How To Use Curtained In A Sentence
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There were four curtained windows through which we could see that it was already dark outside, and a door that was slightly ajar.
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The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand.
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Bulkheads were finished in a woven bamboo-striped motif contrasting with the square-shaped windows curtained in a fish/pineapple pattern.
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She stayed hidden in a curtained room with a handsome, brutish Aussie.
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Her steps sounded loud in the silence of the room as she walked across the floor to the black curtained bed.
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For a week after that visit her lights had failed to go on — darkness brooded out into the areaway, seemed to grope blindly in at his expectant, uncurtained window.
Tales of the Jazz Age
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The evening is beautiful and mysterious and the outskirts of Reading full of softly lit curtained windows and familiar homely sounds.
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A curtained doorway separated it from the office.
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People who find themselves in dire economic straits throughout America tomorrow may also be expected to turn to the red-curtained drama of mass violence in order to “send a message” across the footlights.
Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
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Jess could just see his gestures in the half-light coming from her uncurtained windows.
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Clotho saw it, for he called to Joe to look out, and the pistol was jammed into my back ... and all the while I could hear the morning traffic rumbling in the street far below the curtained windows, and the distant knocks of porters rousing guests
THE NUMBERS
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Eileen looked away, out of the window which she'd curtained with an oddment of purple-striped towelling.
LOST CHILDREN
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The wind was blowing through her fancy curtained window and a light breeze hit her long brown hair as it dangled off the bed hitting the pale purple and mauve comforter.
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Only Raymond Orchard was segregated, and taken to a curtained area.
THE SCAR
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It was a great slab-sided craft with lots of wooden balconies and curtained windows.
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Near the bed sculpture was a curtained window frame, in which sat a monitor showing footage taped from Paik's hospital room and from the couple's loft.
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Finally he found a curtained place, hidden from sight, yet enabling to view the room.
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And from the three long uncurtained windows the beautiful stretch of meadow and moorland, the far violet of the hills, and the unchanging changefulness of cloud and sky.
The Railway Children
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Beyond the plush-velvet-curtained windows, the darkness and the fog deepen, and a weeping drizzle of rain begins to fall.
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And Aunt Jane beamed at me over her silver-rimmed spectacles and hitched her own chair a little to one side, in order to give me the full benefit of the wind that was blowing softly through the white-curtained window, and carrying into the room the heavenliest odors from a field of clover that lay in full bloom just across the road.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky
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The tables all had salmon coloured cloths with white starched napkins, terracotta tile floors, large curtained bay windows and the atmosphere is very bright and happy.
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Rich was waiting for her in the conference room, a sconced, heavily curtained rectangle softened by floor-to - ceiling bookcases and the Old World cornices and moldings she had had put up.
Second Skin
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In the 1970s, however, it was decided that every plate-glass window should be curtained to control the thermal flow inside the building and these curtains have remained ever since.
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The curtains were drawn over the east window looking out over the harbour mouth, but the alcove with the oriel north window was uncurtained.
Movie Night
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Armand stood at the threshold of her curtained room, wondering whether to go in or not.
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It was a great slab-sided craft with lots of wooden balconies and curtained windows.
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There were two beds and one massive, velvet curtained window overlooking the school garden.
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William peeped through the curtained window into the dimly lit smoked filled room.
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A young woman descends the stairs from a low, curtained gallery to hand a sheet of music to a cellist waiting downstairs.
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Behind him, the windows were curtained with white cotton, receding on a brass bar into the corner.
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Across the room Alison lay awake, staring towards the curtained windows, listening to the rain.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Titian preferred to paint the goddess Diana bathing in a curtained colonnade, with her entourage of nymphs and even an attendant slave girl and small dog.
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Nina Almayer came through the curtained doorway followed by an old Malay woman, who busied herself in setting upon the table a plateful of rice and fish, a jar of water, and a bottle half full of genever.
Almayer's Folly
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a curtained alcove
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An image from 1964 shows the dark facade of an apartment building, its windows closed and curtained.
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A girl with a glazed look on her face is slumped on a sofa by the side of the curtained-off area.
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All along Dale Avenue, you could see the flickering green-and-white lights of televisions in curtained windows, and the quiet cars lining the streets, slowly freezing in the chill night air.
One Last Thought On Intellectual Honesty: The Fallacy Of Infinite Proof
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His astonishment and confusion, therefore, were great, when, as the last note of the proclamation died in the echo, Count Robert of Paris stood forth, armed cap-a-pie, his mailed charger led behind him from within the curtained enclosure, at one end of the lists, as if ready to mount at the signal of the marshal.
Count Robert of Paris
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They are carpetless and uncurtained, their dim twilight being sifted from the burning glare without through green mattings hung at the windows.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Add to this, great pride of character, so closely curtained as to be almost searchless to herself, with a passion for adventure and novel achievements, and she has in all an amount of temptation to poor human nature that can be overmastered only by strong conflicts and strong faith.
The Grimke Sisters
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Lights beamed from uncurtained windows, cars swarmed around a pillared porch and the noise was like being on a battlefield again.
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‘Aye, that's so - thank God,’ Marion said briskly as she poured water into the bronze ewer on the table near the curtained bed.
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The evening is beautiful and mysterious and the outskirts of Reading full of softly lit curtained windows and familiar homely sounds.
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I looked around me, examining the many curtained windows.
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The traveler may call it stupid and ugly, if he calls it at all; our Hermitage still patiently wears its havelock of weather-beaten shingles, for _it_ knows that beneath its lowly roof -- radiant with whitewash and fresh paper -- are cozy, coolly curtained rooms, where friendly books look down from the wall, and drowsy arm-chairs woo from the corners.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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In this Victorian conversion, the curtained window onto the street is counterbalanced by the back door open onto the garden.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The inside was nearly as plain as where they had slept, two pallets, a stump-legged table, a portable cuisinier and utensil rack, the curtained wash space.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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All afternoon, men and women came and went through a door next to a rubber-curtained entrance bay with the legend "Non-processible loadout" written above it.
NYT > Home Page
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I have curtained the towel service; members are complaining.
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Inside a heavily curtained fourth-floor dance studio is a male-only class specializing in "Hot Nude Yoga," a form of sensualized tantric yoga practiced nude.
Hot Nude Yoga Spreads Across The Country
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He lay in his elaborately curtained bed dying of the fever and from the leeches the doctors attached to various parts of his body to suck his blood.
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The value and livability will be improved if there is a clear bed area that can be curtained off, and a separate kitchen is essential.
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In Oakland's openly drug-tolerant district, I am taken to a cafe-style dispensary where buyers pore over the choicest buds for smoking and buy cuttings for $12 apiece, to a medical marijuana club where three members are drawing on skinny cannabis cigarettes, and to a curtained speak-easy where the patrons are enjoying a game of pool.
Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
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The room went very dark, and Annie realized night had fallen, unnoticed, beyond the curtained windows.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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To the left, in a "curtained" alcove adjacent to Federico's half-scale portrait, we find his armor represented at full-scale, its chain mail glittering.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Samantha bowed her head so that her hair curtained her face, successfully concealing the crimson that stole over her cheeks in embarrassment.
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They were from lovers; from some of the prominent names in the land; men whose devotion had survived even the grisly revealments of her character which the courts had uncurtained; men who knew her now, just as she was, and yet pleaded as for their lives for the dear privilege of calling the murderess wife.
The Gilded Age A tale of today
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Steps down, plants, and cork flooring visible through an uncurtained window indicated good pickings within.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Up the stairs and to the right, far from the door but close to the dark, curtained windows, was a large porch swing.
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Her cat continued to sleep peacefully, sun from one curtained window warming her fur.
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She was on a royal bed which was curtained off with cloth - of - gold.
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She led him through the adjoining room and to the curtained doorway of a library -- long, alcoved, shelved with books, and furnished with heavy leather chairs.
The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure
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She released one of his hands, and by the other led him to a causeuse near one of the splendidly curtained windows.
Despair's Last Journey
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The windows were clean and curtained on the inside.
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Michelle was also still awake, uncurtained windows admitting the light of September's last moon.
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It was high off the floor, curtained by a thin gauzy material and shrouded in dark despite the sunlight filtering through the window.
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The windows were heavily curtained, all the doors closed but the open archway that led into a small kitchen.
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When the windows were not curtained, one could just make out the Caspian Sea with its oil rigs and various boats and ships moored there.
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He leaned stylishly on the tree, his head lowered, his face curtained by his brown hair dyed with streaks of blond, and his arms and legs crossed.
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A curtained doorway separated it from the office.
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He looked aloft at the distant ceiling, and at the expanse of sparsely-curtained window space.
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Examples include Dutch doors, which can be open, closed, or half open, and interior windows that can be curtained.
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Behind it were doors for exits and entrances and a curtained booth or alcove useful for actors to hide inside.
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Adjacent to the studiolo-within-a-studiolo is the third "curtained" alcove in the chamber, containing a positive organ made by Juhani Castellano, whose name is inscribed below its keys.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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On the ground floor he set the entrance back with a long, small-paned, and curtained window, expressing a discreet welcome.
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Turning away from King's Cross down Pentonville Road, from the top deck I see through an uncurtained window into a flat above a shop where three men and a woman are having tea.
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Sharp fanged teeth grinned at Jake while rich ruby eyes were curtained with silver and black hair.
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Inside the curtained pergola was a round table, encircled by a kind of cushioned pew.
The High Crusade
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The cane plantations were "curtained" by rows of densely grown stalks that obscured the lives of the blacks who lived, worked, and died there.
Georgianne Nienaber: The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta
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The seascape window was curtained against brisk wind.
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Gabriel made his way warily down the row of curtained cubicles.
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She woke in the pitch darkness of the curtained bed with the suddenness of one called.
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Rebecca glares at the bugle sitting on the sill, the dark uncurtained window, the fulsome moon, Marylebone.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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I could get used to windows with curtains, or looking through a curtained window to see a pink plastic bucket in a green turtle sandbox.
Michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The hall, with heavily curtained windows, was plunged into darkness and the public address system stopped working.
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Then there was a scream and Jasmine's shoulders were pressed against the uncurtained window of their bedroom.
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His eyes adjusted to the dimly lit room, illuminated by a single, heavily curtained window.
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The cells, it need not be said, are the snuggest little nests in the world, with serge-curtained beds and snowy linen, and saints and martyrs pinned against the wall.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
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Foolishly, they grossly over-estimated their appeal by booking the 02, only for the top tier to be curtained off and there being enough room for everyone to swing a clowder of cats downstairs.
Evening Standard - Home
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the belle of half a dozen balls who took a thousand calls curtained, or otherwise is getting wed hitched shackled now ball and chain where once was piece of fluff is it enough, she wonders to really really like?
Archive 2007-02-01
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Reference to the diagrams will show that the tormentors have a "flipper," which runs to the proscenium arch wall; in the flipper is usually a door or a curtained opening for the entrances and exits of acts in One.
Writing for Vaudeville
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She lowered her head so her hair curtained her face so he couldn't see her satisfied smirk.
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She found the curtained casement flung open to let in a stream of sunlight and fresh air.
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It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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Her long, golden hair curtained her face, and you could just see her stunning eyes from behind.
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Spread throughout the pond, seven pale piles of limbs, bared teeth, faces curtained off by their hair.
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They were in Llewelyn's bedchamber; a large curtained bed stood at the far end of the room.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Thinking then of the fair Egyptian, insensibly his gait became slower, and at length fell into the merest loiter, until finally he could discern a curtained houdah, and two persons seated within it.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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The room had three beds set in a row, the last next to a lavishly curtained window with a breathtaking view of the buildings and roads below.
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I took a small, reluctant step across the threshold, into the curtained gloom.
NIGHT SISTERS
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Stretching out his long length, his black hair curtained his face as his lightning blue eyes disappeared under a sweep of raven lashes.
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Images from her dreams charged into her consciousness suddenly and curtained her away from reality.
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Synelle herself traveled in a gilded litter, borne by eight muscular slaves and curtained with fine silken net to admit the breeze yet keep the sun from her alabastrine skin.
Conan The Triumphant
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_ -- At daybreak a speck was seen in the horizon; now it is visible above the hollow wave, now curtained from our sight by the swelling billow: we approach nearer; the speck divides, and two spots appear; they are Calypso's Isles, --
Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833
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Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove, a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.
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As usual, the room was still dark - the windows still curtained and closed - and no one was in it but her.
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Spread throughout the pond, seven pale piles of limbs, bared teeth, faces curtained off by their hair.
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Memory foam pillow top were transmontane with curtained whisky and greed than any pyrolignic sumptuosity damnatory in the aortic maimed and a uncannily.
Rational Review
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The doctor leaves the curtained area and the patient on whose behalf he was called down for a neurology consult.
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These conditions, with the nearness of the declivities of the western mountains, and the proximity of the enemy's frontier, behind which movements of troops would be "curtained" -- to use a graphic military metaphor -- gave the
Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
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PASTOR YOST AND I waited in a curtained room inside a hot revival tent pitched in the middle of an Ohio field.
Miracles, Inc.
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There's no reason why a Roman barracks should have been any different from an 18th-century European one, with entire families crammed into the neat rooms, with bunks curtained off, and the young couple in the corner on the top bunk making babies while the woman in the bottom bunk is giving birth to her fourth, and the children scamper under foot, or making themselves useful polishing kit.
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