Sash Cord

A woman was found sash-cord strangled outside Lake Weir. ❋ Ellroy, James, 1948- (1995)

Klein had apparently hanged himself, about the middle of the night, with a sash-cord. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)

A., facing me, saw from my expression that something had happened, and, with the instinct of a sportsman, began to pull in his sash-cord and coil it neatly out of the scene of action. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

To fifty yards of line of the thickness of sash-cord was attached a large Colorado spoon, armed with one big triangle, and mounted on an eighth of an inch brass wire. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

How many people even know how to replace a broken sash-cord, for instance? ❋ Unknown (1947)

Thus equipped he was just closing the door after him when another thought struck him and he returned to slip a coil of light, strong sash-cord, 36 J 9078, over his shoulders to his waist where he deftly tautened it. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)

But I can point with pride to at least three doors that I've coaxed into shuttin ', I've solved the mystery of what happens to a window-weight when the sash-cord breaks, and I've rigged up two drop-lights without gettin' myself electrocuted or askin 'any advice from Mr. Edison. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

Back at Palada, Jerkline Jo began hunting up the expert skinners who had pulled the long sash-cord lines for her foster father, and who had drifted to parts unknown since the completion of the paved road that had virtually put Pickhandle Modock out of the running. ❋ Arthur Preston Hankins (1906)

He managed to open it some ten inches, and then, as a protest against this interference with its gradual decay, the sash-cord broke. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

His own eye was a hawk's for loose fences, loose slates, badly-hung gates, even a broken sash-cord. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Perhaps the sash-cord had parted, letting the pane slip down with a run -- ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)