| 单词 | dormer window |
| 例句 | On certain nights the moonlight had flooded through his dormer window and bathed everything in blue, beguiling shadows that prevented him from sleeping. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When he tired of making faces, he carried me to the dormer window, where, together, from the opposite ends of life, we gazed down at our leafy neighborhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He recollected that on a good day in winter, when the maple trees stood bare, he could look through his dormer window out beyond the trees and see the green salt water to the southwest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But then why, peeking out the dormer window, did I see, on the morning after our second night in the attic, a tank rolling by our front lawn? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When Ash woke up, Gwen was still asleep, and the early dawn light was sliding through the gaps in the shutters over the dormer window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the afternoon sunlight slanting in through the dormer windows, the farthest reaches of the attic were deep in shadow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They bought a contemporary Cape house with dormer windows, with a lot of land around it, meadow and forest, where the dogs could run and the children could play. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stepping inside, one found oneself in a small living room with slanted walls and dormer windows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man’s eye might reach. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two windows in the roof, one was blocked with boards, the other was a narrow dormer window on the north side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He likes the dormer window he sees first thing in the mornings when he opens his eyes and looking at Battell Chapel. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Our two rooms with dormer windows were cozy, adjoined by a bathroom. A Maine Inn With a Storied Past Gets a Modern Makeover 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z I took my prosecco and my laptop to a common room with vaulted ceiling and big dormer windows with heavy dark velvet drapes. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z Their foundations slant, their sills sag and they are squashed together, dormer windows at the top and little storefronts at street level. The French Side of Basque Country 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Stone, shutters and dormer windows bring colonial style to the exterior, and inside, the grand foyer showcases a Paul R. Williams trademark: the spiral staircase. In Little Holmby, a Paul R. Williams gem lists for the first time in 50 years 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Across the facade, Juliet balconies and dormer windows draw the eye. Kristin Tutor seeks $29.9 million for Holmby Hills mansion 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z A steep roof and dormer windows accentuate the traditional style. Hot Property Newsletter: There's music in the real estate air 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z A steep roof and dormer windows accentuate the Traditional style. Country and blues singer-songwriter John Hiatt closes a door in Nashville 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z A wide portico with white columns and dormer windows embellish the facade. Dodgers exec Joe Crowley sells his Orlando base of operations 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Built in 2018, the two-story home pays homage to Boston’s colonial style with dormer windows and a weather vane up top. Former Celtic Aron Baynes looks to pass Boston-area townhome 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Large dormer windows in the living room offer sweeping views of the Washington skyline. Kalorama condominiums were once the Holton-Arms School for girls 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Two bedrooms and one full bathroom are on the second level and a third bedroom with dormer windows and a full bathroom are on the third level. Three-bedroom, two-bathroom end-unit townhouse in Silver Spring, Md., lists for $349,500 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z I loved them—loved their vibrant colors, their anachronistic stick-built architecture of flower boxes and dormer windows, in a dusty, forgotten town of stucco and trailers. The Ghost of Dennis Hof Haunts the Nevada Midterms 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Stoke-on-Trent council turned down two retrospective planning applications for the £500,000 house due to complaints over the height and dormer windows. House '30in too tall' risks demolition 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “A lot of porches, extensions out back and dormer windows have been added,” Wolfe said. The neighborhood where people settle in 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z While the friends group tackles smaller barn projects, such as repairing metal flashing at dormer windows, the roof work is beyond their abilities or pocketbook. EXCHANGE: Henry County round barn badly needs new roof 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z He said he wants to redo the house’s exterior in stucco and would like to put in second-floor dormer windows. EXCHANGE: Cambridge man’s home literally his castle 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Each of the 12 dormer windows are flanked by statues Ms. Veselka modelled after similar ones she saw in Monaco. A Massive Castle in Colorado Seeks $17.5 Million 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Setting the letter aside, Majd crossed to one of the attic’s dormer windows and sat, staring out at the street, for a long time. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z See that brick federal building with its hipped roof, dormer windows and stone keystones? In Washington, D.C., reminders of America’s dark history of segregation 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Because the four-story structure is designated a landmark, the brick facade must be restored, including its graceful sloped roof, dormer windows and arched doorways. Luxury Condos in a Former NoLIta Orphanage 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Bay and dormer windows and a pitched roof add character to the 3,665-square-foot, five-bedroom main house, which is surrounded by a driveway. Diane Keaton puts her stamp on Pacific Palisades renovation 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The six-sided Victorian cottage is painted white and has a pitched red roof, dormer windows and bright-green shutters. Renovated Chesapeake Bay lighthouse is ready to weather the next century 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z A professional can seal the dime-sized openings that allow bats to enter buildings through siding, dormer windows and loose mortar, Hays said. Lafayette tenant bitten by bat wants out of lease 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z “Even so, the new buildings are not any taller than the original home’s peaked roof and dormer windows.” Architectural sleight of hand in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The pattern of planks is emphasized by painting them different colors — a white awning, pink dormer windows and a bright green border around the fourth floor. South Africa: Wooden Rastafarian house is distinctive 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z They include everything from hip roofs to oversized Palladian windows to columned front porches and dormer windows. Buying New | Mill Branch Estates offers posh country homes, but still near suburbia 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Gables, porches and dormer windows contribute to the traditional look of the neighborhood. Silver Spring’s Layhill Overlook: Traditional homes with open feel in a serene setting 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The 3,800-square-foot main family house belonging to the CNN founder has five bedrooms, five baths, large screened porch, extensive woodwork, dormer windows and a caretaker’s house. Inside the Beltway: Immigration and Obama’s audacity 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It looked like something from a storybook, complete with dormer windows and lush, colourful garden. 'Am I being catfished?' An author confronts her number one online critic 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z With its boxy design, center dormer window and wide front porch, the American Foursquare house, built in 1907, is typical of the style that took hold between the late 1890s and 1930s. Akon produces a dazzling flip in Woodland Hills 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Its several hundred homes reflect various architectural features found in historic Alexandria: dormer windows, balconies, bay windows and front porches. Looking to buy something new? Look at Potomac Yard in Alexandria. We put pillars or columns on the outside, we changed some of the roof lines, we put some chimneys and dormer windows in and opened up some skylights. New, expanded clubhouse to greet Memorial fans 2013-05-26T22:26:08Z On the only side street, I found a house that might have belonged to him—a stucco-covered house, with a dormer window above the front door, books stacked on the sill of that window. Alice Munro: “Amundsen.” 2012-08-20T04:00:00Z A small window opens out to the east and a small improvised dormer window about twelve by twenty inches admits light and air from the south. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z A dormer window on the roof of the oldest part of the house opened, and a figure stepped out on to a low parapet that ran round the house. The Curse of Carne's Hold A Tale of Adventure 2012-04-06T02:00:24.610Z The tower of the great minster, seen row for the first time, rose in stately brightness above the red roofs and quaint gables and the rows of dormer windows. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z For instance, a stone shield in the gable of one of the dormer windows had remained blank when all the rest were carved—simply because of a hesitation how best to fill it up. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z “Shall I fash you here?” said Frederica, laughing, and springing up into the wide seat of one of the large dormer windows by which the room was lighted. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z They were two-story, dormer windows and basement frame houses, built without an area, the door to the basements opening like a cellar door on the street. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Neale saw at last what she saw, a lean yellow cat crouching in ambush in a corner between a dormer window and a sky-light. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z As the cars sped over the good hard roads, past little cottages with the most attractive thatched-roofs whose dormer windows were set deep back in the thatch, the tourists were delighted. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z The center was lighted by dormer windows, here and there, that gleamed like so many eyes from the high sloping roof. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z "Of course," reflected Minna, "she must be in bed behind one of those little dormer windows fast asleep—for it must be very late." The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z And very fine houses they were, “The Beehive” especially, with its quaint dormer windows and sloping roof. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z The sun came in through a dormer window as it did in his own room. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The usual thatched roof and dormer windows topped the building, but the roses rambled so riotously up over the thatch, and greenish moss grew in spots, that the old place had a beautiful appearance. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Ten Eyck Hall, with its high-peaked roofs, its rambling wings and innumerable dormer windows, seemed to the four girls the very home of romance. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z Somebody was at his window, the dormer window that anybody could get at over the leads, that ought to have been securely barred but wasn't, as he suddenly remembered with aggrieved dismay. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z As in all houses of that date, that floor was in the roof, with dormer windows richly ornamented with carved stone pediments. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z I crossed the room and stooped to look out of the dormer window—into a shallow yard where an abandoned tin bath-tub and other unprized valuables were kept. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Tavern maids, attracted by the noise and heedless of the cold, poked their heads out of dormer windows. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z The dormer windows are all open, and there is a glimpse of a cool darkness through the open door. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z They trudged along, and stopped at the end of a row of old-fashioned brick houses, two stories, with dormer windows. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Nathalie’s eyes were awe-struck as her glance traveled over the sloping roof with its red chimneys, where quaint dormer windows stood forth like thrust out heads from its gray shingles. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z The row of dormer windows on the roof are to me great eyes that frown down upon the frivolity and thoughtlessness of the present—and those eyes are full of theology and civil rights. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Two long and very broad streets were traversed before they arrived at a neat weatherboard cottage with dormer windows and an upper floor. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z And as there were no windows in the extremities of this passage that ran due north and south, it derived all its light from the aforementioned dormer window. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z In front of the dormer window a table will fit nicely. The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics 2011-06-24T02:00:19.850Z Uncle, it appeared, was at work, thatching a dormer window, which exacted his particular skill. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z I was looking out of one of the dormer windows as she spoke, and saw little Pete on the white Percheron, galloping clumsily up the driveway. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z This roof, with its dormer windows, did not cover a stone vaulting, but a panelled ceiling. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z The house is a long low brick one, with dormer windows, in the midst of an old orchard. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z He merely described the cutting his passage through the floor above his cell—his dropping from the dormer window—the alarm caused to the sentinels, and its instant subsidence. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z They are named dormer windows because they are found chiefly in attic bedrooms. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Above, in the main house, there were four large bedrooms with dormer windows and wide shallow fireplaces. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z "Oh, we will soon manage that," said he, and opened the dormer window. In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life 2011-04-14T02:00:53.733Z Her work table and her other little writing table were in their accustomed place, near the dormer window that looks on the garden, and as it was open I peeped out. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z How to creep through the dormer window and let himself down outside were naturally the first questions that suggested themselves. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z The old house, a rambling two storey building, half-wood, half-brick, abounding in gables and dormer windows which gave it its quaintly picturesque outline, fronted on the busiest street of the industrious but placid little town. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z They proceeded to a small room on the second floor, with a sloping ceiling and a dormer window. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z The front was 433 feet in length, and the building consisted of three stories, with a high-pitched roof broken by dormer windows. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z The house itself was in some respects modernized by him; but, with its steep roof and three dormer windows, it still retains much of its primitive character. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Approaching the aperture where it was admitted, he discovered a sort of dormer window, without glass, but closed by a dilapidated shutter. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z "This mattress, these pens, indicate the presence of a stranger of studious habits;" and running to the dormer window that opened upon the river, he mused: "Can Christian have made his escape by this issue?" The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z But once I saw plates of the outside of French chateaux which powerfully recalled its dim image to me, especially the two rows of small dormer windows projecting from the inverted hopper-roof. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Light was shining from the two dormer windows up there where Lilly had once lived. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Along its roof was a row of dormer windows. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z It seems likely that there would have been two apartments each on the second through fifth floors, and extra servants’ rooms behind a screen of tiny dormer windows on the mansarded sixth floor. | Fifth Avenue and East 28th Street: Apartment Houses: The Early Story 2010-12-30T21:36:07Z We then came to the "Old Agency House" with its quaint old chimney outside at the end, its little dormer windows in the roof. A Child of the Sea; and Life Among the Mormons 2010-12-30T03:00:27.140Z The open dormer window offered the readiest mode of egress. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Finally the scapegrace appeared at his dormer window dragging his little dog by a chain. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Two rooms, one on either side the wide hall, sufficed, with the broad porch, for summer living, and the quaint bedrooms peered out through dormer windows from the roof above. Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison 2010-12-20T17:12:10.847Z The great space over the kitchen was to be cut into two servants’ bedrooms, with dormer windows. The Idyl of Twin Fires Only a portion of his design was carried out, and of that much disappeared in the 17th century, when his dormer windows were taken down and replaced by a second storey and an attic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" And mark you, my dear Mr. Moses, I would not so honour the dormer windows of all and sundry, no, rabbit me an I would. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z They are of low stud and contain dormer windows. Remodeled Farmhouses A small window like a slender dormer window. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Many a gable stood out vividly, many a dormer window and lattice pane seemed on fire as it reflected in crimson flashes the rays of the ascending sun. Glories of Spain The roof creaked, the panes of glass in the dormer window rattled, and fragments of mortar fell from the walls. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Some yards ahead I saw that the straight line of the tiles was broken by a dormer window. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z In the roof dormer windows were cut, both at the front and rear. Remodeled Farmhouses Large dormer windows break into the high roof; ornaments abound, and the whole presents a curiously blended mixture of the regular and the picturesque. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Here my Lord Medhurst proceeded to finish what remained of his supper while Betty sat, chin in hand, staring at the dormer window just now glowing with sunset. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Victoria almost smiled but, her eyes wandering upwards, she saw, at her dormer window, Jack's head and shoulders. A Bed of Roses I moved away to another dormer window a few yards further on. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Mrs. Skinner and her son Joe lived in a detached red brick house, built long before villas with bay windows and gabled roofs, and little dormer windows in them, were thought of. Little Miss Joy Roofs, when visible, are of steep pitch, and their gables are almost always of stepped outline, while dormer windows, frequently of fantastic form, are not infrequent. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance One might imagine that such big houses would be dark with only one small dormer window, and the valley children assured me that the birds hung living firefly lamps on their walls! A-Birding on a Bronco She sat down on her small basket trunk and stared out of the dormer window. A Bed of Roses I fixed my eyes on a dormer window on the side towards the canal, and about two-thirds of the way down. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The bathroom has a dormer window to the front of the house, and each of the bedrooms has a dormer window to the front and a window in the gable end wall. Green Spring Farm Fairfax County, Virginia Just at the top of the ladder was a dormer window, looking out upon the roof, for the convenience of work-people, when tiles had to be replaced and other repairs made. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second That slate tower bang over the porch, with the dormer windows and the iron railing and flag-staff atop makes us a present of the period. A Thief in the Night Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman Through the dormer window she could see the white frontage of the house opposite. A Bed of Roses The room was big, and being on the ground floor, had a dormer window looking out on our rather scraggly garden. All That Goes Up They exhibit painted black stripes where there should be beams; they have sloping roofs, gables, dormer windows, everything cunningly arranged to make as many corners as possible where no chair can stand. The Intelligence of Woman The two gables have three dormer windows, one fronting the east, the others fronting the west, but both are bricked up in like manner. Toilers of the Sea Just before them was the Hôtel de Ville, with its beautiful tower of gray stone, its roof a mass of dormer windows. An American Girl Abroad Passing across this by the light of a dim dormer window they reached a close passageway which led to another prison-like door, which the Judge managed to open after a great deal of trouble. Eleven Possible Cases In fact, she seemed perfectly happy with the whole arrangement, but every-time I glanced at that dormer window and pictured vast reaches of blue nothing, my stomach turned over a little. All That Goes Up She sat down by an old spinning-wheel, turning it and singing a scrap of Gretchen's song, while the light from the dormer window touched her white arched throat and yellow hair. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. The room was large, low, and irregularly shaped, with neither fire-place nor stove, and only one dormer window opening to the south, and upon a wide waste of tiled roofs and smoking chimneys. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Each corner of the building, and the peak of every dormer window, was crowned by a grasshopper. Old and New London Volume I All the front windows, with the exception of the central ones, are bayed, and there are dormer windows in the roof, which is surmounted by a bell-turret and vane. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land His attic studio was lighted by a dormer window at a height convenient to receive his elbows on the sill. The Deaves Affair The roof was covered with shingles, painted red; and in it were a number of dormer windows, which, like all the other windows, were hidden with closed green blinds or shutters. The Advocate It was two stories in height, with a high-pitched roof, and with a garret room lighted in front by three dormer windows, and in the rear by a dormer on each side. Peggy Owen and Liberty The northern roofs, however, generally stand in little need of surface decoration, the eye being drawn to the fantastic ranges of their dormer windows, and to the finials and fringes on their points and ridges. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) It is a long building, of brick below, with an overhanging upper floor and weather-boarded front, surmounted by a single dormer window. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Three dormer windows pierce the roof, front and back, and four great chimneys rise from the gable ends. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria You know we’ve only settled on the back porch and one dormer window, so far, and I’ll leave it to these good people if that’s enough for a family of six to live in!” The Fate of Felix Brand From the dormer windows above, high-bred French ladies looked at the sun rising over the forest-clothed shores of the river, on which now stands the architectural grandeur of the modern city. Famous Firesides of French Canada Whether dormer windows are legitimately to be classed as decorative features, seems to me to admit of doubt. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) In the meantime Mrs. Babcock, having stationed herself in one of the dormer windows of the parsonage, aided their escape whenever they appeared, by the waving of a white handkerchief.” The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 Two-and-a-half stories high, large twin chimneys rise out of the hipped roof and three dormer windows break the front and back. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria There, in the double gloom of the clouds and a small dormer window obscured by cobwebs, she sank on a broken box. Wild Oranges The houses were built of wood or of grey stone, usually to the height of one story, being also surmounted by a tall, steep roof, through which the tiny dormer windows peeped in picturesque disorder. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France Street and surroundings were dingy and mean; however, when they went in they found a decent little room under the sloping roof and with a bit of blue sky visible from its dormer window. Trading She pointed out to him the sea-front of the house, with its wide verandah and clustered trees and the beautiful dip of the roof over the upper windows, far gazing little dormer windows above these. Tante At one end two deep dormer windows and a black walnut bureau standing between them. Hidden Hand Above that floor appears a small balcony, to which access is had through a dormer window. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays The party seemed in high spirits, as from his dormer window Mauville, adjusting his attire, peered through the lattice over the edge of the moss-grown roof and leaf-clogged gutters and surveyed their preparations for departure. The Strollers One dormer window in the roof was effectually shut up and hindered from its office of admitting air, by the pipe of the stove which passed out through the sash. Trading Only in old prints may we find some pleasing recollection of red-tiled or thatched houses with half timber and half plaster walls, their ingle nooks, dormer windows, or many gables. William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts He retreated from the accusing page and went to lean against the dormer window and look out upon the world from the jail of his past. In a Little Town He gazed out of the library window, across the court to the row of dormer windows in the house opposite. The Film of Fear The squatty little two and a half story houses with picturesque doorways and dormer windows have become the homes of numerous clubs representing the best art interests of the city. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia I have one room at the back of the house, its dormer window looking over a grass plot and a chicken coop. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America The windows of Mr. Wicker's house had smaller panes of glass than were used nowadays, and like the warehouses across from it, Mr. Wicker's had many dormer windows jutting out from the slated roof. Mr. Wicker's Window And oh, Betty! you must see the old house in Letitia Street, with its dormer windows and odd little front door with its overhanging roof. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia The three dormer windows of the adjoining house were gray, dusty, as though they had not been opened for years. The Film of Fear “This room is just delightful with that jolly old fireplace, its big dormer windows, and the view over the river and the hills beyond: I shall be very comfortable.” Hepsey Burke The dormer windows and addition to the left are of much later date. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Then another idea struck him, and he jumped up to run to the nearest dormer window, the floorboards, where the sun had lain on them, warm under his bare feet. Mr. Wicker's Window The building cost $8,000, and is 86 feet 8 inches by 52 feet 8 inches in its dimensions, is 2� stories high, and has a deckle roof with dormer windows. Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Two dusty and long unopened dormer windows, similar to those facing on the court, confronted him. The Film of Fear It was hot there at this time of day; still the great elms outside kept the sun from shining directly on the roof, and a light breeze was blowing in at the dormer window. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls The attic was large and many cornered, with a sharply slanted roof, shading tiny, many-paned dormer windows. Lucile Triumphant The plans for these cottages had so many dormer windows, porches, intricacies of design in variegated tiles, &c., that the contractor gave it up as a bad job. The Toilers of the Field Access to the loft above was by a ladder-like stairway; the dormer windows were a later addition. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Like its neighbor, it was built with an attic story, and in the rear were two dormer windows opening in the same way upon the lower roof. The Film of Fear These are usually of two stories, with the upper story projecting far over the lower, and with many ornamental dormer windows, with casement sashes of small pieces of translucent shell. The Critic in the Orient At the end of the village there is a better house, with three chimneys and a dormer window in its roof, and the roof is of stone shingle instead of thatch, but very rough. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The south room is similarly lighted by ten lancets in each of the north and south walls, and on the side next to the court by two dormer windows like those in the west room. The Care of Books This façade is of the fifteenth century and on the tympan of the dormer windows one may still see the monogram of its builder, Cottereau. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The three dormer windows in the home next door gazed vacantly down at him, their windows covered with cobwebs and dust. The Film of Fear The attic probably had one or two of those tunnel-like dormer windows built in the curving roof of all French houses. Heroes of the Middle West The French Then the roof itself, with its gables and dormer windows, softly folded itself flat down upon the top of the house, out of sight. Davy and The Goblin What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' Ours was a garret room, well finished, abounding in odd closets and corners, with curious dormer windows that were reached by long little corridors. A Confederate Girl's Diary Further, let me draw your attention to the old Elizabethan dormer window from which it is reported that the celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh hung his cloak to dry, after the lady had trodden on it. Mufti The house with the dormer windows consisted, as has been previously mentioned, of four stories and an attic. The Film of Fear Just across it was the Pinery, a lovely old house with dormer windows in the roof, surrounded by pines that were dark and glorious against the silvery morning sky. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Far on into the night Worth sat at the white-curtained dormer window, looking at the stars over the apple trees, and fighting her battle between inclination and duty. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 Two lofty stories above a low basement are covered by a shingled roof pierced with dormer windows. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science It was a pleasant room, with dormer windows facing east and south, a great fireplace, with a high wire fender, and a huge sofa, covered with red chintz dragons. Margaret Montfort It was a small room, long and narrow, with the single dormer window, by which he had just entered, at one end, and a similar one at the side, in the slanting mansard roof. The Film of Fear Now, with the department occupying the entire third floor and pushing out of the dormer windows, a million-dollar estimate goes through like a requisition for postage stamps. The Daughter of a Magnate The hospital to-day is one of the secular buildings of Exeter most worth visiting, with its gabled houses, dormer windows, and garden plots. Exeter It had many gables and dormer windows, and the whole was covered with creeping roses, and there was a faint sweet smell about it that I think I would know now. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson The lover was required to enter by the dormer window. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The little dormer windows were all thrown open, and the morning sun streamed in across the motley collection of chests, old furniture and the attic treasures of several generations. Mary Ware's Promised Land He was stretched on the floor in the embrasure of the dormer window, nursing his face in his hands, his near-sighted eyes fairly boring into the pages. Chicken Little Jane The house was low, with small, old-time dormer windows. A Little Girl in Old Boston There were still quaint old houses in Ludlow and Orchard streets,—two stories with dormer windows in the roof, and some frame cottages with struggling grass-plots. A Little Girl of Long Ago She crouched in the hollow of the small dormer window. The Lost Girl Butler was particularly pleased with the dormer windows, an unusual feature in a church roof. The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College Cambridge The old house boasted many gables and more dormer windows, each bedroom having one or more. Chicken Little Jane The dormer window had sides which were curtained with green. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World Mr. Whitney paused at a queer, long, one-story house with a high-peaked roof in which were set three small dormer windows. A Little Girl of Long Ago Here you have quaint old houses, with red-tiled roofs and dormer windows. From a Terrace in Prague Common dwellings are adorned with picturesque dormer windows. Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer No sooner had she ensconced herself snugly in one of the dormer windows to read, than she heard someone coming upstairs. Chicken Little Jane It was an attic at the top of the house, and had a dormer window with a north light. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World Other effects of the explosion were the striking of some stones and the leads of the dormer window which carries the frame of a clock, as also some small windows. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 A pane of glass had been broken in the dormer window and replaced by a folded newspaper tacked over it. Mary Louise in the Country "On the ledge below the dormer window at the back part of the house, facing the waste ground behind the plank fence." The Mark Of Cain The interior was bare and cheerless, colorless save for the torn red shades above the high dormer windows, and the crudely painted mottoes over the platform and around the wall. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Towers were generally erected or intended, and are somewhat stunted, finished with short spires, having small dormer windows inserted in them. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Houses with quaint dormer windows roofed by "eyelids," of an architecture dating back two or three hundred years, gleamed with candles in every window. In and Around Berlin This building, one of the few old ones left in the parish, has a red-tiled roof and dormer windows, projecting eaves and heavy window-frames. Westminster The Fascination of London The dormer windows of the attics were as picturesque as anything in Nuremberg. The Mark Of Cain From the roof, dormer windows provided a beautiful view of the surrounding country. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees At first it was only level with the dormer window; then by slow degrees it was half way up; and as darkness was coming on, the top of the window was nearly reached. Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah Sir Robert followed, and a door formed like a dormer window in the slope of the roof was unbolted ready for him to step out on to the narrow leads. In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First Later that evening, Edwin sat at a small deal table in the embrasure of the dormer window of the empty attic next to his bedroom. Clayhanger On closing the establishment, the landlady, Mrs. Gullick, found the room, an upper one, with dormer windows opening on the roof, empty. The Mark Of Cain The house itself was big and square, with a door in the centre, and at the top two quaint dormer windows, standing out from the roof like big surprised-looking eyes. Pixie O'Shaughnessy It was the officer spoke then, and Morgan crept out through the rough dormer window, and directly after shouted briefly— “Ready.” Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah It was a picturesque cottage with gables, dormer windows and wide verandas. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 It was lit by four big, old-fashioned dormer windows in the front and four in the rear. Madge Morton's Secret Winter's face was flushed with excitement; but his voice, though thin, was clear as he said: "There was a light streaming through the dormer window beside which I was lying, and I looked in." The Mark Of Cain The last act disclosed an attic at the top of an old tenement, with dormer windows looking out on a wintry scene. Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls High above me a light was burning faintly in a dormer window, on one side of which there was a wooden gallery overlooking the garden, and on this two figures were standing. Orrain A Romance Strange children rambled beneath the little dormer windows of the Acadian cottages, and the voices of the boys at play in the apple orchards shouted in an alien tongue. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom A shadow flitted across the dormer window above him,—Mrs. Cranston's. Under Fire From this door you saw the side, or rather the back, which the house kept for its intimates; a side even more picturesque with red-tiled roofs and dormer windows than that which faced the street. The Mark Of Cain In the front and rear roofs of this wing is a dormer window, to light the chambers. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings The old house itself with its somber gray walls and quaint dormer windows seemed always to have nestled here. Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers He lives in a queer little house with dormer windows under a hill, just off the county road. While Caroline Was Growing But the high-pitched roof remains, with its three dormer windows still leaning awry, and the plaster porch where a grotesque, half-human face grins at you from the middle of a fluted sea-shell. The Mayor of Troy Running to his dormer window, he yelled fire at the top of his voice. Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest They had each but the other, and lived each in the other, in this room under the tiles with the deep-set dormer windows that looked across the Pays de Gex to the Jura. The Long Night As they rode to the rear of the house a little dormer window, like a snail, crawled low along the roof, and a light was shining from it. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Arriving at a dingy dormer window, he found that it opened with ease, admitting him into a little room crowded with dusty books and cobwebs. Alec Forbes of Howglen Most of the houses were low, one-story buildings, with large expanse of steep roof, and high dormer windows. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Pretty houses, with quaint dormer windows and high sloping roofs. Daisy in the Field To the left is the house, with a verandah and an open dormer window above; to the right in the foreground an open summer-house with a table and benches. Love's Comedy Roofs of red tile and dormer windows rise behind the trees, the dull yellow of the walls is almost hidden, and deep shadows lurk about the shore. Nature Near London Angélique came to the dormer window and touched her father's shoulder. Old Kaskaskia The attic was lighted by numerous, high-peaked dormer windows, piercing the expanse of the roof. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Upstairs are three sleeping rooms, and the attics, with curious dormer windows, still higher. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 The roofs are, some of them, gabled; others, slanting backwards, give room for picturesque dormer windows. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 Our bedroom was lighted by a dormer window. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Two dormer windows pierced the roof fronting the street, and there was also one in the west gable, extending like a hallway toward the treetops, but none in the roof at the back. Old Kaskaskia He turned and looked up, looked up into the dormer window of his attic, four stories up. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town The farm is a little further on, a comfortable homestead, smaller than Down End, but built of the same grey, lichened stone, and with the same steep roof and dormer windows. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 The whole doorway structure projects from the sloping side of the hogán, much like a dormer window. Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 It was quite dark back there, so when Marcella had pulled a large bundle of things from the barrel she took them over to the dormer window where she could see better. Raggedy Ann Stories Her father opened one of the dormer windows and held the lantern out of it. Old Kaskaskia He pointed at the dormer windows in the top room. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town From her dormer window, Anna Barly peered out at the wet, gray morning. Autumn Instead, he made his way to a little attic room with a dormer window. Honey-Sweet They each had a little dormer window, and one only had to step over the gutter to get from one house to the other. Stories from Hans Andersen The slaves, before returning to their own room, again fastened the sashes of the dormer window. Old Kaskaskia The high dormer window in the end of the corridor made the darkness something less than visible, and I could see that the passage was empty. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady It was a comfortable old two-storied building, with a thatched roof, through which a couple of dormer windows peered out, like two eyes, over the beautiful green lawn which sloped to the reed-fringed water. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles The interior of the building is quite dark, there being no windows in the wooden walls, and the light comes in from a dormer window in the roof. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland It had dormer windows in the roof and a long veranda in front. Westerfelt The capital of the Territory was composed chiefly of roofs and dormer windows, of squatty wooden islands in a boundless sea. Old Kaskaskia Many of the houses are very old and form wonderful groups, full of quaint gables and dormer windows, whilst the high roofs slant upwards and fall away in picturesque outlines. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 I weeded the garden all afternoon, but stopped early, fed early, and went up-stairs to my room before the last sunset glow had faded off the dormer windows. The Golden Bird There was a dormer window at the top and a bow window in the ground floor and a tiny entry porch at the front. Lydia of the Pines Through the small-paned dormer window the gray light fell, bringing into vague relief the different objects in the room. Westerfelt A picture shows the stages before the building with its slanting roof and its three dormer windows facing the Avenue and Park. Fifth Avenue One tall dormer window, overarched with a high peak, comes out to the very edge of the roof to welcome the guest. Literary Hearthstones of Dixie The house was to have steep gables and projecting eaves, with a window in each gable, and two dormer windows in each roof. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm The five women crowded about and into Mr. Sparrow's little dormer window. The Other Girls In the recess of the dormer window, at a small table lighted by one candle, sat Ishmael, bending over an open volume. Ishmael Or, In the Depths A board creaked, noisily; and then—I could have sworn it—then something seemed to move across one of the dormer windows. A Woman Named Smith That vast house, of red and yellow brick, was two stories and a garret high, and had a doubly-sloping roof pierced with dormer windows. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. It was a low attic room with a deep dormer window, and, seen unfurnished, might be regarded as unattractive in size and shape. Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 There were three dormer windows in the front of the garret-roof, and one of these had been a favorite abiding-place in her youth. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches It rested on stout oaken piles driven deep into the river-mud; a notable building, with a roof like the inverted hull of a galleon, pierced with dormer windows and topped by a rusty vane. Lady Good-for-Nothing Ten more, and we backed up to an old-fashioned colonial porch, with sloping roof and dormer windows supported by high white columns. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others Beneath the eaves are four and twenty statues of the Counts of Holland and Zeeland, and the roof is like a mass-meeting of dormer windows. A Wanderer in Holland Presently he went to the dormer window and opened it wide. The Man Thou Gavest It is a picturesque group of buildings with tall chimneys, mullioned and dormer windows, on the bank of the Welland stream, and occupies the site of a much more ancient foundation. Vanishing England He, too, examined his gun before he followed Dave through the dormer window and passed into the frowsy bedchamber. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West A few low, white houses straggled along the roadside, and he thought one that was somewhat larger and had dormer windows was the change-house. Carmen's Messenger When reclaiming attic rooms, one of the problems is how to get wall space, especially if there are dormer windows and very slanting ceilings. The Art of Interior Decoration They were usually of two storeys, crowned by high-pitched thatched roofs, with here and there a tiny dormer window. St George's Cross The slated roof is gracefully curved, is crowned by a good vane, and a neat dormer window juts out on the side facing the market-place. Vanishing England It was hidden behind an old rose-red brick wall in a lane, and it was only by standing up in the motorcar that they caught sight of its long line of red-tiled dormer windows. The Belfry Next a ski trip up the Glen to the buried hostelry at Glen Alpine, where one enters by way of a dormer window but is received to a cheerful fire and with royal hospitality. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter The air was admitted by a special system of ventilation, for the dormer window was hermetically closed by a wooden shutter tightly nailed down. The Teeth of the Tiger Fritz Nettenmair, listening, heard his father sit down on the empty board in the dormer window and knew that his tall figure filled the entire opening. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig It is a charming house of rest, with its gables and dormer windows and its general air of peace and repose. Vanishing England Wade had dormer windows built into the sleeping-rooms, a thing which so altered the appearance of the house that the neighbors stood aghast. The Lilac Girl Not far from my dormer window, a little to the left, stood the Inn Boeuf-Gras, an old auberge much patronized throughout the country. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories The roofs were steep-pitched, with a dormer window or two thrust out on either side, the eaves projecting well over the walls in such manner as to give the structures a half-bungalow appearance. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 So dark was the night, that, when Mrs. Puckridge carried the candle out of the room, the unshaded dormer window did not show itself even by a bluish glimmer. Paul Faber, Surgeon The old "Fox and Hounds" at Ware is beautiful with its swinging sign suspended by graceful and elaborate ironwork and its dormer windows. Vanishing England Perhaps she was thinking that such subjects as last night's thunder storm, dormer windows, and the apple crop outlook were not just what a declared lover might be supposed to choose for conversation. The Lilac Girl Fatigued and disappointed, I lay down upon my bed, when, casting my eyes toward my dormer window, I saw the room opposite illuminated. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories The dormer windows gave her little air, and there was dust as well as something like an individual sediment of the poverty from which the boy had come. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World A stately central building of red brick, with dormer windows in its steep-pitched roof, rose between low flanking corridors and wings like some overlord with his faithful vassals in attendance. Virginia: the Old Dominion Through a dormer window we looked out across the flat country beyond Furnes and saw, a few miles away, the lines of battle. The Soul of the War The interior of the building is exceedingly dark, for there are no windows in the wooden walls, and the chief light comes from the porch and a dormer window. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association An attic it was, with lead-framed dormer windows, a slanting ceiling and a bulging wall, covered, as a number of torn places witnessed, with innumerable strata of florid old-fashioned paper. Love and Mr. Lewisham It seems to have been originally a one and-a-half-story stone dwelling, to which some later proprietor has added a high-peaked roof, dormer windows, and ample piazzas. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 It is two and a half stories high, with a roof of modified mansard style pierced with many dormer windows. Virginia: the Old Dominion One of these houses had two rows of dormer windows, covered by little gables with very long eaves in the high-pitched roof, whose red tiles were well toned by time. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The dormer windows in the outer sheath not only broke the surface of the vault, but also served to light this passage to the lantern. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti She had turned away, restlessly, and moved to one of the dormer windows. Mary Wollaston Gilbert had gone down and Leslie, who had been crooning over the small James Matthew in the dormer window, laid him asleep in his basket and went her way. Anne's House of Dreams She babbled of a low stone house with lattice windows and tulip-beds, of colonial brick, of a white frame cottage with green shutters and dormer windows. Main Street The late Gothic superstructure, which is still inhabited, has a very high-pitched roof, with dormer windows covered by high gables with elaborate carvings. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows. The House Behind the Cedars His eyes filled with tears when he remembered the red brick house in Canal Street, with its white door and dormer windows, and its one cherry tree in the strip of garden behind. Remember the Alamo Two broad dormer windows looked out toward the Gulf, and as far across it as a man's eye might reach. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories It's in a cool, breezy corner with two dormer windows, and shaded by a maple tree with a family of red squirrels living in a hole. Daddy-Long-Legs Towers rise from towers, mullioned windows have their lines cut in the shadow of beetling machicolations, and higher still are dormer windows with graceful Gothic gables. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between two blocks of shadow. Les Misérables I was crouching on the leads outside the dormer window as Raffles climbed into sight within. Mr. Justice Raffles The two dormer windows were hung with white dimity curtains. The Vicar's Daughter It had a dormer window, at no great distance above the eaves. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood The buildings were plainly early eighteenth century: old redbrick erections with narrow windows in the fronts and dormer windows in the high, sloping roofs. The Orange-Yellow Diamond Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the letter once more. Les Misérables There was a grimy dormer window, not looking down into the square, but leading like a companion hatchway into a valley of once red tiles, now stained blue-black in the starlight. Mr. Justice Raffles The roof, covered with grey slates, rose very steep, and had narrow, tall dormer windows in it. Wilfrid Cumbermede It reached a little above the eaves, right under the dormer window. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Ivy was creeping through the chinks of the ill-fitting window-frame; but through the little dormer window itself the sun shone freely, and made shadows of shivering ivy-leaves upon the deal floor. There & Back The dormer window of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. Les Misérables In all three there had been dormer windows on either hand, that on the square side leading into the loft; the other, or others, forming a sort of skylight to some top-floor room. Mr. Justice Raffles When I climbed upon a chair, I could seat myself on the broad sill of the dormer window. Wilfrid Cumbermede Behind some of the rather plain stone fronts, the archways lead into little paved quadrangles that have curious well-heads, rustic outside staircases, and odd-shaped dormer windows on the steep roofs. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 Two dormer windows projected from the high roof and a solid brick chimney at each end gave it dignity. The Man in Gray As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer window. Les Misérables They found her in a broad, low room, whose ceiling sloped with the roof, and had the pleasant irregularity of the angles and recessions of two dormer windows. A Modern Instance Above these rooms again were those to which the dormer windows belonged, and in one of them I slept. Wilfrid Cumbermede The houses surrounding the quadrangle are all alike—two-storied buildings with dormer windows in the roof. Barlasch of the Guard The one dormer window was on a level with the roof-tops. In and out of Three Normady Inns Lad stood looking out of the dormer window in a scantily furnished attic in the high-pitched roof of a house in Holborn, in September 1664. When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire A curious, pathetic town, full of nuns and pigeons and old gables and strange dormer windows, and courtyards where French nobles once assembled—fish will be sold there in a few hours. Memoirs of My Dead Life In the front garret—with a dormer window looking down into the street—stood Mrs Catanach facing the door, with such a malignant rage in her countenance that it looked demoniacal. Malcolm The room was that attic in the roof which has a dormer window overhanging the linden tree. Barlasch of the Guard The meadows and the great trees of the plain were partly to blame for this illusion; they yielded their place grudgingly to the cobble-stoned streets and the height of dormer windows. In and out of Three Normady Inns Then he swung himself up to the roof of the dormer window and proceeded to haul himself by the rope up the steep incline, helping himself as much as possible with his feet and knees. A March on London Guy presently went in with the foreman and arranged for a large attic with a dormer window, at the top of the house. At Agincourt It was a small room, low ceiled, with a deep dormer window in the high pediment of a roof, and a turret recess on each side of the window. Malcolm On the opposite side of Centre Street, near Green Street, can to-day be seen a two-story cottage, with pointed roofs and dormer windows which in our day has been known as the Calvin Young house. Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain Each angle of the square has a pavilion and contains a stone sculptured dormer window provided with a costly clock constructed by Duquet. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present From my post against the dormer window through which we had climbed, I examined the four points of the horizon. The Flood The house is watched both sides below," Ronald said, "and I leapt from the wall through the dormer window. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden It was shingled from top to bottom, and the dormer windows, with their quaint panes, rendered it both stately and picturesque. An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott "I know whom you mean," said the Bonnie Lassie, pointing up to the little dormer window which was Barbran's outlook on life. From a Bench in Our Square The apartments of the chaplain were above the library, and, being in the part of the house that was fortified by the cliff, they had dormer windows that looked toward the forest. Wyandotte It was lighted by a dormer window, and it did not contain any stove. Dab Kinzer A Story of a Growing Boy The roof sloped too steeply for him to maintain his holding upon it; but halfway along the house was a dormer window about three feet above the gutter. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden When we declaimed certain scenes in an upper chamber with sloping walls and dormer windows, a bed for a throne, a cotton umbrella for a sceptre, our creations were harmless enough. Children's Rights A book of nursery logic The young man, whose idea of propriety had actuated him to this display, was sitting in the dormer window, reading. Old Creole Days From this we always turned with new delight to the city itself, with its myriad of quaint old gables and acre-wide red roofs dotted with dormer windows, tier upon tier. Dracula's Guest His eyes rose involuntarily to the distant post office, and he noticed at once that the dormer window was closed. The Postmaster's Daughter I think the best way will be for me to get by the side of the dormer window instead of above it. By England's Aid or the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) It was in vain to open their dormer windows. The Children's Pilgrimage He made his home in a room with one dormer window looking out, and somewhat down, upon a building opposite, which still stands, flush with the street, a century old. Old Creole Days I stumbled over everything in the room in my haste to get to one of the little dormer windows, but there was nothing to be seen, as it was still quite dark. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Once, he halted, and looked fixedly at a dormer window in a cottage just visible above the trees on the opposite slope. The Postmaster's Daughter The dormer window from which these bolts have been fired lies thirty or forty feet away from that from which we were looking. By England's Aid or the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) The roofs were very steep, with a row of dormer windows, and sometimes two rows looking out of their broad sides, to give light to the chambers and sleeping rooms up-stairs. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Kristian Koppig noticed from his dormer window one day a man standing at the big archway opposite, and clanking the brass knocker on the wicket that was in one of the doors. Old Creole Days I ran upstairs as though something evil was at my heels and bolted my door, but did not fasten the dormer windows that run out on the roof in front. Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 This time a girl was leaning out of the dormer window. The Postmaster's Daughter They looked out of the dormer window at the sharp roof slanting away in front of them and up to the ridge above. By England's Aid or the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) The exterior was void of any architectural embellishment, with a steep roof pierced by dormer windows. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian He drags me everywhere, explaining how we'll keep this and change that—dormer windows here and perhaps a new wing there…. King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays Each had a large dormer window looking southwest and commanding an extensive view of the river; within the recess of each window he had been accustomed to sit and read or write. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths The room was part of a garret, with a sloping side and a dormer window. Richard Dare's Venture It was not an easy task to climb up on to the ridge of the dormer window, and it needed all his strength and activity to accomplish the feat. By England's Aid or the Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) There were bright flower beds, and the dormer windows over the verandah looked like smiling eyes under their deep brows of creeper-trimmed verge-board. The Two Sides of the Shield He had run from the second floor to the third and sought safety by crawling out of a dormer window. The Rover Boys on the Ocean Or, a chase for a fortune It was an old building with sharp eaves and dormer windows, its shingles stained a dark gray by long exposure to wind and weather. Kilmeny of the Orchard For the dormer window, the only one in the place, was tightly closed. Richard Dare's Venture It was a tall, narrow building, with dormer windows in the roof, and a square porch supported by whitewashed pillars. What Katy Did at School He stared into the dusk that was gathering outside the dormer window and wondered what ailed him. The Landloper The eaves projected over the walls, and high-peaked little dormer windows thrust themselves from the roof here and there. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism As they approached it they saw that it was quite large, two stories in height, with dormer windows in the roof, but that it bore many signs of age and long neglect. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida It was well lighted by three dormer windows and was warm and pleasant. American Fairy Tales It was overlooked by a quaint jumble of rear gables, tall chimneys and white-shuttered dormer windows. In the Sweet Dry and Dry Up, up two weary, winding flights of steps, the little Annie toiled, and, pausing at the landing of the second, pointed to a low attic chamber, lighted by dormer windows on the east and west. Beulah It contained a fireplace and a long dormer window—three square casements in a row, of which the outer pair opened like doors—facing the morning sun and a country landscape. Sisters On the first floor were four large rooms, each containing a fireplace and several closets, and up-stairs were four more, lighted by the dormer windows in the roof. Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida An almost square hole, cut in the stone, opened like a dormer window on the land side, exactly opposite Fort Frefosse, the crenellated top of which appeared at thirty or forty yards' distance. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Then one afternoon, looking from an upper dormer window, she saw a scuffle going on outside the gateway, and heard angry voices. The Lady of Blossholme It had once been a pretty, modish cottage, with a thatched roof and dormer windows, but now it was badly in need of repair. Huntingtower We admired the picturesque seed house with its ivy covered walls and dormer windows, quite as much as the mansion itself. See America First The breeze grew colder and stiffer as the father and son mounted toward the mansion which Dan used to believe was like a chateau, with its Mansard-roof and dormer windows and chimneys. April Hopes They found Stalky's bed drawn out from the wall to the left of the dormer window, and the latter end of Richards protruding from a two-foot-square cupboard in the wall. Stalky & Co. He ran upstairs as quick as an old squirrel, and went to a dormer window which commanded a view of the grounds beyond the gate, and the footpath that stretched across them to the village. The Trumpet-Major Off it went, with all its birds' nests, and dormer windows. I and My Chimney Around the loose frames of two wee southward-looking dormer windows, that jutted from the slope of the gable, came a gush of rain-washed air. Greyfriars Bobby It was a long low cottage with a hipped roof of thatch, having dormer windows breaking up into the eaves, a chimney standing in the middle of the ridge and another at each end. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school He was almost in despair, when in his wanderings his attention was caught by a dormer window on the canal side, about two-thirds of the way down the slope of the roof. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Through it one could confusedly distinguish the front of Notre-Dame, and the decrepit H�tel-Dieu with some wan invalids gazing down from the heights of its roof all checkered with dormer windows. Notre-Dame De Paris As to Brissot and Marat, who are ostentatious humanitarians, their knowledge of France and of foreign countries consists in what they have seen through the dormer windows of their garrets, and through utopian spectacles. The French Revolution - Volume 1 He had just uncovered a little sketch of what seemed at first sight only a confused cluster of roof tops, dormer windows, and chimneys, level with the sky-line. Tales of Trail and Town It was Rodolphe's letter, fallen to the ground between the boxes, where it had remained, and that the wind from the dormer window had just blown towards the door. Madame Bovary When he saw the water come in at front and back doors at once, Angus ordered his family up the stair: the cottage had a large attic, with dormer windows, where they slept. Sir Gibbie There were two long windows, like doors, opening upon the porch roof, and in the sloping ceiling were two dormer windows, one looking north to the timber claim and the other south toward Lovely Creek. One of Ours That slate tower bang over the porch, with the dormer windows and the iron railing and flagstaff atop makes us a present of the period. A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures Helen ran the point of her slim finger along the sketch until it reached a tiny dormer window in the left-hand corner, half-hidden by an irregular chimney-stack. Tales of Trail and Town But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. Madame Bovary The next day, as soon as I thought of looking again towards the opposite house, there sat the dove again, on the peak of the same dormer window! The Blithedale Romance Nothing answered him except the beating of his heart, and the murmur of the wind, which continued to torment the hinges of the dormer window. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels The dirty little place, with the dormer window in each of its four sloping sides, became a gallery hung with poignant pictures of the past. A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures Above are the attics, which stretch the whole length of an enormously high pointed roof, with two gables and two large dormer windows on each side of it. Beatrix The stair, narrow and steep, led straight up from the room to an unceiled and unpartitioned garret, with one wide, low dormer window. Lilith, a romance Now the cottage was transformed by dormer windows, a bay window on the piazzaless side, a carved railing down the front steps, and a modern hard-wood door. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural A feeble ray of moonlight, which came in by the dormer window and shed through the entrance of the corridor a long thread of bluish light, seemed to guide him a few steps. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels There were no drapery curtains at the dormer windows, no pictures on the wall. Pollyanna The doctor's house, on the side facing the garden, consists of a ground floor and a single story, with a row of five windows in each, dormer windows also project from the tiled mansard-roof. The Country Doctor I went home, locked myself in, and stood by my dormer window, outwardly calm enough, but in reality I bade a last good-bye to the roofs without. The Magic Skin It was a small cottage, such as labourers now occupy, with three small rooms on the ground floor, and a garret with a diminutive dormer window under the high-pitched tiled roof. The Life of John Bunyan A few steps from this point, a huge dormer window rose, with triangular panes of glass, and reached to within two feet of the spout. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels Out in the main attic all was velvet blackness save where the moon flung a path of silver half-way across the floor from the east dormer window. Pollyanna Gilbert discovered, on raising his eyes, that he was in the mansard, lighted by the great dormer window. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels Yesterday evening I returned to Stephane by the dormer window and the lofts; the journey took me but twenty minutes. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels |
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