Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There stands beneath my window an antiquated piece of furniture with which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could...
...gentleman, as he sat in one corner of it reading the morning paper and glancing up over his spectacles every moment or so to see that young rascal was not pulling the fire out into the middle of the room. At home the old sofa stood beneath a window too, and I remember when quite a child kneeling upon it to look out and watch the birds that came for crumbs, and the snowberry bushes outside waving too and fro in the storm, or budding peacefully in the warm sunlight. Then how often in childish fits of anger or fretfulness...
Yale chapel has been presented with a new window, made by Tiffany of New York...
...gentleman living in Holyoke, while practicing on telegraph insulators from his window with a revolver yesterday, received a call from a member of the Cambridge police force; after a little persuasion, the member of the "finest" returned to his beat, and the frightened marksman deposited his revolver in its drawer...
...literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan. He was constantly visitting the saint's blacksmith shop to make sinful suggestions and disturb the holy man's pious meditations. But one day, as the Devil poked his head in at the window, the doughty saint caught his diabolical nose in red hot pincers, and the Devil fled howling, to trouble the saint no more...