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1703.  T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 241. Window-sells, (sometimes call’d Window soils,) which are the bottom pieces in a Window-frame.

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1814.  Scott, Ld. of Isles, V. iii. Till on the mossy window-sill Their track effaced the green.

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1819.  Crabbe, T. of Hall, VII. 495. The curtains fell Half down, and rested on the window-sill.

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1837.  Whittock, etc., Bk. Trades (1842), 325 (Mason), He also constructs and lays the window cells of all buildings.

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1840.  Dickens, Old Cur. Shop, viii. The little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside.

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1850.  Inkersley, Inq. Styles Archit. France, 311. The string-course below the window-cill.

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1886.  Stevenson, Kidnapped, ii. I heard the blunderbuss rattle on the window-sill.

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