What is "windowpanes"

Usage examples of "windowpanes".

In the course of the ride cockchafers crackled against the windowpanes of the front platform.

Many neighbors pasted themselves to their streetside windowpanes every day at this hour.

I took a quick look at the damage, making comparisons with the windowpanes that had collapsed in quiet, deep-breathing times of peace, under the influence of my diamond voice.

If Mama's words are taken at face value, I brought my parents, relatives, friends, and even a good many total strangers plenty of good luck by screaming or singing to pieces any glassware belonging to or being used by persons who tried to take my drum away, including windowpanes, crystal bowls full of artificial fruit, full beer glasses, empty beer bottles, or those little flacons of vernal fragrance that laymen call perfume bottles, in short, any product whatever of the glass blower's art.

Thereupon she left me my wide-awake drum, about-faced, and marched with flat heels to her desk, where she fished another pair of spectacles, probably her reading glasses, from her briefcase, briskly took off her nose those which my voice had scraped as one scrapes windowpanes with one's fingernails, with a grimace which seemed to imply that I had profaned her spectacles, put on the other pair, straightening herself up so you could hear the bones rattle, and, reaching once again into her briefcase, announced: "I will now read you your schedule!

Instead of assaulting the last remaining windowpanes out of pure and, from an artistic standpoint, questionable malice, Oskar would have done more wisely to keep an eye on la Spollenhauer as she beat a disorderly retreat.

It was the Stadt-Theater, the dramatic coffee mill, whose windowpanes gleaming in the evening sun attracted the modernistic tones, bordering on mannerism, that I had first tried out in our loft.

His ungainly foot was drawn back for a kick in the ribs, but just then a burst of machine-gun fire shattered what was left of the upper windowpanes and scored the ceiling.

While Oskar sang glass, far and near, to pieces, occasionally thawing the frost flowers on the windowpanes, melting icicles and sending them to the ground with a crash, the greengrocer was a man who attacked ice at close quarters, with hand tools.

We pressed our faces flat against the windowpanes of the seaweed-green aquarium and saw her sitting on the piano stool.

I climbed the fence around the lilac garden and pressed my face to the windowpanes: a cone of glass-green light in the music room.

The following night we were ordered to throw stones at the villa from the woods: we heard several windowpanes crash.

I am willing to swear that no one had got wind of it before I came and pushed windowpanes in.

Still, though the glasses are like windowpanes, without any special grind, they must have required long and painstaking research: Brauxel & Co.

There were drafts, and the windowpanes rattled in their frames as the ship groaned and creaked.