Far below my garret window lay the street--a trench between the high houses.
And, St. Quentin be thanked, there in the garret window were Jacques and his tapsters, pushing a ladder to us.
What mattered it that already I ached in every bone, that the stair was long and my bed but a heap of straw in the garret of a mean inn in a poor quarter?
Opposite is a closed house, shuttered with iron from garret to cellar.
There, not ten feet away, eight at the most, but a little above me, was the casement of my garretin the Amour de Dieu.
I'm told there's not a garret nor a dingy cellar-full of misery in the city, where Granville is not upon visiting terms.
Here he was hidden in the garretof a house occupied by a miserly old man, to whose charge he was consigned.
Up in the garret three little children were playing by the light of my beams; the eldest was perhaps six years old, the youngest certainly not more than two.
Will sprang for the garret stairs, stumbling headlong, at the top, over George W.
She ran up the garret stairs, and then began to look for the book.
Don Quixote said he would, so they made up a tolerable one for him in the same garret as before; and he lay down at once, being sorely shaken and in want of sleep.
All that night Mary and I watched in that topmost garret looking out over the ocean.
He was no temple, but rather a comfortable, hospitable house open to all friends, well furnished with books and pictures, and free to every guest from garret to cellar.
Pattent therefore advised her to go up to the garret with her, which she did, and stayed there all that night, and the following day and night, and until she was taken into custody in the garret upon the above discovery.
That's an owl and it comes from the little garret over the 'ell' where we couldn't climb because there weren't any stairs.
I've got her spinning-wheel up home in the garret still.
It was all very well to say there wasn't anything to worry over, as Kit did; but one may step on toads in the dark, or hear noises in the garret that make one shiver even if they do turn out to be just chipmunks after corn and huts.
But also, nearer home, there are gentle shadows on the stairs, a dim cellar for the friendly creatures of your fancy, and for your exalted mood there is a garret with dark corners.
But the garret hears the sound of feet, and it rouses itself and rubs its dusky eyes.
The garret then tears from its eyes the blind bandage of the day.
The great dim garret that has sat nodding for so many years will smile at last at your coming.
Consequently, it was with painful confusion that she opened the door of the garret room which she had done her best to make cosy and inviting.
David continued to inhabit the garret chamber which he occupied as preceptor.
Then Marie and her son entered their apartment, while David ascended to thegarret chamber he was to share with Andre.
I had my fit of woe up garret on the fat rag-bag, and then put my papers away, and fell to work at housekeeping.
Hate to visit people who only ask me to help amuse others, and often longed for a crust in a garret with freedom and a pen.
Accordingly it would be removed to the great garret of history, to lie side by side with innumerable other disused plans for human improvement.
He knew Linda's age well, for he had been an inhabitant of the garret up-stairs when Linda was born.
Ludovic had never lived in thegarret of the red house as Peter himself had done.
He lived in a dirty little garret up on the butte, and while he was writing this realistic picture of his own life he was slowly starving to death.
I was brought up in a dealer's shop in the East End, in very low society, in a gas-lit garret among dirty children.
Stow them away in a garret and forget all about them!
Bonzig had a garret somewhere, and painted in the studio of a friend, not far from Barty's lodging.
Mr. Gerard was carried up to the garret chamber, and remained there a month, not coming openly down.
In the next room and in the garret are our guests; you can't sleep here in our room, that would not be proper--Noemi is no longer a child.
The garret was separated from the other room only by a thin floor, and every word was audible, as if it had been whispered in the listener's ear.
A scholar who would not leave hisgarret and his books to take a place in a business house at a large salary.
More than once when I climbed to our garret I found the captain seated on the three-legged chair, with his head between his hands, sunk in reflection.
The very thought of a servant in the bailiff's garret made me laugh, and so I put him off, first getting his address, and promising him employment on the day of my release.
They let us walk for an hour in the garret and then shut us up again, and we saw no more of them throughout the day.
He agreed willingly, and having told him that he was lucky to be in my company, he said that we could walk in thegarret for half an hour.
It seemed to me that there was no reason why the mistress should not sleep in the garretas well as the maid.
It was a good distance from the spot I had set out from, so I concluded that the garret lighted by it did not form part of the prison I had just broken.
Lawrence came into the garret and put his head at the grating, and said, "I give you joy, sir, for the good news I am bringing you.
Lawrence made him go out, and asked me to put on my shirt to go into the garret for a moment.
Then he must have come in through the garret window or down the chimney, for, on the word of an honest man, none entered through the gate.
But look at your room; no more garret for you; and in three days we will start.
I have obtained leave," said he, "for you to move into the garret where the heat is less, and the air better than here.
He gave me the key of the garret and told me that he had got another.
I gave her the key and six louis, bidding her inform her mistress of what we had agreed upon, and get the garret ready to receive us.
I entered his room through the garret window an hour ago.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garret" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: attic; hayloft; loft; storeroom
