After a time, tired by his dancing apparently, he settled on the window ledge in the sun, and the queer spectacle being at an end, I forgot about him.

过了一会儿，他显然飞累了，落在阳光下的窗台上。奇怪的场面一结束，我也就把他忘了。

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"So I think they get more nervous. When I am climbing out the window to climb on a ledge, the first ones go, 'Whoa,whoa,whoa,wait!'

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

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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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