For a number of years steel sills and under frames had furnished a staunch foundation for all cars manufactured by the Pullman Company for its operation.
On this foundation the side sills are riveted, steel beams that run the entire length of the car.
Sills should extend at least one inch beyond the face of the wall.
Window-sills should be no less than five inches in thickness.
Sills should slant twenty degrees, with drip piece secured to outside.
Door-sills should generally be about seven or eight inches, and extend at least one inch beyond the face of the wall, and through its full thickness.
Then on the Eve of St. John the window-sills are draped with rich cloths, on which the pots are placed, adorned with crimson and blue silk and ribbons of various colours.
For that reason people put out vessels of water on the window-sills or the terraces, and wash themselves with the water in the morning in order to purify themselves and escape headaches and colds.
Sills should always be weathered, slightly in the case of door sills, more sharply for windows, and throated on the under side to throw off the wet.
They are frequently continuations of the sills or head lines of windows (figs.
Cornices, copings, sills and string courses should all be so weathered.
In some instances doors occur in the second stories of unterraced walls, their sills being 5 or 6 feet above the ground.
Perhaps the most noteworthy contrast is seen in the sills and lintels of the openings.
The most common elevation of the sills of doorways was such that a man could readily step over at one stride.
It closely resembles the pivot hinges sometimes used in mediæval Europe in connection with massive gates for closing masonry passages; in such cases the prolonged pivots worked in cavities of stone sills and lintels.
On the stonesills of windows which open into the street there is a row of little flower-pots.
The sea dogs on the window sills eyed Frank and shook their heads.
But the men who sat on the window sills of Brannigan's shop, battered sea dogs every one of them, had their eyes fixed on him.
The men of leisure who sat on the window sills stared curiously at Frank.
The five loafers on Brannigan's window sills looked at him with some amazement when he approached them.
He spoke with lordly self-confidence, calculated, he thought, to impress the impudent loafers on the window sills and to reduce Peter Walsh to prompt submission.
On the low window sills of both windows sit rows of men who for the most part earn an honest living by watching the tide go in and out and by making comments on the boats which approach or leave the quay.
What if for this week the window sills upstairs did remain unwashed, the rugs downstairs stay unshaken?
Mother," she began, "I'm not going to wash the window sills upstairs this cleaning morning.
The sills extend about 20 inches beyond the posts, and to them side braces are nailed to strengthen the structure.
Stringers running the entire length of the flume are placed beneath the sills just outside of the posts.
The lock-entrance and the sills under the two middle lock-gates were fixed at the depth of ten feet under the level of low water of ordinary spring tides.
These sillsare halved together at the ends, and a hole is bored through them where the middle of the collar-post will rest.
The two outer pairs come flush with the outer sides of the sills and wall-plates.
Ma Sills certinly did rule the roost, and no mistake.
One time when they was babies the wrong one got the medicine, and after that Ma Sills always dosed 'em both, whichever was sick.
Certainly the sillsand the doorstep were neglected.
He noted with satisfaction the whitened sills and the shade of fruit, behind which the curtains were now drawn close and pinned together.
On these lines of stone sills are laid iron bars or rails, 2 inches wide, 1-1/2 inches thick, fastened with iron bolts.
John Holburn and Company were employed to furnish stone rail sills at 37-1/2 cents per perch.
Part of the Iron Rails for the first division have arrived at Louisville from Liverpool by way of New Orleans, and the laying of the stone sills will be forthwith commenced.
The stones for the Rail Sills are excavated from a quarry a short distance below the city.
The ease with which they are split out and fashioned into sills is truly surprising.
The original use of these chambers cannot very well be determined; they are accessible only from the inside of the minster, and may be reached from the sills of the great west windows.
The curious chambers constructed in the thickness of the old Norman west front are accessible from the sills of the western windows, these being joined by narrow passages in the wall.
Back into the crowded court-room, where people pressed even into the window sills for standing room, where Judge and counsel sat gravely expectant; where the stillness of death had suddenly fallen.
Doors were off their hinges, windows screamed to their clanging shutters, the grime lay, like sand, about the sills and corners of the rooms.
It was unusually narrow, the groundsills of the side walls being only 4 ft.
Both these sills again are mortised into the corner posts.
The two sills are joined together by four stout yellow pine corner posts, which in turn are mortised into both sills.
The former window-sills had recently been superceded by sills of red Languedoc marble, found in a marble shop.
The height from the arch to the roof is much less in proportion, but the sills of the windows are kept lower and the heads are square.
Although there is space for larger windows the aisle roof prevented their sills being brought lower.
In the entries flanked by the winged bulls the sills were carved with inscriptions, which were comparatively rare elsewhere.
And in Assyria where doorways were several yards deep and two or three wide, these sills were in reality the pavements of passages or even chambers.
Plates had been laid on the upper ends of the upright logs, and were kept in their places by a similar contrivance; the several corners of the structure being well fastened by scarfing and pinning the sills and plates.
Dry, save for the occasional splash of the hissing water far below, the great bones of this bridge hardened and lasted like sills of granite.
Indeed, a legend runs that these sills were not laid by men at all, but by the Dwarfs.
Sills and Broom came up, and inquiring what I thought of the state of affairs, bitterly regretted their folly in coming to sea, and asked me if I was not very sorry at having left home.
After this warning I could not have supposed it possible that Sills would have neglected to follow the doctor's advice; but in a short time I saw him and Brown light a fire, and proceed to cook the fish over it.
I could not manage to make companions of my messmates Sills and Broom.
Finding that none of us would eat any of the fish, Sills returned to Brown and sat smoking and talking for an hour or more.
Some hours had passed after they had eaten the fish, when we saw Sills approaching the hut looking dreadfully ill, and scarcely able to crawl along.
Sills and Broom used to say that it would be time enough by-and-by to begin learning navigation, and so weeks passed away, and they knew nothing whatever about it.
Sills and Brown were evidently well pleased at seeing them, and at once asked Captain Hansleig if he would take them off the island.
Sills was not ill-natured, though weak, and easily led by anybody who would take the trouble to lead him.
How different would have been the case, however, had we not benefited by Dr Cuff's instructions, and had the example ofSills and Brown not been set before out eyes to warn us from eating the fish which so nearly killed them!
The seaman took all that had happened to him as a matter of course, but Sills seemed to be somewhat horrified when he found how narrowly he had himself escaped death, and that so many of his companions had lost their lives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
