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  • These low rooms, which have no shop-frontage, no show-windows, in fact no glass at all, are deep and dark and without interior or exterior decoration.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • This kind of illumination is especially suitable in cases where show-windows and sales rooms are combined.

    9. Commercial Lighting Fittings Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • This enables in a simple, but direct way a concentrated lighting of objects to be emphasized in show-windows, exhibition rooms, display boxes etc.

    5. Fundamentals of installation engineering Werner Boschitsch 1991

  • Furnishing houses, too have to be treated as a unity of show-windows and sales rooms as regards illumination.

    9. Commercial Lighting Fittings Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • But there is no call for such wares, so we lay character and brain on the shelves to mildew, and fill the show-windows with confectionery and illusion.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

  • We know only what you have been unable to conceal of your faults, and the virtues you have displayed in your show-windows.

    From a Girl's Point of View Lilian Bell

  • This must surely be the psychology of show-windows and show-cases.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

  • Effi cared but little for the possession of more or less commonplace things, but when she walked up and down Unter den Linden with her mother, and, after inspecting the most beautiful show-windows, went into Demuth's to buy a number of things for the honeymoon tour of Italy, her true, character showed itself.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

  • The stores are generally small, with a limited stock of goods; they have no show-windows, but are arranged on the style of bazars.

    Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

  • Scott over its door, and he usually kept his front show-windows closed to prevent the light from fading the bindings of his books.

    As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

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