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Not just those scuffling Cockney urchins; or the convivial throngs outside the towpath pubs; or the middle classes in their gracious bow-windowed houses and lovely, sloping, riverbank-leaning lawns.
Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker | Frank Keating 2011
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His fossil shop was across the road from my poste restante... the bow-windowed building still stands, but now sells fripperies.
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Whereupon he rode back again down the High Street to that same bow-windowed Ship Tavern where the Brotherhood of the Rose made their vow, and settled himself in the very room where they had supped.
Westward Ho! 2007
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Then he flicked his whip and they drove on; past the market cross; past the red brick town hall, with the arches under it; along a street of bow-windowed eighteenth - century houses, the residences of doctors and solicitors; past the pond with chains linking white posts together and a horse drinking; and so out into the country.
The Years 2004
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One of the bow-windowed rooms on the ground floor with the pleasant look-out I have described was the drawing-room; the other was the schoolroom.
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It is a long, bow-windowed cottage, now divided into two dwellings.
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Swing docks afforded occasional glimpses of the river as they passed the stinking, bow-windowed taverns of Wapping.
Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995
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He put a heavy and peremptory hand upon her arm and drew her over the threshold, across the tiny passage called the hall, into one of the two bow-windowed rooms.
Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann
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Dobble informed me that Mr Juffles resided in a bow-windowed villa near
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Temple and the Tower, with my bodily eyes, my thoughts dwelt for ever on the bow-windowed villa near Bushy Park.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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