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  • The three long windows, reaching from the floor to the ceiling, and large as bay-windows, were opened wide.

    Strong as Death 2003

  • Through the panes of the vast semicircular bay-windows the light, with which the saloons were filled, shone forth with the brilliancy of a conflagration, vividly illuminating the gloom in which for some hours the palace had been shrouded.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • The house itself, of brick and two-storeyed, with massive bay-windows, had an ornamental verandah on one side.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Through the bay-windows on the first floor he saw a bed with a mattress folded in two.

    Maigret Stonewalled Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • But Persis, who sat in one of her new bay-windows, the baby on her knee, was entertaining Mrs. West, while her benignantly maternal eyes watched three children playing outside.

    Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

  • They had glorious bay-windows, and warm chimney-corners, and well-hung buttery hatches, and good solid old oak tables, and ponderous chairs: had their windows and doors been only a little more air-tight, their comforts could not have been increased.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

  • It was a large apartment, commensurate with the size of the castle, and the deep bay-windows commanded an extensive view.

    The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

  • At the last turn of the boxwood hedge, Therese and Jacques saw the triple black mass of the castle, and through the wide bay-windows of the first story distinguished moving forms in the red light.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Yes, a labyrinth of rectangular rows, arranged in parallel lines and all precisely alike, of twin two-storied, russet-bricked houses of the same size and pattern, all looking as if they had been turned out of a mould, and all of them having little projecting circular bay-windows of wood, mostly English live oak, or teak from the Eastern Indies.

    Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • The two side-shutters in the bay-windows are closed, and there is the same vivid crimson blind in the centre window.

    The Crimson Blind

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