69 Verbs to Use for the Word shutter

Simmonds stepped to the window, threw open the shutters, and let a flood of afternoon sunshine into the room.

Then I shut the window, and closed the shutters.

" With that the voice died away, and Ajax muttered: "It looks to me as if this were a case of putting up the shutters.

In a rage I tore the planks from the cupboards, Jacques broke the furniture, we took away the shutters, every piece of wood we could reach.

"Now, boys, all together," I cried, and as I threw the shutter back, they lifted the table to the sill and pushed it through.

You had best draw the shutters and bring in the candles.

ANOTHER VOICE Fasten the shutters!

She slammed the window-shutter and retired, presumably to bed.

A careless servant had left the outer shutters open, and the sun was beating on the window-panes.

Then he softly locked the door, the key of which he had appropriated immediately after supper, and propped shut the heavy wooden shutter of the window.

He saw the brown eye of Barker glued to the little circle of glass, and he crossed the room without a word and snapped down the black shutter provided for the purpose, and then heard Barker snuffle away along the passage.

"That's what I call genius," he observed, as he clapped the shutter tight and shot the bar into place.

Then he went to the window and thrust the shutters open.

Serge had often studied thus through the night and when it was morning he would say, "It is morning," and would go down and help Madame Vasselitch unbar the iron shutters and unchain the door, and remove the bolts from the window casement.

Katherine was busy at her father's desk in the corner doing the necessary writing which comes to every storekeeper at the close of the day, and she was just wondering when Miles was coming to lock the door and fold the shutter over the one small window, when she heard a slouching step outside, and, glancing up, saw Oily Dave entering at the door.

" He went into the inner room and began to undo the shutters, letting in the early sun.

" "By the great elm," exclaimed Pamela, who had unfastened the shutters with Josiah's help; "see, the branches overhang the roof just here, and I think there are some pieces of the bark on the ground below."

And then they literally became speechless when they saw him slide back the bolt which held the shutter in place.

Morning had importuned their shutters long before Markham awoke and gazed with startled eyes at the diagonal bar of orange light which cut the obscurity of their hiding place.

Then, in the light from my lantern, I inserted the shutter into the slide, and reversed the slide, so as to have a fresh plate ready to expose at any time.

Others were shut almost altogether, the inmates only keeping open the door for their own convenience, and, perhaps, keeping down a shutter for the sake of a little light.

Then the man who was looking out of the window turned and came back into the room, latching the shutters and putting the curtains into place.

She refrained from answering him, and in the silence that followed he lifted the shutter away from the hut entrance and looked inside.

The carpenter, also, who arrived prepared to repair the porch columns and floor, and to mend the broken shutters, was led at once by the young master of the place to the gateway and instructed that he must make the old gate itself substantial, and hang it so that it should swing true.

" On the following day the grocer nailed up the shutters, and locked and barred the doors of his house.

69 Verbs to Use for the Word  shutter