"First floor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which stands near the northern transept of the church of Saint-Ouen was the dormitory of the monks. It is now the town hall. The offices occupy the ground and first floor, the library and gallery of paintings the second. The great stair-case is remarkable for its elegance and lightness; it has been compared to that at Somerset house. On the first landing we find in a niche, ...
— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet
... swell fronts, looking in perspective like a succession of round towers, are reached by broad granite steps, and their doors are deeply sunken within the wagon-roofs of white-painted Roman arches. Over the door there is sometimes the bow of a fine transom, and the parlor windows on the first floor of the swell front have the same azure gleam as those of the beautiful old houses which front the Common on ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... on the first floor, is the queen's drawing-room, in which she is also obliged to dress and to ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay
... be reserved for the dressing-rooms, the second entirely devoted to the supper and refreshments, and the first floor given up to the dancers and promenaders. I declare I shan't know how to look if we can't ...
— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper
... Exchange Alley, Cornhill, with an auction-room on the first floor, where wine and other things were sold (see No, 147). Thomas Garway was originally a tobacconist and coffee-man. Defoe ("Journey through England") says that this coffee-house was frequented by "the people of ...
— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken
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