Since the boy affair took place, the attic has been fastened up; locks and keys are of no use, however, for there is as much walking up stairs, and sometimes the hammering and nailing.
One day the room was quiet as it possibly could be, and all at once some one in the attic called out, 'Dadie Pike!
We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt.
He carefully traces it through the several states, Dorians, Æolians, Ionians, the Attic cities and those of Asia Minor.
Upstairs the attic has been cut up pleasantly into three.
Through attic windows anxious faces were peeping; restless people stood at their garden walls.
The Germans examined the rooms whose morning disorder had been hastily concealed, went up to the attic and down to the cellar.
In process of time the deserters were proved to be dormice, but we thought the mistake amusing, and ever after called the attic "the deserter's attic.
See, there the olive groves of Academe, Plato’s retirement, where the attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
Langhorne says in his note on Plutarch, “There is the genuine attic salt in most of the retorts and observations of themselves.
The lofty forms of the Attic stage hovered in the peaceful atmosphere of the German home.
To-day every part of this attic shall be examined.
Fritz stretched out his arms towards her, but she withdrew herself from him, nodded to him once more at the door, then flew swiftly across the street back to her attic room.
Farrell surveyed the attic with a contemptuous stare before answering.
And, blowing her nose vigorously, the relenting landlady left the attic to its inhabitants.
The chosen four dropped from the window, and the crowd, Sweeny still in the lead, rushed out and downstairs as frantically as they had come up, leaving the attic to Moore and his guests.
Waving his hat in farewell to Sir Percival, he walked quickly out of the attic and started downstairs as Moore slammed the door loudly after him.
I 'll sit down," replied the landlady, suiting the action to the words so vigorously that the attic rattled.
You done noble, Lord Castlereagh," said Buster, approvingly, at the same time seating himself upon one of the rickety chairs with which the attic was furnished.
A glimpse of Paradise shown to me, and then this attic again.
The last words died away, and for a moment the old attic was silent.
Another indication of the difference between the Cromartian and Attic forms of speech is given by Sir Thomas in the same treatise in the name Alexhander, which Thucydides would have written Alhexandrost.
We need not be surprised that Sir Thomas's Greek has more affinity with the vernacular form of the language current in the Cromartie of his time than with the Attic of the age of Pericles, "For Greke of Athenes was to him unknowe.
Many a morning when Mary Jane was tired of being Mary Jane, she slipped off to the attic and dressed up to be somebody else.
You see, it was the first picnic of the year and baskets had to be brought down from the attic and dusted out; picnic plates and cups hunted up from their winter storage places and everything made ready for the morning.
And that evening, when father got home, he carried the steamer trunk down from the attic and Mary Jane began packing.
As the election appeared lost, she thought once more of the Georgia gold and the attic of the whipsawed house.
At that time, however, she had been suddenly called to other tasks and, having replaced the board wrong end to, had left without climbing to the attic at all.
Needless to say, with worry over Florence and Hallie, and interest in the election, she had found neither time nor interest for further exploration of the attic nor a search for Jeff Middleton's treasure.
The board they had once taken from the ceiling that they might get into the attic had been once more removed, then replaced.
She was sure of that, but the attic was there all the same.
A moment later two breathless young ladies were eagerly begging Mrs. McAlpin for permission to remove a board from the ceiling of their room that they might explore the attic of that venerable house.
Have you never entered an old house whose attic has remained unexplored for years?
Somewhat to her surprise, she found the attic half filled with clean, dry, rustling corn husks.
In the course of time, the Office of Indian Affairs was moved from the old Post-office Building to the Pension Building; but the packing-boxes in the attic were inadvertently left behind.
A search high and low was totally without success until it developed that the packing-boxes in the attic were supposed to contain "useless" papers and were still in the old Post-office Building.
Then I went to the attic cupboard, with the intention of bringing down the women's garments I had discovered there.
Bob had fixed a couple of seats to the roof, where we sat and chatted and smoked, and enjoyed the usual prospect of chimney pots and attic windows.
During your absence Mr. Nisbet obtains easy admission to the house, goes straight to the attic cupboard, and bears away with him the garments which, by devious circumstantial evidence, might be a danger to him.
Cooper's house; you find him; you have a singular conversation with him; you return home, and my uncle informs you of the discovery of the clothes he has found in the attic cupboard.
The two dresses found in the attic cupboard I repacked carefully in their wrapping of brown paper, and replaced them in the cupboard.
Well, in the attic of Luca, before a bowl and a dish almost as big as himself.
The attic was a breezy, naked place, underneath the arches supporting the roof of Maestro Benedetto's dwelling.
In theattic Raffaelle passed the most anxious hours of all his sunny little life.
It was only a poor woman at work, but she was accused of signalling with her little lamp from the height of her attic to the Prussians who were besieging Paris.
No plays of the new Attic comedy are preserved in the original Greek, but there are fragments which supplement the knowledge we derive from the Latin imitations.
Among the orators who adopted the simple Attic style, the most important were Marcus Calidius, who was praetor in 57 B.
The girl is, however, of good Attic parentage, and Aeschinus has promised to marry her.
All that Lewis and Clark succeeded in doing for the West, backed by the prestige of government, Ledyard, the penniless soldier of fortune, had foreseen and planned with Jefferson in the attic apartments of Paris.
They gave her notice to quit the attic when the roof was repaired.
Her face rather gave me the idea of a russet-apple preserved or a whole winter in an attic by some economical housekeeper.
She will leave the attic when she pleases, Monsieur; but she is going to leave in her own carriage.
But, Therese," I asked, "has Madame Coccoz got everything she needs in that attic of hers?
Therese, to take a good bowl of soup out of the pot and carry it to Madame Coccoz, our attic neighbor.
For they allowed the couple to occupy the attic during the time the roof was being repaired, in consideration of the fact that the husband is sick and the wife in an interesting condition.
Wherever they have come from, Therese, they are unfortunate; and their attic is cold.
I do not know if it be growing mouldy in the attic of some ignoramus.
The greater part of these has disappeared, as has the attic colonnade, also imitated from the gates of Autun, and similar to the colonnades which exist still in the Romanesque houses of Cluny.
Amoebaeus the harper, according to Athenaeus, used to receive an Attic talent of 193l.
Once more his thoughts reverted to the attic room, the roof of the adjoining house, the problem of effecting an entrance to the Morton apartment through either of the two windows.
There was no way in which anyone could have passed from the attic window to that of Ruth's room, even supposing such a person to be an expert climber.
The little attic in the adjoining house is unused, although that is not important, since no one could reach this window from it, in any event.
Whether the attic was tenanted or not, however, had no bearing on the problem which confronted him.
Here the rising wall of the attic story of the house faced him, reaching to a point above his head.
Cook and I sleep on the fourth floor, sir, but the attic isn't used, except for storage, sir.
Like its neighbor, it was built with an attic story, and in the rear were two dormer windows opening in the same way upon the lower roof.
By going to the rear edge of the back building they could readily swing him over to the fire-escape, while by ascending to the top of the attic roof overlooking the court, they could in the same way enable him to reach the other window.
In the sloping roof of the attic were three small dormer windows, facing the court, but the nearest one was perhaps twenty feet from the window of Ruth's room, in a horizontal direction, and some eight or ten feet above it.
Yes it would," replied Duvall, pointing to the roof of the attic portion of the house below.
He remembered that the servant of the house next door had informed him, earlier in the week, that the attic was, and long had been, unoccupied.
The Babylonish talent, according to Pollux in his Onomasticon, contained seven thousand Attic drachmas, and consequently was a sixth part more than the Attic talent, which contains but six thousand drachmas.
The proportion between gold and silver among the ancients we reckon as ten to one; therefore seven thousand three hundred and fifty Attic talents of gold amount to above one and twenty millions sterling.
The sixth part of six thousand three hundred is one thousand and fifty; consequently six thousand three hundred Babylonish talents of gold are equivalent to seven thousand three hundred and fifty Attic talents of gold.
Now seven thousand three hundred and fiftyAttic talents of silver are worth upwards of two millions and one hundred thousand pounds sterling.
At the fifth, the flame did not even get started; for a downpour of rain had beaten upon the attic and quenched whatever of fire was lurking in the timbers.
You must just see that--just once," said she and motioned toward the ladder-like stairs that led to her attic room.
By means that were fair, or by means that were foul, I meant to win my way into that boarded-up attic and see for myself if the words hidden away in my vinaigrette were true.
Above this there is a sort of attic which can only be reached from outside by steps that also lead to a terrace on the roof.
The smallest mistake or hesitation will lose us everything, as you know, and before long we shall be living in an attic again and supping on salt fish and olives.
His preparations for the move took him but a short time, and two hours later he was installed in a little attic in the ship-chandler's house.
A quarter of an hour later, Cyril stole noiselessly from his attic down to John Wilkes's room.
They have searched the thieves' dens of London from attic to cellar; there have been boats out looking for your body; and on the day after you were missing they overhauled all the ships in the port.
Well, we have got an attic upstairs which is not used, and if you like to come here and live with us, my wife and I will make you heartily welcome.
