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Meanings of deep embrasure in English

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Usage of deep embrasure in English
1
Leaning in the deep embrasure of his window, he looked at anonymous Night.
The Patrician
2
The deep embrasure was filled with beautiful flowers and luscious exotic leaf-plants from the hot-houses.
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
3
Petronella sat beside Philip in a deep embrasure, and had eyes and ears for him alone.
The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
4
The walls were of enormous thickness, and a narrow loophole, terminating a deep embrasure, afforded but scanty light.
Windsor Castle
5
Bread threw open the door, and Newman pushed back the curtain at the farther side of its deep embrasure.
The American
6
The latter glanced round the room, but Angelica was hidden by the curtain in the deep embrasure of the window.
The Heavenly Twins
7
In the mournful silence which fell around, Pierre lingered for yet another moment in the deep embrasure of the window.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
8
So saying, she drew the hangings together, and, in the deep embrasure of the bay-window, was entirely concealed from view.
Prince Eugene and His Times
9
So as to converse with Pierre at his ease, he drew him into the deep embrasure of one of the windows.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
10
From the deep embrasure Nicholas Burr watched curiously the flutter of women's skirts and the flicker of candle light on shining heads.
The Voice of the People
11
My intendant alone had remained in the deep embrasure of a shutter; the poor man had affliction and terror painted on his face.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 7
12
Constance finished with her view first, and crossing over, she seated herself in the deep embrasure of a window close beside Tony's parapet.
Jerry
13
At every deep embrasure Paul paused, searching the recess by the flickering glare of the match, and then, finding nothing, both men went on.
Paul Patoff
14
Wythnir was where Arkoniel had left him, curled up in the deep embrasure of a window, watching the other children play outside in the twilight.
Oracle's Queen
15
In the deep embrasures of the windows there were dark window-seats worn black with age.
Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade
16
The room was heavy-curtained, deep embrasured, for the house, beneath its clap-boards, was of logs.
The Call of the North
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Deep embrasure across language varieties
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