bow-window

They both blushed, though both affected not to hear her: but, before they could quit the room, Indiana, who had run to a bow-window, exclaimed,

Camilla 2008

She recollected, at last, the sash-door of a bow-window belonging to a room that was never occupied but in summer.

Camilla 2008

“Confounded liar?” cried the Colonel, mentioning the circumstance to me afterwards, “why does not somebody pitch him out of the bow-window?”

The Newcomes 2006

It was a sort of combination bed and sitting-room, and the table was prettily spread with high tea in the bow-window, a bunch of flowers in the midst, and a best-parlour chair on each side.

A Changed Man 2006

Baptista was educated to artistic notions, though he himself was deficient in them, had decided that it was most desirable to have, on such an occasion as the present, an apartment with ‘a good view’ (the expression being one he had often heard in use among tourists); and he therefore asked for a favourite room on the first floor, from which a bow-window protruded, for the express purpose of affording such an outlook.

A Changed Man 2006

Mr. Gawler makes sarcastic bows over the card in his bow-window whilst making this speech.

The Newcomes 2006

Fanny had hitherto placed herself in the nook of a bow-window which looked out into the garden, and there, though she was near to the dressing-table at which her mother was sitting, she could so far screen herself as almost to hide her face when she was speaking.

The Claverings 2005

An old gentleman, well on in years, sits handsomely and naturally in the bow-window of his age, scanning experience with reverted eye; and chirping and smiling, communicates the accidents and reads the lesson of his long career.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Doctor was accustomed to sit when he was at work — facing the door, with a bow-window at his right hand.

Dr. Wortle's school 2004

When he entered the room the Duke was standing in a large bow-window, and two or three ladies and two or three men were standing round him.

Phineas Finn 2004