slate-covered

Updated: June 7, 2025

In the background of this hollow stood a peculiar, roofless, stone building, whose two round little windows, like the eternally watchful eyes of some underground worm, shone with a red glare which dazzled the eyes, while the slate-covered chimney belched forth a thick smoke filled with sparks into the subterranean midnight.

Mór Jókai - The Poor Plutocrats

But whenever I have a vision of prisoners bound on tumbrels that jolt slowly to the scaffold, of heads carried on pikes, of groups of heated citoyennes shaking their fists at closed coach-windows, I see in the background the well-ordered features of the architecture of the period the clear grey stone, the high pilasters, the arching lines of the entresol, the classic pediment, the slate-covered attic.

Henry James - A Little Tour of France