Levin gazed at her intently, and then raised up and looked around him, and peered down through the old dormers into the green yard, and the floody river hastening by with such nobility.
Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof.
It was a strange little home indeed, Spanish, one-story, its dormershidden by a honeycombed screen of terra-cotta tiles.
The street lay so deep and narrow that sleet and wind wasted little time in finding it out, but roared and rattled among the gables, dormers and chimney-stacks overhead.
Sir John and Lady Aspenick from Overington Grange, the Dormers from Hingston, Bertram Ware--our M.
A slight grimace dismissed the Dormers as not holding much interest for her.
The center section of the house has three dormers on the front side of the roof.
All dormers have a single window, consisting of 6-over-6 lights, set vertically in the front face.
All dormers have beaded ship-lap siding laid parallel to the pitched roof.
The north and south semi-domes are each pierced by three large windows, which on the interior cut through the curved surface of the domes, and on the exterior appear as dormers in the roof above the cornice.
For hour after hour Cicely sat by him, only rising from time to time to watch the burning of the great Abbey church, as once she had watched that of its dormers and farm-steading.
At but one spot indeed was attack possible, from the back where once stood the dormers and farm steadings which Emlyn had egged on Thomas to burn.
A man burnt the Abbey dormers and the stacks, and harried the beasts with a goatskin on his head, and dragged the skull of drunken Andrew from his grave.
The Dormers were so much in it, as the phrase was, that after all their discomfiture their fortune seemed in an hour to have come back.
This answer of the hope of the Dormers drew the eyes of his mother and sisters to him and caused his friend to exclaim that he wasn't used to such responsibilities--so few people had ever tested his presence of mind by agreeing with him.
In dining two evenings before with her brother and with the Dormers Mrs. Dallow had been moved to exclaim that Peter and Nick knew the most extraordinary people.
The means to this end are curved gables, quaint pinnacles, and rather elaborate lanterns, of which there are two alternative designs provided, as there are also of the small gables or dormers on the parapet.
Yorkshire manor house; the windows are larger, and the dormers are of steeper pitch than is common.
One large building in particular was covered with black from the dormers down to the street, with all the windows hid by black-trimmed flags.
These dormers were high, with a single window often having a semicircular head.
There was need of more light for the second-floor rooms in the old building, so dormers were inserted in the deep pitched roof at the front.
The old lines of the roof were left unaltered, and although more room was needed, dormers were left out in its reconstruction.
In the second story, unusually successful dormers were cut in both the back and front pitch of the roof.
The dormers gave the much needed increase in the size of the chambers, and part of the rear one was converted into the bathroom.
The plan of these dormers deserves especial study, as each group is in reality composed of three separate dormers, enlarging three rooms in the interior, but confined under the one flat roof.
Two hip-roofed dormersadd to the space in the second floor and permit the construction of attractive servants' quarters.
Two dormers have been cut in the main roof to give extra room in the second floor; these are flat-roofed and well spaced, with two windows occupying the entire front of each.
Again in 1914 the eyebrow window was removed, and dormers inserted in the roof.
The dormers that have been cut in the roof add not only to their comfort but provide charming little bays and alcoves, giving unexpected opportunities for interesting furnishings.
On the third floor, or, more correctly, in the garrets, was an endless number of spare rooms, whose windows looked out of the quaint dormers which embellished the roof.
There lay the old-fashioned house, with white painted walls, and its blue slate roof, which was adorned by dormers and gables.
Above, rises a tall pointed roof ornamented with four odd-looking dormers near the apex.
If you wander up and down some of the old streets by the harbour you will find more than one many-storied house with shutters brightly painted, and dormers on its ancient roof.
The great dormers and chimneys have not the refinement in their design which characterizes the lower portion, and may be of later date.
It had a mediaeval look, queer dormers in a steep roof of red tiles, leaded windows buried deep in walls of rough stone.
I hate all the kind of professional jargon which the Dormers affect about music.
Lady Harriet was delighted with his singing, and Lady Harriet's expressed approbation pleased Lady Seely; for the Dormers were considered to be great musical connoisseurs, and their judgment had considerable weight among their own set.
To hear the Dormers talk, you would think it the most important matter in the world to decide whether this fiddler is better than that fiddler, or what is the right time to play a fugue of Bach's in.
Note the dignified yet tasteful exterior design--the good-looking foundation, spacious porch, and graceful dormers on front and sides.
This front, except the two dormers in the middle, which are later, is very nearly of the same date as that building which is shown in Plate LI.
It is a boxlike structure of plastered rubble masonry twenty-six feet square and two and a half stories high, with a hip roof having simple pedimental dormers and two oppositely disposed chimneys.
Segmental topped dormers were rare, although a row of them is to be seen in Camac Street, "the street of little clubs", and occasional individual instances are to be found elsewhere.
It is a single gable-roofed structure two and a half stories high with ranging windows throughout, a large chimney at each end and two dormers in the front between them.
The house is two and a half stories high with additions which have somewhat altered its original appearance; it has a gambrel roof, hipped at one end after the Mansard manner with excellent dormers on both the front and end just mentioned.
They were gable-roof structures with high chimneys in the party walls, foreshortened, third-story windows and from one to three dormers piercing the roof.
In outward appearance Bartram House is a simple gable-roof structure two and a half stories in height, of large, roughly hewn stones with east and west fronts and three dormers lighting the attic.
Such of the buildings of the "Hospitalieres" as are left now form part of the Hopital Andral, and their old roofs and dormers and chimneys take our eye above the low wall as we turn into Rue des Tournelles.
Here, among the ancient fronts, we are attracted by that which is numbered 12, low and wide, with two floors and dormers above.
The roofs often comprise several stories, and are lighted by lofty gables at either end, and by dormers carried up from the side walls through two or three stories.
Gables and dormers alike are built in diminishing stages, each step adorned with a console or scroll, and the whole treated with pilasters or colonnettes and entablatures breaking over each support (Fig.
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