And his attention was constantly wandering: there were fruit trees trained on the walls of the vicarage, and a long twig beat now and then against the
windowpane; sheep grazed stolidly in the field beyond the garden.
They make bunches of flowers, from flakes and wires of silver, that counterfeit the delicate creations the frost weaves upon a
windowpane; and we were shown a miniature silver temple whose fluted columns, whose Corinthian capitals and rich entablatures, whose spire, statues, bells, and ornate lavishness of sculpture were wrought in polished silver, and with such matchless art that every detail was a fascinating study and the finished edifice a wonder of beauty.
Thus spoke Robin Hood to himself, all his anger passing away like a breath from the
windowpane, at the thought that perhaps his trusty right-hand man was in some danger of his life.
The wasp-like resemblance was increased by the fact that the apparatus flew with a deep booming hum, exactly the sound made by a wasp at a
windowpane.
And, indeed, as he spoke, the first few flakes, foreseen by the man of chestnuts, began to drift across the darkening
windowpane.
O, God, how afraid I am for him and for myself and about everything!..." Natasha began, and without replying to Sonya's words of comfort she got into bed, and long after her candle was out lay open-eyed and motionless, gazing at the moonlight through the frosty
windowpanes.
If he turned to the right, he knocked it against the bed or into the
windowpanes; if he turned to the left, he struck the walls or the door; if he raised it a bit, he almost put the Fairy's eyes out.
I ask the jury to compare them with the finger marks of the accused upon the
windowpanes, and tell the court if they are the same."
A bright fire was glowing in the old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the
windowpanes. Matthew nodded over a FARMERS' ADVOCATE on the sofa and Anne at the table studied her lessons with grim determination, despite sundry wistful glances at the clock shelf, where lay a new book that Jane Andrews had lent her that day.
The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the
windowpanes covered with fantastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.
I simply love the large
windowpane mirror in taupe.
Right, large
windowpane mirror, PS199; Dark grey pillar candle, PS6