The first duty of the housemaid in winter is to open the shutters of all the lower rooms in the house, and take up the hearth-rugs of those rooms which she is going to "do" before breakfast.

But, as if it shunned inquiry, it retreats to the back of its perch and drops a film over its eye, just as the smoke-film shutters in the consciousness of those over whom it mounts guard.

My father had given his undivided attention to the shutters on the east windows.

But I had forgotten that these windows were all shuttered at night; and nothing but a faint penetration of the light within through the crevices bore witness to the installment of the new dweller there.

"BingBang!" went wooden shutters over windows, the stout housewives flinging the bars home and gathering up their children.

The window was tight enough, and shuttered to boot, but the door was not to be seen plainly for a wooden screen, which parted it from the parlour, and was meant to keep off draughts.

The windows were shuttered from basement to attic, and no sign of life was visible.

"Aren't there some wooden shutters for these windows?"

She did not open the shutters after that.

So cried the tall white friar, pallid of cheek but dauntless of eye, and ever as he cried, smote he upon door and shutter with his sword, and ever his company grew.

Both cheeks gashed to the bone"; "Jack handed out some wicked lefts"; "Terrible gruelling"; "Both shutters out of working order"; "Defeat certain after eighth round"; "Johnson hooked his left"; "The Circassian remained on his knees"; "Counting went on"; "Fatal ten was reached.

The houses were still shuttered as when the bourgeoisie and peasant had fled at the first news of the German advance.

With the shutters up the place was almost in darkness, and in spite of his utmost care apples and potatoes rolled on to the floor and travelled across it in a succession of bumps.

It was white-tinted, with many windows shuttered without and heavily lace-draped within.

Something threatening, too; something sinister and deadly There was a rattle at the window, and I saw Parks lifting one of the shutters into place.

Closed Shutters in Midsummer.

Don't you think it's time he went home to his wife?" Avery moved away from the shutter against which she had stood so long.

At the corner he noticed a shutter before a bird fancier's window, and then another at a cobbler's.

The little shutter behind the grating was softly closed.

Nothing daunted, Fabrice proceeded patiently to cut a peep-hole in the shutter by aid of the mainspring of his watch.

The Jews refused to take their shutters down this morning.

If 'twere not got ready for a job of this kind, why a half-inch shutter inside the canvas blinds, and the bolt outside, 'swell as a lock?

The beam of the searchlight, though ordinarily used with the shutter like the heliograph, may be used for long-distance signaling, when no shutter is suitable or available, in a similar manner to the flag or torch, the first position being a vertical one.

"Godfrey," I said, in a shaking voice, "don't look up; don't move your head; but there is some one peering through the hole in the shutter opposite us.

" In the silence the wooden shutter outside the window swung to with a slam in the rising breeze which had become a wind blowing fitfully under a wet gray sky.