"Mansard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I scaled the steep bank at the west end of the cliff and threw ourselves, panting, on the level that ran up to the sheer drop-off. When we had regained the breath we'd lost on that Mansard-roof climb we drew near to the edge, where we could stare into the valley three hundred feet below while we made us a cigarette apiece. We were just a mite discouraged. Beginning that first morning at the east end of the Writing-Stone we had worked west, conning ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... side of the street, he was able to measure, with an approving glance, a prepossessing dwelling of four stories and a mansard. ...
— The Flaw in the Sapphire • Charles M. Snyder
... acts. And she honestly admired the tall blonde Irene, who had bloomed under the influences of matrimony into something suggestively English—high-colored, stately, emphatic. She liked the rambling ugly mansion built in the eighties after Hermann Paul's success with railroads, in the best mansard style of the day, and never touched since. The grounds which had been extensively planted by the railroad man were now covered with a luxuriant growth of exotic trees that completely hid the house and afforded only peeps of the distant bay. California, with its pungent ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick |
