It was midnight when I rode into Hof, but every window was blazing, which was enough it itself, in that sleepy country, to tell the ferment of excitement in which the people were.
Then another very important matter was the choice of the sentry who should be on duty in front of my window at the time of our attempt.
And as I rode I saw that the dawn was breaking, and that the great star at which I had pointed through the palace window was dim and pale in the western sky.
In a moment we were at the window and had raised our hands in a salute to the beautiful pale face which looked out at us.
Hurried as I was, I ventured to pause a moment to salute the lady's hand, which she snatched through the window with an admirable pretence of being offended at my presumption.
There was a single window in our cell, which was too small to admit a child.
As I looked, thewindow was lowered, and a pretty little face under a bonnet peeped out from it.
As I looked out of the window I saw the two of them, the big blue man and the limping black one, going up the street together.
There was one especially, a fat, heavy man, who would retire into the shadow of the wall and doze so comfortably during his two hours, that I have dropped pieces of plaster from my window at his very feet, without his observing it.
As I looked out of my window I could not catch a glimpse of a star, and the black clouds were flying low across the heavens.
I cried, pointing to a great star which blazed through the window above the Prince's head.
Charlie looked up at the window almost immediately above them, and observed a slight pale girl, who was gazing up the street in an opposite direction.
On descending to the kitchen she awoke Caddy from a delicious dream, in which she had been presented with the black silk that they had seen in the shop window marked eighty-seven and a half cents a yard.
At length he was permitted to come downstairs and sit by the window for a few hours each day.
Mrs. Garie laughed, and turned to look out of the window again.
Her expectation was no doubt about to be gratified, for a smile broke over her face, as she left the window and skipped downstairs; when she re-entered, she was accompanied by her intended husband.
When he made the visits in question, Charlie was generally reconnoitred by his sister from a window over the door, and was compelled to put his shoes through a system of purification, devised by her for his especial benefit.
Charlie, after bathing his face and arranging his hair, looked from thewindow at the wide expanse of country spread out before him, all bright and glowing in the warm summer sunlight.
We find this gentleman standing at a window that overlooked his garden, enjoying a fragrant Havannah.
No longer able to repress the tears that were welling up, he walked towards the window of a print-store, where he pretended to be deeply interested in some pictures whilst he stealthily wiped his eyes.
As he concluded, he turned from the window and sat down by a small table, upon which a lighted lamp had been placed, and where a few law papers were awaiting a perusal.
And Mrs. Ellis rubbed her spectacles and looked peevishly out of the window as she concluded.
Old mezzotint engravings of Regent, buck and lord, Between the window curtains, an aged harpsichord.
It seemed so much like fulfilling the passage of Scripture--"One shall be taken and the other left," that we turned away from the window feeling again the gloom which darkened the first day of our arrival.
From the window where I was, I had a good view of all the proceedings below.
Beside this, the window sashes were all removed, and the cold wind whistled in from the river far more sharply than was consistent with comfort.
Suddenly a window over me opened and some one, I believe a female, spilled the wet contents of a vessel on me.
He sent me away and I have to fly out of another window again.
Then from the window he did come, And laid him on his bed; A thousand heapes of care did runne Within his troubled head.
But marke what hapned on a day; As he out of hiswindow lay, He saw a beggar all in gray.
Then Larry had left thewindow and had returned to his thoughts of Maggie.
Once he had paused at a French window which opened upon a side veranda, and had seen below him a few yards away Joe Ellison, whose interest in his flowers had established his workday from sunrise to sunset.
You talk to me like a gentleman and apologize, or I'll throw you out of the window and let your head bounce off one of its brother cobblestones below!
Looking back through the littlewindow he saw Lefty Ed enter the other taxicab, and saw Little Mick standing on the curb.
Close beside the Chief he saw the gloating, malignant face of Gavegan; Casey, who had been restless since the beginning of the scene, had moved to the window and was gazing down into Center Street.
Exactly twenty minutes later Judkins carried in a tray, and set it on a table beside a window looking down into Park Avenue.
At that moment Martha herself appeared at a window in the upper storey, waving her arms and shrieking wildly for help.
Before he had done speaking, Joe and a comrade had pushed the escape towards the window in question.
He also observed that the curtains of the window were made of white flowered muslin, and that they swayed gently in the wind, not far from a couple of candles which stood on a small table.
Meanwhile, some had run up into the building, and from an upper windowlet down a rope so as to be ready to drag up the hose when it was made long enough to reach them.
He seized the bundle, straightened it out a little, so as to make it more portable, and throwing it over his shoulder, made a rush towards the window by which he had entered.
Try that window, Dashwood," said the officer of the station to which Joe belonged, pointing to a window on the second floor.
He was on the point of dropping the branch, and rushing to the window for his life, when Ned Crashington, feeling his way into the room, tumbled over him.
Fortunately, Betty announced the fact of her existence by rushing to a window and shrieking.
The same evening on which this event took place, the strapping young man and the little active youth sat together at the open window of a comfortable though small parlour, enjoying a cup of tea.
The configuration of the excavated foundations of that house indicates what would now be called a deep bay-window in its southern front.
Among them is a stone mullion, found on the site, which may have belonged to a window of the original mansion.
They intend to set a memorial window in the church, to honour him, and the visitor finds there a money-box for the reception of contributions in aid of this pious design.
The fashionable lounger through Berkeley Square, when perchance he pauses at the corner of Bruton Street, will not discern Colley Cibber, in wig and ruffles, standing at the parlour window and drumming with his hands on the frame.
A barred window in one of its walls fronts a window on the other side of the passage by which you approach it.
Through the high eastern window of the chancel of Holy Trinity church the morning sunshine, broken into many-coloured light, streams in upon the grave of Shakespeare and gilds his bust upon the wall above it.
I look from the window of a London house that fronts a spacious park.
And from another window she saw the vast cathedral gathering its ponderous strength together, and lifting it up in towers out of the marshlands.
High up in the wall the window stood, and the streaming lights of candles lower down moved stealthily away.
And when the baying of the remotest dragon had faintly joined in the tumult, a window opened far up among the clouds below the twilit gables, and a woman screamed, and far away in Hell her father heard her and knew that her doom was come.
As soon as dawn came over the waste and shone on the farmer's house, she looked from the window towards the glittering waters, and saw the inner beauty of the marsh.
Then the magician of the village went up into the tower of his house, and all night long those whom fear kept awake could see his window high up in the night glowing softly alone.
The last faint light of evening flickered through a window painted in sombre colours commemorating the achievements of Satan upon Earth.
I don't like the idea of the remembrance of an ordinary flirtation at a ball walking in at the door of that room, out of whose window the mystical figure of the Rose flew forth into the night, which was, I am sure, day to him!
The execution is summary, the unfortunate lover being hurled out of the window by muscular members of Tamar's suite.
From the other window she had seen the councillor arrive.
The bow-window of the room in the lower story looking towards the park was dark.
His aunt suddenly leaned from the window and looked him wonderingly in the face,--he was so strangely silent.
Her duties were soon concluded, and, while the maid was putting on a clean apron preparatory to carrying the coffee to the guests, Kitty went to the window and examined the ring, which with a throbbing heart she took from her pocket.
It had grown quite dark; seven had struck by the factory clock, and Kitty was still sitting in the bow-window in the large room at the castle mill.
As she entered the sick-room, the close, heated atmosphere of which was filled with smoke, she saw in the dim light that penetrated the old green glass of the window a man standing with his back towards her.
Flora pointed to a window before which there hung no protecting shade.
Nothing can be effected nowadays by mere writing," Doctor Bruck said, from the window where he was standing.
She looked through her window into the rosy heavens; she watched the swallows, their white breasts and wings looking like silver crosses floating among the pink evening clouds.
All the plants adorning the house were placed in the conservatories, one key after another was turned in the lock, and every open window was closed.
The fluttering vine-leaves at the window stirred, as if lightly touched, and the rosy light in the sky, in which the parting soul had longed to bathe, suddenly glowed to deepest crimson.
Here you," to the other man, "get that table out and under the window there.
Turning, he glanced through the window at Tom, flushed and royal, surrounded by the young men and women, under his Viking moustache lighting a cigarette from a match held to him by one of the girls.
So, my good window of lattice, fare thee well; thy casement I need not open, for I look through thee.
He thinks her mildly insane till one night a settler sees a beast's eyes glaring into his window and fires.
Leriche took a chair at one side, and Bernardet stood near the little bookcase, next the only window in the room.
I passed by chance your shop; I saw in the window a portrait which resembled some one I knew.
I put it in thewindow to-day for the first time," the huge woman answered.
As his shadow fell across the window Bernardet could not distinctly see the painting, for it was not directly in the front line of articles displayed, and he stepped to one side to see if he could get a better view.
Fyne himself was down there with his family for a whole week and was called to the window to behold the iniquity in its progress and to share in his wife's feelings.
At that moment the Fynes, still at the window and watching like a pair of private detectives, saw a man with a long grey beard and a jovial face go up the steps helping himself with a thick stick, and knock at the door.
Marlow's tone being apologetic and our new acquaintance having again turned to the window I took it upon myself to say: "You are justified.
Conscious of being reprehensibly dense I groped in the darkness of my mind: De Barral, De Barral--and all at once noise and light burst on me as if a window of my memory had been suddenly flung open on a street in the City.
We were on our feet in the room by then, and Marlow, brown and deliberate, approached the window where Mr Powell and I had retired.
Ensconced in his corner, with his arms folded, he stared out of the cab window at the street.
The tide was on the turn, he announced coming away from the window abruptly.
In the distance over the fields and trees smudging and blotching the vast obscurity, one lighted window of the cottage with the blind up was like a bright beacon kept alight to guide the lost wanderer.
Mrs Fyne remaining at the window saw the house door close on Miss de Barral returning from her last ride.
I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper.
He only stuck his head and shoulders out of the window crying to the cabman.
My bedroom is up in the loft in the servants' quarters, and the one open window looks out to the shrubbery.
But then she went over to the window again, and came back, and put out her tongue like that--and went straight up to him and kissed him.
After a while I heard Fru Falkenberg's voice outside in front of the house; my window was open, and she spoke loudly enough.
As we neared a cottage a little way from the road, Fruen knocked on the carriage window to say it was dinner-time.
Now, if she knocks at the window again, it's that rug," I thought to myself.
The window had been open before, but he slammed it to and I went on with the work.
When I came round again, the Captain looked out from an open window upstairs and called down: "You may as well go on with it now you've got so far.
There was light in a certain upstairs window of the house.
I saw a figure in a white dress at a window in the hotel, and fancied it must be Fru Falkenberg watching us, so I said no more.
I'd no idea of anything, when suddenly she taps at the window and says turn back.
Then came a knocking on the window of the carriage.
I look about for some means of warning them; here is an empty bottle; I go to the window and fling it as hard as I can over towards the summer-house.
I watch him from behind a window as he works, to see how he handles the ax.
The little place is cramped enough, with but two steps from the window to where I sit; so we are all sitting together, after all.
His observant sister only needed to notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and even left the inner pane of the window open from then on.
Or he might go to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to stare out of it.
They got up and went over to the window where they remained with their arms around each other.
Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.
He watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the window too.
The cleaner shut the door and opened the window wide.
Even if it was cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little while.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "window" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
