window-sash

Excitedly, I sprang down the steps, and, guided by the rattle of the window-sash, reached the door of one of the empty bedrooms, at the back of the house.

The House on the Borderland 2007

We need to redeploy the window-sash prisms for the winter -- an assortment of glass that throws rainbows all over the room, but we have to take them down in the summer when we want to, you know, _open_ the windows.

Chickadees and icicles jhetley 2006

I lifted up the window-sash quick, and jumped in; but before I made two steps Jim sprang past me, and raised his pistol.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

Clemens one day got up in a chair in his room on the second floor to pull down the high window-sash.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

The aromatic herbs were still smoking, and spirals of bluish vapour blended at the window-sash with the fog that was coming in.

Madame Bovary 2003

Turning away from the old man, I leant my brow upon the window-sash, gazing across the dark plain, scattered with fires like distant stars.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Rachel had opened her window-shutters, as was her wont when the moon was up, and with her small white hands on the window-sash, looked into the wooded solitudes, lost in haunted darkness in every direction but one, and there massed in vaporous and discoloured foliage, hardly more distinct, or less solemn.

Wylder's Hand 2003

She must have left something — a bag, or a white basket upon the window-sash.

Wylder's Hand 2003

He had turned suddenly, and his long, thin finger was pointing to a hole which had been drilled right through the lower window-sash, about an inch above the bottom.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men. 1993

Bob and Nellie do anything save gape with astonishment, the window-sash was violently forced down; and, without a ` by your leave 'or any word of warning, a strange uncouth figure, so it seemed to their startled gaze, came squeezing through the opening and fell on the floor of the carriage at their feet in a clumsy sprawl.

Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene