The expense of keeping a light on each floor for the corridors was not allowed in this building, and they moved along in the darkness, but for the flickering light of the few candles carried among them.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
I turned from that hated door And passed through the House of Life, Through its ghostly rooms and glad And its corridors dim with age.
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer
But, as the end of term flung its shadows in front of it in the form of examinations, and that especial quality of excited expectancy hovering about the corridors, Cards felt, for the first time in his existence, a genuine emotion.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole