"Airless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... She strolled slowly up the steps, past the fateful garden wall and the terrace above to the next terrace, where stood a pretty creeper-covered summer-house. It was a warm night, and very still and airless. Kitty sat down on the step in the doorway of the summer-house, and staring before her into the dimness, tried to grasp all that had happened, and what it would mean to them. She thought of their lazy mornings, when they lay in ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... He was surveying the airless parlor rather heavily, and his curt manner was not pleasing to the head of the house of ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
... stone as at Chartres; and if at Le Mans we study the front, of which the scheme is the same as at Chartres, with Christ enthroned and benedictory between the winged beasts of the Tetramorph, what a descent we note in the divine ideal! Everything is pinched and airless. The Christ, too roughly wrought, looks savage. The pupils only of the supreme masters of Chartres evidently ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... By the lamp's airless fierce ecstatic fire; And we've found love in little hidden places, Under great shades, between ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various
... spot for months, and whose feet had lost their powers from inaction. Yes, and for a year Joan had known only the cool damps of a dungeon, and now she was dragging herself through this sultry summer heat, this airless and suffocating void. As she entered the gate, drooping with exhaustion, there was that creature Loyseleur at her side with his head bent to her ear. We knew afterward that he had been with her again this morning in the prison wearying ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain
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