1. Beside us the lace curtains bellied in with a faint breeze, then hung inert. 2. By the twenties, lace curtains and an aspidistra in the window were bad omens. 3. He gazed upwards until a lace curtain flicked back and he realised an elderly woman with white hair was studying him suspiciously. 4. The gate handle clicked sharply and she drew aside the lace curtain. 5. The lace curtains seemed to have survived from obscurity, like the antique gown of a jilted bride. 6. We hung delicate lace curtains in the windows. 7. The sunlight falling through the lace curtain stippled her face. 8. From what I could see, peeping out from behind the lace curtains in the living-room, nobody was admitting to much. 9. Juliet knocked, and a lace curtain twitched. 10. Behind the windows are lace curtains and sepia portraits of grandparents on the wall. |