curtainings

A dozen paces more and we stepped out of the curtainings.

The Metal Monster 2004

Now I strained forward to the very thinnest edge of the curtainings.

The Metal Monster 2004

A cry on my lips, I turned to Larry — and the cry died as the heavy curtainings at the entrance on my right undulated, parted as though a body had slipped through, shook and parted again and again — with the dreadful passing of unseen things!

The Moon Pool 2004

The green auroral curtainings flared out, ran with streaming radiance — as though some Spirit of Jewels had broken bonds of enchantment and burst forth jubilant, flooding the shaft with its freed glories.

The Metal Monster 2004

Weeping, she passed through the curtainings, going we knew to

The Metal Monster 2004

Two litters closed with curtainings, surrounded by triple rows of swordsmen fully armored, carrying small shields and led by

The Metal Monster 2004

Around the octagon ran a low gallery not two feet from the floor, balustraded with slender pillars, close set; broken at opposite curtained entrances over which hung thick, dull-gold curtainings giving the same suggestion of metallic or mineral substance as the rugs.

The Moon Pool 2004

Commandments traced by some mathematical God! Looping across the vale, emerging from the sparkling folds of the southernmost curtainings and vanishing into the gleaming veils of the easternmost, ran a broad ribbon of pale-green jade; not straightly but with manifold convolutions and flourishes.

The Metal Monster 2004

Through each of their curtainings in turn we peered.

The Metal Monster 2004

The chamber was a room shadowy with pale-blue hangings, vaporous with curtainings and veilings of muslin; the bed seemed to me like snow-drift and mist — spotless, soft, and gauzy.

Villette 2003