"Draughty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a middle-aged, rather corpulent and exceedingly kind and cultured gentleman, was the father of the two girls. Their mother had been dead about seven years, a cold caught in playing on a draughty stage developing into pneumonia, from which she ...
— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope
... we reached Avonmouth about 5, to find that our boat was not in. The men were put up in a cold, draughty shed for the night, where they had little sleep, while the officers took train to Bristol, nine miles off, where we dined excellently at the Royal Hotel, but, there being no vacant rooms, we went to the St. Vincent's Rocks Hotel, overlooking ...
— The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" • George Davidson
... was the way that Felice went into the House in the Woods. That was the way she entered the broad and draughty hall, with the formidably big rooms on either side dimly lighted by the queer candle lamps and the faint glow from the fires on ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... the air is chill, and these narrow halls are draughty. Do not stand out here," he said, with eager solicitude; "you might ...
— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey
... the report had been an excitement, it is true; but when that was over the days passed by in uneventful fashion, until autumn waned and winter came back, with the attendant discomforts of dark mornings, draughty corridors, and coatings of ice on the water in the ewers; for this was a good, old-fashioned winter, when Jack Frost made his appearance in the beginning of December, and settled down with a solidity which meant that he had come to stay. The hardy girls declared that ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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