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Sentence Examples It was a two-story building with rotting blue painted shutters and a door that was only moments away from unhinging itself. These include the attractive, symmetrical sandstone facade, well proportion rooms, working shutters and astragal windows, to name but a few. He said the thieves had smashed the windows and shutters, and damaged pictures on walls inside the unit. The shutters were firmly closed, but, as in many old houses, they did not reach right up to the very top of the window. Colonial hinged shutters are durable enough to withstand hurricane wind forces. He punches spy holes in the wooden shutters so when he is indoors he can look out whether he is sitting or standing. Strong gusts of wind rattled the shutters in their frames, driving the rain against the slate roof with such vigour it sounded like hail. The streets were nearly empty, and the metal shutters on the Arab stalls in the souk were shut tight. What is considered a good price by the square foot for the faux wood shutters? After all the buildup I arrived to find the shutters down and the premises closed. And in the double-height exhibition space, two large window-screens, with built-in shutters, serve to break up and diffuse the sunlight. Its windows have geometric tracery in the Decorated style, with rebates for hinged shutters. Its sliding was a dull blue color and the shutters on the sides of each spotlessly cleaned window were white. All windows are open to air the rooms and with only shutters to keep out little intruders the level of noise is unbearable. The shutters of derelict buildings creaked and groaned like mall nourished prisoners in cages as he passed them. The off-white stucco walls and red shutters of Casa came into view, and a Mexican guard opened a red iron gate. Funding has been announced for lights for the poles on the pier and for shutters to protect the electrical supply outlets for the boats. The wooden walls were thick, the shutters were permanently closed and the wood stove in the corner was going flat out. Whenever one of those cars with amps, woofers, and speakers cranked up passes by going bang, bang, bang, etc., my whole body shutters. The night edged on towards dawn, and slivers of pale light worked their way through the shutters of the scattered windows. Show More Sentences The parabolic reflectors focus their respective wavelengths onto mechanical devices that act like shutters to optically modulate the beams. This was placed in a swell box, but without shutters so that all stops were reduced to an echo of their normal selves. But then his wife's angry voice could be heard berating and hurrying him, and he slammed his shutters. Birds sang from perches on the rooftops, and shutters were thrown open to let in the morning sun, as the city people began their day. The upper lens is enclosed on three sides by collapsible shutters, shielding the upper lens from reflections and ensuring proper focus. The descendants of the Spanish refugees are still fashioning these shutters, especially in the Andalusian quarter of Bizerte. The most visible departure was a decision not to rehang the black shutters that had decorated the exterior. Someone will have to scale a ladder periodically to keep the vines from attacking shutters and shingles and to prune out dead wood. The most obvious difference is that glass windows have replaced sliding wood shutters, and houses now have electricity. The villages through which the funeral passed had all the shutters up in respect for his memory. The lack of internal shutters suggests that there may have been leaded casement windows before the double-hung windows were installed. Schools are open, children are back to school and many of the holiday resorts have put up their shutters once again until the next season. There are original polished timber floorboards, and the window shutters have been restored and are in perfect working order. The shutters were latched and a faint light illuminated the embroidered curtain frills and the white satin duvet folded neatly across the bed. Some of the windows had shutters that were eerily creaking in the slight breeze. There were no steel shutters, no sandbags, never mind tank traps or revetments. Balconies, shutters, overhanging tile roofs, and wood detailing all add richness and variety. Even before you realize the full gravity of the situation, traffic comes to a standstill and shops start pulling down shutters. Furry bodies eclipsed the fans of light spilling through the shutters, turning the scene surreal. To the left, the drawing room is wallpapered in green and overlooks the front garden through a window with original shutters. Show More Sentences It was a room of narrow but long shape, with two glassless windows with wooden shutters. Unlike traditional Irish shutters, they have louvres that can be adjusted for privacy and light. Exterior shading devices include awnings, louvers, shutters, rolling shutters and shades, and solar screens. The shopkeepers also downed their shutters and the other establishments also decided to call it a day. In my case, the problem was the colour of the shutters on my lovely old watermill. If you have a room at the front of the hotel, you can open the shutters to the full glory of the frothy blue ocean bashing against the rocks below. Floors jetty out, but are seemingly pulled back by the tambour shutters that make up the facade. I don't think Friday's incident was a serious attempt to break into the shop as they had just used a crowbar to jemmy the shutters apart. After fastening the storm shutters on his own shop, he helped old Marise close up the taproom. There are also polished wooden floors and a sash window with its original shutters. I used to imagine that I lived there, behind the shutters and balconies, that I owned those pots with the spilling scarlet flowers. Beyond the proscenium arch was the scenic stage, which featured three tiers of movable shutters and their corresponding tiers of masking wings. The front windows were covered with a series of green shutters to keep the afternoon sun from pouring into them. The front door and shutters are copper, oxidized to match the posts and corbels. I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking. A window lay open, revealing a steel-grey sky beyond the wooden shutters, banging as the wind whistled furiously outside. The shutters, window seats and surround are a very dark varnish and maybe should have been matt to give a softer finish. Charlton lowered the steel shutters over the store windows, secured the back door, and locked the cash register. Inside, decorative features include Victorian tiling, a natural stone staircase, marble fireplaces and sash windows with working shutters. Many of the rooms have working window shutters and open fireplaces, retaining the house's original Georgian charm. Show More Sentences To the right, both of the interconnecting reception rooms have original fireplaces, plasterwork and window shutters. As the robbers made a dash for it, he escaped into his business premises and closed the burglar-proof roll shutters. It was one of those shops with front shutters that rotated on a central pivot. Puddling style draperies over the windows and original shutters control light, and transoms over the doors help the air to circulate. Heavy metal shutters which crushed a schoolboy to death as he played a daredevil game were branded a death trap by his mother at an inquest. The master bedroom has an attractive bay window facing out on the street, with original wooden shutters for privacy. I almost fell out of the window when one of the shutters came off its hinges. Following a ram raid in November 2002, Mrs Skirrow and her business partner Sarah Oakley had shutters installed. The study is painted a forest green and has a period fireplace and panelled timber doors and window shutters. The steeply pitched gable roof, shutters and horizontal siding are other details often found in farmhouses. A pair of windows with wooden shutters allows for a good deal of incoming light. The room is done up in the old colonial style, complete with red stained wooden floors, four poster bed, wooden shutters for windows and so on. Both rooms have pale yellow walls and white ceilings and each has an original window with wooden shutters, overlooking the gardens. The front of the house is embellished with a peaked roof, window boxes, shutters, and a Dutch door. One took out an aerosol can and began spray painting green paint over the bottom of the shutters of the shop opposite. The old wooden window shutters in this area have been retained and are in good condition. There were two doors, both seemingly exiting to the outside, and two windows that were covered on the inside by primitive wooden shutters. The house has 220 square metres of space and includes a number of period features such as fireplaces, window shutters and wooden floors. The other two bedrooms are at the front of the house and have the original window shutters for added privacy. The timber casement windows are new, but much of the interior wood is original including the window shutters and some panelled doors. Show More Sentences The repair of the shutters on the old general store offered an additional learning opportunity. We have to adapt to these economic developments, not by putting up the shutters, but by managing, controlling and selecting. There's hardly a shop whose windows, iron shutters, and fittings are not a twisted mass of wreckage. They slope around us, unbothered by the clicking camera shutters, so close we can see their eyelashes. The only lights left in the room were the moons beaming though the cracks in the boarded shutters. You think shutters and you imagine slatted wooden things on the side of a house in Provence or something. Decorated in pastel colours, the bedrooms retain many period features including wooden ceilings, window shutters and original doors with metal latches. The taxi trundles away from the train station passing rows of gray houses with clapboard shutters into the French countryside. But at the house to the right and the house to the left, there are broken windows and shutters. Immediately after the first sea swept over our stern, I ordered the Boatswain to take sufficient men and shutters to close all windows in the after cabin. A wicked wind blew through the town, snapping shutters still open, throwing leaves into faces, pushing to the ground folks hurrying home in the falling darkness. Copper-top bays, corner quoins, paned windows, shutters and arches with decorative keystones above windows and doors are all features common in French-style homes. She's got colonials with painted shutters and Victorians covered in snow. To keep the room looking modern, she suggests fuss-free window treatments with a blackout lining or neat options such as a roller blind, Roman blind or wooden shutters. The building envelope is usually formed from balconies and loggias, creating a semi-public layer enclosed by an external skin of folding or sliding shutters. The beam line will consist of neutron guides, choppers, secondary shutters and shielding, along with the necessary utilities and safety and radiation protection equipment. He also discovered original pine boxed sash shutters in the window bays. Just taking the shutters down and re-entering the world of daylight was a relief in itself. By September, the Servites had paved the portico on the south side and half the portico on the west side, purchased shutters and a window, and had new plaster laid. As he already had an alarm system, window and door shutters plus several heavy security doors, I would have thought he had provided adequate security arrangements already. Show More Sentences Outside, rain pattered against the sides of the wooden house and shutters to the windows, and Lon loathed joining the horrid weather, but had no other choice. Despite having an alarm system, window and door shutters, plus several heavy security doors, thieves still managed to break into his shop on Saturday. I ran to the wooden shutters covering the windows by the door. Organ mountings are considered, but not painted organ shutters. With stage shutters open to reveal a large drawing-room extending upstage, the partygoers are grouped around different card tables and involved in their card games. To operate the vampire trap the dancer threw herself against a couple of shutters in the stage floor, which opened to let her through and immediately closed. All along the east side of the floor is an external slatted screen of oak shutters supported on a semi-independent frame of oak members flitched to stainless-steel splines. He hit hard, shutters splintered and cracked as he went through them. So they went inside and locked the doors and shutters, and peeped out at the mountain through the peep-holes their vrous had made to see what the neighbor vrous were doing. There were hinged shutters to fasten against the occasional dust storm. The drawing room has French doors with shutters facing onto the square, a limestone fireplace, wiring for the home cinema and plasma television and doors to the dining room. Included in the structural alterations has been the enlargement of the shutters in the west front of the swell box to permit greater egress of sound into the nave. The continuous clicking of shutters pierced the icy Alpine air. Secondly, the planners have allowed the opening of a shop within yards of the disputed shutters that does not conform with disability rights legislation. There were some emotional feelings around Achonry last week as the shutters came down for the last time on the grocery and sweet shop at Achonry creamery. Standing in gardens of bougainvillea and hibiscus, they are made of white wood, with shutters painted green or red, and verandas decorated with intricate gingerbread fretwork. She sat at the bench in the bedchamber, pulling the ecru lace pelisse around her shoulders nervously, listening to the rain slap at the closed shutters by the armoire. Louvred wooden shutters also make effective room dividers should you want to compart mentalise an open-plan space. He spraypainted the man in a tux on the shutters of Larry Flynt's strip joint, the Hustler Club in Manhattan. Products include vinyl doors, storm doors, vinyl shutters, patio doors, and vinyl siding. Show More Sentences Council bosses in Staffordshire are set to stop a jeweller putting up security shutters after his shop was hit in a pounds 20,000 ram-raid. Features such as shutters, eave brackets, transoms, a wraparound porch, and a pergola all help establish the style of this home. The house looked as though it had been long untenanted. The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up. Children will adore the working Dutch door and can use the shutters for peek-a-boo play. Both the drawing room and dining room have French doors with original shutters, along with original cornicing and picture rails. Irritated by my feeling of non-specific mardiness, I force myself out of bed, stretching flamboyantly as I walk over to open the shutters. The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses. Painted a golden yellow with moss green hurricane shutters and full double porches, this home welcomes you with southern charm. Iron shutters were installed in June 1832 to prevent further damage by crowds angry over rejection of the Reform Bill, which he strongly opposed. Inside, upstairs and down, white bifold shutters at each window easily slide back and forth. It has a pink, roughcast facade, and the shutters are painted the exact shade of green specified by Monet. The solid shutters are available for windows, and also at floor to ceiling height, where they would make excellent room dividers. Extra police and paramilitary forces were rushed to the area as shopkeepers around HyderabadA's historic Charminar monument downed shutters for fear of more violence. In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport. It is likely that its use became more widespread after an incident in 1832 in which he installed metal shutters to prevent rioters breaking windows at Apsley House. However, they were enlarged to two rooms and a skillion, possessed windows with moveable timber shutters and were roofed with shingles or galvanized-iron instead of bark. England revealed they plan to slam down the shutters on the All Blacks' expansive style, with defence coach Mike Ford hoping to drag the game into an arm-wrestle. Wood-finished insulative shutters set as bifolds at the window. Fabricators of Miami-Dade County approved accordian shutters. Examples from Classical Literature But the moony spectacles were soon let down over the eyes of the Professor of Folk-Lore, and hung there like shutters or blinkers. The gas generated escaped by the shutters, and in two hours carbonization was complete. He admitted that fanlights, and white shutters against rosy brick, were more homelike than a painty wooden box. Physician had opened the shutters of one window while waiting, that he might see the light. She took one of the Candles, and went into the best Room, clos'd the shutters, sat down upon the Couch. Outlet openings should be formed around the base of the room leading to the outer air and closed by controllable shutters. To be let light your fire myself every morning, and open your shutters, dear. What a pity it is that we ain't in a climate where one can fasten the windows, and Boult the shutters! The Venetian shutters often had to be lowered in the summer to attenuate the great heat. But all the doors and shutters were closed and no smoke rose from any chimney. I waited till six, and as I went out opened near this door a sash window, having removed the iron shutters. At all other windows we had only jalousie blinds, with heavy wooden shutters outside to be closed when a hurricane was feared. It will be all in harmony, then, if I kick down the shutters and sliding-doors with a noise like thunder. Rays from the sinking sun were kissing the sightless upper windows of the tide mill until the weather-beaten shutters grew pink. The old merchant opened the iron-lined shutters, which were so familiar to him, and threw up the lower half of the sash window. It is in such cases not his custom to fit any shutters in the side or front of the swell box. The shutters were closed, and the sconce on the table had two lighted candles. Clare unlatched the door of a large chamber, felt his way across it, and parted the shutters to the width of two or three inches. Next she unlocks the Amado, the wooden shutters, and calls the servants. Mary was now busying herself in closing and fastening these shutters. Show More Sentences Here and there a man was chalking crosses on his gate or shutters. The one above the front door was chastely shrouded by inside shutters. Let's have the shutters up,' cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands,' before a man can say Jack Robinson. Only a dim light came into the room through the cracks in the shutters. Do you see those window-frames painted red, and the red lines on the doors and shutters? It was also forbidden to open the window shutters of the facade. The shutters were thrown athwart the reflected beam of sunlight. It was ten minutes past six, sir, and I was opening the shutters. The window was wide open, and the wooden shutters were hooked back. Through the shutters came the smell of lilacs, the sorceries of spring. First that infantile, inexcusable business of the shutters, and now this! At nine o'clock the next morning his servant came in with a cup of chocolate on a tray and opened the shutters. The shrilling wind, ladened with snow, wrenched at the shutters. They are rebated for shutters, the old hooks for which also remain. The steel shutters were closed, but a pull swung them noiselessly outward. But it all began with a girl peeping and smiling at him through the shutters as he passed by. And she perambulated around the outside of the house, investigating, looking to see if windows and shutters were secure and in order. If those shutters ever open I think you'll have to be the prime mover. Every year on the fifteenth of October Fifth Avenue opened its shutters, unrolled its carpets and hung up its triple layer of window-curtains. They consisted of shutters stiffened with four trapezoidal trusses. Show More Sentences All day long he neither opened the door nor unbarred the shutters. She went to the window, and unbarring the shutters, opened it. Police and council officials forced entry this week and changed the locks and put metal shutters over the doors and windows of the terraced house in Stonecrop Close. Mainly for security, but also to temper the bright glare from the patios, electrically operated perforated aluminium shutters, hidden when not in use, can protect the glazing. From a distance resounded, deadened, however, by good shutters, the songs of the tipplers, enjoying themselves in the cabarets scattered along the plain. The doors and shutters were painted green, and the underside of the penthouses had been lined with deal boards in the German fashion, and painted white. Meanwhile, Mr Venus, who had left the duelling frogs to fight it out in his absence by candlelight for the public delectation, put the shutters up. Period features including ornate cornicing, fireplaces with marble mantlepieces and cast-iron inserts, panelled doors, sash windows and working shutters. Find more words! 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