She could see inside every part of her, see the bleak walls, barred windows, shuttered doors.

Now I could see lights and the bleak walls of concrete, discolored in places where the water had passed.

But from street level the overwhelming vision is of bleak walls, the only advertising scattered red posters of the Communist leadership in triumphant poses.

He pointed wordlessly at the hut's bleak walls.

They would know soon enough when the line bus stopped outside the bleak walls of the prison.

She tried to think of the coming days, and Henry not there, but the thought was shattered on the bleak wall of a lean imagination.

In this room someone had awakened every morning to that barred window; those bleak walls, to this austerity.

The old man indicated a dimly-lit panel on the bleak wall.

The boys' possessions, packed in boxes, stood stacked against the bedroom's bleak wall.

We all became aware how dark it was, the torches flickering and the shadows dancing against the bleak, white walls.