What is "carrel"

Usage examples of "carrel".

Lokath Carrel, Syrah Alanu, Vela Pernath and Princess Alena are carved into tombstones.

Ben, leading the way to the humpy carrels, who were peacefully chewing their cud and longing for the desert, with a dreamy, far-away look in their mournful eyes.

The carrels were comfortable nooks just big enough for two people, where customers met the girls and made their arrangements.

Holt leaned out over an ornamental baluster and looked down into a well like an amphitheatre, with crescents of study carrels enough to seat a thousand students at the least count.

Newman noticed that the phones chirped instead of ringing, and that everyone had a computer console in a small carrel.

Only now and then would Hobart Floyt get the twinge, in his carrel in the morning or his apt living room at night, Didn't I just leave here?

He looked like a rumpled, tweedy forty-something professor who had just emerged from his library carrel after days of researching a scholarly piece for a criminal justice journal.

I darted toward her, slapped her hands, blew on her eyelids, while I read this simple epitaph: 'Here lies Louis-Theodore Carrel, Captain of Marine Infantry, killed by the enemy at Tonquin.

I took those and a text on cults to a carrel and started flipping through.

Steve to a carrel containing a black and white X-terminal and handed him a plastic-covered page of instructions.

It is difficult to see how a human being can have a sense of the whole at any level below the fourth, yet workers ifi the library have surprisingly uniform reactions to various levels Those with a strong sense of direction respond comfortably to symmetrical levels such as 5 and 9, their discomfort increases (though not greatly) in the asymmetrical trefoil levels of 4 and 7 But most unexpected was the reaction to level 6, that level is unique in that it is bilaterally symmetrical along the norm-south axis, but asymmetrical along the east west axis Workers on the level unconsciously align their desks to face either north or south When this was noticed, certain psychological tests were conducted In one, half of the carrels brought into the central room were arranged facing north or south, and half facing east or west Workers invariably chose die north-south desks When all the desks in the room were bolted to the floor facing east or west, subjects would begin their tasks at the .

Carrel, ready a couple of small fission bombs for the Acolyte garrison there-it can't be large enough to make us much trouble, but we've no time left to play patty-cake.

Carrel, ready a couple of small fission bombs for the Acolyte garrison thereit can't be large enough to make us much trouble, but we've no time left to play patty-cake.

Instead, the building held stone carrels of sorts, some large, some small, open to the inner square.

With vast libraries of data available to him via computerized information retrieval systems, with his own tapes and video units, his own language laboratory and his own electronically equipped study carrel, he will be freed, for much of the time, of the restrictions and unpleasantness that dogged him in the lockstep classroom.