window-sill

plural window-sills

1. alternativeAlternative form of windowsill.

   Once on her window-sill Harmony found among the pigeons a carrier pigeon with a brass tube fastened to its leg.

   1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 25, in The Street of Seven Stars

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   After amusing herself for a brief time with picking to pieces some mignonette which filled a box on the window-sill, Marie threw the flowers from her, and exclaimed,—"And here we are seated together, as we used to talk away half the night in Italy. Good Heavens! how we are altered!"

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2

   Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower-pot, which had been set on the window-sill of an upper storey, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up around my father's legs.

   1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter IV, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part I, page 26

   Spite of the dark cloud which in those Puritan days overhung all diversions and every cheerful pastime, the little book won its way to many a sunny window-sill in English country-houses, and accompanied many anglers to the water side; for in two years' time another edition was required.

   1876 May 29, Rev. M[organ] G[eorge] Watkins, “Izaak Walton”, in Fraser's Magazine, page 633

   In Walachia, green sods are laid on the window-sills and on the lintels of the doors to avert the uncanny crew [i.e. witches].

   1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 338

   Another person owns a flower-potful of earth on his window-sill—but he has to pay rent for the space it occupies.

   1918 November 30, R. Shaw, “Monopoly to Follow the Knock-Out of Despotism”, in Middleton Guardian, number 2,405, page 2