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  • She stretched out in midair, letting the weak gravity slowly take her to the air-shaft walls.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • It's like asking for a hotel room with a view of the air-shaft and air conditioning units instead of a canale or campo.

    The Venetian Subway Project 2004

  • It's like asking for a hotel room with a view of the air-shaft and air conditioning units instead of a canale or campo.

    Veniceblog: 2004

  • And also he had noticed on a few occasions what a keen sense of smell I had—I would always remark when the person across the hall was smoking and I had once or twice complained about cooking odors that would come to me through my air-shaft window.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • My air-shaft window let in no direct sunlight, so I never knew what it was like outside until I emerged on the street.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • Finished in the bathroom, he walked past my bed again, and for a moment, in the silver light coming through my air-shaft window, I saw his handsome profile.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • He was in a beam of silvery light coming from the air-shaft window.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • The air-shaft, which had been fairly clear at this depth earlier, now seemed filled with mist; something had carried the cool upper air lower, mixing it with the warm, moist, reeking air we breathed.

    The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

  • Even though the room was deep in shadow, its window overlooking an air-shaft, the girl could see enough of him to be startled.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • Even though the room was deep in shadow, its window overlooking an air-shaft, the girl could see enough of him to be startled.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

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