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The small, windowless, often eaved powder room lasts to this day, sequestered under countless stairwells, permitting visitors to use the facilities without having to trespass into the upstairs inner sanctums of their hosts.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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Set in its center was the largest Elven building Kellen had yet seen, a low, deep-eaved house built of silvery wood and pale stone.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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The small, windowless, often eaved powder room lasts to this day, sequestered under countless stairwells, permitting visitors to use the facilities without having to trespass into the upstairs inner sanctums of their hosts.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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He also eaved in on arms control, consenting to deep cuts in strategic nuclear weapons (chart).
'No More Lies--Ever' 2008
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The few hamlets we passed are of farm-houses only, the deep-eaved roofs covering in one sweep dwelling-house, barn, and stable.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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And now once more we were outside the building, where, against the wall, stood a low-eaved pent-house, into which we looked.
Lavengro 2004
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And over these you behold the thatch, thick and long and parti-coloured, eaved with little windows, where a bird may nest for ever.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Set in its center was the largest Elven building Kellen had yet seen, a low, deep-eaved house built of silvery wood and pale stone.
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So I passed on, through the old, low, broad-eaved houses that cringe down to the very street, out into the open again.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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Her imagination filled in two stories, a fieldstone front, shingled overhangs, and eaved windows.
Lake News Barbara Delinsky 1999
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