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Example sentences for "three stories"

  • It is built of brick, and is three stories high, including the basement.

  • It fronts the river at the corner of St. Paul and Water streets, is three stories high, surmounted by a dome, from which the view is exceptionally fine.

  • Coming now to the superimposed edifices we note that none are found of more than one story at Palenque, while in Yucatan two or three stories are of common occurrence.

  • Upon this property a large brick building was erected, three stories in height with a high basement.

  • The city was composed of one and two story houses, very few of three stories, built, with very few exceptions, of rubble stone, plastered over.

  • Some houses on St. Paul Street were two or three stories high, of Ashlar masonry.

  • Its height is three stories, surmounted by a Mansard roof, containing a fourth.

  • It may be conjectured that there were two or three stories of chambers opening into them, either by columns or by windows.

  • Hence, besides the upper floors, which have perished, they consist each of two or three stories, one below another, so that the apartments next the street are always on the highest level.

  • The cadets are divided in four companies, and live in two large massive buildings, three stories high.

  • Behind this house two very solid wings have been built, three stories high, one for males, and the other for females.

  • In consequence of this, some of the most wealthy citizens have joined, and selected a healthy spot, on which they have erected a new hospital, three stories high, capable of containing seventy patients of both sexes.

  • It is quite a good house, with three apartments, beside kitchen and pantry on the lower floor; and it is three stories high, with four good chambers in each story.

  • Its eastern end is still standing to a height of three stories, and carries a roof intact, giving a tower-like effect to that portion.

  • The ground plans can generally be distinguished, and in many instances walls are still standing--sometimes to a height of three stories.

  • The cliff walls near the east end show traces of two stories, and in one place of three stories, which formerly rested against them.

  • The walls are still standing to a height of three stories in one place, and the masonry is of high class.

  • At the time of this story the lower floor front was used on Sundays by the Episcopal church for service, the printing office was overhead and the back part, three stories, including basement, was used as a store room for dressed hogs.

  • They are of stone, three stories high, and very extensive.

  • They are generally two or three stories high.

  • The house is three stories in height, with a hipped roof.

  • There is a bust of Peeping Tom at the junction of two streets, the angle of which is rounded, three stories high, and painted drab.

  • We have also commenced a brick building eighty by thirty feet, three stories high, which is ready for the roof; all the timbers are sawed for that purpose; and we expect soon to put them on.

  • The shady alley led to a gate which was as high as a house of three stories.

  • From the country of the Hittites, from the city of Harran; he has a good house there of three stories, and much land.

  • It was an object fifty yards long and as high as a house of three stories, having at its side, as it were, a five-storied tower of uncommon structure.

  • They consist entirely of stone, and are two or three stories high, with flat roofs.

  • In these towns the houses are built and roofed with stone, and several are two or three stories high.

  • In the villages, the houses are built of unburnt bricks, and often also consist of three stories disposed of in the same manner as in towns; but the windows of the upper story are not provided with balconies.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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