26 examples of second-story in sentences

The Eye-witness, having thus set the universe satisfactorily by the ears, got into his second-story front, and contemplated the campaign with serene complacency from the window.

I could only see two little turkeys,both on the floor of the second-story parlor in the chicken-house, both flat on their backs and gasping.

Its big, round-arched windows in a long, second-story row, are walled up, and two or three from time to time have had smaller windows let into them again, with odd little latticed peep-holes in their batten shutters.

Its dark, covered carriage-way was ever rumbling, and, with nightfall, its drawing-rooms always sent forth a luxurious light from the lace-curtained windows of the second-story balconies.

A second-story flat, comfortable though it was, was not a good place to bring up a little girl.

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"You promise me," she said, "if you find a burglar downstairs in the possession of his senses you will immediately come back to me and George William?" I promised her, and, slipping on some clothes, I went out into the second-story hall.

At the back of the house is a trellis with a grape-vine running over it, and the top of it is just under one of the second-story windows.

'Now, Bobbie,' said he, 'I want you to climb into that open second-story window, and then slip down stairs and open the front door for me; the family's at dinner.'

All you see as you whirl through is a sentry here, a soldier's head there at a second-story window, a company shuffling along a country road.

The Ladleys took the second-story front, which was empty, and Mr. Reynolds, who was in the silk department in a store across the river, had the room just behind.

Mr. Holcombe still retained the second-story front room.

But as far as I know, he kept him locked up all that night in the second-story front room.

" "Was there an onyx clock in the second-story room when you moved into it?"

The witness was a Doctor Littlefield, and proved to be my one-night tenant of the second-story front.

A great second-story window opened wide to the street.

" THE GETAWAY By O.F. LEWIS From Red Book Old Man Anderson, the lifer, and Detroit Jim, the best second-story man east of the Mississippi, lay panting side by side in the pitch-dark dugout, six feet beneath the surface of the prison yard.

Twice a day, during the last ten days, the wiry little ferret-faced second-story man had got away with at least one can from the prison commissary.

Nell swung around, gasping, but the man had moved away down the sidewalk and a woman was calling to her from a second-story window.

Come right in, and I hope you'll excuse my introducing you through a second-story window.

If you break the pact, you'll not enter this place again, not even by the second-story window, as you did last night.

" "I beg your pardon," said the man, convinced that Gladys had a right to enter the Evans's house by the second-story window if she chose.

So, as she can help more by making two bonnets in a day, and getting six dollars for them beside the materials, she lets her step-mother put out her impossible sewing, and has turned a little second-story room in her father's house into a private millinery establishment.

" Of the cottage in which he spent most of his childhood and youth he writes: "Opposite the hall door a good-sized walnut-tree leaned its wrinkled stem towards the house, and brushed some of the second-story panes with its broad, fragrant leaves.

A woman stuck her head out of a second-story window and demanded, none too sweetly: "What do you want?" "Ish thish the residence of Mr. Smith?" inquired the man on the steps, with an elaborate bow.

26 examples of  second-story  in sentences