Mao lies in a dim chamber, garbed in a grey suit, his sallow waxy face framed by thick black hair bathed in a patch of orange light.
AS A pupil at a minor English boarding school, one of the rituals your correspondent dreaded most was morning chapel: 600 boys and a dozen berobed "masters" crammed into a cold, dim chamber for ten minutes of dreary hymns and prayers.
The Plaza Hotel's Edwardian Room is one of those hushed, dim chambers where everything is so padded and plushy that it seems as if the carpets had carpets.
I ventured through dim chambers housing a cook-chill sequence of pools, their distant vaulted ceilings black with sulphured encrustations, and out into a fabulous warm-water lido bordered by copper-domed, Hapsburg-ochred stateliness.
When Winston Churchill was a struggling student at Harrow, he thought of calculus as a dragon lurking in the "Alice in Wonderland world" of mathematics, its "dim chambers lighted by sullen sulphurous fires".
The tunnel is intersected regularly by dim chambers that probe at upward angles through layers of rock and sandstone into thick veins of anthracite, natural seams of coal that radiate for 30 miles into the hills on either side of the mine.
After changing into the uniform, I headed into the dim sleep chamber; everything was a minimalist Muji-meets- 2001: Muji-meets- 2001 white.
In the flickering candlelight of the monastery's dim main chamber, they then built small pyramids of incense to place throughout the building, adorned with golden Buddhas, and at the center of Tagong.
In one dim, echoing chamber, Mr. Burke showed how miners extracted the coal from veins that curl through layers of rock pushed up by the primordial forces that made mountains where an inland sea once lay.
"Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam," and so on.
For the second context (context B), the room lights were turned dim and the chamber houselight was turned off.
