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room and was
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
There was a light in Black's front room, but drawn curtains prevented any view of the interior.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
There was not enough room to make the usual vertical bomb run.
There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
So Dandy Brandon trustingly entered the house with Delphine Lalaurie and trudged up the rear steps to the attic room which was to be his new home.
It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.
Among some recent imports were seat covers for one series of dining room chairs on which were depicted salad plates overflowing with tomatoes and greens and another set on which a pineapple was worked in naturalistic color.
All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.
He was able, now, to sit for hours in a chair in the living room and stare out at the bleak yard without moving.
He ran for the sick room, found his pistol was broken, and threw it away.
Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.
He settled on the sofa with his coffee, warming his hands on the cup, although the room was heavy with heat.
He didn't, but it was not really a question, and so he left the room, walked down the hall to the front of the apartment, hesitated, and then knocked lightly on the closed door of the study.
When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.
In the room next to theirs was a huge cradle, of mahogany, ornately carved and decorated with gold leaf.
With the metal shutters closed, the dining room was so dark that it seemed still night in there.

room and bathed
Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.
Once a customer has chosen a masseuse, the couple retire to a room, where he is bathed and the masseuse performs a foam massage using her naked body.
The typical worker's household lived in a two-room apartment, in which the kitchen served many functions at once: besides cooking, one dined, lived, bathed, and even slept there, while the second room, intended as the parlour, often was reserved for special occasions such as a rare Sunday dinner.
Christine returned to her hotel room and bathed off the tan, the bath nobody took.
Located beneath the Moors Hall ( Pforzheimer House ) terrace, the three-tiered room is painted white, its floors carpeted ; as the long wall facing the Quad is almost entirely glass, it is bathed in natural light throughout the day.
The police officer in attendance was John E Heymer, and what follows is taken from his own notes on the incident: " The living room was bathed in an orange glow, coming from windows and a lightbulb.
Once he is in his room, he leaps into his bed which is bathed under a hidieous lurid moonlight.

room and light
In the dim underwater light they dressed and straightened up the room, and then they went across the hall to the kitchen.
She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.
It was dark inside the room but enough light spilled from the restaurant behind her to enable her to make out a round table with a green cloth top.
And even if he'd somehow missed seeing him, he wouldn't have gone off and left the light on and door open in the file room.
There was no sound and apparently no movement in the room except the noiseless pulsation of the red light on the wall.
The birds were really awake now in a colloquy of music, and light was beginning to creep across the room, touching sill and door, table and chair and all of Doaty's flowers in their artificial blossom and leaf.
`` You see '', she said, looking past him into the room, where the highball glasses sparkled dully in the bright light, `` you and I can't understand the many hardships they have to undergo ''.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
George Hayward Joyce, SJ, explained that "... where the light of the candle is dependent on the candle's continued existence, not only does a candle produce light in a room in the first instance, but its continued presence is necessary if the illumination is to continue.
Even now, advanced radiosity calculations may be reserved for calculating the ambiance of the room, from the light reflecting off walls, floor and ceiling, without examining the contribution that complex objects make to the radiosity — or complex objects may be replaced in the radiosity calculation with simpler objects of similar size and texture.
Alexander, for example, suggests that enough windows should be included to direct light all around the room.
On 17 September 1179, when Hildegard died, her sisters claimed they saw two streams of light appear in the skies and cross over the room where she was dying.
In 1964, the slogan " There's always room for Jell-O " was introduced, promoting the product as a " light dessert " that could easily be consumed even after a heavy meal.
In actual use, the room is never completely dark, as one will always have the light from the LCD itself.
As he had no way of fixing them, that is to say to stabilize the image by washing out the non-exposed silver salts, they turned completely black in the light and had to be kept in a dark room for viewing.
The camera ( or ' camera obscura ') is a dark room or chamber from which, as far as possible, all light is excluded except the light that forms the image.
We may calculate the ratio of the populations of the two states at room temperature ( T ≈ 300 K ) for an energy difference ΔE that corresponds to light of a frequency corresponding to visible light ( ν ≈ 5 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > Hz ).
A black body at temperatures at or below room temperature would thus appear absolutely black as it would not reflect any light.

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