let in

• “When I went to bed, I laid my watch in the usual place, and going to take her up after I arose this morning, I found her in the same place, it's true! but Quantum mutatus ab illo! all afloat in water, let in at a leak in the roof of the house, and as silent and still as the rats that had eat my pocket-book.”

  Letters

• “Across the garden was a third, its stainless-steel stove-pipe glinting in the sun, and its front doors ajar to let in the air and spring sunshine.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “There were a few cases of Poland Spring water and there were two frosted-over windows on the back doors and they let in just enough milky light for me to make things out.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Double Life is Twice as Good

• “Beautiful girls whose supple limbs showed through tissue-fine robes ushered them down the deck between the columns to a pair of great gold doors wrought in bas-relief by some master; inside was a huge room with shutters opened wide to let in every breeze, its walls of citrus wood and marquetry in gorgeous, complex designs, its floor a foot deep in rose petals.”

  Simon & Schuster: Antony and Cleopatra

• “His house was ten by fifteen feet, had several big window apertures to let in plenty of light, and Johnny Livingstone had made him a table and two chairs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “Beside a window which let in the soft after-sunset light -- a window which rattled all day under the assault of the steady wind -- the two ate their supper.”

  The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas

• “It looked to me like Berin, but I was willing to let in either Vukcic or Blanc in case they insisted.”

  Too Many Cooks

• “It was dark in the box, a condition that might have been remedied by sliding back a small wooden panel on runners, which would have let in ample light from the alley; but Penrod Schofield had more interesting means of illumination.”

  Penrod

• “Our cabin floor, with half-inch spacings between each crookedly laid board, let in not only cold air but also the snortings of the sleeping pigs, dogs, cats, and whatever else took retreat under it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Heaven

• “Our cabin near the sky was made of old wood full of knotholes to let in the cold and heat, or let out our cold or heat, whichever would make us most miserable.”

  Simon & Schuster: Heaven

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