... which had now become almost constant, vanquished at length his inclination toward slumber. He found his watch, but it was too dark to tell the time. He raised himself up in his berth, and, pulling open the window blind, was able with difficulty to make out that it was almost four o'clock. Outside, he saw a bank of fog, as impenetrable to the eye as a wall. He pulled the blind to, with an ... — The Philistines • Arlo Bates
... walked among the lamps that gleamed, And saw a shadow on a window blind, A moving shadow; and the picture seemed To call ... — An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
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