She liked best the floor above, where the family mostly lived when they were by themselves: here was one large recessed room where the crowded book-shelves went to the ceiling, a real fire burned in a fireplace, and real lamps lighted a large table, around which the members of the family read or worked or played.
"One Woman's Life"
Robert Herrick
At length, as he was passing a certain mean-looking house in one of the less important thoroughfares, his attention was attracted to a scene which caused him to stop before the house; and, resting in the obscurity of a great recessed doorway on the opposite side of the way, to observe with much interest what took place in the room before him.
"Tales of the Caliph"
H. N. Crellin
They attempted to break in the great door, which was recessed, and therefore protected by a murderous cross-fire.
"Waterloo"
Hilaire Belloc