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  • Though slightly ad hoc, the bunting is at least cheerful, and appears to be strung between ground-floor window-frames.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The white paint of the skirting-board and the picture-rail could be, and the paintwork of the door and the window-frames.

    William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

  • They have crept out from behind doors and window-frames now that it's warmer.

    John Godber swaps Hull for Wakefield 2011

  • There are several greenhouses, of which this is the largest (the others seeming to be a poor storage area for a motorcycle and a bunch of cast-off window-frames).

    Decrepit But Not Abandoned Heather McDougal 2008

  • There are several greenhouses, of which this is the largest (the others seeming to be a poor storage area for a motorcycle and a bunch of cast-off window-frames).

    Archive 2008-06-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Lhazo - Painting: From the images onthangkas (religious wall hangings), walls paintings, and statues to the decorations on furniture and window-frames.

    ARTISTIC GALLERY 2008

  • The inventive and industrious Parisian workmen had moulded the doors and window-frames; the ceilings were imitated from the middle-ages or those of a Venetian palace; marble veneering abounded on the outer walls.

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

  • I turned swiftly back to the window; for I had seen the shadow of the window-frames, travelling along the floor towards me, as though a great lamp had been carried up past the window.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • The advent of each of these epochs in the day is proclaimed by an awful gong, which shakes the very window-frames as it reverberates through the house, and horribly disturbs nervous foreigners.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • An English philanthropist had built this architectural bijou, designed the garden, added the greenhouse, polished the doors, bricked the courtyard, painted the window-frames green, and realized, in short, a dream which resembled (proportions excepted)

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

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