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She was becoming aware of an embarrassing draughtiness in the nether regions. '
For Frances the church has very little to do with God; it's more a shrine to Englishness: flowers, history, familiar if meaningless -hymns, your own kneeler and a sort of bracing draughtiness, long out of favour.
A Bardekian, close to seven feet tall and massively built, Elaeno had skin so dark that it was as blue-black as ink, a colour indicating that he was at home in hot climates, not this damp draughtiness.
The door was shut, which was the only way to keep the bathroom warm, since draftiness came with the old walls and history.
Excess movement of the tissue or flame indicates draftiness caused by air leaking past the stripping.
Heating is expensive because of the lack of insulation and the draftiness of housing.
He would tumble from his bed, and, on days like today, curse the draftiness of the old house as the cold radiated through the rug on the floor.
I don't think it's the confinement that bothers me so much as the drear and drabness and draftiness and drang - meaning the vast German sense that we really ought to get out of the house and expand imperialistically eastward, or at least go see a movie.