Mrs. Skinner and her son Joe lived in a detached red brick house, built long before villas with bay windows and gabled roofs, and little dormer windows in them, were thought of.
"Little Miss Joy"
Emma Marshall
The house, in the midst of this evergreen grove, was a building of hard, dark red bricks, and so irregular in construction as to defy all description; it had so many gable ends, tall chimneys, little dormer windows and latticed windows, as to confuse the spectator; and so many great doors, each with its own portico, as to make a strange visitor utterly uncertain concerning the whereabouts of the main entrance.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
"Of course," reflected Minna, "she must be in bed behind one of those little dormer windows fast asleep-for it must be very late."
"The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy"
Mabel Henriette Spielmann