Whitewashed sentence example
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- 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.
- But before the war the Reichsrat never exercised this right, and thus each time the Government's proceedings were whitewashed.
- Winding roads snake up mountainsides to pretty whitewashed villages surrounded by spiky cacti.
- Two rectangular splayed windows with only the dressings not whitewashed.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Cettigne itself is little more than a walled village, consisting of a cluster of whitewashed cottages and some unadorned public buildings.
- 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.Advertisement
- 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.
- 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.Advertisement
- Timber framing with whitewashed brick nogging, granite rubble stone plinth and Welsh slate roof with brick central ridge stack.
- The single-storey steading is of traditional roughcast and is whitewashed.
- 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.
- 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.Advertisement
- The underground world was well built and bright with whitewashed walls lining corridors wide enough for two people to walk side by side.