The ladder withdrawn, Gilbert cried out to him: "Your lofts are admirable.
Higher up, on the fifth and particularly on the sixth floor, where the lofts had been transformed into dwelling-rooms and studios, a queer collection had settled and clung tenaciously.
Then they tooke a Staffe and helde it ouer their heads, and said that the lofts were so high one aboue another.
He emerged at length from cock-lofts and sixpenny ordinaries into the society of the polished and the opulent.
These form loftsat top, and are ascended by staircases.
The fronts of the old rood lofts were frequently most richly decorated with paintings or sculptures of sacred history, divided into panels or niches, surmounted by a rich bratishing of open tracery-work and foliage.
The principal use of these lofts was for the solemn singing of the Epistle and Gospel; but, as I have said before, the lessons and the great antiphons, &c.
Branches of trees were commonly set up in these rood lofts at Christmas and Whitsuntide, and they were also occasionally decorated with flowers.
The lofts had already shown unmistakable signs of impatience at the weight they bore.
For to the outside public it had seemed that nothing less than the fall of the lofts could have produced so great a noise as they had heard.
Over and over again Crawford had told him thelofts were old, the beams rotten.
The boys I found were billeted in dark dingy lofts and had to eat their meals, rain or shine, sitting just anywhere in the streets of the village.
In spite of this destruction of the ancient roods, several lofts still remain, e.
The warehouses are of all types, from dusty loftsover stores, and ammoniacal lofts over stables, to buildings offering acres of space, and carefully planned for the purpose.
These days CitiSpace specialized in architectural rehabs in the Greenwich Village area, with as many SoHo and TriBeCa lofts as came her way.
And put in those two floor-through lofts we did on that conversion in TriBeCa.
CitiSpace was mainly known for its creative handling of lofts in the abandoned commercial buildings of SoHo and TriBeCa.
The first mobilelofts built in the United States were top-heavy, but this defect was overcome by increasing their width and adding heavier wheels.
The parishioners of this parish being of late years mightily increased, the church is pestered with lofts and seats for them.
There are no banks in the wilderness; and the fur lofts are the vaults of the traders.
Very well, then you will find that these buildings which look so large and commodious to you now, must be crowded to the ceiling with your goods, while the walls of your fur lofts will fairly bulge with their weight of riches.
Through such tramps his henhouse and his apple-lofts had often previously been invaded.
Two other lofts they reached in a similar manner, she clinging closely to the wall.
The man whose duty it was to examine thelofts passed along the corridor leading to the private office.
It would never do to overload the lofts and have the labour of my two years all undone.
The duty of one man was to be on the wharf, and of the other to be on the lofts or in the passages, and if they had no suspicion wrong was going forward, why should the wharfman desert his post?
One of these was outside in the yard fronting the river, another was on the ground-floor of the granaries, and it was the duty of the third to wander about the upper lofts and corridors.
The important subject of Rood-lofts has been treated with admirable learning by Father Thiers, in his treatise 'Sur les jubes,' to which the reader is referred.
Footnote 617: As is well known, double staircases to roodlofts appear to have been almost as common in England as single ones: and there are sometimes, especially in Norfolk churches, two corresponding rood turrets.
To provide for larger numbers of birds, either more lofts or larger lofts may be made.
Most pigeon fanciers want at least two loftsof this size--one for the breeding birds, the other for the young birds that no longer need the care of their parents.
Upper floors or lofts of buildings are used for pigeons to much better advantage than for poultry, but where there is room it is more satisfactory to have all quarters for pigeons on the ground floor.
Most pigeon keepers prefer lofts about 12 or 14 feet square, because in larger spaces it is harder to catch the birds when they must be handled, and in many ways the very large flock makes extra trouble for the attendant.
Quite a large building is required to provide room for the pickers to work in, for tanks for cooling 500 or more ducks at once, for space for the men who pack them, and for lofts for drying the feathers before they are sold.
The large corridor, with its stone floor, gives air and space, the loftsparticularly being extremely well adapted now for their present purpose.
It is intolerable that people of education should be herded six together in a horse’s stall, and in some of the lofts the bunks touch one another.
I prefer the lofts to the boxes, because they have corridors out of which one can look, whereas the windows in the boxes are usually far above the ground.
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