766 examples of attic in sentences

For <all the good-wine, and we've some of it here> In cellar, in pantry, in attic, in hall, Down, down, with the tyrant that masters us all!

" Let us follow the poet up-stairs and peep into that attic chamber.

Sober and moody, Kurt put the horses away, and, washing the dust grime from sunburnt face and hands, he went to his little attic room, where he changed his damp and sweaty clothes.

He Jives on the ground floor, for convenience of the gout; I prefer the attic story, for the air.

They were concealed in an attic.

The regiment sent to arrest us surrounded the house, ransacked it from attic to cellar, found nothing, and went away.

A swarm of guns and swords poured in, and overran it from cellar to attic.

"We are sorry to hear so bad an account of the college-psalmody, as is contained in the following attic stanzas Our choir could scarcely be excused, Even as a band of raw beginners; All mercy now must be refused To such a set of croaking sinners.

Thou sat'st with Thrasybulus and his train, Couldst thou forebode the dismal hour which now Dims the green beauties of thine Attic plain?

In the second story were a hall and four rooms, similar in all respects to those below, and above these was a large attic.

Adelaide set invisible little traps in every nook and cranny, every cupboard and drawer, from basement to attic, and with a cheerful, innocent smile sat watching them night and day.

She visited the younger boys, and found them all asleep; then slipped up to the attic in which the elder lads slept.

An Athenian embassy was sent to Rome to report the attack made by Philip on an ancient ally of the Romans; and, from the way in which the senate received it, Philip saw clearly what awaited him; so that he at once, in the very spring of 554, directed Philocles, his general in Greece, to lay waste the Attic territory and to reduce the city to extremities.

But, as Cento found the Attic territory already sufficiently protected against the raids of the Corinthian garrison and the Macedonian corsairs, he sailed on and appeared suddenly before Chalcis in Euboea, the chief stronghold of Philip in Greece, where his magazines, stores of arms, and prisoners were kept, and where the commandant Sopater was far from expecting a Roman attack.

Without strictly or directly entering on the questions of the day, and having in view throughout social rather than political questions, Euripides in the legitimate issues of his principles coincided with the contemporary political and philosophical radicalism, and was the first and chief apostle of that new cosmopolitan humanity which broke up the old Attic national life.

This was the ground at once of that opposition which the ungodly and un-Attic poet encountered among his contemporaries, and of that marvellous enthusiasm, with which the younger generation and foreigners devoted themselves to the poet of emotion and of love, of apophthegm and of tendency, of philosophy and of humanity.

The scanty use made of what is called the middle Attic comedy does not require notice in a historical point of view, since it was nothing but the Menandrian comedy in a less developed form.

The Roman tragi-comedyafter the type of the -Amphitruo- of Plautuswas no doubt styled by the Roman literary historians -fabula Rhinthonica-; but the newer Attic comedians also composed such parodies, and it is difficult to see why the Ionians should have resorted for their translations to Rhinthon and the older writers rather than to those who were nearer to their own times.

The formation of the name -poeta- from the vulgar Greek poetes instead of poietes as epoesen was in use among the Attic pottersis characteristic.

The shell had most likely gone through the roof and burst in the attic.

Aristotle himself did not so much dogmatize as analyse, classify, and generalize from, the practices of the Attic dramatists.

XVII Mary was up in the attic, the west attic that looked on to the road through its shy gable window.

XVII Mary was up in the attic, the west attic that looked on to the road through its shy gable window.

And ever since teatime she had been up in the attic, putting away her summer gowns.

To have interfered with the attic window would have been a breach of compact, an unholy invasion of her sister's rights.

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