In that round hole up there, just under the broken limb, the flame of the red-headed woodpecker--a light in one of the windows of the woods.
Almost at the same instant I heard a heavy thump upon the pavement, and then a chorus of screams from the upper windows of the house.
His fame is too bright to be polluted by such dirty missiles; and the veriest vagabond who broke the windows of Apsley House would shrink from repeating the insults which fell from the lips of the calico-printer.
Out of her sleeping apartment she led me to another and a larger room, lighted by broad windows cut through the inner wall of the castle, which at that point was not more than three or four feet thick.
The windows were closed by glass of crystal purity, and the furniture was richer than any I had seen in the emperor's palace.
To-day I shall join the throngs that shop among the windowsof State Street.
Next morning, having arrived at the door of the store a full fifteen minutes before the opening hour, the two girls were enjoying a few moments of window shopping before the gorgeous windows of State street.
The two clumsy arched windows that gave upon the Place du Murier were curtainless; there was neither clock nor candle sconce nor mirror above the mantel-shelf, for Mme.
Windows and doors alike were dingy with accumulated grime.
Things seemed to have been battering at her brain in the night, and all the windows of her mind had been closed, the shutters fast, and they could not get in.
Her last question he did not answer until he had thrown up windows and brought out chairs to the veranda at the west.
He had them all out on chairs and sat on the floor beside the chest, looking them over idly until it began to grow dark and, realizing how early it was, he glanced up at the windows and saw the veil of a fine falling snow.
The windows were inhospitably blank, and his heart fell with disappointment.
The house should have well-fitting windows on two sides, and good tight doors at the ends (see fig.
This process is repeated three or four times in the space of twenty-four hours for several days together; after which the doors and windows are thrown open.
I eat my breakfast in the morning, generally refreshed by a night of good sound sleep, (for I sleep with my windows open.
They were kept out of doors from morning until night, and all the windows were kept open night and day; and although in the hot weather of summer, fire was made in the wards, to insure more perfect ventilation.
A small room with a hot stove or open fire and the windows open, is much more wholesome than a large air-tight room freezing cold.
The smaller one had the window open, so to speak; we will imagine the candle in the large chamber to be a consumptive patient who thought the room so large he did not need the windows open.
They did not often venture in before eleven o'clock, the wards became so foul during the night it took till that time, with the windows up, to get them fit for the surgeon in charge to venture in.
I have practised for many years sleeping with my windows open every night, summer and winter, allowing the unobstructed breeze to flow across my bed, to the great improvement of my health and strength.
All windows should be made to lower from the top, to meet this special case.
This was an ancient structure, as was shown by the latticed windows with rounded tops, and the quaint base of the steeple that yet tapered gracefully into a shimmering point against the pale noon of the sky.
The brick walls were sound, the masonry of gray stone about windows and doors smooth and solid with cement made hard as the stone by years and weather.
Jessie tried to receive it in full faith, and forgot to watch the forms strolling back and forth before the two windowswhich opened upon the piazza.
Jessie unclosed the blinds of the windows opposite the bed, that Roy might see it in all its might and beauty.
Summer zephyrs were coquetting with the sombre pine-branches; summer-scents were stealing up to Jessie's windows from the garden.
The shutters of the southern windows were unclosed to admit the air which evening had not made raw.
She did not look up at the windows of the scattered dwellings in passing, although more than one acquaintance watched, from one and another of these, the straight, slender figure that held on its rapid course without sway or falter.
Their crumbling walls and broken windows can still be traced, their towers are still to be seen over tree tops and in the centre of many a slumbering town.
The windows and monuments of Ennis Friary, founded by the O'Briens, are of unusual interest, the carving of figure-subjects being equal to the best of their age.
The windows were whitewashed, so that, once the doors of the compartments were closed, none could see who was inside.
Already all the glass of the show windows had been broken, and from within there came guttural cries of alarm and anger.
His cell was really a room, with windows that were not even barred.
The house gradually wore a new aspect--dust disappeared, windowswere bright, the scant furniture was arranged to the best possible advantage, the scant meals were marvels of perfect cookery and neat serving.
Tom flung the doors and windows open in great alarm.
When they reached the house the second-story windows were lighted as if to welcome them.
The leaves, held up to the light, seem to have numerous eyelets, as if pricked but not quite through--windows in the leaf.
The great house at Okebourne Chace stands in the midst of the park, and from the southern windows no dwellings are visible.
It was on the southern side of the palace, with windows that looked out across the wall toward the sea.
The flames roared up the sides of the structure, bursting from itswindows and loopholes, and converting it into a gigantic torch.
Its front was without windows and its stone walls were yellowed and stained with age.
The southern sun was warm in the room; the windows open, but not a silken hanging stirred.
As he opened his eyes, a man laughed; several people seated by thewindows joined in.
Oh," said Quarrier, dropping his eyes and glancing furtively toward the curtained windows through which he could see the street and his Mercedes waiting at the curb.
Aware that her lips were moving unconsciously, she listened to the words forming automatic repetitions of phrases long forgotten: "And those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the door shall be shut in the streets.
The windows of Shotover House were brilliantly illuminated.
Out of these little windows called eyes we look at one another, and study surfaces, and try to peep into neighbours' windows.
Plank joined her at the great windows and looked out into the night, where the round, drooping, flower-like globes of the electric lamps spread a lake of silver before the house.
But he had no further need of sleep; and for a long while he stood at the windows watching the lamps of cabs and carriages sparkling through the leafless thickets of the park like winter fire-flies.
Through its windows the little workmen's church of the quarter seemed to be on fire, and the bells pealed out with their utmost power of sound, calling the faithful to the midnight service.
At the sight all crowded to the windows but Frolich, who left the room on the instant.
The rain rattling against the windows drowned the Doxology.
He could not help casting an apprehensive glance at the windows of his quondam friend and prospective murderer.
Both windows rattled as if they would break away from their sashes.
Then, very gradually, the outline of the room became visible, and the framework of the windows began to shape itself dimly before my eyes.
His home in the "old country" rose up before him; he saw the lawn and the cedars in sunshine; he looked through the familiar windows and saw the clean, swept rooms.
No light came from the windows and the fire had gone out as completely as if water had been poured upon it.
French windows that opened like doors were partially concealed by warm red curtains, and on a sideboard against the wall stood decanters and glasses, with several boxes of cigars piled on top of one another.
Perhaps the kitchen door and windowswere not fastened.
Only occasional bursts of sleet against the windows reminded him that the elements were awake and uneasy.
So certain was I of this, that I had descended the stairs, gun in hand, only to find the doors and windows securely fastened, and the mice and black-beetles in sole possession of the floor.
Through the windows I could see the dim motionless outlines of the trees: not a leaf stirred, not a branch moved.
The walls were destitute of pictures, and the windows had Venetian blinds without curtains.
For five seconds every article in the room was visible to me with amazing distinctness, and through the windows I saw the tree trunks standing in solemn rows.
Once or twice the windows rattled and the rain hissed in the fire, but the roar of the wind in the chimney grew less and less and the lonely building was at last lapped in a great stillness.
The church was erected by subscription, and these closely set large windows are due to Henry Sherburne, one of the wealthiest citizens of the period, who agreed to pay for whatever glass was used.
The glass windows were broken by the stones that came not from without, but from within; and other instruments were in a like manner hurled about.
The Stavers inn has the regulation gambrel roof, but is lacking in those wood ornaments which are usually seen over the doors and windows of the more prominent houses of that epoch.
The absurd number of windows in this battered old structure is what strikes the passer-by.
She silently followed the others into an airy room in the third story, whose windows afforded a beautiful view extending to the Bohemian forests.
True, the little farmhouse on the "hohen Gred" which he occupied was anything but a suitable abode for a powerful sovereign, for above the ground floor it had only a single story with five small windows and an unusually high roof.
The rich notes of the wedding bells, welling and swelling, drifted into the open windows of the Charity Hospital, and smote on the ears of Dennis Mulcahey, where he lay with his face.
Then she seated herself on the sofa between the two side windows and folded her hands for an evening's intercourse.
I guess you better lay late to-morrer mornin'," he said, rising to close the windows and wind the clock.
She stood still in her place for a moment, trembling all over, and wondering what would happen when Myron had wound the clock and closed the windows and turned the wooden button of the door.
A soft after-glow lighted all the windows to flame, and fell full upon the face of one dark flower, quite human in its sombre wistfulness.
But after that period of musing he took up his hat from the little table between the windows and stood there holding it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
