Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and
alcoves. Besides, it was very convenient on an excursion; much better than those garden-chairs which are convertible into walking-sticks; upon occasion, a chief calling his attendant, and desiring him to make a settee of himself under a spreading tree, perhaps in some damp marshy place.
There seemed to have been grass paths here and there, and in one or two corners there were
alcoves of evergreen with stone seats or tall moss-covered flower urns in them.
At one end of the room was what appeared to be a curtained
alcove, the heavy hangings of which completely hid the interior.
Drawing aside the curtains, he revealed to view an
alcove, in which stood a neat little gas-stove for cooking.
He did not know enough to ask the man at the desk, and began his adventures in the philosophy
alcove. He had heard of book philosophy, but had not imagined there had been so much written about it.
If I think of touching, even with my finger, the son of Anne of Austria, the true king of this realm of France - if I have not the firm intention of prostrating myself before his throne - if in every idea I may entertain to-morrow, here at Vaux, will not be the most glorious day my king ever enjoyed - may Heaven's lightning blast me where I stand!" Aramis had pronounced these words with his face turned towards the
alcove of his own bedroom, where D'Artagnan, seated with his back towards the
alcove, could not suspect that any one was lying concealed.
In a large chamber of the Palais Royal, hung with a dark colored velvet, which threw into strong relief the gilded frames of a great number of magnificent pictures, on the evening of the arrival of the two Frenchmen, the whole court was assembled before the
alcove of M.
It was in a turret, looking over the tops of the trees in the Anlage; and the bed was in an
alcove, so that when you sat at the desk it had not the look of a bed-room at all.
We will only state here that, with the exception of an
alcove which was contrived there for the use of Madame Grotius, it differed in no respect from the other cells of the prison; only, perhaps, it was a little higher, and had a splendid view from the grated window.
Harthouse, in an
alcove in the garden, talking very low; he stood leaning over her, as they whispered together, and his face almost touched her hair.
Suddenly from a dark
alcove another Wieroo rushed out toward him.
Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young Pagan, in Lombard-street, London, and also of a curtained
alcove in the rear of the immortal boy, and also of a looking-glass let into the wall, and also of clerks not at all old, who danced in public on the slightest provocation.
alcove - a small recess opening off a larger room