to open/close the shutters They explored, throwing open the shutters in each of the big rooms. (British English, figurative) More than 70 000 shopkeepers have been forced to put up the shutters (= close down their businesses) in the past year. Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesc1, Bu...
Close wooden shutters covered the windows behind the walls of the houses;but through the windows of the temple a faint light glim- mered.I looked in,and saw the quaint decorations within.From the floor to the ceiling pictures are painted in the most glaring clours and richly gilt—pictures ...
Welcome to our gallery collection of the most popular types and styles of houses from around the world. According to researchers at ScienceDirect.com, Asia was one of the first global locations to develop rudimentary building design now ironically referred to as first examples of “green architectu...
All I could remember of Chihuahuas were these tiny rolls on spindly legs and red coats that stood trembling on their leashes while the owners, chic Neuilly women with their hair just done, stood talking to each other in their upper-class French, waiting for their daughters to emerge from th...
Then quite suddenly, the Grand Theatre in Bromley High Street, which up till then had housed nothing more spectacular than stage dramas of the “Maria Marten” and “Sweeney Todd” kind, put up the shutters and announced that in future Moving Pictures would take over. They would be put on...
We put on these things, finery Of a fashion, reality woven like tartan Our fabric tears a little and Bears more, and wears We talk so long into the morning That now, even the night is yawning So off with us all, we fly, away And one may wish, and one may stay But really, who...
The mightiest men of centuries are gathered together here, perishable as these moth-eaten flags–mute and yet so eloquent. And without there is life and activity: the world goes on in its old course; generations change in the old houses; the houses change–yet Stockholm is always the heart...
Setting down the over sized watering can, Madeline turned to unhitch a latch on the front door. “Well, come along now,” she invited, “It’s getting a bit late. Let me show you your way.” Just as the photos had promised, the blue shutters scaled all three stories of the home’...
Imagine a six storey waterfall housed in a dome of lush rainforest that you can explore whilst still seeing the sights of Singapore through the windows…welcome to the Cloud Forest. Singapore impresses yet again with innovation in creating this dreamy indoor forest. Like entering the land before...
God bless my wife, and I suppose I’ve subtly noticed this before, but her concern for cleanliness truly came through as, while we were coming upon the capitol, she noticed the wooden shutters on all of the windows. She smartly commented wondering who cleans them, and what thickness of du...