"Oval window" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his shoulder at the subject of these commendations. Through the oval window glared an expression of malignity that made no impression whatever on ...
— The Secret Places of the Heart • H. G. Wells
... plainly finished for a palace, and it seemed to be lighted from an interior court, or well; for one was completely caged when in it. This was the celebrated Bull's Eye (oeil de boeuf), where the courtiers danced attendance before they were received. It got its name from an oval window over ...
— Recollections of Europe • J. Fenimore Cooper
... opening at one end. The antechamber opens freely into the arched chamber, and into one side of the partitioned spiral chamber. The other side of this spiral chamber looks on the hall by the round window already mentioned; the oval window looking on the hall belongs to the antechamber. From the front-door to the oval window of the antechamber extends a chain, c, (ossicula auditus,) so connected that a knock on the first is transmitted instantly to the second. But as the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various
... exactly. It was a big, square hall running through from front to back, and the back door was open, and you saw a garden with box hedges, and woods behind it. Stairs went up each side the hall and a balcony ran around the second story, with bedrooms opening off it. There was a high, oval window at the back over the balcony, ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews |
