| 440 pages
...other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to, in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the...enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering ; some... | |
| William Dusinberre - 1996 - 571 pages
...other window-less ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the...enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering, some... | |
| Dorothy May Emerson, June Edwards, Helene Knox - 2000 - 644 pages
...other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the...enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering, some... | |
| Fanny Kemble - 2000 - 244 pages
...other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the...enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers, of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering, some... | |
| Sidonie A. Smith, Julia Watson, Sidonie Smith - 2006 - 472 pages
...other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the...enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach were cowering, some... | |
| Frances Anne Kemble - 2007 - 269 pages
...other windowless ones were darkened by the dingy shutters, which the shivering inmates had fastened to, in order to protect themselves from the cold. In the...enormous chimney glimmered the powerless embers of a few sticks of wood, round which, however, as many of the sick women as could approach, were cowering; some... | |
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