Verb (used with object) : a dress sashed at the waist. From Dictionary.com.
It almost touched the hut, and its top was very near to a sashless aperture in the attic. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
The little town rose picturesquely on its rocky pedestal, with a large building like a monastery inhabited by myriads of swallows, darting in and out at its sashless windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829] Reference
“In of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,” says an old writer — of whose works I possess the only copy extant — “it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.”. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Resolutely I mounted to the top and peered through the sashless window. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool and His Money] Reference
If you have crappy sashless sliders that are rotting away, replace them. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
It was from a sashless window in one of these that the angry voices came. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Baltimore] Reference
If you have sashless sliders or sixties windows that are rotting out in the frames, go for it. From Wordnik.com. [TreeHugger] Reference
A grapevine grew in front, and its graceful tendrils twined in and out through the sashless windows and the broken door. From Wordnik.com. [The Rector of St. Mark's] Reference
Melinda Cree's black hair and dark masses of wrinkles showed through a sashless shed window where she stood at her ironing-board. From Wordnik.com. [The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference
On either hand fragments of walls reared up with sashless windows and gaping doors like death masks of mad folk stricken in paroxysm. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
Fremont heard only the sweep of the rain outside for a moment, and then the voice of the guard came through the sashless window opening. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam] Reference
The voice came from the open, sashless, shutterless window of a rude building -- a mere shell of boards and beams half hidden in the still leafy covert before him. From Wordnik.com. [A Phyllis of the Sierras] Reference
From the sashless windows grotesque faces stared down upon him, scowling malignantly, while others, with still more hideous smile, invited him to enter and become one of their dreadful company. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsman] Reference
Herein was, on either hand, a triple tier of beds, where miners had once lain; and the other gable was pierced by a sashless window and a doorless doorway opening on the air of heaven, five feet above the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Silverado Squatters] Reference
The grass growing in the wide streets of Ferrara is no poetical exaggeration; I saw it rank and long even on the thresholds of the deserted houses, whose sashless windows, and flapping doors, and roofless walls, looked strangely desolate. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of an Ennuyée] Reference
The red fires died slowly down, within the Castle, and presently the shell grew nearly black outside; the angry glare that shone out through the broken arches and innumerable sashless windows, now, reproduced the aspect which the Castle must have borne in the old time when the French spoilers saw the monster bonfire which they had made there fading and spoiling toward extinction. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07] Reference
And in the great empty rooms where the tepid wind entering through the sashless windows whirled gently the dried leaves and the dust of many days of neglect, Almayer in his white jacket and flowered sarong, surrounded by a circle of glittering uniforms, stamped his foot to show the solidity of the neatly-fitting floors and expatiated upon the beauties and convenience of the building. From Wordnik.com. [Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river] Reference
'In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon,' says an old writer -- of whose works I possess the only copy extant -- 'it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.'. From Wordnik.com. [Moby-Dick, or, The Whale] Reference
The little area in front of the basement was heaped with a mixture of mortar, bricks, laths, and shavings from the interior; the brownstone steps to the front door were similarly bestrewn; the doorway showed the half-open, rough pine carpenter's sketch of an unfinished house; the sashless windows of every story showed the activity of workmen within; the clatter of hammers and the hiss of saws came out to them from every opening. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
Is this one sashless?. From Wordnik.com. [September 2006] Reference
Euroclydon, "says an old writer -- of whose works I possess the only copy extant --" it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier. ". From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
In judging of that tempestuous wind called Euroclydon, "says an old writer -- of whose works I possess the only copy extant --" it maketh a marvellous difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier. ". From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
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