"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
... 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 |