curtainings

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  The Metal Monster

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

  The Metal Monster

• “Weeping, she passed through the curtainings, going we knew to”

  The Metal Monster

• “Through each of their curtainings in turn we peered.”

  The Metal Monster

• “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

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

  The Metal Monster

• “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

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