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Shutter in sentence

64 examples of Shutter in a sentence

He opened the shutter sufficiently to pass his head through the gap, repeating in a whisper: 'It is a friend.'
He flew up the ladder, tapped at the shutter; a moment later Mathilde heard him, she tried to open the shutter, the ladder kept it closed.
Julien clung to the iron latch intended to hold the shutter open, and, risking a thousand falls, gave the ladder a violent shake, and displaced it a little.
Mathilde was able to open the shutter.
As he passed with Mathilde by this spot which recalled to him so vividly the intensity of his grief, the contrast between past despair and present bliss was too strong for him; tears flooded his eyes, and, carrying to his lips the hand of his mistress: 'Here I lived while I thought of you; from here I gazed at that shutter, I awaited for hours on end the fortunate moment when I should see this hand open it ...'He gave way completely.
Not a shutter was down! not a bus was about!
The matter was soon cleared: the man carried off upon a shutter, and I borne in much state and solemnity to a special bedroom, where the small bone of my leg was set by Surgeon Purdie, the younger of the two brothers of that name.
The husband who was always trembling with fever went to bed, while the young woman opened the window to close the shutter blinds.
Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter.
Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the shutter open, but without success.
On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar.
Then I walked across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded across it.
Had it been ten, Elinor would have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house; and so strong was the persuasion that she DID, in spite of the ALMOST impossibility of their being already come, that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window shutter, to be satisfied of the truth.
At that moment a shutter in the court-yard clicked distinctly three times in the silence.
Again the whisper behind the shutter rose, and a man from a doorway demanded his business.
Nevertheless, whether the cough had been answered by a similar signal which had fixed the irresolution of the nocturnal seeker, or whether without this aid she saw that she had arrived at the end of her journey, she resolutely drew near to Aramis’s shutter, and tapped, at three equal intervals, with her bent finger.
The three blows were scarcely struck, when the inside blind was opened and a light appeared through the panes of the outside shutter.
But to the great astonishment of d’Artagnan, the shutter remained closed.
The young woman in the street replied by a single tap, and the shutter was opened a little way.
At length the shutter closed.
"You do not know the man at whose shutter you have just knocked?
Bonacieux knocked, as at the shutter, three light and regular taps.
Besides, the woman wore that black mantle which d’Artagnan could still see outlined on the shutter of the Rue de Vaugirard and on the door of the Rue de la Harpe; still further, the man wore the uniform of a Musketeer.
They both approached the window, and through a slit in the shutter they saw Bonacieux talking with a man in a cloak.
"Is the young Guardsman at home?""I do not think he is; as you see, his shutter is closed, and you can see no light shine through the chinks of the shutters."
They had just prepared their beds and barricaded their door within, when someone knocked at the yard shutter; they demanded who was there, and recognizing the voices of their lackeys, opened the shutter.
At length an old, worm-eaten shutter was opened, or rather pushed ajar, but closed again as soon as the light from a miserable lamp which burned in the corner had shone upon the baldric, sword belt, and pistol pommels of d’Artagnan.
A saddled horse was fastened to the window shutter.
50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTERDuring the time which Lord de Winter took to shut the door, close a shutter, and draw a chair near to his sister-in-law’s fauteuil, Milady, anxiously thoughtful, plunged her glance into the depths of possibility, and discovered all the plan, of which she could not even obtain a glance as long as she was ignorant into whose hands she had fallen.
So I up to get another bottle of liptrap, and I slipped round to the shutter that we pass the liquor through from the private bar into the parlour.
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