"Upstair" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... simple. It consists of two rooms, oblong, and generally of the same size—one to live in, the other to sleep in—for the great majority of the squatters' hovels have no upstair rooms. At one end there is a small shed for odds and ends. This shed used to be built with an oven, but now scarcely any labourers bake their own bread, but buy of the baker. The walls of the cottage ...
— The Toilers of the Field • Richard Jefferies
... This was Bligh, of course. His friend, Mr. Sharl, sat alongside, talking low and trying to coax him back to a good temper: but Mrs. Polwhele missed taking notice of this. She hadn't seen the gentlemen arrive, by reason that, being timid of thunder, at the very first peal she'd run upstair, and crawled under one of the bed-ties: and there she bided until the chambermaid brought word that the sky was ...
— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... jus' finished in de rue Royale, a lill mo' farther up town from his old shop? Well, we open dare a big sto'! An' listen! You think Honore di'n' bitrayed' 'is family? Madame Nancanou an' heh daughtah livin' upstair an' rissy-ving de finess soci'ty in de Province!—an' me?—downstair' meckin' pill! You ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable
... Jeanbernat. 'She's never here. She often disappears all day long—still, she may be in the upstair rooms.' ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola
... architecture, devoted to the uses of the Manhattan Banking Company, the Bank of America, the Merchants, the Union, the Bank of Commerce, and others. Were it not that land in the banking district is so valuable, and that the need of upstair offices is so great, one might be tempted to regret the demolition of the graceful money temples occupied by three of these corporations on the north side of Wall Street. In each of them the entablature rested upon two fluted ...
— The Arena - Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 • Various |
