Next day the light of the October morning was falling in dusty shafts through the uncurtained windows, and the hum of traffic rose from the street.

She was halfway up the ladder by then, her gold pigtails bouncing against her shoulderblades, climbing through a dusty shaft of light.

The sun was coming up over the Blue Mountain peak and dusty shafts of gold lanced into the plunging valley.

The dusty shafts of light from the empty windows didn't illuminate the dark tangle below, but I made out that there were ways to climb down.

The shovel was exactly where he had told her it would be, leaning against one wall in a dusty shaft of sunlight.

The sun was high in the sky and those vines had fallen away, so the light fell in dusty shafts from the lofty windows.

The dusty shafts of light filtering in through the windows are spongiform, appearing almost as solid as the old walls.

After the door closed behind them, there were only the dusty shafts of the early afternoon sun.

"This seems an old place," Jojen said as they walked down a gallery where the sunlight fell in dusty shafts through empty windows.

The sun came in thin dusty shafts through the twisting branches.