mullioned

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It did not seem to him as if he were going afar, but were bewildered round and round, within a very small compass; a predicament in which a man feels very foolish usually As he stood at an old window, stone-mullioned, at the end of a passage into which he had come twice over, a door near him opened, and a personage looked out whom he had not before seen.

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  • Ginseng / etc. The writing provides a social context, but the strongest visual elements are the heavy rustication and the arch of the material that surrounds the window, the contrast with the smoother finish of a part of the building to the left, and the metal door surmounted by a small-mullioned window to the left of that. —  New York Sun - All Articles
  • The morning sun shone direct on its mullioned, diamond-paned windows, its twisted chimney stalks, ivy-clad walls, and smooth, green stretch of water. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
  • Some of the buildings surrounding it are in a good Queen Anne style, and some have the cross-mullioned windows of a still earlier period. —  Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London
  • Two semicircular bows, or half towers, placed at a suitable distance from each other, rose from the base to the summit of the edifice, to the height of four or five stairs; and were pierced, at every floor, with rows of stone-mullioned windows. —  Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter
  • And there was a great stone hearth and chimney-piece, a Tudor chimney-piece, mullioned, with a shield carved in the centre and the motto: "_Dominus Defensor Domi_," and on either side the rose and the grill, the rose and the grill, alternately. —  The Belfry
 

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