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    dormer


    1. That and Venna wrapping up some other business had taken a few more weeks than he wanted, but with the copper and forty he got back from the boat they could afford a comfortable inn with a cute balcony in an eleventh floor dormer only a couple blocks back of First


    2. Then Desa appeared, she screamed and ran, dodging into the back corner of the dormer where she slept


    3. The third floor was nothing more than a large, one-room attic with several dormer windows


    4. About fifteen minutes later, the taxi drove off the main road and took a private gravel road that led to the buildings of a large ranch, stopping finally in front of the main building, a large two-storey wooden house with a steep roof and dormer windows in the attic


    5. The room alloted to Ingrid on the top floor, even though rustic, was comfortable and included a large bed and a dormer window that provided ample light


    6. The stone building had two floors, plus an attic level with dormer windows


    7. The 22 servants’ bedrooms she saw on that level, while lit each by a dormer window, were cramped, nearly claustrophobic


    8. The next morning, Nancy gave a detailed tour of her residence to Mai, showing her in particular the room in the attic level that was going to be hers, which faced the Charles-V Street and had two dormer windows


    9. Hien got particularly excited when Hodges pulled down the hidden staircase leading up into the attic, with its house-wide open space and two dormer windows giving a view of the nearby park through the high-pitched roof


    10. The roof also featured dormer windows with glass panes on each side and there was a large chimney at each end of the main body of the inn, so that the chimney could also help heat the wings

    11. The garret, built to be a depository for firewood and the like, was dim and dark: for, the window of dormer shape, was in truth a door in the roof, with a little crane over it for the hoisting up of stores from the street: unglazed, and closing up the middle in two pieces, like any other door of French construction


    12. " It was Rodolphe's letter, fallen to the ground between the boxes, where it had remained, and that the wind from the dormer window had just blown towards the door


    13. His whole body feels heavy as he carries the radio up to the dormer


    14. But who was to say that at that moment we wouldn’t collide against the underside of the barrier, and thus be horribly squashed between two surfaces of ice? The static emerges again, threatening to wash her out, and he tries desperately to fight it off; he is a child in his attic dormer, clinging to a dream he does not want to leave, but Jutta has laid a hand on his shoulder and is whispering him awake


    15. The dormer window at the end of the upstairs hall


    16. Carroll leaned closer to the dormer window


    17. She came full circle and was staring at the children’s beds again when a soft tap-tap sounded at the dormer window behind her


    18. Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the letter once more


    19. The only furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of crockery, and in two of the corners, two indescribable pallets; all the light was furnished by a dormer window of four panes, draped with spiders' webs


    20. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, vaguely lighted up by a remnant of daylight, falling through a dormer window

    21. The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between two blocks of shadow


    22. , with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Pantheon, the pole of the DeafMutes, the Val-de-Grace, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the towers of Notre Dame


    23. Based on their vantage point, it would make sense for the spotter to be at the dormer to the right


    24. The sunlight poured in through two dormer windows


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    Synonyms for "dormer"

    dormer dormer window

    "dormer" definitions

    a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window