"Claustral" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and lies in a squalid street of mud-dwellings. Villainously dirty walls surround a massive entrance-gate studded with nails and bands of iron, intervolved in artful designs. No bell, no knocker, no door-handle; only an impressive lock. At the sight of this doorway I paused—it was grim, claustral, almost menacing; there was an air of enchantment about the mansion, as if once in a hundred years its forbidding portals might ...
— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas |
