window-boxes

Singular testimony to the absence of sunlight in these courts was furnished by the action of the Parks and Gardens Committee, who desired to brighten the homes of the poorest class by gifts of growing flowers and window-boxes; but these gifts could not be made in courts such as these, AS FLOWERS

THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF LIFE 2010

From my window I observed all the preparations, including the meticulous rearrangement along the street of the various pint-sized glossy-red Renault fire-engines so as to open up the necessary space inside the cour; the stocking of large ice-boxes with mountains of refraichements; the watering of the geraniums in the window-boxes; the house-proud sweeping, primping, buffing, and tidying that distinguishes the corporate pride of this small army of efficient, exceptionally handsome young men.

Grand bal des sapeurs-pompiers 2009

“If ever there is a judgment on these people I hope someone will get up and say, ‘But remember their window-boxes.’”

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

A few snow-flakes were falling outside, and one of the, the largest, lay on the edge of one of the window-boxes.

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

Miniature yellow roses were blooming out front in bright-green window-boxes.

Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

Miniature yellow roses were blooming out front in bright-green window-boxes.

Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

He's to meet his Argentine contact at the Cafe 1'-clipse, well off the trolley lines, down a cobblestone street and into a tiny square surrounded by vegetable and fruit stalls under beige awnings, shops, other cafes, window-boxes, clean hosed sidewalks.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

A sand table, with a lump of clay for modeling, a blackboard and, in the spring, window-boxes where the children can plant seeds, will all add vastly to the joy of life.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

There are little homes toward the end of the street -- it is one block long -- little, old, two-story, brick dwelling houses, in charmingly bad repair, with fire escapes, little stairs twisting up to the doors and iron railings there, and window-boxes at the windows.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

Scarlet and yellow tulips bedecked the window-boxes in the houses on his right.

Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore