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(Soundbite of music) WAS: Buddy wasn't but 7 years old when he fashioned his first make-shift instrument out of a lighter-fluid can, some window-screen wire and tacks.

Buddy Guy, Bridging Blues and Rock 2006

He'd sit in his ground-floor dorm-room, sheilded by the window-screen, and squirt passers-by, then duck and cover.

Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives 2002

Its proportions were magnificent, and filled up the whole breadth of the window-screen; nay, the shoulders shot away latterly beyond its utmost limits, and were lost in space, having apparently nothing whereon to cast their mighty image.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 359, March 7, 1829 Various

In some towns the streets are nearly straight and cross each other like the wires of a window-screen.

Where We Live A Home Geography Emilie Van Beil Jacobs

He was merely puzzled, as a June-bug is puzzled when it bumps up against a wire window-screen.

Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

He was merely puzzled, as a June-bug is puzzled when it bumps up against a wire window-screen.

Mr. Crewe's Career — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

He was merely puzzled, as a June-bug is puzzled when it bumps up against a wire window-screen.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

To him went the curio case of Venetian glass; one pair of tall blue-and-white Mohammedan cylindrical vases; fourteen examples of Chinese jade, including several artists 'water-dishes and a pierced window-screen of the faintest tinge of green.

The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

It was her shadow Buxton had seen on the window-screen; and as none of

The Deserter Charles King 1888

Ivy is a beautiful plant, and is capable of forming a most elegant window-screen.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885