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  • Instead of the shop-windows, which are now calculated for the display of goods, the traders had their open booths projecting on the street, in which, as in the fashion of the modern bazaars, all was exposed which they had upon sale.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Where once I was bored by a web full of static shop-windows, now I find people, social networking, blogs, podcasts, flickr, boards - and used by real people - not just tech-heads.

    The jargon dilemma 2006

  • From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from his neck by a cord.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Where once I was bored by a web full of static shop-windows, now I find people, social networking, blogs, podcasts, flickr, boards - and used by real people - not just tech-heads.

    May 2006 2006

  • When I had occasionally slunk up the cellar-steps into the street, and glared in at shop-windows, I had done so with no higher feelings than we may suppose to animate a mangy young dog or wolf-cub.

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

  • More than one hundred of the biggest names in fashion have already setup their own shop-windows.

    MyStyleWindow.com to be launched, soon Thatsnews 2007

  • When I had occasionally slunk up the cellar-steps into the street, and glared in at shop-windows, I had done so with no higher feelings than we may suppose to animate a mangy young dog or wolf-cub.

    George Silvermans's Explanation 2007

  • Its unique ‘shop-windows’ are designed to encourage casual browsing, just like a shopping centre experience.

    MyStyleWindow.com to be launched, soon Thatsnews 2007

  • What atrocious falsehoods those portraits in the shop-windows are!

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • At first the placard was confined to the shop-windows and stalls upon the Boulevards in Paris; afterwards it spread all over France, till it was supplanted to some extent by a return to advertisements in the newspapers.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

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