What is "alcoves"

Usage examples of "alcoves".

Hugh walked a circuit of the chamber, shining his lamp into three alcoves built into the corbeled chamber.

So much more interesting to Spuggy that he almost got left behind when the party moved on, over the site of the altar and through the gardens, to the dove-cote, where there was a pause to allow everybody to duck inside by the low doorway, and gape up at the vast expanse of wooden framework inside, and the tier after tier of nesting-alcoves.

The tunnel debouched into a corbeled chamber, dry and dusty and crammed with neat piles of bones laid into alcoves that gleamed fitfully as Elafi turned all the way around to shine his light into each one.

They walk out of the alcoves, ancient queens whose eyes have the glint of knives.

Shadowy formsold women clutching baskets and jars, lean children with eyes as bright as starsglared at them from the alcoves and hollows where they had taken shelter.

The ME began removing bones from the alcoves with rubber-gloved hands and placing them into the lockers, tossing the clothing and other personal effects aside.

The remains had been walled up in a dozen alcoves in what was apparently an old coal tunnel dating from the middle of the nineteenth century.

On the walls, in gilded alcoves, were paintings draped with white sheets.

They walked out of the alcoves, ancient queens whose eyes had the glint of knives.

The dim alcoves built into the tomb had vanished, replaced by a smooth-walled, empty chamber carved out of rock.

The place, to all appearances, was a classic provincial alehouse: numerous tables and chairs, a long, long bar, a few small windows high in a back wall, and several curtained alcoves or private rooms.

Along the inner side it was glazed in for shelter, and all along it, where the brick wall is now, there were little secluded alcoves with desks, where the monks could sit and read.

He led Mullivy out into the passageway beyond the altar room's door, a wide corridor lined with alcoves, burial vaults of the highest-ranking founders of the Edificant Library.

He shifted the beam from side to side and saw that this passage's walls were lined with dark holes, alcoves.

Cadderly turned slowly, bringing his light to bear, and realized that in his narrow focus on the path ahead, he had crossed the first few sets of these alcoves.