Opening in a wall from which missiles, such as arrows, were fired during sieges.
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It was not: the Soviet dissidents exploited the loophole with great effect.
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Police Minister Michael Woodhouse said he was not sure a loophole existed.
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The infamous loophole surrounding so-called carried interest will be in the crosshairs.
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The loophole that made the strategy possible was not closed until 2012.
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This reversed the loophole whereby referees' reports could be open to interpretation.
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Reddish bands of light from the arrow loops slash her face.
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Arrow loops had been bricked up, no doubt to render tower rooms more snug in winter.
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There were dark arrow loops in those wings that would allow archers to cover the door with crossfire.
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The top of the wall was open, with a broad allure to stand on and merlons with arrow loops.
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They docked at an elegant white marble gatehouse, with raised drawbridge and arrow loops bristling with wary elven archers.
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From a second arrow slit, she caught a glimpse of the sea.
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Petru looked up, to the arrow slit, to dawn's earliest light there.
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The scrutator was aiming through an arrow slit with a borrowed crossbow.
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The arrow slit was darkened, and half of a little bronze face appeared.
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Through the opaque, beeswax cloth that blocked the arrow slit, the faintest of lights came.
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She stared out another arrow slit.
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This one was smaller than the others he'd gone through, more like an arrow slit than a true window.
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A breeze flapped the beeswax-dipped cloth in the arrow slit, admitting a little light, making the room even colder.
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Wicked knives decorated the walls while a ray of light from an arrow slit highlighted a display of tarnished shields.
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Vlad looked around -outof the arrow slit to the Turkish firelight and the sound of axes; to the beams above.
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He strode over to the bookcase next to the arrow slit and pulled out a binder in which absences were recorded.
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Leaping up, Tobin looked out through an arrow slit and saw a heap of shattered stone and wood where the gates had been.
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But this was a night shot, at two hundred paces, hilltop to hilltop, and he was aiming at candle flicker within an arrow slit.
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He wondered if that window had at one time been several arrow slits.
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The upper two had windows and balconies, the lower two only arrow slits.
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There were no windows, except for the narrow arrow slits in the towers.