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  • They hide the past, the poverty and the marginality of the small-windowed residences they have replaced.

    Karin Badt: Germans Think About Germany: "Deutschland 09" Premieres at the Berlinale 2009

  • It was a slant-roofed, small-windowed hole above the kitchen, oppressive in summer, frigid in winter.

    Main Street 2004

  • The four older ones, neat and quiet in their Sunday clothes, sat in a row between the two beds that stood, one in each back corner of the big low-ceilinged, small-windowed room.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

  • The meeting house was nearby, and from this point outward — toward the bay or inland — there were a few small-windowed, dark houses snuggling against the raw Massachusetts winter.

    The Crucible Miller, Arthur 1953

  • The houses are all of a pattern -- prim, dingy, small-windowed habitations, but within this one there must be comfort, for the fire-flames dance on the meek minute panes and a heavy curl of smoke is cutting the air above its square, business-like little chimney-pot.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • He looked at Miss Mary, sitting subdued behind her urn and Gilian at her side, and then at his brothers, hardly yet awake in the early morning, whose breakfasts in that small-windowed room it needed two or three candles to illuminate.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • It was a slant-roofed, small-windowed hole above the kitchen, oppressive in summer, frigid in winter.

    Main Street 1920

  • It was a slant-roofed, small-windowed hole above the kitchen, oppressive in summer, frigid in winter.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • All the rooms were paved with stone, low-ceiled, small-windowed; not such as are built for growing children, working in large classes together.

    Emily Brontë 1900

  • The building, of greenish stone, was in the old English style, not ugly, but small-windowed and melancholy-looking: the sort of house that must have children, many flowers, open windows, and little vistas of bright things, to make it seem a joyous home.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

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