Receiving his guests with the affability he generally displayed, he retired to an adjoining room, and presently returned with a number of tricolour sashes and cockades.
Man may, in effect, be said to look out on the world from a sentry-box with two joined sashes for his window.
But with the whale, these two sashes are separately inserted, making two distinct windows, but sadly impairing the view.
Here you no longer look upon jail-like door and windows, but facades gaily frescoed, curtained verandahs, and glazed sashes that reach to the ground.
And at home the parents were busy, too, making white dresses and sashes for the girls, buying new suits for the boys in town, or making some over from father's old trousers.
These girls should be dressed in white with patriotic sashes or red-white-and-blue streamers on left shoulder, and all carry flags.
On either side of Columbia stand three girls, dressed in white and wearing sashes of red, white and blue, tied in a bow at side.
Some of the coalheavers wore large sashes amidships, sashes of lurid colour also, violet and plum, extra shade.
They were dressed a good deal like your vaqueros: they wore chaperajos with red sashes around their waist, and flannel shirts.
As I lie here I can fancy myself back again, if I don't look up at thesashes overhead.
The evening was wild with wind and blustering rain, the fire roaring defiance as the loosely fitting sashes rattled and the showers lashed the panes.
The wind, finding its way between sashes and under the ill-fitting doors of the old house, no doubt set the chair in motion.
In very cold nights, cover the sashes and frame with straw-mats.
Tread it down hard; then put into the frame light and very rich soil, six or eight inches deep, and cover it with the sashesfor two or three days.
They feed on unconcernedly, jangling their bells, but one or two of the bulls cast inquiring glances upon us, and we prudently retire to our pockets the bright red sashes bought in Cauterets until we have passed the zone of porterhouse.
The scarletsashes that the men wear round their waists are produced at Oloron.
They feasted and showed off, the whole day, and the young people who jumped the pole, with their red sashes and white breeches, appeared adroit and handsome.
Large squares and plate glass are usually inserted when the sashes are hung to avoid risks of breakage.
When primingsashes it is important that the rebates be thoroughly primed, else the putty will not adhere.
In the majority of cases after the sashesfor the windows are fitted they are sent to the glazier's and primed and glazed, and then returned to the job and hung in their proper positions.
She remembered the white and red sashes and the gay scarfs worn by the women at the burial, the jackets with great silver buttons worn by the men, and the silver- mounted pistols and bright steel knives in the garish belts.
Tio Batiste and the two sailors knotted the ends of their sashes around the mast.
They are wearing their caps and sashes and they have the band.
Well," said I, "shutters and sashes of mine shall never be opened in that way again.
They would make lances of ash-wood and helmets of tin buckets, and perhaps Margaret would make red sashes for them.
Get a piece of deal two inches wide and one inch thick, and as long as the width of the sashes of the window in which it is to be used.
Care should be taken to ascertain the width of the sashes exactly, which may be done by measuring along the top of the lower sash, from one side of the sash frame to the other.
Having both sashes hung with weights and cords; -- said of a window.
This means that once in a great battle every officer of the 13th was killed, and the sergeants, finding this out, and that they were now in command, changed their sashes to the other shoulder.
The sides below the sashes are enclosed, preferably with glass.
The sashes are seen at c c, and above them is a cloth or matting screen.
The floors were repaired, the sashesnew glazed, and out of the old furniture of the whole house, I made shift to fit up a parlour and three chambers in a plain yet decent manner.
Let the sashesbe secured, the crevices stopt, the carpets laid, and the beds well tousled.
Some of the columns had bands and came preceded by far faint strains of music, with marshals in red sashes galloping to and fro in fine assumption of military command.
Here and there through the fields one sees the red-and-white capes of the peasants, velvet hats against the green grass, and sashes of all colors.
The sashes had been left closed to exclude sand and cinders.
It is proposed that thesashes in the narrower openings only should be made to push outwards at bottom for ventilation.
The sash-bars, which carry the glass both in roof and walls, are to be bought struck by steam at a lower price than they can be worked by hand, or sashes may be bought ready glazed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
