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The day being very warm and the street a quiet one, the windows were wide open; and it was easy to hear through the Venetian blinds all that passed inside.
Amount of texts to »window« | 76, and there are 66 texts (86.84%) with a rating above the adjusted level (-3) |
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Average Rating | 4.145 points, 18 Not rated texts |
First text | on Mar 3rd 2001, 20:11:27 wrote itidem about window |
Latest text | on May 14th 2013, 14:01:20 wrote Watkins about window |
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The day being very warm and the street a quiet one, the windows were wide open; and it was easy to hear through the Venetian blinds all that passed inside.
Vocabulary lesson for today:
the act of throwing someone or something out of a window is called »defenestration.« Famous defenestrations include one in some political-type building in Prague some years ago. I don't know how many. This is a vocabulary lesson, not a bloody history lesson! You want to know? Go ask Frank, the fish.
Cheap, ugly, and new energy efficient windows are a sin if they're replacing beautiful, old, drafty ones. Improving energy efficiency doesn't have to kill a house's soul.
Windows are very useful things.
You can catch sight of something or someone through a window. From outside in. And from inside out.
You can open a window to let the smell of perfume or gunpowder escape.
It is even possible to dispose of a dead body out a window.
Or you can hide behind the drapes when someone comes home unexpectedly and you've been searching the place.
Oh, yes. Windows are very useful.
Ends of discoloured blinds and curtains flapped drearily against the half-opened upper windows.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out the window.
In one of these rooms, was a window looking into the street, where the child sat, many and many a long evening, and often far into the night, alone and thoughtful.
On the internethotline:
Advisor: Please close your windows.
Customer: Why should I close my windows, outside its not that loud and today is such nice weather.
No matter what side of the window you are on, there is something new to see.
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