He had acquainted his niece with all that was necessary for her to know at present, and at the same time left himself a loophole of escape from the imputation of disregarding his brother's wishes.

Another characteristic of such writers is that they always avoid a positive assertion wherever they can possibly do so, in order to leave a loophole for escape in case of need.

The doors and shutters were all strong and double-barred, and moreover were loopholed in a way that enabled us to command both approaches.

Had these foul Orders admitted of no loophole through which my honour might with difficulty wriggle, I should have taken the only course possible to me.

At one end there was a door, with a little grating; at the other, close to the ceiling, at a height of ten or twelve feet, there was a loophole with a fluted glass window.

The building, which is as mournful as a prison, has only narrow loopholes by way of windows, and a door so low that one must stoop to enter it.

The remains of a small tower, pierced with loopholes on one side of the opening, and the other ruined masonry, leave no doubt as to the defensive use to which this cavern was at one time put.

It cannot be more than five feet wide and eight feet long, with an open loophole to the wind.

"Look out for arrows," continued the speaker, as he crawled to a loophole between Rudolph's and the captain's.

No doubt the lord who dwelt in Haddon Hall in the fifteenth century would have thought it very absurd if you had told him that within four hundred years it would not be necessary for country gentlemen to live in great stone dungeons with little cross-barred windows and loopholes from which to shoot at people going by.