Window-sill

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of windowsill. alt-of, alternative

    "After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!""

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"There was a glass of water on the table, and on the window-sill a small chip ointment box containing a couple of pills."

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