dormer-roofed

Updated: May 29, 2025

They passed the English Legation, a bulging, three-storied, red brick, dormer-roofed atrocity, standing a few feet in from the sidewalk; ugly as original sin, externally as repellent as the sidewalk and the narrow little drive under the porte-cochère are dirty. "It's a pity," said Clarke, "that the British Legation cannot afford a man-servant to clean its front."

John Reed Scott - The Cab of the Sleeping Horse