"Alcove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dressing-room, which overlooked the quadrangle, there was a small alcove which had been converted into a storeroom for the array of trunks and dress boxes that Lady O'Moy had brought from England. A door opening directly from her dressing room communicated with this alcove, ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... black robes. While he was there, some rice-beer was brewed. On being given some of it to drink, he was very joyful, and then danced. Then, as he went out-of-doors, he re-entered the house with a piece of hard dung in his mouth, and put it in the alcove. As the master of the house became angry and beat him, he, being a large crow, flew out of the window, making the sound "K[a]! k[a]!" For this reason, even crows are creatures to be dreaded. Be very careful!—(Translated literally. Told ...
— Aino Folk-Tales • Basil Hall Chamberlain
... Maddox party eventually asked her to have an ice. 'Come and sit in this alcove place, and I'll ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... dispersed, his four lawful Mohammedan wives, and many concubines, were gazing furtively down from behind their haiks. There was a fountain in the middle of the patio, and at the farther end of it, within an alcove that opened out of a horseshoe arch, beneath ceilings hung with stalactites, against walls covered with silken haities, and on Rabat rugs of many colours, sat Ben Aboo and ...
— The Scapegoat • Hall Caine
... alcove at the head of the stairs threw a dim light down the passage which led off the first-floor landing, but Musard felt for the electric switch and pressed it. The light flooded an empty corridor, with the door of the room nearest to him gaping ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
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