garret window

noun

1. a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof

Example Sentences

I recognized then, by the faint glimmer from a little garret window, the wrinkled face of the burgomaster's widow.

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I entered his room through the garret window an hour ago.

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"Then he must have come in through the garret window or down the chimney, for, on the word of an honest man, none entered through the gate."

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But the second trial, later in the day, told of nearer approach of the change, and an hour or two after that, when Merran's anxiety and in a sense, too, her curiosity lured her again to her garret window, the parasol was as if glued together, while the umbrella flew open in her hands, like a bird eager for flight.

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From garret window to garret window across the narrow lanes of the old town it had been whispered at dead of night; at convent grilles, and in the timber-yards beside the river.

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