At somewhat after that hour Mr. Blutch Connors made exit from one of these houses, noiseless, with scarcely a click after him, and then, without pause, passed down the brownstone steps and eastward.

Tall office and loft buildings had replaced the brownstone houses; only here and there did some old family hold on, like a sullen and desperate rear-guard defying the advancing enemy.

He strikes me as a lawyer who knows his business!" The oldest and fattest court officers, men so old and fat that they remembered the trial of Boss Tweed and the days when Delancey Nicoll was the White Hope of the Brownstone Court Housedeclared Mr. Tutt's summation was the greatest that ever they heard.

How much are offered?" "I am to get more than Mr. Crawford paid me and board in a fine house besidesa brownstone house on Madison Avenue.

She went to the window, and drawing back its many layers of lace gazed eastward down the long brownstone perspective.

The room was not large,a New York brownstone front in the upper Sixties even though altered as to entrance, and allowed to sprawl backward over yards not originally intended for its use, is not a palace,but it was a room and not a corridor; you had the comfortable sense of four walls about you when its one small door was once shut.

All through the late seventies, while his brothers and sisters were clinging sentimentally to brownstone fronts in Stuyvesant Square or red-brick facades in Great Jones Street, Mr. Lanley himself, unaffected by recollections of Uncle Joel's death or grandma's marriage, had been parting with his share in such properties, and investing along the east side of the park.

Yorkville sprang up, a rubber-stamped neighborhood, of which each street was a brownstone duplicate of the next.

And so for years he and his mother had boarded in a brownstone boarding-house in the quiet block west of Lexington Avenue up the street.

Murder in the brownstone house.

Murder in the brownstone house.

Brownstone fronts and Saratoga trunks.

Brownstone fronts and Saratoga trunks.

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Murder in the brownstone house.

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It was of brownstone, with a flight of steps mounting steeply to the door, and stood back from the street at the bottom of a cañon formed by the towering walls of the adjacent office buildings.

That evening under cover of darkness Mr. Ephraim Tutt descended from a dilapidated taxi at the corner adjacent to Froelich's butcher shop, and several hours later was whisked uptown again to the brownstone dwelling occupied by the Hon.

Brownstone, used in building, is a kind of sandstone.

On the east side of the block were four brownstone houses, wide, tall, and roomy.

The house which had elicited Quigg's last sagacious remark, was a three-story brownstone front, and was one of the finest looking on the south side.

Some of them had grown rich by quick speculations, and got into the choicest society by the simple manoeuvre of taking a four-story brownstone front in the avenue which formed the eastern boundary of the block.

First wood, then brick, then brownstone or marblethese are the successive forms of block life, before anything like stability is reached.