partition-wall

The painting was resting against the partition-wall, and was screened with a gauze cover.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Sometimes Vologonov knocks at the partition-wall with a superannuated arshin measure which has only fifteen vershoki of its length remaining.

Through Russia 2003

In the room behind the partition-wall where Mimi and the girls had slept (yet so near to ourselves that we had exchanged confidences overnight) movements now became audible, their maid kept passing in and out with clothes, and, at last the door opened and we were summoned to breakfast.

Boyhood 2003

Presently, they stepped, on tiptoe, past the mirrored partition-wall.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

Against the partition-wall, on the east side, facing the west, was a reclining pillow, made of blue satin, neither old nor new.

Hung Lou Meng 2003

There was a good strong partition-wall between me and the gathering storm, as well as a facile means of flight through the glass-door to the court, in case it swept this way; so I am afraid I derived more amusement than alarm from these thickening symptoms.

Villette 2003

The latter is a very large, bright, clean, cheerful apartment with three windows in it, and a partition-wall which, running outwards from the front wall, makes a sort of little den, a sort of extra room, for myself.

Poor Folk 2003

He called him into his room (I happened to be looking through a crack in the partition-wall), and had an explanation with him in the way that a gentleman should — noone except myself being a witness of the scene; whereas, in my own case, I had no explanation at all.

Poor Folk 2003

She opened his letter, watched his comings and goings, and listened at the partition-wall when women came to consult him in his surgery.

Madame Bovary 2003

Luckily, the wooden partition-wall was close enough to arrest her fall, and she did not sprawl on the ground.

Hung Lou Meng 2003