Told in windowpane prose, this story reads as if it has come up through our collective memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2008] Reference

Somehow a windowpane is not thick enough for comfort when a male lion is staring right at you. posted by Jennifer | 9: 03 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pictures in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are] Reference

The final reason for Orwell's popularity is his 'windowpane' writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orwell Now] Reference

HusseinTenaX in reply to a comment from windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [RNC Mailer Hits Obama: "It Used To Be Easy To Recognize Patriotism"] Reference

The windowpane behind him streamed with driven rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

In fact, it blew out a windowpane on the first floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 5, 2005] Reference

Bits of sleet tapped fitfully against the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thief Of Hearts]

  The wind caused small reverberations in the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of a Meaningful Moment] Reference

Just a small dirty windowpane letting in the pale morning light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Killing Floor]

He blew out a breath of frustration, fogging the cold windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once An Angel]

A fly began to batter itself irritatingly against the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

“Has this windowpane been put in recently?” asked the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Burglar's Wife]

The other part of her broke out a small windowpane with her elbow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhattan Is My Beat]

"We've been trying to catch the snowflakes through the windowpane.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference

There was no light except the gleam of the fire upon the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference

“You have thought about this second windowpane, Monsieur Serre?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Burglar's Wife]

Red was sending faint streaks up the windowpane like a skeletal hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

(Soundbite of hitting bat) PINKWATER: That was right in the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Mary Smith' Wakes Up Village Sleepyheads] Reference

As I watch them slide effortlessly into one another down the windowpane….    From Wordnik.com.  [Rain] Reference

"No," replied Saniel, "I see the light of a cigar through the windowpane.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The house itself was dark, but for a flicker of firelight on a windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat in Grandfather's House] Reference

windowpane to hook and dirt smudge … hook and dirt smudge to windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree of Death]

Alone in her room, Sara leaned her heated face against the cool windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seduction Of Sara]

At this very moment a light powdering of dust is forming on the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley Stern: My Annual Holiday Letter] Reference

A flicker of light in the darkened windowpane of the library caught her eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thief Of Hearts]

The green linoleum was strewn with slivers of glass from a broken windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret and the Apparition]

The cats now began to make excruciating noises with their claws on the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]

When we refocus our gaze, however, we see the author's reflection in the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mark by Jacques Leslie] Reference

When Huckabee talks ... he discusses why he doesn't see anything wrong with a windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Paul: American Civil War Was Unnecessary] Reference

This is a kid who has a nose for news, pressed up against the windowpane, eyeing the press.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2005] Reference

Hunched in a corner seat beside the window was Lily, her face pressed against the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]

Suddenly a team of runners in Nike Plus shoes races past him, smashing through the windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nike, New Coach Chase Serious Runners] Reference

When she approaches it, Laila sees that the lone windowpane is empty and that the door is gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Splendid Suns]

The wind gusted, and the rain suddenly pattered harder and swifter against roof and windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaman's Crossing]

A bird, blinded by the snow, had flown through a windowpane in the ballroom and broken its neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hotel New Hampshire]

The girl turned away from the splendour of it and laid her aching head against the cool windowpane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

Across from me Maud sat absently scratching her initials in the frost on the windowpane beside her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

"Look at this photograph," he says, pointing to a black-and-white picture of a cracked windowpane in an abandoned factory in Poland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ways of Seeing] Reference