Quotes About Casement

The gorgeous creature by the window did not move, nor was there a notable change in his plumage. But by some means it was made clear that against the latticed panes of the casement stood a man trained for war, and with skills of a sort which had protected Lyons; had saved Paris; had recovered Calais for an alien monarch.

What I am?' he said. He laughed. 'Don't wait. Ask anyone in London, or Malta, or Russia.' He made his way to the casement and flung it open. The rumour of a crowd, muffled hitherto by the windowpanes, burst fresh upon them. The courtyard and the road beyond the gardens were jostling with people, and the name they were calling was audible: Sevigny. Sevigny. Sevigny.

warm, spacious drawing room. The walls were lined with double-paned casement windows

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

She immediately withdrew from the casement, and, though much agitated, sought in sleep the refreshment of a short oblivion.

if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

I cranked open my third-floor casement window, looked at Philadelphia- my piece of it- and let my affection for it lift lightly off me like a scent from a flower and drift out into the cool air.