957 examples of shutters in sentences

By the aid of a ladder, Lecoq was able to watch what was going on within through the shutters.

The shutters were pushed back from the balcony window and the strong light, reflected by the white wall, showed the thinness of Adam's figure and the deep lines on his face.

Although the shutters on the balcony window were open, no draught entered the small, bare room and the heat that soaked through the thick walls was nearly intolerable.

Here is to be seen a head of Christ, the colouring of which is so brilliant as to illuminate the room in which it is appended, when the shutters are closed, and in the absence of all other light except what appears thro' the crevices of the window shutters.

Here is to be seen a head of Christ, the colouring of which is so brilliant as to illuminate the room in which it is appended, when the shutters are closed, and in the absence of all other light except what appears thro' the crevices of the window shutters.

She went and assured herself that the door below was shut and that the shutters were quite closed, put together a bundle of wood which she placed partly on the hearth, and without further invitation, sat down facing her master.

It is not I who preach fine sermons on Sunday about chastity and purity and morals, and who hide myself behind the shutters to watch half-naked tumblers dancing in the market-place, who entice little girls at night under some pretest or other, and who kiss them when the servant has turned her back.

Further search in the guest-room reveals six large windows, or rather holes, for there are no shutters, much less window-panes.

You would have the silhouette, but you could not see the sunshine blazing on white mosques and minarets, the white mosques blazing against terra-cotta roofs and dusty green cedars and cypresses, the cypresses lifting dark and pensive shafts against the blueall that splendid, exquisite radiance which bursts through one's window shutters every morning and makes it seem enough to look and a waste of time to try to think.

Onceand one of the strangest sounds I ever heardbehind the closed up-stair shutters of an apothecary's shop, whose powders and poisons were strewn over the sidewalk, a piano haltingly played with one finger.

There were houses of refreshment, as we could see by their signs; but if they did business, it was with closed doors and barred shutters.

The shutters were up, and I did not wish to make any noise among these people, though the morning was bright, it being about ten o'clock, and it was easy to effect entrance, for I saw a crow-bar in a big covered furniture-van near.

The very doors and window shutters had been torn off and carried into the field, several acres of which were strewed over with piles of such furniture.

They walked along towards the main square, noticing that some of the shopkeepers were calmly putting up their shutters, while others quietly continued serving the few customers who were hurriedly completing their purchases.

Kodak lenses, shutters and portrait lenses.

He was earnestly advised at least to put up the shutters, that their attention might not be attracted by the pictures.

Mr. Kipling had made his astonishing advent with a series of little blue-grey books, whose covers opened like window-shutters to reveal the dusty sun-glare and blazing colours of the East; Mr. Barrie had demonstrated what could be done in a little space through the panes of his Window in Thrums.

The outer lids we close only in sleep, when we put up the shutters after a night's work, and at last in deathfor birds alone among all animals are able to close their own eyes when they die.

Presently the speakers came nearer, he caught the click of flint on steel, and a bright gleam of light entered the chaise through a crack in one of the shutters.

He paused before a dozen neat houses with brass knockers and painted shutters, and took each in turn for the lawyer's.

The windows were tall, to which iron shutters were attached.

Till the evening, nearing, One the shutters drew Quick!

The heavy wooden shutters were open, and the room was filled with cold light.

and I saw shutters and doors swinging wide open, and the stars shining through.

Across the room from Granny's bureau, in the corner just inside the door to the kitchen, towered the characteristic Swedish ovena round column of white glazed bricks, with highly polished brass shutters in front of the small cubical fire-place, where nothing but birchwood was burned.

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