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She gazed around wearily, her eyes alighting on the wilted plants on the windowsill.
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There was a flowerpot on the windowsill, and in it a small, dazzlingly red rose.
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Little candles on saucers were burning at intervals around the edges of the tub and on the windowsill.
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Across your glowing fingers I could see the faint liquidy green cast by the little glass swan on the windowsill.
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More than anything, what Constance wished was that she would open her computer and it would sparkle like a treasure chest, perched here on the windowsill of the living room.
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On the windowsill was a vase of marigolds.
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Old men lean on the outside windowsill, ordering cortados (espresso with milk) and empanadas to go.
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The faeries vanished before his eye could even register them, but the cheese stayed behind, stacked in sandwiches on the dresser and the windowsill, wedged in the light fixtures and stuck to the bulletin board with pins, piled in the sink and scattered on the floor.
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One evening, he found Geronimo, the gecko that hunted on his windowsill, and Cecily, his pet praying mantis, engaged in a fight to the death.
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Jonathan Dickinson, prosecuting, said Khosravi rested his iPad on a windowsill, lit the room with a halogen lamp and deliberately recorded the assault.
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He has pride of place sitting on my bedroom windowsill looking out at the world.
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Watching her inspect the carcass of an insect on my windowsill one afternoon, I found myself thinking, I have fallen in love with your strangeness.
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