dormer-window

If I were the squat, dormer-window affair to the left, I'd be nervous.

Absurd Juxtaposition on Third Avenue Brooks of Sheffield 2008

He was so thoroughly vexed by the time when the dormer-window of the loft was suddenly flung open, that he did not observe the apparition of three laughing faces, pink and white and chubby, but as vulgar as the face of Commerce as it is seen in sculpture on certain monuments.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

He was so thoroughly vexed by the time when the dormer-window of the loft was suddenly flung open, that he did not observe the apparition of three laughing faces, pink and white and chubby, but as vulgar as the face of Commerce as it is seen in sculpture on certain monuments.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

Although the town had a rural aspect, with its quaint dormer-window houses, its straggling lanes and roads, and the water-pumps in the middle of the streets, it had the aspirations of a city, and already much of the metropolitan air.

Washington Irving 2004

Low and covered with brown tiles, there hung outside it, beneath the dormer-window of the garret, a string of onions.

Madame Bovary 2003

So telling Mrs.S. he hadn't much faith in the honor of a Southern woman, under such circumstances, he thought he would take a peep through a dormer-window that projected from the roof; there, sure enough, sat Major Starnes, a son of the rebel general, in his shirt-tail, breeches and boots in hand, afraid to stir.

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

The five houses, built exactly alike, are two and a half stories high, and have each a dormer-window, curtained with white dimity, so that they look like five elderly dames in caps; and the court has gotten the name of Five-Sisters Court, to the despair of Every

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

Conversation, to be carried on from a dormer-window or from opposite sides of the street, had evidently been the first architectural consideration in the mind of the builders; doors and windows must be as open and accessible as the lives of the inhabitants.

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd