dust-sheets

I bounded through, heard the door slam and the lock grate behind me, and found myself in an immensely long studio gallery with a glass roof, full of lumber under dust-sheets.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Her talk of business, though, had reminded me of something that had slipped my mind during all our frenzied exertions; as we climbed into her four-poster presently, I asked why the place was closed up and under dust-sheets.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The spacious hall was shrouded in dust-sheets, packages were stacked everywhere, bound and labelled as for a journey; it looked like a wholesale flitting.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Whilst I sat in happy contemplation, lads with oily hair and big boots happily clod-hopped over the dust-sheets, slurping at treacly tea and giving me the occasional devastatingly proletarian smile.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

The house is being renovated throughout - dust-sheets, scaffolding all over the place, holes in walls, computers periodically moved and/or packed away - which isn't conducive to computing, or anything else useful.

Archive 2004-08-01 Ray Girvan 2004

The house is being renovated throughout - dust-sheets, scaffolding all over the place, holes in walls, computers periodically moved and/or packed away - which isn't conducive to computing, or anything else useful.

Outage Ray Girvan 2004

Purposefully, almost vengefully, he drags the dust-sheets from the shrouded pyramid, rolls them up and slings them into a corner of the room.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

But if Mundy must as usual be up and doing, Sasha who could never rise early is sound asleep inside the heap of sofa cushions and blankets and dust-sheets that Mundy put together for him when they had drowned their differences in a second bottle of burgundy.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

And then, like Sasha, he sweeps past Mundy and takes up a command position directly beneath the art nouveau skylight, a yard away from the island of packing cases and dust-sheets that, like a statue waiting to be unveiled, dominates the main hall.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

The console tables in the hall were all covered in dust-sheets.

Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002