But that smile! It cut through the gloom of the battered wooden floor, the torn couch and the cobwebbed Windows.
She looked around her, surveying the cobwebbed, dirt-encrusted lower floor of the houes.
I am going to tell you my whole life, the life which did not really begin until the day I first saw you. What I can recall before that day is gloomy and confused, a memory as of a cellar filled with dusty, dull, and cobwebbed things and people-a place with which my heart has no concern.
It WAS the mangroves he noticed first, reduced to cobwebbed wraiths as far as the eye could see.
We have purposely omitted cobwebbed bottles, the patron in his white cap bustling among his sauces, anecdotes about charming little restaurants with gleaming napery, and so forth.
