"Lights are shut, curtains drawn and overhead announcements stopped at night to create a sleep-friendly I.C.U.," Dr. Needham said.
And now, this morning, I am lying on my bed, door shut, curtains drawn, and I could swear I hear murmurings outside my door; Kwame again, whispering, "Go on, you do it".
With the schedule running late, the stadium's gates were just drawing shut when Pascall came through – becoming the first and only amateur woman to complete the route on time.
The curtains were drawn shut.
"All day long the curtains were drawn shut and the blinds down.
They got into the elevator, and, as the doors drew shut, she said, "Goodbye, D.O.J".
They retract during the day but are an imposing barrier when they are drawn shut.
Here, just a little over a mile away, many houses were neat, with doors shut and curtains drawn.
I remember you sitting in a side room of your house, all the windows and doors shut, the curtains drawn.
"Jim would often sit home with these heavy curtains drawn shut," said Martin Heinz, a friend, one of the few to maintain contact with him in the last months.
When the rescue workers found a body, or at least a body largely intact, they placed it into a black nylon bag, drew shut the zipper and laid it on the edge of the crash site.
