Minutes later — after the Strunks had helped ferry the roughly 50 guests waiting in their cars into the house, shielding them under umbrellas — Gonzalez walked into the gallery.
There is quite a lot of Hogwart's uniform to colour in but much fun to be had with creating the house shields in a Quidditch scene.
Australians have had great success saving their homes: a fire front passes in a matter of minutes, during which time the house shields those inside from the heat, and research has shown that houses usually catch fire not as the front passes but, rather, before or after, when wind-borne embers settle on it.
There in the intimate heart of the house, shielded from visitors, they lay like a tiny reminder of the Ephrussis' own irreducible nub of outsiderness.And yet it was the netsuke that found their way into Mr de Waal's hands, to serve as the thread of this history of his ancestors.
They see us going home to nice, big houses, shielded by high walls.
Scarves of wood smoke stood above houses shielded by groves, and this time, instead of making for the coast, I marked out for a leisurely investigation a part of the country bounded by the Risle River on the east, the Dives on the west, and the town of Gace on the south.
De Lima later told the inquest that, at the request of Fitzherbert, he had got rid of the drugs in the house to shield Hockney from scandal.
Hovering above the house and shielding it from the sun are the five slanted, shed-like covers held aloft by I-beams.
It was at some distance from the house and shielded from it by a mass of old trees, but the fact that it was invisible only increased its hold on my imagination.
