Nor were they likely to in the near future, given the task ahead, and the sight from our window of the thousands of pilgrims milling around the white marble of the Grand Mosque.

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Joel lay mute and still in his bath, then shivered in his Spider-Man pajamas and refused to get into bed because he had caught sight of the moon through his bedroom window.

NEWYORKER: The Swan

Sitting in his presidential palace, by the window through which Makarios escaped in July 1974 and in sight of the Turkish-Cypriot flag painted provocatively on the Pentadaktylos mountains, Mr Christofias is emphatic.

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He was of course not out on the half-scraped deck, ready to peer jokingly in the window through which she might, in earlier days, have pretended to be alarmed at the sight of a peeping tom.

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