shot-window

Mysie flew to the shot-window in the full ardour of unrestrained female curiosity.

The Monastery 2008

So she went up to him, and all simply she took him by the hand and led him into a shot-window and set him down by her; and he, all trembling for love and fear of her, might not forbear, but kissed her face and her mouth many times; and she grew as hot as fire, and somewhat she wept.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

It was icy cold, as we hid there, motionless, from murky daylight until dark, our minds seeming suspended within these massive walls, through whose every shot-window the piercing mist streamed like a white pennant.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

My legs were shaky, so I dropped beside him, and gladly copied his position to avoid the choking fumes of a brass brazier of flaming wood which crackled in a recessed shot-window of the mighty outer wall.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

”Then she has ta’en a crystal wand, And she has stroken her troth thereon, She has given it him out at the shot-window, 115Wi’ mony a sigh and heavy groan.

Clerk Saunders 1921

She has given (it) him out at the shot-window, 1035

Sweet William's Ghost 1909

He drew a curtain by the shot-window and showed us the shaft of a well in the thickness of the wall.

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

'Here was set out (Hugh read it us whispering) every jest De Aquila had made to us touching the King; every time he had called out to me from the shot-window, and every time he had said what he would do if he were

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

I have heard him cry aloud by the fishing boats: "If I were King of England I would do thus and thus"; and when I rode out to see that the warning-beacons were laid and dry, he hath often called to me from the shot-window:

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Aha!" cried De Aquila from his shot-window, when we dismounted.

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900