22 examples of windowsills in sentences

It appeared to be supporting itself by two clawlike hands upon the windowsill.

Outside, on the windowsill, I could see Tip, my sister's pet cat.

On the windowsill there was a musk-plant; and, upon the table by the staircase, there was a rude cage, containing three young throstles.

"You" "Why, no, Luke, yo're wrong, all wrong," interrupted Swing Tunstall, leaning over the windowsill at Tweezy's back.

The gambler removed to a vacant windowsill, upon which he sat and looked anywhere but at Racey Dawson.

Mike jumped to help, but it was needless; the captive was already on the windowsill.

He noticed with approval, when it had stopped swinging, that it was hidden from above by the windowsill.

He leaned on the windowsill, his black eyes shining with ingenuous and flattering appeal: "I will broil you a quail on a spit," he whispered.

He leaned on the windowsill, his elbows spread, his chin cupped in his hands, his Indian blankness of countenance enlivened by the glow of his eyes, as jewels enliven dull brown velvet.

He sniffed Emma for a moment and then jumped to his place on the living room windowsill, settling down as if to say: one morewhat's the difference?

On the end of the windowsill of the fourth window, he found a disk numbered, 3.

Verdi would leap to a windowsill and ignore her.

Extensive glass-houses spread away on the farther side of the house; the numerous towers to which the building owed its name seemed made to hold school bells; and the windowsills, thick with potted flowers, made me think of the desolate suburbs of Brighton or Bexhill.

He turned quite white when he read it the first time, but the blood rushed to his temples on a second perusal, and he flung himself down on his knees at the windowsill, thanking Providence, somewhat inconsiderately, for the benefits that only came to him through another man's death.

A peculiar sound startled me and I saw a man descend by a rope, and take his stand on the windowsill.

He leaned on the windowsill, exhausted and helpless.

Not until today, when the soothing motion of the long Pullman car and the lullaby droning of the wheels had lulled him to sleep with his elbow on the windowsill and his head resting on his thin, transparent hand, did she come back to him in a dream.

SULZER, MARJORIE NORRELL. House plants, modern care and culture; a practical handbook for windowsill gardeners.

SULZER, MARJORIE NORRELL. House plants, modern care and culture; a practical handbook for windowsill gardeners.

In his excitement he slipped from the edge of the windowsill, where he was perched, and Mr. Skale, standing close in front of him, caught his two wrists and set him upon his feet.

In half a minute more, with the help of the windowsill, she was in the boat, the fur-cloak wrapped about her and the baby, drinking the first cup of the hot coffee.

Before the window stood a small table with music-paper and writing material, on the windowsill a few flower-pots.

22 examples of  windowsills  in sentences