Each embrasure was measured carefully to make sure that the windows and doors would fit tightly. From LearnThat.org.
May I suggest that you might want to use the term embrasure correctly?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Lady Stafford is sitting within the embrasure of the window. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
He found her a moment alone and near the embrasure of a window. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Raising his eyes at last toward the casement in the embrasure, Lawrence. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
She came to me in an embrasure of the window where I had taken my seat. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
In the embrasure stood Aurore in her red mackinaw and corduroy trousers. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Ken raised his head cautiously and peered through the embrasure in front. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
On the top is a low tiled roof, partly hidden by an embrasure-like parapet. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
In an embrasure, a few feet from us, stood a man with a lighted fuse in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Gaetano into the embrasure of a meadow, and began to talk with him in a low tone. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
"What a question!" said she, gayly; and the next moment they had the embrasure to themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Their heads in the embrasure of the window, Herrera and the gipsy could hear every word that passed. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
The conduct of the Imperial Light Horse was superb, and Major Edwards was the first man in the embrasure. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
The men who work these guns now do not need to see the enemy, even through the porthole or the embrasure. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Again and again he tried, till at last he had examined the whole flooring of the embrasure of the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
He plumped down in the embrasure of a door, prepared to follow his humour: the door yielded and he with it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Apparently it was from this well-sheltered embrasure that Gully had previously attempted to pick off Slavin. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
This niche is of concrete, and its walls in the vicinity of the embrasure are protected by thick iron plate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
He was speaking quite audibly, so that his words reached the astonished group in the embrasure of the window. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
The latter glanced round the room, but Angelica was hidden by the curtain in the deep embrasure of the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
"Is that a cannon?" asked Lamartine, pointing to a dark object that protruded from an embrasure of the edifice. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Flight was no longer possible, yet I had the presence of mind to throw myself into the embrasure of the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
The rope was round his waist, and, with his hands upon the embrasure of the window, he only waited to spring out for. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
It is the big bell, only, of the Mission, that is ringing now, the one in the top embrasure of the arched campanario. From Wordnik.com. [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference
"Yes," he admitted rather sheepishly, turning to examine the deep window embrasure that showed the width of the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
Nan, screened from the remainder of the room by the window embrasure, let the sketch she was holding flutter to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Externally, the cheeks of the embrasure and the merlons consist of blocks of concrete held in caissons of strong iron plate. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
To me, niched in the embrasure of an old upper window, the scene, it seemed, might have stepped out of the Oriental splendor of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
A windlass and chain give the disk the motion that brings one of its apertures opposite the embrasure or that closes the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference
Sumter may be briefly described as five-sided, with each angle just so much truncated as to give room for one embrasure in every story. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
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