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Example sentences for "panes"

Lexicographically close words:
paneling; panelled; panelling; panels; panem; panful; pang; pangenesis; pangolin; pangolins
  1. Teddy Smart, the glazier, was commissioned to repair the broken window-panes and show-cases.

  2. I saw nothing of him as I stepped across the street, and was wondering if he were at home when, through the small, dark panes of glass in his show windows I discerned his white old head bobbing busily over something on the rear counter.

  3. The sight of a public-house, the panes of which were flaming, recalled to him the poet Choulette, who passed for a drunkard.

  4. Behind the dirty panes a lighted candle showed pots, porcelain vases, a clarinet, and a bride's wreath.

  5. The gray light, which the three-quarters of an hour filtered through the window-panes of the station, fell on her like the rays of an immense hour-glass which measured for her the minutes of happiness lost.

  6. They found that one of the big panes had already been put in, and the man was just going to start on the other.

  7. Outside, the rain beat against the window panes and the wind made a mournful sound among the evergreens.

  8. Its rooms were rich and dim With deep-set coloured panes and massy beams.

  9. On a window-seat He stood, against the diamonded rich panes In the old oak parlour and, throwing back his hood, Who should it be but Ben, rare Ben himself?

  10. Three of these, when the tomb was opened, were closed by panes of glass, and there were traces of a curtain that hung over the one opposite the entrance.

  11. Small panes of glass were found in the openings of the Baths near the Forum; had the Central Baths been finished, glass would undoubtedly have been used for the windows of the caldarium.

  12. In the tepidarium were found four panes of glass about 101/2 inches square, together with the remains of the wooden frame in which they were set.

  13. The window of the tepidarium in the villa of Diomedes was closed by four glass panes set in a wooden frame (p.

  14. Within were long cool passages where through the diamond panes sunlight splashed on the white walls, and bedrooms of the gayest daintiness; without were lawns, and vistas, and arrangements of the loveliest colours.

  15. The depth of their colour scheme is due partly to the great quantity of rich greens and reds used, and partly to the opacity of the panes depicting the canopies.

  16. Unfortunately all the ancient panes are not in place.

  17. Along the sides of the chapel the original glazing is only to be found in the tracery lights and the upper parts of the embrasures, what little there was left in the lower panes having been used to eke out the east window.

  18. Upon some of its diminutive diamond-shaped panes are enamelled armorial crests, much in vogue at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the following one.

  19. The panes below that line are glazed in white bordered by colour, here and there relieved by the coats of arms already mentioned.

  20. The heraldic blazons placed upon the panes add materially to the charm of the glazing, and in very decorative fashion preserve the names of the donors.

  21. On one of these little panes in the chapel of Lullingstone Castle near here appears the date 1612: these on the Knole staircase are of about the same date.

  22. The diminutive kneeling donors on the quarry-panes below are very interesting; note the pendent sleeves, and especially the tiny gift window held up by one of these little people.

  23. In the midst of these quarry panes are placed little scenes, circular in form and decorated with enamel paint in grey and stain, each bearing a German inscription.

  24. The treatment in both is the same, a handsome and well-balanced combination of quarry-panes relieved by gaily-tinted heraldic shields, and all surrounded by coloured borders.

  25. The writer believes this window to be unique in the respect that the carvings on the stone and the figures on the panes combine to form a Tree of Jesse.

  26. But there was light here, sparsely shed over the scene by a single flickering lamp, whose panes seemed bedewed with tears.

  27. The great windows of large panes exhibit the richest manufactures, and the doors of the Linen drapers are closed by draperies of new muslins and calicoes.

  28. Mottrom's windows may have been diamond-shaped panes of oiled paper with solid wooden shutters, or merely sliding panels of wood.

  29. Its windows were casements with lattices of lead and diamond-shaped panes of greenish colored glass.

  30. The intendant said that within his time a violent hailstorm had broken some of the panes in the arched window, since when the birds, the rains and the snows have come in and done much damage in the old hall.

  31. On one side are six large windows opening on the terrace, the lower sashes overgrown with vines and blocked up with accumulated rubbish, while the upper panes are comparatively clean and clear.

  32. The walls tottered; the ceilings cracked with a terrible noise; all the windows tumbled in on the floor, and the panes were broken into hundreds of fragments.

  33. Here she sat down and waited, and looked for a long time at these far- away bright panes of glass.

  34. The volleys of rain splashing on the panes obscured the outlook; Brandes flattened his nose against the glass and stood as though lost in thought.

  35. Through their dirty panes already the grey light of that early Sunday morning glimmered, revealing the contents of the shadowy place, and the position of an iron ladder hooked to two rings under the scuttle overhead.

  36. She lifted her haggard face and stared at the increasing light which was turning the window panes a sickly yellow.

  37. And then the girl beat an impatient tattoo upon one of the small leaded window-panes with the tips of her slim white fingers.

  38. One of the window-panes was smashed and at the same instant Laroche fell heavily forward on the floor.

  39. The fur-trader puts double window-frames and double panes of glass in his windows, puts on double doors, and heats his rooms with cast-iron stoves.

  40. That night, he and his comrades marched through the streets, breaking as many window-panes in Jewish homes as they could find, and spreading terror in all hearts.

  41. Bullets flew through the window-panes and the peasants' straw-thatched isbas were set on fire.

  42. Two windows of six small panes of glass lighten the principal apartment, and two pieces of parchment complete the rest of the luminary system.

  43. The building is a low one, with a tiled roof and long windows, heavily framed, of which the smaller panes and thick woodwork suggest the early days of window-glass.

  44. He had found out that the Bukaty Palace was surrounded; had seen the light filtering through the dripping panes of the conservatory.

  45. Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town and breathes with her frosty breath upon the windows; then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful forms that look like flowers and castles.

  46. It was winter, and the windows were quite frozen, so that the little boy was obliged to breathe on the panes and rub a hole to peep through at the old house.

  47. The windows were very high, and as the panes were red, blue, and yellow, the daylight shone through them in all sorts of singular colors.

  48. II The crimson panes like blood-drops stigmatise The western floor.

  49. Down in a valley, the window-panes of a custodian's house were lighted up.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.