C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it. (Charles Dickens) >> More Charles Dickens Quotations...
It was the inside, however, that really sold him on the place. The huge casement windows flooded each gumwood-trimmed, stucco-walled room with light. And the upstairs library clinched it for him, with its built-in bookshelves and brick-and-stucco fireplace. I just went, 'Oh my God. ... I have to have this,' ... I certainly got enough bang for my buck. (Tom Larson) >> More Tom Larson Quotations...
The rain and hail pattered against the glass the chimneys quaked and rocked the crazy casement rattled with the wind, as though an impatient hand inside were striving to burst it open. But no hand was there, and it opened no more. (Charles Dickens) >> More Charles Dickens Quotations...
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body. (Sathya Baba) >> More Sathya Baba Quotations...
All night have the roses heard The flute, violin, bassoon All night has the casement jessamine stirred To the dancers dancing in tune Till a silence fell with the waking bird, And a hush with the setting moon. (Alfred Lord Tennyson) >> More Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotations...