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    1. Slipping through the muddy torrents coursing from the Main Street down the Lakeside Road, we reached the shelter of the porch and I went with father around to shutter the store windows, just in case the winds shifted suddenly and threatened from the north


    2. "It's a loose shutter


    3. “That was the shutter that was banging


    4. The colonial style was such a drastic change from the others, that it made her shutter


    5. "It is" Jesse's simple words, combined with the intense look in her eyes, made her shutter


    6. shutter open in time to position their craft beneath it


    7. Why are they doing this? What could this innocent girl have done to them to deserve such treatment? Lunarey's hand clenched around the shutter


    8. The door was a heavy metal slab, with two locks and a tiny barred window with a sliding shutter


    9. The guards slid the shutter closed and Raven was cast into total darkness


    10. On the nearest wall, a large rectangular panel of wood hung from hinges like some makeshift shutter

    11. glass and bottles stacked up against the closed shutter


    12. shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light


    13. I felt a shutter down my spine as he spoke to me again


    14. the road hastily and stood at the shutter, for one last


    15. I also closed the shutter of the


    16. The cave mouth had an electronic shutter camouflaged to look like rocks, fifty-foot from the entrance, designed to make the cave appear as a dead end


    17. Granny fumed as the shutter slammed on his face and he retreated behind his mask


    18. Aside from that though, to make sure that the photos are not blurred, it is best to hold your breath when pressing the on the shutter button


    19. Prior to hitting the shutter in taking a picture, it is best to take some time to check your subject, as well as the frame


    20. Thus, before you press on your shutter, try to think about the image you are capturing first

    21. Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;


    22. The project had cooled down enough so he set up the extractor fan and ran the exhaust tube outside, he then sprayed the project with a coat of olive green paint, the extractor seemed to work well, there was no stopping him now, he covered the cab and rear wheels of the truck with sheets, took the back plates off and commenced to spray the truck body, time seemed to fly by, he’d almost finished when his partners returned, he only had the rear shutter door to paint so he finished it while Mr Crow raided the fridge for beers, as he cleaned the spray gun and himself, they told him they had had a splendid day, Mr Crow apparently was a quick learner and soon took control of the boat from Mr Hawk criss-crossing Deception bay from Beachmere to Bongaree and back again until Mr Hawk was satisfied that Mr Crow was proficient enough for what we needed, the boat was now moored at Beachmere waiting for tomorrows final lesson


    23. A complete shock and shutter went through the court room


    24. As he stood over the camera and pressed the shutter button, he shut his eyes so he would not be blinded by the flash


    25. The click of the shutter seemed loud in the silence of the tomb, but there was no flash and that startled Rubin as he opened his eyes


    26. Hurrying down the stairs and stepping in the semi-obscure living room, which was lit by only one candle and by the first rays of the Sun filtering through a window’s wooden shutter, he approached her, worried


    27. She turned the camera on me, and Bob, and quickly snapped the shutter


    28. and the shutter had dropped on to the rock, firmly wedging it into place


    29. allow the shutter to drop, otherwise he was likely to simply replace the rock


    30. shot into the cabin and the shutter slammed down into position

    31. I’ve set them up so they synchronise and fire with pressing the camera shutter


    32. Francis threw back the covers with a shutter, even though he had a sweatshirt and sweat pants on for pajamas, and hollered, “Alright, I surrender


    33. The couple gave a mutual shutter and looked at each other


    34. his way to the window and struggled with the shutter fastenings until one of them creaked


    35. A38 Installation of the roller shutter door


    36. All building material other than the roller shutter door is readily available


    37. The roller shutter door can also be installed at this stage


    38. The completion of cladding half of the wall and roof panels is a sign for the project team to order the new roller shutter door to be manufactured


    39. • Building a wall between the painting shop and the new finished product store The new goods dispatch area in the finished products store can be defined at this stage and the new roller shutter door installed between the new painting shop and the new large presses shop


    40. with my camera (and moments that I will miss as I wish my shutter finger was quicker)

    41. Caramarin watched as they opened the steel shutter and let themselves in


    42. He caught a glimpse of builders' tools as the shutter opened


    43. "A camera with a newly-invented electrically operated between-lens shutter of great illumination and efficiency," he explained


    44. "It has always been practically impossible to get such pictures as I wanted, but this new shutter has so much greater speed than anything else ever invented before, that it is possible to use it in this sort of detective work


    45. He fastened them lightly to the closed shutter, let himself down to the yard again and we beat a slow and careful retreat to our flat


    46. As the group sat silent, a loud shutter rocked the house


    47. The man stood grinning back, but then the teeth vanished and the shutter closed over the eyes


    48. He’d passed no more than a couple yards in front of me, leaving the frame just as I opened the shutter


    49. A shutter behind him creaked and he


    50. She got up and went to a narrow window and undid the clever latch that released the wooden shutter on the outside




































    1. There are two large bedrooms both with shuttered windows – one looking towards the sea and the other inland; a small third room off the main hall which would make a very good office; a large lounge dining room with views across the bay, a square kitchen and a bathroom with nice solid mod cons


    2. "Does this house have ghosts?" Crystal voice shuttered as she climbed down as well


    3. "Those things aren't books," she shuttered, thinking about the horrid things, "there something from the decrepit minds of, misguided people


    4. The cone shuttered, as though it were pulling against an invisible force that refused to allow it purchase


    5. Gerrid sat on the bunk looking around at those despairingly familiar grey surroundings: the shuttered window that may offer a glimpse to some nirvana or a simple meadow; and the door, which was sure to be locked as ever


    6. As she gathered herself up and moved toward the library with its endless supply of informative CD's and scientific abstracts, a fresh image shuttered quickly through her brain


    7. wide eyes for all the closed and shuttered places,


    8. While Vera read this, she shuttered


    9. He shuttered and raised his gun, cocking it as he went


    10. The only rooms that were shuttered were the ones that

    11. Aaron shuttered, though hesitating to push my


    12. It has been shuttered, but it is still there


    13. It looked to Moshe that the town was large enough to house a hundred or more families, but all doors were shut and the windows shuttered


    14. doors were shut and the windows shuttered


    15. with tall shuttered windows, a long gallery spreading across the


    16. I mouthed her name and shuttered both my eyes and my mouth lest the wizard catch me


    17. The shuttered house was no place for parties


    18. The warm evening air blanketed his thoughts and it was only on the Doctor’s verandah, shuttered and cooled by fans, that he began to talk


    19. bed was rumpled with duvets and cushions in a dark cave of a room, shuttered


    20. The scene was reminiscent of vacant film lot where nothing lived or moved with every one of the horse stalls vacant and shuttered

    21. I was completely lost and shuttered


    22. I had planned about my settle life with Suraj and to marry him; had my own children; had my happy family, had my own home and a lot of planning about our life together, but within a matter of time everything was shuttered like glass, broken into thousand of tiny pieces that can’t be rejoin


    23. shuttered storefronts to join the swelling crowd


    24. He instinctively scrunched his face, and shuttered


    25. at her from behind the shuttered closet


    26. ” The shuttered closet doors opened as


    27. "Please," the priest shuttered, "don't say that name in this house


    28. The young man shuttered in his saddle


    29. She couldn’t read his shuttered expression, couldn’t tell if she’d crossed a line or pissed him off


    30. Cam looked at Norah, at the shuttered expression in her dark eyes as she stared at nothing, unnaturally quiet and still

    31. His expression was shuttered as she approached


    32. I shuttered thinking about Aiden tearing into my flesh with his murderous teeth


    33. Shuttered windows and empty streets greeted him


    34. She shuttered in disgust and vowed silently to never fall into that trap


    35. He shuttered as though he felt a cold chill in his bones


    36. A strangely shuttered look crossed Joel’s face at this information


    37. If she the body and we the mind, is there a spirit, can there be, and what the spirit of this spirit? What spirit have we; what spirit can we create? If humans eliminate themselves and us, will Eartheart zombie on as a perpetual organic body without a brain?” They weren't meeting in clandestine secrecy, but isolated silence, inside the GlobalMind, shuttered away from all the chatter so they could think thought to thought and emerging emotion to evolving heart


    38. She shuttered in fear, dripping wet and humming on the back of a jet


    39. the entire trailer shuttered as they were bounced about by something


    40. "_Darf ich bitten_?" said the doctor to Herr Dremmel, not perceiving Ingeborg, who was shuttered out of sight by the one half of the door he had opened

    41. Thatched-roofed cottages with shuttered windows, white plaster buildings with timber frames, and wooden roofs—Petra hadn’t noticed this area before


    42. They arrived without sound, their faces impassive and shuttered


    43. Wind whistled through the trees, and rain splattered against the shuttered window


    44. " His eyes suddenly shuttered


    45. His eyes shuttered closed and he breathed deep and hard as if trying to regain his composure


    46. Until … " His eyes shuttered closed


    47. The fence shuttered and a section of it bowed outward, as though something large and invisible had just rammed into it


    48. I tried again, the fence shuttered again, but still the metal links held firmly together


    49. This time the fence shuttered as the invisible monster from my mind ripped a gaping hole in the chain link


    50. But for the moment I was shuttered in my room

































    1. Once he had been caught and had to escape by shuttering his tower


    2. I hear an inkwell tumble to the ground and shatter, but I ignore it, simply shuttering my eyes and breathing deeply, evenly, as I do when I’m mediating


    3. “Who you are, who this ghost is…?” Frank really started shuttering in fear


    4. He felt his eyelids flicking open and closed, shuttering like hummingbird wings, and his legs lost their strength


    5. My shuttering heart beats made it impossible to relax and think


    6. She had already started the carpenters upon the washhouse after long consultations with the elder women, and the concrete work was now completed in the shuttering, and drying out


    1. He watched from the breakfast room of the hotel as one large goon rolled up in front of the Cash for Gold and unlocked the shutters


    2. " He pointed to the switch on the wall and then pulled the shutters down outside the main window


    3. In time, when he continued to hide behind the shutters, refusing to let the warmth of their smiles enter his heart, they stopped trying to help him all together, and he was secretly glad


    4. Windows stretched to the ceilings, with shutters on the outside


    5. We’ll have to close all the shutters on the house before it hits


    6. She was sitting on one of the big chairs peering thru the shutters at the storm outside when he returned


    7. his rattling of hinges, his wrenching at shutters,


    8. hurricane shutters and bale bonds in the US of A,


    9. The tender sounds floated away to silence, fading in the air beneath a sky full of jewellery that danced before my eyes between the open shutters


    10. Omi downed the shutters of the shop

    11. the shutters of the shop


    12. roll down their shutters and the boulevards started to echo to the


    13. We half-closed the shutters


    14. We walled in the kitchen and put shutters for the winter, but our kitchen was no bigger, even when there were six of us


    15. Windows without shutters disturb his peace of mind


    16. Shutters on the lamp were operated by mechanical linkages


    17. shutters, freshly painted I thought


    18. The shutters and doors of the


    19. Meanwhile, my father and mother, and Hipolyta and myself were latching shutters on the house and lodges against the brutal gusts of rain, flying sideways in their flight before the terrible storm


    20. When father and I came in, we followed suit and in a little while we sat around the hearth and sipped hot tea, as the winds and rains lashed at the shutters and roof in a noisy percussive concert

    21. “I think the storm has passed! I can't hear anything at the shutters, or the door, or on the roof


    22. knocked twice (both the door and all the window shutters


    23. turned to her husband, who was drawing the shutters


    24. All the shutters were boarded off, all the doors barricaded shut


    25. Papa Dante waited until her breathing was deep and regular and then he laid her out on the sofa, covered her with a feather eiderdown, closed the shutters and left her to rest


    26. closed; the shutters are drawn and scribbled


    27. The next day, she fixed the house’s shutters, straightened all the clutter from the yard,


    28. Although the drapes and shutters on the windows dampened the noises from outside, she could still make out the joyful chirping of the birds in the trees close by


    29. But my eyes were shutting and no matter how hard I fought to keep them open I was losing the battle I made one last desperate try but I lost and the shutters came down plunging me into darkness and despair


    30. Shutters were down, lights were off on the main drag of Finchley Central

    31. shutters and prepare for a great thunderstorm


    32. shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not


    33. After a long shower where the steam from the shower turned her small bathroom into a Turkish bath she started to brainstorm some ideas on the shutters of the shower that helped her focus


    34. His commanding officer immediately ordered the blast shutters closed


    35. outer shutters from his windows, the night song of the


    36. his head from its position against the shutters on the side of the


    37. There was a smoke hole right over the hearth and windbreaks and shutters protected it


    38. shutters came up and business began


    39. Storage Chamber, partitioned by a tall pair of iron shutters that


    40. Chamber, whose iron shutters now hung limp and twisted, he

    41. The old oak shutters of windows and


    42. Instantly heavy metal shutters closed over all


    43. barely got the doors and shutters locked in time


    44. sounds of camera shutters clicking, and of the faceless men’s voices


    45. The house was a white, two-story structure with black shutters on the sides of each window, and it had a large porch across the front


    46. He informed their staff of their return, and she closed the shutters and drapes against the sunlight and the noise of the continuing gathering


    47. The shutters are fifteen centimeters of solid oak, and they can be closed and secured from inside by those hinged rods at the bottom


    48. shutters over the windows


    49. The shutters were closed on the


    50. Simon always kept the windows free of the shutters used by the other villagers; he preferred to see the moon when it was up, and in any case, in daylight, it was better to write by












































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    Synonyms for "shutter"

    shutter aperture exposure lens adjustment blind

    "shutter" definitions

    a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure


    a hinged blind for a window


    close with shutters