A Commonplace Book

Category: windows...

  • since early times, windows have been filled with grilles or lights (panes) of glass or other translucent material
  • floor-to-ceiling windows, Christmas-decorated store windows, stained-glass windows, a bay window with a window seat, mullioned windows
  • a window table for a special meal
  • opening the windows to a tapestry of smells
  • actions and words are the windows through which the heart is seen
  • a sash window opens vertically, sliding up and down; a casement window opens sideward on a hinge
  • windows made in double or triple thickness separated by air space for insulation are called double- or triple-glazed
  • But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
  • It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (William Shakespeare)
  • Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. (Marcel Proust)

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