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  • He'd missed the first wasp, when it built its paperfine gray house on the blistered paint of the windowframe, but soon the nest was a fist-sized lump of fiber, insects hurtling out to hunt the alley below like miniature copters buzzing the rotting con - tents of the dumpsters.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • The ertical windowframe in the "reflection" is meant to be the leftmost vertical in the main image.

    The Sunset: Tatooine's Best Restaurant Cosmo7 2009

  • Joe scraped paint from the windowframe of the main barn tack room, pausing every now and then to wipe sweat from his eyes.

    In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Deleted scenes — Joe and the three women 2009

  • Jimmy waited nights for the skritch above his bed, the black wingtip squeezing between windowframe and brick, the emerging mousebody, its claw dug in plaster, till he could yell, “There's a bat in my room!” rouse Walter, tennis racket in hand, to climb the stairs, do battle.

    Creatures: A Memoir 2008

  • I apologize for the darkness of the following video, but I did not have time to find my camera, check its energy level, AND set up appropriate lighting once Onion started swimming along the windowsill in an effort to squish himself under the windowframe.

    Is Onion Smart? Hardly. 2008

  • I apologize for the darkness of the following video, but I did not have time to find my camera, check its energy level, AND set up appropriate lighting once Onion started swimming along the windowsill in an effort to squish himself under the windowframe.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Jimmy waited nights for the skritch above his bed, the black wingtip squeezing between windowframe and brick, the emerging mousebody, its claw dug in plaster, till he could yell, “There's a bat in my room!” rouse Walter, tennis racket in hand, to climb the stairs, do battle.

    Creatures: A Memoir Terence Cannon 2008

  • The windowframe itself and the wainscoting beneath it are painted white.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006

  • One bonus idea that came out of this brainstorming is the notion of painting the wood that surrounds the windowframe.

    no looking back Pat 2006

  • One bonus idea that came out of this brainstorming is the notion of painting the wood that surrounds the windowframe.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Pat 2006

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