Panes

Examples

• A sharp rain, too, was beating against the window-panes; and the sky looked black and cloudy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The rain beat strongly against the panes, the wind blew tempestuously: One lies there, I thought, who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was a wet night; the rain lashed the panes, and the wind sounded angry and restless. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Molten glass being rolled into a form suitable for window panes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• So with the humbler houses in the little street, the inner firelight shining on the panes as the outer twilight darkened. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Hannah, who had carried wood, made a fire, and stopped up the broken panes with old hats and her own cloak. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But there was light enough to read by from the narrow upper panes of the windows. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The wind rasped and scraped at the corners of the house, and filliped the eavesdroppings like peas against the panes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He had looked at it through the dirty panes of glass in a bar door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We counted sixty panes of glass in one window, and each pane was adorned with one of these master achievements of genius and patience. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The deviation or displacement caused by glass as thin as window panes is too slight to be noticed, and we are not conscious that objects are out of position. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Leah stood up in the window-seat, rubbing the panes of glass dimmed with smoke. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The speaker was a woman, gazing down upon the group from an upper window, whose panes blazed in the ruddy glare from the west. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A diamond appears white because it allows the passage through it of all the various rays; this is likewise true of water and window panes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The window-blind was not drawn, and broad moonbeams poured through the panes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That night there was a storm and I woke to hear the rain lashing the window-panes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The moon was shining in the window and made shadows on the bed from the bars on the window-panes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typist: Wesley