11568 examples of floors in sentences

The floors are of polished teak wood; the walls are paneled with brocade and tapestries, and are hung with historical pictures, including full length portraits of the kings and queens of England, all the viceroys from the time of Warren Hastings, and many of the most famous native rulers of India.

She sought for and discovered on the windows (which they had fondly regarded as miracles of cleanliness) sundry streaks and smears, and detected infinite small spots of paint and whitewash on the newly-scrubbed floors.

" The other woman started a little at being addressed, and looked around vaguely at the conventional luxury of the room, with its highly polished floors, its huge rich rugs, its antlers on the wall, and its deeply upholstered leather chairs.

We all slept in our greatcoats on the floor, which was as hard as most floors are, and dirtier than the generality; but being out of the water and able to stretch oneself at full length made up for all deficiencies.

In the same strain we are told of a convent whose "walls sweat, and its floors quiver," when a contumacious brother treads them;and when the parents of the same personage are torn from his room by the Director of the convent, we are informed that "the rushing of their robes as he dragged them out, seemed like the whirlwind that attends the presence of the destroying angel."

These insulae were often three or four stories high; the ground-floor was often occupied by shops, kept perhaps by some of the lodgers, and the upper floors by single rooms, with small windows looking out on the street or into an interior court.

The market-house is a shed over concrete floors, clean, sanitary, and occupied but an hour or two a day.

The walls were off the perpendicular considerably, and the windows were singular in shape; the doors fitted badly, and the floors were far from level.

In a few exceptional cases, from the absence of the owner or other cause, the house was still furnished; but generally nothing but old letters, torn books, newspapers, cast-off clothing, strewed the floors.

It is deserving of notice, that however large or small the houses are, the partition walls are uniformly brick and mortar, and with few exceptions, the floors of small houses are laid with quarries, which in a great degree accounts for there being so few fires of any consequence within this extensive town.

The women would sweep and scour the floors for Sunday.

They lived in tepees, had floors and were set on a lot and a wall boarded up around them.

Flue bricks, for the passage of smoke under floors and in other situations, are sometimes found.

does the whole of the work of supporting floors and roof, and when it begins to fail, the outer face bulges off like a large blister.

Think for a moment of the great variety of walls, footings, piers, pilasters, openings, recesses, flues, chimney breasts, chimney shafts, vaults, arches, domes, fireproof floors, corbels, strings, cappings, panels, cornices, plinths, and other features met with in constant use, and all formed by the bricklayer with little trouble out of the one materialbrickwork!

"The floors was boards about one by twelve.

The polished floors grew to be a horror to him.

He became so used to walking stiff-legged on the hardwood floors that it grew to be a habit which would not relax.

The servants were authority for the report, that no earlier than the day before his death, he slipped and fell in the dining-room, and thereupon swore that he would have Portland cement floors put in before Christmas.

They were now traversing the mosaic floors of the hall that led to the lower terraces.

A warming apparatus under one of the floors is even more perfect than is usually discovered in Rome.

These Rows, which contain the chief shops, are level with the first floors of the houses; the second floor projects over them, forming a covered way.

The upper floors project over these covered footways.]

Before that time the whole place was used as a farm, and floors of encaustic tiles were buried deep in farm-yard rubbish.

She was a housewife of high degree, and would not have thought of leavingperhaps for monthsher immaculate window-panes and her spotless floors and furniture, had she not also left some one to take care of them.

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