At various levels, passages lead off from the staircase into spacious and curiously arched apartments, to which light is admitted by narrow casements opening into the chasm or tajo.
Another gust of wind went rushing by, and with it fell a few heavy drops of rain, which presently came rattling down in showers, beating against the casements like a hundred little hands.
Onward they journeyed, through highway and byway, through villages where goodwives and merry lasses peeped through the casements at the fine show of young men, until at last they came over beyond Alverton in Derbyshire.
Queen Eleanor sat in her royal bower, through the open casements of which poured the sweet yellow sunshine in great floods of golden light.
He looked up at the lounge, two stories above his head, its long casements shuttered against the heat.
He looked up at the native portion of the Palace and became aware of the spectators on the roofs, the staring faces at the windows, the eyes of the women peering at him through the latticed casements of the zenana.
The rebated joint is used in the meeting styles of casements and folding doors, and it is useful in excluding draughts and preventing observation through the joint.
The sashes of the lantern usually take the form of fixed or hung casements fitted to solid mullions and angle posts which are framed into and support a solid head.
Solid window frames are of similar construction and are used chiefly for casements and sashes hung on centres as already described.
Yet a little, and the grey of the morning began to struggle through the painted casements of the church, and to put to shame the glimmer of the tapers.
A large window fronts my bed, and its casements being thrown open, gives me a vast prospect of ocean uninterrupted, except by the peaks of Caprea and the Cape of Sorento.
After we had breakfasted by the light of our fire (for the casementsadmitted but a very feeble gleam), I sat down to the works of St. Bruno; of all medleys one of the strangest.
These torpedoes are generally exploded by electricity from batteries located in casements on shore, these casements being connected with the torpedoes by submarine cables.
The staircase ran steep and straight up from the hall into a long corridor with morecasements opening on the orchard behind.
Guy had a sensation of all the inhabitants hurrying from their business in the depths of their old houses to peer through the casements at Pauline and him; and he was glad when they reached the Rectory drive and escaped the silent commentary.
If he were to start up from his bed and rush through the empty rooms, or burst open one of yonder lofty casements and fling himself headlong to the terrace below!
He was awaiting her in the little breakfast room, its glass casements open to the garden with the wall and the round stone seat.
Her glance lingered wistfully on the old farmhouse with its great centre chimney from which the smoke was curling, with its diamond-paned casements Insall had put into the tiny frames.
The breezes stealing into the church through the open casements wafted hither and thither the odours of the chancel flowers, and mingled with those fainter and subtler perfumes set free by the rustling of summer gowns.
Then, as the light grew, the close-lipped casements were seen, scarred with our bullets.
The spacious apartments gave back a hollow reverberation, as we wandered over their uncarpeted floors, and flung open the casements of their uncurtained windows.
Only a few weeks after the compulsatory domestication of the Ambassador at the Seven Towers, his kiosk was completed; and from her closed casements the young Hanoum could see all that passed in the vast apartment of the prisoner.
The casements quivered beneath the shock of the rattling cannon; and all the sounds which came to us from without spoke of festivity and rejoicing; and, meanwhile, we were a happy party within.
A pale sweet sunshine was gleaming on the grand old walls of Hohenszalras, and turning to silver and gold all its innumerable casements as she returned, and Donau and Neva leaped in rapture on her.
There was plenty of light from the fire, and even from the windows, to read her letters by; she went first to one of the casements and looked at the night, which was growing very wild and dark.
One of these little, square casements hung open and through it the distant landscape showed clear, with hills grey and woods grey-blue, astonishing for its tranquillity.
One of these casements opened and he saw the naked shoulders of his sister Douce, holding a sheet over her breasts as she gazed out to mark why the tumult was raised.
The Spaniards looked a little more cheerful than when Bothwell had seen it last, for there were lights in many of the lower windows, and those lamp-lit casements glowed brightly across the rainy dusk.
Every leaflet of rose or myrtle that framed the casements showed distinct against that clear evening sky.
The storm was subsiding; the casements rattled slightly and mournfully and the rain splashed with a more gentle violence against the panes.
This wind beat at the diamond-shaped leaded casements and scattered the leaves from the poplar tree without in a yellow shower like golden ducats dropped by a reluctant hand across the prospect of sea and town.
From those the lights within streamed over a balcony filled with gay plants; one of the casements was partially open.
But even before Thomas Williams had laid the last rafter, or the thatched roof was on, or the casements were glazed, the owner might be seen at his bench plying plane or saw to make the whole substantial and complete.
When evening draws in and the last pallid light in the sky glints on the old casements of the wayside cottages of "Chapel House," or in the dark avenue, the spot wears a solemn air, and seems to exhale Romance.
She had opened one of the casements and was speaking with a gardener.
There was a feeble grey light from the western sky, to which the casements of the chamber turned.
Here the diamonded casements reappear, looking full into the western sky, and over the trees and river winding at the foot of the steep; and here we discover the loveliness of the site.
The remains of the old sun-dial are still visible, the diamonded casements of some of the windows are perfect, and the exterior generally is undefaced.
Through the gaping casementsyou may mark the ruin within.
The facades of the theatre and of the hotels were outlined with thickly set little lamps, which beaded the arches of the bridges spanning the Tepl, and lighted the casements and portals of the shops.
The lower casements of the houses were furnished with mirrors set at right angles with them, and nothing which went on in the streets was lost.
All the casements of the mill-house were lighted, and every now and then the notes of the flute came to him.
He could hear the wind beating about the house and rattling about the casements and moaning down the chimneys; and to think any poor soul should be out on such a night, dying!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "casements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
