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In the midst of these flames that didn't burn, I could see swift, elegant porpoises, the tireless pranksters of the seas, and sailfish three meters long, those shrewd heralds of hurricanes, whose fearsome broadswords sometimes banged against the lounge window.
Often these powerful animals rushed at the lounge window with a violence less than comforting.
How many delightful hours I spent in this way at the lounge window!
Through the lounge window I could see only its granite bedrock.
The captain didn't reply but went to lean against the window.
I returned to the window.
I wanted to plunge my eyes through the lounge window and into these Atlantic waters; but the panels were hermetically sealed, and a mantle of sheet iron separated me from this ocean with which I was still unfamiliar.
I would have stayed longer at my window, marveling at these beauties of sea and sky, but the panels closed.
Through the open window we stared at the lower strata of this southernmost ocean.
For part of the night, the novelty of our circumstances kept Conseil and me at the lounge window.
"But what's wrong, my boy?""I've been dazzled, struck blind!"Involuntarily my eyes flew to the window, but I couldn't stand the fire devouring it.
"Didn't it measure about six meters?" said Conseil, who was stationed at the window and examining anew the crevices in the cliff.
Ned Land rushed to the window.
Sometimes these suckers fastened onto the lounge window by creating vacuums against it.
Indeed, other devilfish had appeared at the starboard window.
These monsters kept pace in our waters with such precision, they seemed to be standing still, and I could have traced their outlines in miniature on the window.
I was glued to the window by an irresistible allure!
On the fine summer evenings, at the time when the close streets are empty, when the servants are playing shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened his window and leaned out.
The shovel, tongs, and the nozzle of the bellows, all of colossal size, shone like polished steel, while along the walls hung many pots and pans in which the clear flame of the hearth, mingling with the first rays of the sun coming in through the window, was mirrored fitfully.
There was an odour of iris-root and damp sheets that escaped from a large oak chest opposite the window.
When Charles, after bidding farewell to old Rouault, returned to the room before leaving, he found her standing, her forehead against the window, looking into the garden, where the bean props had been knocked down by the wind.
Between the window and the hearth Emma was sewing; she wore no fichu; he could see small drops of perspiration on her bare shoulders.
He got up to drink from the water-bottle and opened the window.
But so that you mayn't be eating your heart, I'll open wide the outer shutter of the window against the wall; you can see it from the back by leaning over the hedge."
A canary yellow paper, relieved at the top by a garland of pale flowers, was puckered everywhere over the badly stretched canvas; white calico curtains with a red border hung crossways at the length of the window; and on the narrow mantelpiece a clock with a head of Hippocrates shone resplendent between two plate candlesticks under oval shades.
A shell box adorned the chest of drawers, and on the secretary near the window a bouquet of orange blossoms tied with white satin ribbons stood in a bottle.
She came to the window to see him off, and stayed leaning on the sill between two pots of geranium, clad in her dressing gown hanging loosely about her.
Charles from horseback threw her a kiss; she answered with a nod; she shut the window, and he set off.
Others, dreaming on sofas with an open letter, gazed at the moon through a slightly open window half draped by a black curtain.
Thus shaken up, the old instrument, whose strings buzzed, could be heard at the other end of the village when the window was open, and often the bailiff's clerk, passing along the highroad bare-headed and in list slippers, stopped to listen, his sheet of paper in his hand.
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