blank wall


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blank wall, blind wall, dead wall

A wall whose whole surface is unbroken by a window, door, or other opening.
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Yes, I remember he boasted about the blank wall in an extraordinary way," continued Evgenie, "and I feel that without that blank wall he will never be able to die eloquently; and he does so long to die eloquently
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Halting only for the brief instant that was required to wrench my sword from the carcass of my late antagonist, I sprang across the chamber to the blank wall beyond, through which the thern had attempted to pass.
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This way," she whispered, again slipping her hand into his and in silence she led him through several dim chambers, and finally stopped before a blank wall in a great oak-panelled room.
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He had, of course, his corner in a close though unheated room, with a window opening upon a blank wall two feet away; and also he had the bare streets, with the winter gales sweeping through them; besides this he had only the saloons--and, of course, he had to drink to stay in them.
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Already have I been told enough of you to warrant me in passing through your heart the jeddak's steel--of how you stole the brains from the warrior U-Van so that he thought he saw your headless body still endowed with life; of how you caused another to believe that you had escaped, making him to see naught but an empty bench and a blank wall where you had been.
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A pathetically lean girl flattened against a blank wall, turned up expiring eyes and tendered a flower for sale; while, near by, the large photographs of some famous and mutilated bas-reliefs seemed to represent a massacre turned into stone.
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One side of the passage was a blank wall, for the building it supported was an old unsuccessful theatre restaurant, now shut up.
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Before him and about two feet away was the blank wall of another building.
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But, in truth, the picture was no more to him at that moment than the blank wall against which it hung.
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She existed, unapproachable, behind the blank wall of his renunciation.
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In the middle of the lake was what appeared to be an island, and on the island what appeared to be meant for a classical temple, not open like a temple of the winds, but with a blank wall between its Doric pillars.
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For coming out of V Prospect towards the square, he saw on the left a passage leading between two blank walls to a courtyard.
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