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Now, on a Sunday morning, most of the
windows
were occupied, men in their shirtsleeves leant out smoking, or carefully and gently held small children on the sills.
Other
windows
were piled up with bedding, above which the dishevelled head of a woman would briefly appear.
A fruitmonger, taking his goods up to the windows, was just as inattentive as K. and nearly knocked him down with his cart.
K. went further into the street, slowly, as if he had plenty of time now, or as if the examining magistrate were looking at him from one of the
windows
and therefore knew that K. had found his way there.
There was a piece of rope stretched between two
windows
in a corner of the yard, with some washing hanging on it to dry.
K. had quickly thrown the door shut, gone over to one of the
windows
overlooking the yard and opened it.
The yard he looked down into was small and rectangular, all around it were offices, all the
windows
were now dark and only those at the very top caught a reflection of the moon.
From where he sat, he could see just a small, triangular section of it, part of the empty walls of houses between two shop
windows.
It was clearly the lawyer's office, fitted out with old, heavy furniture, as far as could be seen in the moonlight which now illuminated just a small, rectangular section of the floor by each of the three big
windows.
The square in front of the cathedral was quite empty, K. remembered how even as a small child he had noticed that nearly all the houses in this narrow square had the curtains at their
windows
closed most of the time, although today, with the weather like this, it was more understandable.
Most of the
windows
on the other side of the street were also dark already, many of them had the curtains closed.
In one of the
windows
on the same floor where there was a light on, two small children could be seen playing with each other inside a playpen, unable to move from where they were, reaching out for each other with their little hands.
The large and spacious houses, with their oriel, latticed windows, their huge fireplaces, and their gabled roofs, breathe of the days of hose and doublet, of pearl-embroidered stomachers, and complicated oaths.
In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two girls who "have never been undutiful to their parents; who have never been known to swear or to tell untruths, to steal, or to break windows."
It is a veritable picture of an old country inn, with green, square courtyard in front, where, on seats beneath the trees, the old men group of an evening to drink their ale and gossip over village politics; with low, quaint rooms and latticed windows, and awkward stairs and winding passages.
Its low-pitched gables and thatched roof and latticed
windows
give it quite a story-book appearance, while inside it is even still more once-upon-a-timeyfied.
She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the same room with him with the
windows
closed.
Accordingly, as the inmates of the Locusts assembled, on the following morning, around their early breakfast, the driving rain was seen to strike in nearly horizontal lines against the
windows
of the building, and forbade the idea of exposing either man or beast to the tempest.
In the deep recesses of the
windows
of the cottage were seats of paneled work; and the rich damask curtains, that had ornamented the parlor in Queen Street, had been transferred to the Locusts, and gave to the room that indescribable air of comfort, which so gratefully announces the approach of a domestic winter.
The rain yet continued to beat against the eastern
windows
of the house with fury; in that direction the heavens were dark and gloomy.
On taking an eager and hasty survey of the valley from the
windows
of their room, nothing, however, but its usual serenity was to be seen.
The brother made no reply; but returning the fondness expressed in her eye by a look of fraternal tenderness, he gently pressed her hand in silence; when Caesar, who had participated largely in the anxiety of the family, and who had risen with the dawn, and kept a vigilant watch on the surrounding objects, as he stood gazing from one of the windows, exclaimed with a face that approached to something like the hues of a white man,-"Run - Massa Harry - run - if he love old Caesar, run - here come a rebel horse."
He particularly disliked the ambush of the detachment under Lawton, who could be distinctly seen from the
windows
of the cottage, cooling his impatience, by pacing on foot the ground in front of his men.
Not so Frances; she returned to the apartment where she had left Dunwoodie, and, from one of its windows, had been a deeply interested spectator of all his movements.
CHAPTER XIIThis fairy form contains a soul as mighty, As that which lives within a giant's frame; These slender limbs, that tremble like the aspen At summer evening's sigh, uphold a spirit, Which, roused, can tower to the height of heaven, And light those shining
windows
of the face With much of heaven's own radiance.
Sometimes the cart itself was her shop; at others the soldiers made her a rude shelter of such materials as offered; but on the present occasion she had seized on a vacant building, and, by dint of stuffing the dirty breeches and half-dried linen of the troopers into the broken windows, to exclude the cold, which had now become severe, she formed what she herself had pronounced to be "most illigant lodgings."
Dismounting, he ordered eight of his men to follow his example, and turning to Hollister, said,-"Stand you here, and guard the horses; if anything attempt to pass, stop it, or cut it down, and - "The flames at this moment burst through the dormer
windows
and cedar roof of the cottage, and a bright light glared on the darkness of the night.
It was the falling of the roof, and the flames threw their light abroad, so as to make objects visible around the cottage, through the
windows
of the room.
The fire had already communicated to the woodwork of the piazzas and windows, and the whole exterior of the cottage was covered with smoke.
There was but barely time to reach the lawn again, before the fire broke through the windows, and wrapped the whole building in a sheet of flame.
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