sunblinds

Updated: June 13, 2025

The verandahs, stripped of their sunblinds, looked like skeletons; where there had been bright eyes and gay laughter, silence reigned. "How autumnal!" she said. "Yes, the forsaken villas look horrible." They walked on. "Let us go and look at the house where we used to live." "Oh, yes! It will be fun." They passed the bathing vans.

August Strindberg - Married

There are grand houses that one sees at once will never be comfortable, and there are unpretentious houses that promise to be cool in summer and warm in winter and restful all the year round: of such was Chilmark vicarage, sunning itself in the afternoon clearness, while faded green sunblinds filled the interior with verdant shadow, and the smell of sweetbrier and Japanese honeysuckle breathed round the rough-cast walls.

Anthony Pryde - Nightfall