Alcove

(noun.) a small recess opening off a larger room.

整理:马库斯

• Instantly, silently, before my eyes, it vanished; so did the curtain and alcove: all that end of the garret became black as night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• After the lovers again joined me, we supped together in the alcove. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I found this vision of beauty in Perdita's alcove, in earnest conversation with its inmate. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• So plainly it shonethat it revealed the deep alcove with a portion of the tarnished scarlet curtain drawn over it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• My bed stood in a little alcove; on turning my face to the wall, the room with its bewildering accompaniments became excluded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was shady enough in the alcove, but I declare I quite dreaded the coming home again. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It issued from the alcove, and thither Fanny hastened, a note in her hand, which she delivered to fingers that hardly seemed to have nerve to hold it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Around the sides of the room, bounding this open space, run two tiers of gallery, divided, as is the main floor beneath them; into alcoves of liberal dimensions. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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