Then destiny stepped in and drew Aunt Laura to the sitting-room bookcase to look in its lower compartment for a certain letter she wanted to see.
He had got the tickets, and secured a private compartment in the through-coach for Liverpool; and he found time to arrange with the cabman to drive Agnes home on the box-seat.
Bretton's own compartment of the bookcase; and it proved to be an old Bretton book—some illustrated work of natural history.
But the impression was hardly felt and not fixed, before the consciousness that I faced a great mirror, filling a compartment between two pillars, dispelled it: the party was our own party.
But as you walk in the street, or sit in the corner of the compartment behind a pipe, or "strap-hang" on the Subterranean, who is to know that you are engaged in the most important of daily acts?
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude (for nowhere can one more perfectly immerse one's self in one's self than in a compartment full of silent, withdrawn, smoking males) is to me repugnant.
At last, however, by touching a secret spring, an inner compartment will open—a roll of paper appears—you seize it—it contains many sheets of manuscript—you hasten with the precious treasure into your own chamber, but scarcely have you been able to decipher 'Oh thou, whomsoever thou mayst be, into whose hands these memoirs of the wretched Matilda may fall'—when your lamp suddenly expires in the socket, and leaves you in total darkness.
PriestmanGoode suggests that business class travelers have their own pod, complete with a personal overhead compartment and wardrobe for storing items.
It's a hollow steel mallet with a compartment that slides out of the head.
A US-based retailer created the Bella Vita purse which features a hidden pouring tap and insulated compartment for storing up to two bottles (1.
Airbus has announced that carriers will be able to choose from a range of sleeper compartment configurations in the holds of A330 aircraft by 2020 -- and that it's also looking to offer this feature on the A350 XWB.
May I put my overcoat up there in the overhead compartment?
The French Culture Ministry said that customs agents in Marne-la-Vallee were surprised to find a work of art bearing the signature "Degas" inside a suitcase in the bus' luggage compartment.
We have noticed our customers are becoming more and more sustainability focused, opting for dual compartment recycling bins that make it far easier to recycle different types of waste.
The phone is designed as a "backup" phone you can keep in the glove compartment for emergencies.
Obviously, if we store something away in the short-term compartment, we won't be able to keep it very long.
I had the compartment on the train to myself up to Rohana, and then a girl got on.
If you want to sit next to your companion, be a safe distance from the bathroom, put your bag in an overhead compartment instead of the belly of the plane, and have enough time to make a connection, what you really want are good fares that may not be the absolute cheapest, but give you the experience you want.
A study warns trousers that are too tight can cause health problems, triggering 'compartment syndrome', causing damage to the nerves and muscles in the legs.
He finds the bottle of aspirin in the car's glove compartment, and gets ready to go back to the room when he realizes something: he can't remember which room was his .
