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Gianapolis went ahead, and Soames, following him, presently emerged through a low doorway into a concrete-paved apartment, having walls of Portland stone and a white-washed ceiling. One end consisted solely of a folding gate, evidently designed to admit the limousine. Gianapolis turned, as Soames stepped up beside him.
Some one in a marvelous dress, with a white-washed throat, with lips too red, and cheeks too pink, and brows too black, some one with an unbelievable quantity of curls on top of her, and I turned around to see whom it might be. Nobody there. I looked back to the mirror. I was not dreaming, of course there was some one in the room. No, the room was empty save we three. I turned suspiciously to Mrs.
Its freshly white-washed sides glared intolerably in the sun, but its interior was as yet innocent of paint and through the yawning vent of the sliding doors came a delicious odour of new, fresh wood and shavings. A crowd of men Annixter's farm hands were swarming all about it.
The fire-stone should likewise be white-washed, when that is used; and every part of the fire-place which does not come into actual contact with the burning fuel should be kept as white and clean as possible.
Far north of the Missouri beyond the borderlands flows the Saskatchewan. As far north again, beyond the Saskatchewan, flows another great river, the Athabasca, into Athabasca Lake, on whose blue shores to the north lies a little white-washed fort of some twenty log houses, large barn-like stores, a Catholic chapel, an Episcopal mission, and a biggish residence of pretence for the chief trader.
Here we found another pretty public-work's dak bungalow of dark teak uprights and cross beams, with white-washed cane matting between and neat grass thatch laid over bamboos, with wide views up and down the valley of rolling woods and distant hills.
All the miseries of hope deferred, unremitting labor, and unnumbered petty cares attendant upon a straightened income, were forgotten, and I yearned for its ugly, midsummer glare, even its unsavory odors, and my stifling little chamber "au troisième" as I surveyed the tiny bare room, with its blue and gray "cottage set," its white-washed walls, hung with a solitary engraving of Lincoln and his Cabinet.
Then he seated himself in the barge, and had a sail on the Thames, followed by innumerable beggars, sycophants, and costermongers. Swarms of frightened turtles were seen hurrying away in front of the cavalcade. "Such a set of white-washed heads heads with all outside heads with little inside and heads nobody knew what they had been made for, never before were seen displayed in one string.
Never, for one consecutive stanza or stroke, do they approach Collins or Gray in delicacy or power. But the Song to David the lyric in 516 lines which Smart is so absurdly fabled to have scratched with a key on the white-washed walls of his cell this was a portent of beauty and originality.
There is no one at the light-house, you know." "There he stands, sir, with his back to the tower, and his face this way. His dark figure against the white-washed stones is plain enough to be seen. Living, or dead, sir, that is the mate!" "Living it cannot be," answered Spike, though he gulped at the words the next moment.
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