window-bay

He had been sitting in the window-bay of his private room; he rose, and walked up and down, for having lingered in the morning to intercept Camusot, he had found him dull of apprehension; he was vaguely uneasy and worried.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

“Well, valiant Cuirassier,” exclaimed the Baron, drawing the Colonel aside into a window-bay to breathe the fresh air from the garden, “how are you getting on?”

Domestic Peace 2007

“Well, valiant Cuirassier,” exclaimed the Baron, drawing the Colonel aside into a window-bay to breathe the fresh air from the garden, “how are you getting on?”

Domestic Peace 2007

The only objects of sympathy in the room were the white lamp that glowed on a stand near the wall, and the large, beautiful fern, with narrow fronds, which ruffled its cloud of green within the gloom of the window-bay.

The Trespasser 2003

He got up from where he had been sitting in the window-bay and opened the connecting door into Yukio's room.

The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

"Are any of them so sad and strange as mine?" she wondered with tears in her eyes; then kissing the ring in memory of that first kiss she had given it, she laid it on a table in the window-bay, and busied herself with the bridal finery; and while she was so busied she was called away to some cares of her household, and left the chamber.

A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909

The only objects of sympathy in the room were the white lamp that glowed on a stand near the wall, and the large, beautiful fern, with narrow fronds, which ruffled its cloud of green within the gloom of the window-bay.

The Trespasser 1907

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

Women in Love 1907

Deux Mondes_, settled himself in a window-bay commanding the great twilit square of the Horse Guards and the lamp-lit Mall.

Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

At Chartres the curved projection that contains the next two windows was not a chapel, but only a window-bay, for the sake of the windows, and, if the artists aimed at pleasing the Virgin, they would put their best work there.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878