53 Metaphors for window

To see those windows was almost too much happiness for Gilliatt.

I think the pantry window would be the best, because the door at the head of the cellar stairs is likely to be locked and we might not be able to get upstairs if we did get into the cellar.

Some know her only through her cathedral, where were crowned all but six of the kings of France, and where the stained-glass windows, with those in the cathedrals of Chartres and Burgos, Spain, are the most beautiful in all the world.

"So that window was open alla time," thought Racey as he prudently waited for the owner of the voice in the other room to discover himself.

The circular window over the altar upon which a new roof seems to be intruding is in reality the interloper: the roof is the original one, and the window was cut later, in defiance of good architecture, by Vasari, who, since he was a pupil of Michelangelo, should have known better.

" "This other window is the handsomest, Fly; don't I wish I had some of those beautiful dripping, red ear-rings?" "Why, little sister," said Prudy, "I'd as soon think of wanting a gold nose as those cat-tail ear-rings.

One window in the Lady Chapel is a memorial of the Prince Consort and one in the Mercers' Chapel is of interest as a deserved memorial to Thomas Sharp the Antiquary to whose labours all later historians of the city are so deeply indebted.

I was tempted to try the other side first, but the open window with the light burning inside was nearer, and I wished first to assure myself as to that.

The windows, the music, the flowers, all were metaphors of her: and, as the organ swirled his soul along in the rapids of its passionate, prayerful sound, it seemed to him that Alice and he already stood at the gate of Heaven!

In the shop windows are the robes of the nobility, the crimson and ermine dresses, coronets, etc.

It was this feeling also that caused her to go on tiptoe around the room and draw down the blinds, as though the glimmering windows were large eyes peering at her with intrusive wounding stare.

This little window was Madeline's chosen seat; and hither she brought, sometimes a book, but more frequently a portion of Miss Wimple's work from the millinery department, and wholesomely employed her mind, skilfully her fingers.

The frost-decorated windows of the schoolhouse blazed in the morning sun, and was a glory on the heads of the girls.

A high room is less intolerable without ventilation, the vitiated air being more diluted; but a low room is usually more easily ventilated, because the windows are nearer the ceiling.

" The window was a long French window, and Tilly stepped out and joined him upon the piazza.

When lawless mobs insult the court, That man shall be my toast, If breaking windows be the sport, Who bravely breaks the most.

The windows were great portholes, and two large swinging lamps furnished the light.

The great window, which is the most salient feature in the common picture, is a magnificent piece of work in stone, twenty-four feet in height and sixteen in breadth.

Huge fireplaces yawned in each, while the windows were 6ft. deep in the wall.

He kept up a perpetual expectorating discharge; and, as my open window was the only outlet, and it did not come that way, I naturally felt anxious for my clothes.

The nave, however, at least within, is late Norman if not Transitional, and the windows in the chancel are Norman and Early English.

The pointed windows, massive buttresses, and elaborate pinnacles are sufficient indications of their great age and the care bestowed on the building.

The E. window is Perp.: observe the piscina and niches in the chancel, and the large squints.

A parlour window is a very common place for them, but is often too warm, and brings on the plants too early, and causes them to be weakly.

The window which stood open was a small one,-a mere slit in the wall; but it let in a stream of zero air and I saw Hexford shiver as he stepped towards it and looked out.

53 Metaphors for  window