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  • Greenery and blooms nodded from without the deep-embrasured windows, and the room expressed the sense of cleanness, chastity, and coolness.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • I gazed upward at the high, embrasured walls of the fortress, on which the moon cast a ghostly radiance, straining to listen for the jangling of armor along the battlements which would indicate the passing of the guard.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • I gazed upward at the high, embrasured walls of the fortress, on which the moon cast a ghostly radiance, straining to listen for the jangling of armor along the battlements which would indicate the passing of the guard.

    The Curse of Warim-Shek Megan Arkenberg 2008

  • In the days of the past it had claimed much more — goods, and cattle, and tribute of the traffic going northward — as the loop-holed quadrangle for impounded stock, and the deeply embrasured tower, showed.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • She leaned against the side of the embrasured window and closed her eyes.

    Over the River 2004

  • A few palms here and there made embrasured parapets of green.

    The Financier 2004

  • A number of Connoisseurs were sitting and standing about, and Soames, least clubbable of men, sought the solitude of an embrasured window.

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Commandant's house, authoritative by reason of its embrasured terrace and guardian sentry; while the jetty, that faced the purple length of the "Island of the Dead," swarmed with parti – coloured figures, clanking about their enforced business, under the muskets of their gaolers.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • Anna stepped into the long narrow room, with its narrow embrasured windows and weathered inside shutters.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • A half-hour's walk east of the city, just outside the embrasured wall that protected the Tippoo's encampment, lay his Summer Palace, the Daria Dowlat.

    Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

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