window-shades

With the quick glance and fore-knowledge of a woman, Saxon saw, not merely the curious children clustering about, but the peering of adult faces from open doors and windows, and past window-shades lifted up or held aside.

CHAPTER XIX 2010

Instead of mirror-shades, window-shades that create "holes" through your head.

Life on Mars? Michael Alan Nelson 2009

The moment it was dusk she pulled down the window-shades all the shades, flush with the sill, but beyond them she felt moist fleering eyes.

Main Street 2004

When Megan was in my room, stereo speakers blew, window-shades flew up with a bang, and the lamp on my desk usually went dead.

on writing by stephen king scribner 2000

Mrs. Jenkins, moved to memories long dormant of the home of her youth, suggested blinds instead of window-shades, but the Boarder after much figuring proved adamantine in resistance to this temptation.

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

There he had no gaslight; the window-shades, however, were not drawn so closely but that a little daylight entered.

The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Bannister Merwin

As he approached the house of the mine boss he saw that it was more brilliantly lighted than usual, and just as he reached the door a shadow, apparently that of a young girl, moved across one of the white window-shades.

Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe

The window-shades, the table-cover, and the piano-cloth, all repeated the same colors, in the same cheap material.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

The steel wire springs taken from old window-shades are excellent for this purpose.

How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity

Painting, papering, window-shades, and odds and ends cost $275, making a total of $2905.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter