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Updated: September 18, 2025
In front of him lay the town, desolate, appalling, with a few rooks cawing discordantly round the windowless houses. And over everything brooded an oppressive hot stinking stillness that almost terrified him. . . . After a while his gaze settled on the place where the wall was broken down, and his imagination began to play.
He went up and looked through a crack in the wood. Inside the windowless barn was in semi-darkness, for but little light came through the openings stopped up with straw, especially as the day was beginning to wane. He was able to distinguish a heap of barrels, broken wine-presses, old ploughs, and scrap-iron of all kinds.
And in consequence the jet-plane was ordered to change course and head west. After many hours the transport landed. A hillside rose before it. A vast, grass-covered area lifted up. It was a great door. The transport rolled deliberately into a monstrous, windowless, artificial cavern, and the hillside closed behind it. This was a base, too, but not like the one at Gissell Bay.
Many stone sarcophagi, some of which are artistically carved, lie scattered about in almost every conceivable position some even lying across the tops of others. But these windowless rock-palaces are all empty. Leaving Gerasa, my way leads in a general direction westward over the mountains of Gilead.
In places the streets were so very narrow, dark, and filthy, and the few figures slid away into the windowless house walls in so ghostlike a fashion, that the girls hesitated a little before following their guide. "I feel a good deal as if I were going through a graveyard," whispered Bess once, "only it's one where the inmates sometimes walk!" "Yes," said Mr.
At any rate, the walls of the new chapel were mounting higher and higher all through February, and by the end of the first week in March there stood immediately opposite to the Vicarage gate a hideously ugly building, roofless, doorless, windowless; with those horrid words, "New Salem, 186 " legibly inscribed on a visible stone inserted above the doorway, a thing altogether as objectionable to the eyes of a Church of England parish clergyman as the imagination of any friend or enemy could devise.
The cabin to which they were assigned consisted of one windowless room, and was without a chimney. They were necessarily without furniture, their sole stock beyond their own clothing being a few blankets and cooking utensils, which they had brought with them.
Here were towers of needle slimness, solid blocks of almost windowless masonry looking twice as bulky beside those same towers, archways stringing at dizzy heights above the ground from one skyscraper to the next. And here time and nature had been at work.
He took Bart through the beautiful grounds of his sumptuous home, and to a windowless padlocked room in the loft of the stable. Poor Baker, his hands secured with stout pieces of wire, arose from a stool with a gleam of hope on his pallid face as Bart followed the colonel into the room. "See here, Baker which isn't your name but it will do " said the colonel at once, "things have turned your way.
Arrived at the gate of the town, they accosted the warder, sent their salaams to the Amir, and requested the honour of audience. At Harar. They were conducted to the palace, a long, single-storied, windowless barn of rough stone and reddish clay. Says Burton: "I walked into a vast hall between two long rows of Galla spearmen, between whose lines I had to pass.
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