garret window
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As we approached, I fancied I saw her face in the top garret window.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
Somewhere beneath a nest of tiles My little garret window squats, Staring across the cruel miles, And wondering of kindlier spots.
From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas
It was visible up there at the garret window for only half a minute; yet Ruth knew it was no hallucination.
From The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did by Hill, Grace Brooks
It was rather fortunate that Ralph Birdsall had shot way his last cartridge in killing the fox three nights before from the garret window of Red Deer Lodge.
From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks
This is a garret window, still existing there,—a garret window built by William de Bourgtheroude in the early part of the sixteenth century.
From Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by Ruskin, John
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