Beadie perches dangerously close to the window ledge, threatening to jump, and even though she has wings on her back and little ones at her ankles Matilda pleads with her to stop.

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Note the brass cigar holders for Parliamentary deputies on the window-ledge, from a more tobacco-friendly age.

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You find a steeple, a dome, a minaret, a belltower, you grab on to a ledge or a window and you start to make your way up.

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In another case a judge was informed by the jury bailiff that two jurors had climbed through a window and were sitting on the ledge smoking cigarettes and refusing to participate in deliberations.

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Deputy Commissioner Browne told the Associated Press that the mobile phone and laptop probably had been thrown out of the window and had landed on the lower ledge.

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In the middle of the night, Johnson rose unconscious from his hotel bed and climbed onto a ledge outside the second-floor window.

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