What is "shutters"

Usage examples of "shutters".

The few small windows were open as well, shutters tied back against the wall, but even so at the central lecterns it was dim work for the monks copying missals and lectionaries.

First they took in Fenner, who had just had time after the brief telephone call to pull on pyjama trousers, start the coffee percolating, open shutters and curtains.

Board shutters, unpainted, bleached into greenish brown, closed the silent windows away from the world as the buildings themselves enclosed this courtyard.

For this was a bright, warm Sunday, when reasonable places were either firmly closed or at least putting up their shutters for a pleasant three-hour lunch.

But here, in this room, the drawn shutters cut off the distant sounds of life.

She stopped staring hopelessly at the shutters and looked around for something to use on them.

Its spike, once she had managed to insert it between the two shutters, refused to catch on either wooden edge to give her enough leverage.

Opening those shutters had been harder work than she had thought at the time.

If so, he would see that the shutters had been burst open, for a stream of faint moonlight stretched obliquely toward the crowded furniture, played over it gently, set two dark mirrors gleaming, turned a golden cherub into silver, shimmered over the silks and satins lying in an opened trunk near the chest where Claire lay so still, whitened floor and walls, sharpened shadows.

Light lay in the blue shutters and between the threshold and the door.

The room was dark, and the shutters on all its windows had been closed.

Minikin at last opened the shutters, sunlight flooded the room and the lens of the spyglass.

He closed his eyes and rested his head against the ice-jewelled shutters, allowing life to quietly slip away.

The shutters were still open, and through the thin skin tacked over the opening, rubbed so fine that it was translucent, she saw a dim light.

Rosvita became aware of voices from the garden outside, heard through the opened shutters of the window that let light wash over her desk.