"From the window of the north-east dormer chamber.". From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
The one dormer window was on a level with the roof-tops. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Presently he went to the dormer window and opened it wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
Common dwellings are adorned with picturesque dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [Great Artists, Vol 1. Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer] Reference
The gambrel roof is shingled, descends low and has dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows; and gables projecting. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
He built also a large brick house, two stories, with dormer windows on. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Here you have quaint old houses, with red-tiled roofs and dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
It was a picturesque cottage with gables, dormer windows and wide verandas. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Than, also of the 16th century, is remarkable for its graceful dormer-windows. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
From the roof, dormer windows provided a beautiful view of the surrounding country. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
It was lit by four big, old-fashioned dormer windows in the front and four in the rear. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
He turned and looked up, looked up into the dormer window of his attic, four stories up. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
The old house boasted many gables and more dormer windows, each bedroom having one or more. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Upstairs are three sleeping rooms, and the attics, with curious dormer windows, still higher. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
The attic was lighted by numerous, high-peaked dormer windows, piercing the expanse of the roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
Access to the loft above was by a ladder-like stairway; the dormer windows were a later addition. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
I could not tell, but its little pointed roof, with a round dormer window, was extremely graceful. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Paul climbed to the dormer, and, gently opening the window, looked along to that of the next room. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Two lofty stories above a low basement are covered by a shingled roof pierced with dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
The whole doorway structure projects from the sloping side of the hogán, much like a dormer window. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
The roofs are, some of them, gabled; others, slanting backwards, give room for picturesque dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891] Reference
The attic was large and many cornered, with a sharply slanted roof, shading tiny, many-paned dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
Most of the houses were low, one-story buildings, with large expanse of steep roof, and high dormer windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
It is of wood, two and a half stories high, with twelve dormer windows, a gambrel roof, and a large two-story L. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
The last act disclosed an attic at the top of an old tenement, with dormer windows looking out on a wintry scene. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
These dormer window chambers were rarely used, and, excepting during the semi-annual house cleaning, rarely visited. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
Mr. Randolph Cuyler, who live across the lawn in Brandon Cottage with its dormer windows and wistaria-draped veranda. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
No sooner had she ensconced herself snugly in one of the dormer windows to read, than she heard someone coming upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
The house was to have steep gables and projecting eaves, with a window in each gable, and two dormer windows in each roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
Of all the authors in the library, it was a wife from Maryland who called out from her marriage dormer I was not to read her. From Wordnik.com. [Turning Thirty] Reference
It was a low attic room with a deep dormer window, and, seen unfurnished, might be regarded as unattractive in size and shape. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls] Reference
This façade is of the fifteenth century and on the tympan of the dormer windows one may still see the monogram of its builder. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
Bess up the narrow, winding stone stairs to emerge in a little room with slanting caves and dormer windows in its thatched roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
The roofs, the gables, the dormer-windows, the porches, the clustered offices in the rear, all seemed to crowd about the great chimney. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
The blue herons were winging out to the river, and the doves were weaving spells round and round the dormer-windowed cottage on the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
When reclaiming attic rooms, one of the problems is how to get wall space, especially if there are dormer windows and very slanting ceilings. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
Towers were generally erected or intended, and are somewhat stunted, finished with short spires, having small dormer windows inserted in them. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
The roof, which forms a beautiful sky-line, is ornamented with dormer-windows and little towers, there being a large tower on the main building. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886] Reference
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