
- A soft twilight fell through the thick green curtains which mitigated the sunshine, and the nurses had lately cleared away after the morning meal. [10]
- But to thy Fanchon's father I was merely a priest--we had not hunted together nor met often about the fire, and drew fast the curtains for the tales which bring men close. [11]
- They did not even hear Sylvie steal in gently and stand in the curtains at the door. [11]
- Snowy transparent curtains enclosed the bed as a protection against the mosquitoes, a crucifix of delicate workmanship hung above the head of the couch, and the seats were covered with good cloth of various colors, fag-ends from the looms. [10]
- Then she again drew the curtains closely over the window, and went to call Katterle to help her undress. [10]
- The curtains were drawn, and a single candle was burning on the table, screened by a bound music book so that the light did not fall on the cot. [2]
- The curtains were drawn, a fire was crackling on the hearth, the lamps were lighted, and as I dropped into a chair this living-room of ours seemed to take on the air of a refuge from the vague, threatening sinister things of the world without. [9]
- His eyes, irresistibly drawn towards the Duncan house, were caught by the fluttering of lace curtains at an open window. [9]
- The curtains were down, and there was no response to her knock, except from a door in the passage opposite. [4]
- Then, he pulled down the window-blinds, drew the curtains, wound up his watch, and, quite leisurely and methodically, got into bed. [12]
- She bolted the door and drew her curtains close. [6]
- On the grass, dew-drenched cobwebs gleamed in the early sun, and the breeze that stirred the curtains was charged with the damp, fresh odours of the morning. [9]
- It had simple curtains, white sheets, and a warm carpet on the floor; and yet with something, too, that struck the note of a life outside. [11]
- There were no curtains to the window, but an old coat had been hung up to serve the purpose, and light shone between a sleeve of it and the window-sill. [11]
- There are also curtains of matting that may be drawn to exclude the sun or rain. [5]
- Red and green curtains hung in front of them, and the subdued light which came through fell in tinted twilight on the colored pictures in relief of the history of the gods, which covered the walls. [10]
- She parted the curtains at the window, letting the light fall upon the face of her companion, while hers remained in the shadow. [11]
- Ye steal into corners, and hide behind the curtains of your beds to pray; we pray where the hour of prayer finds us --in the street, in the market-place, where the house is building, the horse being shod, or the money-changers are. [11]
- The door shuts closely and the curtains are thick. [10]
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