Copies of this poster had also been fixed, face outwards, on the two curtainless black windows, to announce to the Market Square what was afoot in the top storey over the ironmonger's.
The diminutive town hall, which in reality was nothing but a watch-house, seemed to be a mere incident on its irregular expanse, to which the two-storey shops and dwellings made a low border.
For a long time he lived at Fort Johnson, a three-storey dwelling of stone on the left bank of the Mohawk, and later at Johnson Hall, a more spacious mansion several miles farther north.
On his estate, known as Wellington Square, he erected a large two-storey house, in which he might spend the remaining years of his life.
Round the upper storey runs a fairly broad veranda, which overlooks the courtyard and gives access to the rooms.
The lower storey consists of stables for the horses, the upper of rooms for the men.
To the south of the little plaza in which San Estéban stands are the cloisters of the convent, in the upper storey of which is Salamanca's museum.
The cloisters are fourteenth-century work and form an upper storey to a basement cloister of low arches surrounding a courtyard which at the time of my visit was undergoing extensive repair.
What I chiefly appreciated in the grey solemnity of the nave and transepts was the superb effect of certain second-storey Gothic arches--those which rest on the pavement being Lombard.
Viewed from the first storeyof the building wherein Allan Ramsay's shop was situated, the scene must have been an exceedingly animated one.
It is an upper storeyed house, but the upper storey is not nearly so large as the under one, and yet in that, including servants and children, there are ninety-six people living!
Bergeret lived, now fallen from its glory, despoiled of its splendour and degraded by a plaster top-storey which had taken the place of its graceful gable and majestic roof.
On reaching the third storey he turned his key noiselessly in the lock and entered the dining-room with his cautious footstep.
During this time, old lady Chia, taking along with her the whole family party, paid her devotions in storey after storey, and visited every place.
He lived almost entirely in the first floor, his bedroom and sitting-room being divided by the narrow landing at the head of the stairs that led up to the storey above, which was occupied by Mr. Morris and a couple of other servants.
The lower storey Ralph used chiefly for purposes of business, and for interviews which were sufficiently numerous for one engaged in so many affairs.
A slave agent took me to some rooms in the upper storey of the building, and also into several obscure houses in the neighbourhood, with a view to show me some white women.
On spying me the prisoners crowded to the barred windows; those on the lower floor protruded their hands, those on the upper storeysent down a basket by a long string; I emptied my pockets of their coppers.
Many of the houses are no more than one-storey bungalows; half the folks one saw were coloured; a rare Malay woman flaunted colour like a tropic bird.
His death, however, took place when the work had but reached the first storey of the five.
The battlements that surmount this storey are square-shaped Guelph, while those of the great tower which dominates this part of the city are the swallow-tailed Ghibelline.
The top storey projects on brackets from the walls, which stand four-square.
The lowest storey of the building is of stone, the others of that delightful red brick which charms the painter's eye, and is peculiar to Siena.
Walls were built round the loggia and the market removed to the storey above.
The lowest storey is of the first mentioned date, and, like the Cathedral, is composed of a blind arcade, pierced in this case with small round-headed windows.
The upper storey is reached by two flights of steps which, built outside, give entrance to the sepulchral chamber from a gallery or platform that circulates round the exterior.
It was a three-storey house, with large airy apartments and splendid accommodation.
A storey over the stage on which Count Victor slumbered the stair ended abruptly at an oaken door, which he opened with a key.
The rap that startled Doom in the midst of his masquerade in the chapel of his house, came like the morning beat of drums to his guest a storey lower.
In some places it was customary not only to bring out the face of each storey beyond that of the one below, but to bring the whole house out over the footwalk.
There is a one-storey market-house at Chipping Campden (Fig.
It is only one storey high, but that storey is the full height of the building in that part.
The upper storey projects far enough to give good shadow, which is varied by the shallow bays just beneath it.
In the highest part of the park stood the banqueting-house, a three-storey timber building of quadrangular form, enclosed within a brick wall.
The illustration shows the ground floor only, but there is a storey below it approached by a substantial staircase.
The door stood more often than not in a projecting porch, which, although sometimes only one storey in height, as at Chelvey Court, in Somerset (Fig.
But as a rule these early bays were only one storey in height: as time went on, however, they grew to two storeys, and then to as many as the main building itself had.
Gloucestershire, where the fall of the site enables an under-storey to be obtained without being buried in the ground.
Here the columns on the storeyabove the bays were particularly good both in proportion and in general effect, and there was an unusual amount of richness bestowed upon the carving of the corbels and the strings and cornices.
Here, again, there is a bay window on the first floor helping to carry the storey above it, and another projecting window on the top floor, the upper corners of which are hidden behind the barge-boards.
The large front chambers I thought especially grand: and some of the third-storey rooms, though dark and low, were interesting from their air of antiquity.
Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery towards the third-storey staircase: a door had lately been made to shut in that staircase; I heard it open and close, and all was still.
All these relics gave to the third storeyof Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory.
Where's Heraclitus and his Flux Of Sense that never maketh stay?
With rainy clouds and southern wind, With common cares and faces kind, With pains and joys each morning brought?
It was between two streets, and I would say it was between this Storey and Crawford.
Harris lost no time in scaling the ladder which led to the upper half-storey of the building.
He led her through the main part of the town, to where a one-storey building, somewhat apart, stood aloof in the darkness.
The lower storeyhad been turned into a barrack by the Government, there being a want of quarters for the soldiers.
Here, the houses of several storeys have stone walls of such thickness that they resist by sheer strength; and the one-storey mud houses, in the suburbs, are too low to suffer much by being shaken about.
The outer wall which surrounds the whole is very thick, and the entire building is built of mud bricks baked in the sun, and has no upper storey at all.
So, in the intervals of the classes, I would go up to the secondstorey and while away the time sitting near a window overlooking the street.
In that golden age of pipe water, it used to flow even up to my father's third storey rooms.
His rooms on the third storey used to remain shut up.
We found a little drum lying in one of the rooms; taking this we would stand out in the verandah, and, when we caught sight of any servant passing alone in the storey below, we would rap a tattoo on it.
Then in the course of her illness she was taken for a boat trip on the river, and on her return a room on the third storey of the inner apartments was set apart for her.
How often were we struck by the poignant regret that we could only see the upper storey of the earth and knew nothing of its inner storey.
We felt we had gained an access of dignity, that we had grown up--at least into the first storey of freedom.
Smithfield is a fair-sized village of the usual Free State kind, possessing a few fine churches, a few streets of one-storey roomy houses, and several stores.
The old one-storey iron and canvas houses were being moved aside for larger and finer dwelling-houses.
The house was a large, one-storey building, comfortably furnished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "storey" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
