window-blind

About one child every month is strangled in some type of window-blind cord, amounting to more than 200 infants and young children since 1990, regulators say.

Lowe Melanie Trottman 2010

Just before dawn she heard the men stirring in the yard; and the flashes of their lanterns spread every now and then through her window-blind.

The Woodlanders 2006

From behind every corner, from behind every window-blind, the others were watching him ....

Mumu 2006

Only one warm oblong of window-blind far down the road spoke of waking life.

Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

He sat in the corner with his back to the window-blind and spoke now, having eaten and drunk and being comfortably warmed through, with less aggressive brevity than before.

The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

Pettigrew evaded my illumination; he saw me coming up his front steps — I can still see his queer old nose and the crinkled brow over his eye and the little wisp of gray hair that showed over the corner of his window-blind — and he instructed his servant to put up the chain when she answered the door, and to tell me that he would not see me.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

By this time the knock had been repeated more loudly, the light through the window-blind unhappily revealing the presence of some inmate.

Two on a Tower 2006

There was no candle in the room: my sister had taken the light upstairs with her; the window-blind was not drawn, and broad moonbeams poured through the panes: there you were, Lina, at the casement, shrinking a little to one side in an attitude not unusual with you.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Even the window-blind was not a simple muslin blind; it was a painted fabric 1 with a design of castles and gateways and groves of trees, and there were several peasants taking a walk.

Flush: a biography 2004

With no conscious movement of my head, feeling a keen pleasure in maintaining a posture after I had adopted it, I lay back holding in my hands the volume of Madame de Sévigné which I had allowed to close, without lowering my eyes to it, or indeed letting them see anything but the blue window-blind.

Within a Budding Grove 2003