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  • I love them as much for the ads for Atco Autoscythes and Cremona Assorted Toffees as for the editorial content on everything from redstarts on window-sills to the vegetation on British Railways 'embankments.

    Green Credentials Peter Ashley 2008

  • She transferred her gaze to the cottage under the dyke -- it was already under water as far as its low window-sills, as was the larger house only a few hundred yards away from where they had stopped.

    Politics 101 2010

  • Fortunately, our window-sills came up to scratch but the inspector decided not to inpsect them and docked us another five points.

    An Inspector Speaks Out « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Abandoned books, green window-sills and dreams of fertiliser.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lee Lee 2009

  • Abandoned books, green window-sills and dreams of fertiliser.

    Abandoned books, green window-sills and dreams of fertiliser. Lee Lee 2009

  • Mitigating Monotony: Abandoned books, green window-sills and dreams of fertiliser.

    Abandoned books, green window-sills and dreams of fertiliser. Lee Lee 2009

  • When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one window to the other.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Men like that whisper outside window-sills; they own the night and leave before dawn.

    A Familiar Tale 2007

  • In the afternoons, you see no end of salt and sandy little boots drying on upper window-sills.

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • Candles on the window-sills, the white rug vacuumed.

    The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007

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