Sashes
[sæʃiz]
Examples
- The first ones had been caused by some one forcing an instrument through the slit between the sashes, and the second by the catch being pressed back. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her hair was torn and ragged, and her arms were bound to her sides with sashes and handkerchiefs. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Great snow-eaves weighed down the broad-roofed Tyrolese houses, that were sunk to the window-sashes in snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We lose all planing and wood-working machinery, and with it the endless variety of sashes, doors, blinds, and furniture in unlimited variety. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Turbans, scimetars, fezzes, horse-pistols, tunics, sashes, baggy trowsers, yellow slippers--Oh, we were gorgeous! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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