Sentence examples for and the sill of from inspiring English sources

He peered down through the crack between the wall and the sill of the elevator and saw that it was very dark.

It was incorporated into the grounds of Old Gisborough Hall as a romantic ruin and the sill of the great window removed to ensure an uninterrupted view.

"We watched the sleek, wild, dark // And iridescent creature / Batter against the brilliance / drop like a glove / To the hard floor, or the desk top," Wilbur writes: And wait then, humped and bloody, For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits Rose when, suddenly sure, It lifted off from a chair-back, Beating a smooth course for the right window And clearing the sill of the world.

My wife!" Moments later, they found his wife in the children's bedroom, huddled atop her son and daughter just below the sill of the sealed window, her back and buttocks burning as she tried to protect them from the advancing flames.

So set, before its echoes fade, The fleet foot on the sill of shade, And hold to the low lintel up The still-defended challenge-cup.

In buildings of more than one story the spandrel is the area between the sill of a window and the head of the window below it.

Both the spatial and temporal semi-variograms were fitted with an asymptotic value (the sill) of one since the standardized flows have a unit standard deviation.

He sat on the sill of his open window, smoking behind a jungle screen of office plants.

On the sill of a second-floor window somebody had placed a radio, facing Wilhelmstrasse and playing jazz at full volume.

The performers, Jillian Sweeney and Rachel Tiemann, watched from their perch on the sill of the theater's big metal sliding door.

On the sill of the tiny corner window, high on the western wall, perches an oriole nest that Barry Lopez gave me.