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Example Sentences
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Wrought-iron balconies, turrets, oriel windows: block after block, the residential facades were unique and homogenous at the same time.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2011
So, let's go ... through the neo-gothic oriel window!
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2010
“And in the painted oriel of the West, Whose panes the sunken sun incardines, Like a fair lady at her casement, shines The Evening Star, the star of love and rest.”
From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon
I stood in the oriel window that curved out from one end of the large parlor and looked toward the east; that is, it commanded a broad view from all points, save the direct west.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
One oriel window was discovered through the white jasmine that clustered around it, and the verbenas, heliotrope, and scarlet geraniums that crept beneath it from the ground.
From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
