Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That the house is old-fashioned, the window devices bear witness. One must press a spring on the side of the casing to open the lower sashes,- the upper sashes remain as the long-for-gotten carpenter placed them...
...Franklin stove. She stares blankly at you from her "BOOKS RETURNED," and "BOOKS RECEIVED," which are pasted on the wall over the narrow mantel-piece, and which indicate that there is to be found the connection between the Annex and the Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway when she approaches the study table, where confusion, I am told, too often reigns. The chairs, also, rebel against being confined to their primitive use, and offer their arms and backs to a heavy burden of Newmarkets...
Like all other cadets, I am living in Edgar Poe's old room, which in common with his numerous other old rooms, has his name scratched on the window pane. I firmly believe that the troubles of West Point lent his character its peculiar despondency...
...surmised that the large box which has been received at Memorial Hall contains a new window for the hall...
...Hilton has promised to give to Leavitt and Pierce, one sample of each kind of coins found while excavating for Mr. Hilton's new building. They will soon be on exhibition in their window...