Note the brass cigar holders for Parliamentary deputies on the window-ledge, from a more tobacco-friendly age.

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Deputy Commissioner Browne told the Associated Press that the mobile phone and laptop probably had been thrown out of the window and had landed on the lower ledge.

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In another case a judge was informed by the jury bailiff that two jurors had climbed through a window and were sitting on the ledge smoking cigarettes and refusing to participate in deliberations.

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Beadie perches dangerously close to the window ledge, threatening to jump, and even though she has wings on her back and little ones at her ankles Matilda pleads with her to stop.

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