Athos, do you know any inn in the whole town where one can find
white sheets, roast beef reasonably cooked, and wine which is not made of hops and gin?
As I got near the shore, the clouds gathered black, and the rain came down, drifting in great
white sheets of water before the wind.
From over balconies fell long
white sheets stuck all over with bouquets.
The forms of Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan, bathed in its
white sheets, assumed that livid spectral appearance which physicians produce with the fictitious light of alcohol impregnated with salt.
You must be tired,' said she to the jeweller; `I have spread a pair of
white sheets on your bed; go up when you are ready, and sleep well.
They had beside them what seemed to be
white sheets concealing some objects under them, standing upright or lying flat, and arranged at intervals.
Of course, as everybody knows, when the bodily eyes are thus out of the lists, the spiritual eyes are uncommonly vivacious and perspicuous; and, therefore, there were abundance of full-length portraits of the ghost, abundantly sworn and testified to, which, as if often the case with portraits, agreed with each other in no particular, except the common family peculiarity of the ghost tribe,--the wearing of a
white sheet.
It generally happened in this way: Night, clouds racing overhead, wind howling, royals set, and the ship rushing on in the dark, an immense
white sheet of foam level with the lee rail.
Snow began to fall an hour after they started, a fine snow, however, which happily could not obstruct the train; nothing could be seen from the windows but a vast,
white sheet, against which the smoke of the locomotive had a greyish aspect.
When I think of a spirit all I can see is a
white sheet runnin' in the dark.
When he glanced up again, Alleyne had, with a few bold strokes of the brush, tinted in a woman's face and neck upon the
white sheet in front of him.
Once he touched and half lifted the
white sheet that covered her, but his courage failed and he, like Doc- tor Reefy, turned and went out of the room.
