Staring down at the dusty floorboards.

He proceeded in a duck walk, less than ten feet from the end of the narrow passageway, acutely aware of the soft but betraying scrape of his shoes on the dusty floorboards.

She looked down, her face a rictus of horror, because the dusty floorboards suddenly felt gritty.

The back door, too, was locked and what I could see of the ground floor back room was simply a repeat of the front: dusty floorboards and old newspapers.

The beam-ceilinged room was bare to the dusty floorboards, and the stone fireplaces were missing their andirons and firetools.

No stars, no moon, no streetlights--she might have fallen off into a deep pit of eternal space, rather than onto the dusty floorboards of the decaying, historic house.

The rooms were empty, their dusty floorboards bare, only the dark outlines of long-absent pictures interrupting the blankness of the walls.

She would have screamed if she could; but then the dusty floorboards came up to meet her so fast and so hard that, had she been breathing, they would have knocked the breath from her body.

Elaine moves closer, sees it on the dusty floorboards: An old cigar box.

Crouching - needlessly, because the angle from ground level outside through the windows only got Tattoo to see the roof trusses - Fleming scurried as fast as he could across the bare, dusty, hay-straggled floorboards.