window-holes

Updated: June 18, 2025

There Throckmorton found their tracks, for the sacking that covered the window-holes was burst outwards, beef-bones lay on the road before the door, and, within, the widow, black, begrimed and very drunk, lay inverted on the clay of the floor, her head beneath the three legs of the chopping block, so that she was as if in a pillory, but too fuddled to do more than wave her legs.

Ford Madox Ford - Privy Seal: His Last Venture

Then Provence takes on a long-lost splendour. To those who care to see, cavalcades of soldiers or of hunters come home along the road, castles become whole and frowning, the dying sun casts its light through their gaping window-holes, as light of nightly revels used to shine, and a phantom Mediævalism appears.

Elise Whitlock Rose - Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1

The interior of the walls was blackened, as if by fire; fire also appeared at one time to have raged out of the window-holes, for the outside about them was black, portentously so. "I wonder what has been going on here!" I exclaimed. There were echoes along the walls as I walked about the court.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest

The interior of the walls was blackened, as if by fire; fire also appeared at one time to have raged out of the window-holes, for the outside about them was black, portentously so. 'I wonder what has been going on here? I exclaimed. There were echoes among the walls as I walked about the court.

George Henry Borrow - Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest