Sentence examples for dusty windowsill from inspiring English sources
Against such vast immutability the human struggle takes place on the same scale as the insect movements in the grass, and carnage in the streets is no more than the spider-sucked husk of a fly on a dusty windowsill.
On a dusty windowsill is a bust of William Shakespeare of the sort one might buy at a cheap souvenir shop at Stratford-on-Avon, of the size of a small cat, and on one of the walls a faded poster gaily advertising Shakespeare in Love.
Best indoor location is an east, west or south windowsill.
Tables were bare, windowsills dusty.
I threw my head back and laughed, and my gaze fell on a series of still-lifes pinned to the wall which Fumiko had done a few months ago, for one of her ungraded assignments at the École des Beaux-Arts — studies of spider and beetle carcasses, long dead and dusty, dried-out husks found on windowsills, inside fluorescent-light fixtures, and in hard-to-reach corners.
As if the cat would jump onto that windowsill, the way she often had, and press her dusty nose against the glass, leaving another in a long pattern of smudges.
Either Brett held onto part of the manuscript deliberately, or some of the chapters became separated (one of the pages, dusty and with a rusty paperclip mark, looks as if it had been stored on a windowsill somewhere), or Mitchell asked him to hold onto the chapters for safekeeping.
It's no surprise that the Manhattan place lacks the dusty charm of Di Fara's, where about the only addition in forty years is the vintage shortwave radio on the windowsill.
