And then, between two adjoining rooms, there opens up an impossible 10-foot hallway, black and icy.
When I forget something in one of the back bedrooms, I have to run down a 40-foot hallway to fetch it.
As he did so, the police said, Mr. Ferguson bolted down a 45-foot hallway leading to a stairway at the back.
While he attacked flames to cut a momentary path, Lieutenant Gordon and Firefighter Cummings plunged across the kitchen and into a 25-foot hallway, which in two zigzag turns led to the three bedrooms.
As patients entered, they were "cohorted," in medical lingo, meaning that they were separated from the general population and quarantined in a 40-foot hallway (normally a psychiatric emergency area), lined with molded plastic chairs, sealed by glass doors at either end, a giant fish tank of people in face masks.
The designers wanted to introduce a natural material to the 60-foot hallway, which is dominated by glass and long steel door hardware, but the beams also provide a buffer zone inside the offices to keep files and office paraphernalia away from the glass and preserve the clean lines.
The interior is like that of an old railroad flat, with the living room in the front, a 2-foot-wide hallway with two 9-by-6-foot bedrooms on either side, and a bathroom and kitchen in the rear.
The door opened into several feet of hallway, equally narrow.
These days, she proudly trots the 10 feet of hallway in her apartment.
In truth, the lounge was an eight-foot-wide hallway, but at least it had a bathroom next to it, large enough for singers to change clothes.
From the entry, where a small, rusted metal sign leaning against a wall reads, "Boys make good pets", a 17-foot-long hallway leads to the living room.
