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  • Arrived at the glass door, I stopped and looked back at the gravelwalk.

    The Dead Alive Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Again the sixty ghastly windows stared at her with all their eyes; back from the gravelwalk, through a side-door into the pompous solitude of the stately house; across long chambers, where the mirrors reflected her form, and the huge chairs, in their flaunting damask and flaring gold, stood stiff on desolate floors; into her own private room, -- neither large nor splendid that; plain chintzes, quiet book shelves.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Again the sixty ghastly windows stared at her with all their eyes; back from the gravelwalk, through a side-door into the pompous solitude of the stately house; across long chambers, where the mirrors reflected her form, and the huge chairs, in their flaunting damask and flaring gold, stood stiff on desolate floors; into her own private room, -- neither large nor splendid that; plain chintzes, quiet book shelves.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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