The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

Then the train began to advance over the pampas, and the lawyer leaned his head against the cold glass of the window and fell asleep.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

Japan and Australia, sponsors of rival grand commissions when a potential nuclear-free window opened at the cold war's end, have joined forces to set up a new one.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear disarmament

Nevertheless, I lingered at the window, even though the night was cold and getting colder.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield