Excerpts

Usage examples of passages.

It is useless to say that the darkest corners of the passages were ransacked before they were obliged to give it up in despair.

Tell me where the various secret passages, traps, spyholes, firing ports, and the like are hidden, around this room.

Ambelter used the Thrael to snatch ready morsels from the platters in the kitchens as he strolled, not waiting for scurrying priests to let things get cold as they raced down long passages and up the many stairs.

We may be crawling through some narrow cave passages, so make sure none of them are claustrophobic.

Chekov had long ago given up trying to represent the true shape of their passages on his map.

The passages here were generally wider, with only occasional places where what looked suspiciously like blocks of broken roof crimped the space down to a few dozen centimeters in height.

It was one of those delightfully irregular houses where you go up and down steps out of one room into another, and where you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where there is a bountiful provision of little halls and passages, and where you find still older cottage-rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.

They had occupied me for some time, and I was passing through the passages on my return with my basket of keys on my arm when Mr.

And hence the stately old dame, taking Time by the forelock, leads him up and down the staircases, and along the galleries and passages, and through the rooms, to witness before he grows any older that everything is ready, that floors are rubbed bright, carpets spread, curtains shaken out, beds puffed and patted, still-room and kitchen cleared for action--all things prepared as beseems the Dedlock dignity.

Charley went up the stairs, and down the stairs, and along the passages--the zigzag way about the old-fashioned house seemed very long in my listening ears that night--and so came back, along the passages, and down the stairs, and up the stairs, and brought the letter.

It was a large prison with many courts and passages so like one another and so uniformly paved that I seemed to gain a new comprehension, as I passed along, of the fondness that solitary prisoners, shut up among the same staring walls from year to year, have had--as I have read--for a weed or a stray blade of grass.

A waste of unused passages and staircases in which to drop a comb upon a bedroom floor at night is to send a stealthy footfall on an errand through the house.

Above her, the passages still rumbled and shook from the aftereffects of the concussion.

Da had trained her in its passages, in the spiraling path that led ever upward.

Anna followed him out by dark passages that led them not immediately to the tower but rather to the barracks, a long attic room built over the stables.