dormer-windows

There one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the windows of the Fine – Air.

Les Miserables 2008

A little stretch of brick sidewalk gave an air of distinction to a solidly built two-story house with sloping roof and dormer-windows, and in front of the house, on a stool planted on the curb, sat an old negro, bandy-legged, with snowy wool, industriously polishing a row of shoes neatly arranged in front of him, and crooning happily a plantation melody as he worked.

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

It is built with wide overhanging caves, pierced by eight little dormer-windows, with a lantern at the apex of the roof, and is a unique little building whose characteristic features have been sketched and photographed many scores of times, and is comparable, perhaps, only with the butter-market at Bingley in Yorkshire.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

In the steep roofs there are dormer-windows, and the old tiles have mellowed to a deep rose-red, stained yellow with lichen, and sink into irregular planes and angles of beautiful, varied colour.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Thatched were the roofs, with dormer-windows; and gables projecting

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

Set in the midst was a noble stone mansion some sixty feet in front, with wide galleries shaded by a projection of sloping roof, which was pierced by dormer-windows.

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

Than, also of the 16th century, is remarkable for its graceful dormer-windows.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Beyond were the tops of lofty shade-trees, and between the branches, where the foliage was rapidly thinning, we could catch glimpses of the stone chimneys and dormer-windows of a great house.

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

The roofs, the gables, the dormer-windows, the porches, the clustered offices in the rear, all seemed to crowd about the great chimney.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

The dormer-windows were hung with Eastern stuffs, a Roman lamp stood on the mantel, a Koran-holder held Omar Khayyam second-hand, and Meredith's last novel, and "Anna Karenina," and

A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan