56 Verbs to Use for the Word pane

The servant broke a pane of glass in the window, and opening the casement, entered the room.

It struck the glass (smashing a pane), and passed between two of the bars, out into the garden, scattering burning oil as it went.

They had, in their religious zeal, torn down the pulpit and reading-desk, defaced emblems, broken up the pews and the benches, and shattered all the panes of glass, while here and there inside the building were remains of their cooking-places, with broken fragments of utensils.

Then he cut out a pane of glassit was all A.B.C. to himput his hand in and raised the sash a little; then it was simple to push it up from below.

There being no sufficient stock of glass with which to replace the broken panes, and no way of bringing in fresh supplies, the owners of the damaged buildings had patched the holes with bits of planking filched from more complete ruins near by.

Nevertheless, he sought society; for on Sunday, when the ladies Rochefeuille, Monsieur de Houppeville and the new habitués, Onfroy, the chemist, Monsieur Varin and Captain Mathieu, dropped in for their game of cards, he struck the window-panes with his wings and made such a racket that it was impossible to talk.

But Biggleswade rubbed the pane with his table-napkin and gazed apprehensively at the prospect.

" She was at the window now, and had opened a pane.

Hark how it beats the pane!

We perceived indeed that the small window now contained four panes of glass, and we also discovered two or three little shelves there.

Wind brushed the window panes behind her while she knelt.

Thy stamens tipped with silver, Thy petals spotless white, Are so like those which cover My window-pane; Wilt thou, like them, turn back at noon To drops again?

(Vol. ii, p. 461.) C. P. Moritz, a young Prussian clergyman who published an account of a pedestrian tour that he made in England in the year 1782, thus describes Lichfield as he saw it on a day in June: 'At noon I got to Lichfield, an old-fashioned town with narrow dirty streets, where for the first time I saw round panes of glass in the windows.

Then he changed colour a little as a smart hat and a pretty face crossed the tiny panes.

The low wind shook the darkened pane, The far clock chimed along the hall, There came a moment's gust of rain, The swallow chirped a single call From his eaves'-nest, the elm-bough swayed Moaning;they slumbered unafraid.

' Maskew had slipped out before him, and the children's noses left the window-pane as the great man walked down the steps.

It lighted up the eastern window-panes of the servants' cottage, but the inmates, tired from the unusual serving of the evening before, slept on.

Long years ago a winter sun Shone over it at setting; Lit up its western window-panes, And low eaves' icy fretting.

What a shadow passed that pane!

He must have waited till you slept; And not a single word he spoke, But pencilled o'er the panes and crept Away again before you woke.

Near him Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse, sitting with his back to the dim November light, which vainly strove to penetrate the tiny glass panes of the casement windows.

We were told we might push open the painted panes a few inches, but as we did so the butterfly group drew back lest they should be seen looking out on the forbidden world.

The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen, and all the angles, and corners, and carvings, and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.

No sound of firing rattled my window panes.

He removed the pane and set it noiselessly on the floor.

56 Verbs to Use for the Word  pane