Low-wattage bulbs shone yellow amid the black furniture and rough whitewashed walls.

Now, with the opening of its new library under the program, the school has 3,000 books housed amid freshly painted walls.

As if to emphasize purity of intention, the stage is a raised wooden platform floating amid exposed walls and lighting equipment.

Cynthia Inc., for example, has transformed a bedroom into an exercise space with gym equipment set amid sweatshirt-gray upholstered walls.

The university was a ruin but the library could be sorted out amid the dust and debris, the roof and walls having stood.

Here they were standing amid scraped walls; for the place was being repapered.

Now he found himself struggling amid an ashen-dry, cold world of rigidity, dead walls and mechanical traffic, and creeping, spectre-like people.

Its weird mirth died amid empty walls.

A whispered laugh throbbed amid blackened walls, as The Shadow extinguished the light and departed.

Harriet tries to cope amid crumbling walls, calico partitions and penury.