The curtains of the studio were still undrawn and the glow from the night beyond fell softly along the gleaming black boards of the floor that stretched into shadow by the farther wall, over the round mahogany table-without a cloth and shining with its own colour-deep and liquid brown,-and out to the pictures that hung in their dull gold frames along the wall.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
But there was no rest there, and, feeling confined and cribbed within fence and hedge, he glanced for a moment or two at the tall window with its undrawn blinds, through which he could see Mrs Alleyne, seated stiff and with an uncompromising look upon her face, busy stitching at a piece of linen in which she was making rows of the finest nature, in preparation for a garment to be worn by her son.
"The Star-Gazers"
George Manville Fenn
They went informally into the dining-room, where the light of shaded wax candles on the table mingled with the departing daylight, for the curtains were still undrawn.
"Antony Gray,--Gardener"
Leslie Moore