Now, this back-room was immediately behind the bar, and some steps lower, so that any person connected with the house, undrawing a small curtain which concealed a single pane of glass fixed in the wall of the last-named apartment, about five feet from its flooring, could not only look down upon any guests in the back-room without any great hazard of being observed (the glass being in a dark angle of the wall, between which and a large upright beam the observer had to thrust himself), but could, by applying his ear to the partition, ascertain with tolerable distinctness, their subject of conversation.
Mounting a stool, he cautiously applied his eye to the pane of glass, from which secret post he could see Mr.
A firm and well-practised hand was engaged in cutting the four sides of a pane of glass with a diamond.
"A pane of glass out," continued the count, "a dark lantern, a bunch of false keys, a secretary half forced -- it is tolerably evident" --
Much as I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us, been sounded, the quick, smitten glare with which the child's face now received it fairly likened my breach of the silence to the smash of a
pane of glass. It added to the interposing cry, as if to stay the blow, that Mrs.
The soldier tapped at the
pane of glass, and when this man came up, said to him: 'Be so kind as to fetch me the small bundle I have left lying in the inn, and I will give you a ducat for doing it.' His comrade ran thither and brought him what he wanted.
that
pane of glass which is further on, that transparent obstacle, that wall of crystal, harder than brass, which separates all philosophies from the truth, how wouldst thou have overcome it?
She was kneeling in the window-bench, her face close to the casement, where an outer pane of rain-water was sliding down the inner
pane of glass. Her eyes rested on the web of a spider, probably starved long ago, which had been mistakenly placed in a corner where no flies ever came, and shivered in the slight draught through the casement.
Those who were non-experts in high explosives expected that every
pane of glass in New York would be shattered.
Cruncher's apartments were not in a savoury neighbourhood, and were but two in number, even if a closet with a single
pane of glass in it might be counted as one.
The new edition called IQ-Core ROAM enables network administrators to view entire tactical networks through a single
pane of glass, while sharing views and access to deployed operators at any level or echelon of the network, creating a collaborative, hierarchical, network operations and management structure.
Police and firefighters were called to the Cat Ballou school clothing shop at around 3pm on Thursday afternoon after a
pane of glass crashed to the floor.
pane of glass - sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors