"Alcove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been sitting in the alcove before a writing-table hidden by a curtain, looked ...
— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
... very good party, and seated ourselves in a sort of alcove, to be sheltered from the wind; but it was so ,ery violent that it deterred the royal family from walking. They merely came on the Terrace to show themselves to those who were eager to pay their compliments upon the day, and then ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay
... arm, and, overcoming his mute resistance, dragged him into the first parlor. He managed to wriggle loose after a bit, however, and watched his opportunity made a dart for the smaller one off, and rushed into an alcove somewhat in shadow, intending to escape entirely later on. As he stumbled into its shelter some one, half hidden by the tall back of a chair, turned and met him face to face. It was Rachel Hemphill, and she was as pale ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... deer were frisking, or where solitary fountains dripped into triple basins. Above the doors hung old Italian paintings in soft brown tones representing nude, amber-hued babes fondling curly lambs. The arch dividing the alcove from the rest of the apartment suggested the triumphal order, its fluted columns sustaining a scroll-work of carved foliage with the softened luster of faded gilding, as if it were an ancient altar. Upon an eighteenth century ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... sort of girl I like," said Tom, as Desmond led him across the room to a young lady who was seated far back in an alcove, from whence she could watch the crowd without being observed. Tom, as he made his bow, and was received with a sweet smile, thought that she fully came up to Desmond's description, though she was certainly older than most of his previous partners. ...
— The Three Commanders • W.H.G. Kingston
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