Cill

Ive found louise and she's living with another abuser plus there's stuff going on here that's doing my head in. lou looks like cill trevelyan and she was married to one of cills rapists for a while. she says there's things mum kept to herself to save the family embarrassment and I want to know what they are. ❋ Walters, Minette (2003)

Thenceforth this church (cill mor, i.e. great church) imparted its name to the surrounding parish and also to the diocese, just as the church of Triburna did before, or just as the town of Cavan has given its name to the whole County of Cavan. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The old oak sliding shutters are still there, and two more fine stone mantelpieces; on one hearth the original encaustic tiles with patterns, chiefly a Maltese cross, and the oak cill surrounding them, are _in situ_. ❋ Unknown (1892)

First, the arched cill of the central window, and second, the manner in which the back of the gable over the central door has been chamfered off so that it should not come up close to the glass and make a dark triangle against the lower part of the window when seen from the inside. ❋ Thomas Perkins (1874)

At that moment a shot struck the cill of the port nearest to the spot where Owen was seated, killing one man and wounding another, then flying across the deck close to Mr Ashurst, it committed further havoc on the other side, laying low another of the crew. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Building Regulations insist on the lower panes being toughened glass, but when the window is open there is nothing to stop a child from falling out due to the low cill. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I have similar blocks for windows but the elevations are set to give standard head height when they are inserted - the window height adjustment lowers the cill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This year I failed even to buy a couple of bulbs to put in glasses on the window cill, but I did see some in the Co-op as I rushed out on Thursday, so they are on my shopping list for later. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can't tell you how many of those plants I tried to grow on the window-cill, without success. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well keep banging them out, you tell your friends, I'll tell my friends, that we can be friends and we can cill every weekend (HAHA)! ❋ Unknown (2008)

I To my veray lovynge fireendes, Mr. Ce - cill, one of the Kings Majefties two principal Secretaries. ❋ Unknown (1812)

Thty hnve many dell-rt places within land, in which are elephjnts, tigers, leopards, monkies, and monftroas ferpentsj but near the coalt, the foil is more fertile; and there are fruits of many kinds, befide palm-trees, from which they get wine and cill. ❋ Unknown (1797)

A _cill_ or cell we call it in the language; and the saying goes among the people of the neighbourhood that on the eve of Saint Patrick bells ring in this glade in the forest, sweet, soft, dreamy bells, muffled in a mist of years -- bells whose sounds have come, as one might fancy, at their stated interval, after pealing in a wave about God's universe from star to star, back to the place of their first chiming. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

This is dealt with under Building Regulations Approved Document K2, "Protection from Falling", which states, "Where a first floor window cill height is less than 800mm above the floor level suitable guarding should be provided to prevent a person falling through an open window. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Keep it to yourself you steaming kettle full of day-old cill-warmed pus! "whilst stuffing his ears full of triplicate sheets embroidered with the word ARSEMONGER and terrifying him out the door with a shotgun loaded with pages from Amanda Brunker's" novel ". ❋ Unknown (2009)