The wooden door and whitewashed walls --along with the open window above the bed allowing in balmy air --soon brought to mind a more tropical place.
In front of him, whitewashed dwellings lined wide cobbled streets and reflected brightly in the moonlight.
The underground world was well built and bright with whitewashed walls lining corridors wide enough for two people to walk side by side.
Cettigne itself is little more than a walled village, consisting of a cluster of whitewashed cottages and some unadorned public buildings.
The houses, built of stone and whitewashed, are square, substantial, flat-topped buildings, presenting to the street bare walls, with a few slits protected by iron gratings in place of windows.
On an eminence in the western part of the city are the ruins of a large square citadel with a small whitewashed building, called Molud Khaneh (the house of birth), in which Fath Ali Shah was born (1772).
But the costume and physiognomy of the inhabitants, the narrow streets and flatroofed, whitewashed houses, and more than all, the thousands of palm-trees in its gardens and fields, give the place a strikingly Oriental aspect, and render it unique among the cities of Spain.
A small apartment is by immemorial tradition shown as his birth-room, bearing on its whitewashed walls and its windows innumerable signatures of visitors, among which such names as Walter Scott, Dickens and Thackeray may be deciphered.
But before the war the Reichsrat never exercised this right, and thus each time the Government's proceedings were whitewashed.
The walls are tiled to a height of 4 or 5 ft., and above they are finished in plaster, whitewashed or carved into filigree work.
whitewashed cottages feature high peaked ceilings with ceiling fans.
whitewashed wall of the cave were stuck some children's drawings done in colored crayons.
whitewashed brick with a series of flyers hung at its entrance.
Winding roads snake up mountainsides to pretty whitewashed villages surrounded by spiky cacti.
Two rectangular splayed windows with only the dressings not whitewashed.
North wall: four splayed window embrasures; piscina set in wall with two-centred arch over, completely whitewashed.
Here the traveller ascending from the coast sees the first example of the jebel or highland towns, with their high three-storeyed houses, built of quarried stone, their narrow façades pierced with small windows with whitewashed borders and ornamented with varied arabesque patterns; each dar has the appearance of a small castle complete in itself, and the general effect is rather that of a cluster of separate forts than of a town occupied by a united community.
Vathy (Ba®iu="deep"), the chief town and port of the island, lies at the northern foot of Mount Stephanos, its whitewashed houses stretching for about a mile round the deep bay in the Gulf of Molo, to which it owes its name.
Translucent oyster shells are a common substitute for glass; and the walls are whitewashed, but on account of the frequency of earthquakes are not plastered.
The effect of a few rambler roses against the old whitewashed walls make a picture lovelier than can be seen on paper.
The Big House was an early eighteenth century square four storied house with whitewashed walls covered in climbing roses.
You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.
These unique whitewashed cottages feature high peaked ceilings with ceiling fans.
On the whitewashed wall of the cave were stuck some children 's drawings done in colored crayons.
Many cottages are of traditional simple styles, with a narrow layout and whitewashed exterior.
Description of Vale de Parra This scenic area of Portuguese countryside is dotted with magnificent whitewashed villas.
A Dickensian back alley of whitewashed brick with a series of flyers hung at its entrance.
There also appear to have been wall paintings whitewashed over.
Colors of white, cream and sage are commonly used as is a whitewashed finish.
Furniture that is cottage style is distressed and the finish is usually whitewashed or painted in white, cream or sage.
Whitewashed Bramble (Rubus Biflorus) - Has tall wand-like stems often 10 feet or more in height, whitened with a mealy substance on the bark.
They fasten with a whitewashed copper button and are straight-leg and low-rise.
Each room is decorated in a nautical style, with whitewashed furniture and yellow, blue and red accents.
Here the traveller ascending from the coast sees the first example of the jebel or highland towns, with their high three-storeyed houses, built of quarried stone, their narrow façades pierced with small windows with whitewashed borders and ornamented with varied arabesque patterns; each dar has the appearance of a small castle complete in itself, and the general effect is rather that of a cluster of separate forts than of a town occupied by a united community.
When, in the last decade of the 19th century, works of thorough architectural investigation and repair were undertaken in that building under the superintendence of Professor Luca Beltrami, a devoted foreign student, Dr Paul Muller-Walde, obtained leave to scrape for traces of Leonardo's handiwork beneath the replastered and whitewashed walls and ceilings of chambers that might be identified with these.
The first story consists of two large whitewashed bedrooms with stone chimney-pieces, less elaborately carved than those in the rooms beneath.
Little evidence of phasing for this building and the whitewashed exterior only serves to hinder the assessment.
Lush cypress groves, whitewashed houses, sleepy mountain villages and fertile plains are everywhere on the island of Kos.
Such entirely legitimate opposition was literally whitewashed out of the event by BBC editorial controllers.
Timber framing with whitewashed brick nogging, granite rubble stone plinth and Welsh slate roof with brick central ridge stack.
rambler roses against the old whitewashed walls make a picture lovelier than can be seen on paper.
The single-storey steading is of traditional roughcast and is whitewashed.
storied house with whitewashed walls covered in climbing roses.
Further south, the pretty coastal village of Kalkan is a collage of brilliant whitewashed houses, cobblestone streets and aquamarine waters.
Flagged floor; walls roughly plastered and whitewashed; roof has rafters, purlins and one tie-beam truss with struts - some old timbers.
whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.
whitewashed exterior.
whitewashed villas.
whitewashed over.
The rooms were whitewashed once a month; and this one, at least, was the whitest, most simply furnished, and probably the neatest apartment in the town.
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