From the sill over which the river churns into a splendid mass of milky foam, past the island, and for a couple of hundred yards down the water looks as much like the correct thing as any reach can do.
Miss Martin missed Mary Ellen, and going in search of her, found her in her bedroom, leaning on the window-sill from which the bronze slipper had taken its mysterious flight.
On the window-sill lay Lucy Locket, and beside her only one of the bronze slippers.
I put them both on the window-sill with the doll baby, and then I saw that the screen had fallen out of the window, and I ran down to tell Mat to put it in, and I never thought of them from that moment to this.
But before she could answer some one jumped down from the window-sill and walked slowly toward her.
He came right up on the window-sill now; you saw him yourself, Miss Martin.
Miss Puss jumped down from the window-sill and sat before the fire to wash her face.
I have come to beg your pardon, May," said Charles, as he stood on the sill of her door.
But her dog whined low; on the doorway sill With his cane to his chin, The old man sat; and the chore-girl still Sung to the bees stealing out and in.
The wire from which the banner was suspended was fast to an eye-bolt set in the brick wall of the building a little below the sill of the window.
It was an easy step for him from the window sill to the wire from which was suspended the banner.
The mother of the little boy held the child upon the window-sill for him to see.
O'Toole leaned on their shoulders, crushing them both down upon the sill of the window.
He had already one leg on the sillwhen a convulsive movement of the man on the bed made him stop.
He climbed on the sill of the lower window; by the side of that window a stone pillar ran up the side of the house to the windows on the first floor.
But I seemed to dimly make out a nigger's legs kicking about at the top of the window, and then getting to the side and coming down till he glided over the sill on to the floor.
Sometimes I wrote at a table, whilst at other times a window-sill served me as writing-desk; but the greatest portion of my book was written on the seat of my cart, whilst I sat crouched on the bottom.
With her chin resting upon the window-sill and her eyes, uplifted to the kindly, but impenetrable skies, Isla prayed.
A wallflower had forced itself into root on the sill of a giant oriel.
Coming to a spot exactly opposite the ladder, he saw that it rested on the sill of the library window, which was open.
The bird that seems to consider he has the best right to the bone both upon the tree and upon the sill is the downy woodpecker, my favorite neighbor among the winter birds, to whom I will mainly devote the remainder of this chapter.
Louise Grayling's morning face, framed by the sash and sill of her bedroom window, was quite the sweetest picture he had ever seen.
He would peer around corners at Cap'n Amazon, stare at him with wide yellow eyes through open doorways, leap upon the window sill and glower at the substitute storekeeper--in every way showing his overweening interest in the man.
She leaned her elbows on the window-sill and rested her chin in her hands.
People sat everywhere where a perch was to be found--on the corners of the tables and on the window sill and many sat on the floor who could not find room elsewhere.
The sill was low and she leaned out peering up and down the narrow street.
There distinctly was Lucy with her head lying up against the side of the window sill and her eyes shut.
I did not feel dizzy, I suppose I was too excited, and the time seemed ridiculously short till I found myself standing on the window sill and trying to raise up the sash.
A face, a figure appeared there, framed by the sill and sides.
The objects sparkling so strangely on the window-sill were some portion of a surgeon's apparatus; those instruments the cold, steely glitter of which startles the eye and sends a shudder through the nerves of many a brave man.
My maid found another threatening letter on the window-sill when she opened the shutters this morning.
The heavy spear rolled from an already dead hand and the man fell loosely across the wide sill as Tharn worked his way upward past the limp body.
Ekbar voiced a single scream of anguish and toppled across the sill and to the ground beneath, dead beside the master he had so faithfully served.
But when he saw Tharn leap lightly up to catch the sill of one window, then swarm rapidly up toward the second story, he understood fully what lay in the giant warrior's mind.
Wichitas and Comanches journeyed, en masse, to Fort Sill for protection, and since then they have sacrificed the best horses in their possession when an unfriended one journeyed to the spirit world.
An old Comanche who died near Fort Sill was without relatives and poor, so his tribe thought that any kind of a horse would do for him to range upon the fields of paradise.
Moon, till presently Pierrot stepped on to the window-sill and, pushing the window further open, jumped lightly on to the floor and made Boy a polite bow.
After that fight the combined forces separated into a number of war parties; some went into Texas, others into New Mexico and Colorado, and still others along the Fort Sill and Wichita Railroad and the Kansas border.
In the fall of 1877, many of the Comanches became dissatisfied with their life on the military reservation at Fort Sill and fled to their old home on the Staked Plains.
In a flash of memory Colonel Tempest saw Swayne's huddled figure crouching in the disordered bed, and the check trousers over a chair, and the candle on the window-sill bent double by the heat.
John was leaning against the window-sill shaking like a reed.
A bird picking up crumbs from my window-sill does not mean much to me.
The old sill of Vulcan now presents a nearly vertical front to the Hudson, forming the Palisades, showing that some leaves of the earth's history here are missing, buried probably beneath the waters of the river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
