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I looked back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car's rear window.
About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.
He paced to the window and looked at the city he had helped to build.
In 2007, she wrote that she did not want to belittle the issue but was sceptical of the claims that specific actions would prevent catastrophe, then in 2008 that her doubts had been “ crystalised ” by Nigel Lawson's book An Appeal to Reason, before stating in 2009 that " There is no climate change, hasn ’ t anybody looked out of their window recently?
I looked out of my bedroom window, and as I looked six wild pigeons flew down and perched on the dead branches of a tall poplar tree that stood about one hundred feet away.
: face was quite as cadaverous as it had looked in the window, though in the grain of it there was that tinge of red which is sometimes to be observed in the skins of red-haired people.
He was a great writer who came to Venice and looked out the window and smoked his cigar and thought.
As the story goes, a railroad official looked out the window of a train car and saw a large herd of cattle.
She was standing one day, the day before I was taken ill, 15 at a window that looked on the Terrace with Trelawny — it was day — she saw as she thought Shelley pass by the window, as he often was then, without a coat or jacket — he passed again — now as he passed both times the same way — and as from the side towards which he went each time there was no way to get back except past the window again ( except over a wall twenty feet from the ground ) she was struck at seeing him pass twice thus & looked out & seeing him no more she cried — " Good God can Shelley have leapt from the wall ?....
We came in and I just looked out of my window -- I had to look up -- because the Titanic shot up a hundred and some feet above me.
On meeting the Führer, Halifax almost created an incident by nearly handing his coat to Hitler, believing him to be a footman: " As I looked out of the car window, on eye level, I saw in the middle of this swept path a pair of black trousered legs, finishing up in silk socks and pumps.
The saloons were styled exactly like the hatchbacks, except for a different rear window above a bootlid ; from the side they looked almost indistinguishable from the hatchback, with no protruding notch at the rear.
Hughes looked out of his front window and, while not realising what had happened, made the only certain sighting of the killer — a 6 foot ( 1. 80 metre ) tall white man aged around 40 years old, seen walking away from Dando's house.
However, coherentists need to account for propositions which report observations, such as: " I believe it is raining because I looked out of the window and saw it was raining ".
Another neighbor, Ronald Ruggiero, also heard the shots and said that when he looked from his window he saw Alfred Bello running west on Lafayette Street toward 16th Street.
As he wrote, " The country members naturally were surprised to observe that one man ploughed all day and one looked out of a window all day ... and both received at night the same wages ".
The officer in charge looked into the key hole and saw the countess and the queen speaking at the window of the room.

window and out
And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.
Dandy, curiosity overcoming his apprehensions, peered out at the doctor from the window of the vehicle.
Mrs. Victor Dominique, socially prominent and a neighbor of the Lalauries, chanced to glance out of her parlor window at dusk one evening and beheld an amazing sight.
Every day, when the President took his nap, Rob Roy would stretch out on the window seat near him, like a perfect gentleman, and stare thoughtfully out the window, or he would take a little nap himself.
We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.
And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.
I remember him pointing out of the window and saying that he wished he could live to see another spring but that he wouldn't.
I sat down to wait, and I watched Tessie Alpert, who hadn't moved or said a word but kept staring out of the window.
Once, sitting at the front window in his parents' room, he saw Kate come out of her house.
Jefferson Lawrence was alone at the small, perfectly appointed table by the window looking out over the river.
He stared out the window.
His worries harried him up out of bed, and he lighted a cigarette and went to the window.
a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
After Mr. Jack drove away, Winston went on looking out the window.
My host went over and stared out the window at his peacocks ; ;
I opened the window and threw the radish out ''.
I felt lonely and depressed as I stared out the bus window at Chicago's grim, dirty West Side.

window and on
Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.
Alone, rejected on every hand, divorced, and in financial trouble, he leaped from an eleventh-floor window of the Abbey Hotel in 1937.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
There was no place to sit, but Watson walked slowly from the ladder to the window slits and back, stooping slightly to avoid striking his head on the heavy beams.
But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.
You can save all that shimming time if you set your windows in one, two, three order -- first the stud on one side, then the window, then the stud on the other side.
Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.
Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper, and the only lesser immediacy of block capitals that simulate window lettering, manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture plane so that it does not `` jump ''.
he went to the window and choked there with the fresh breeze on his face.
In the darkness he could see the rosy reflection of the neon sign on the wall opposite the window.
That meant that something between the light and its reflection on the wall was moving closer to the source of the light -- in this case, the window.
A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;
And the coffee shop on Drexel Street, where the men spent their evenings and Sundays playing cards, had a rose hedge beneath its window.
Cold came in the innumerable cracks that seemed to have sprung up, under doors, around loosened window frames, from the sleeping porches, the attic, from the widened cracks between shingles on the roof.
When placing window and door openings, a lintel is placed on top of the opening to support the bricks above.

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