Contrary to my expectations, the sitting-room we entered on the top floor was quite comfortably furnished, clean and respectable, even though traces of poverty were apparent.

On the river side of the building on the top floor two brothers, Charles and August Mueller, had a tailor shop.

I knew where to go to find the house, and I knew that the murder had been committed in a back room on the top floor.

Alarmed now, she hurriedly flung open doors everywhere, then, picking up her rose-silk skirts, she ran to the top floor and called tremulously.

His pay for this work was twenty-five shillings a week, with a lodging on the top floor of the Institute, a very fair compensation for the times.

George Cannon had said grandly that Hilda must choose her room; she chose the smallest on the top floor.

A reply came weakly from the top floor: "Yes, sir.

And this, in turn, made him think of the great barnlike room on the top floor where all slept together in wooden cots, and he heard in memory the clamour of the cruel bell that woke them on winter mornings at five o'clock and summoned them to the stone-flagged Waschkammer, where boys and masters alike, after scanty and icy washing, dressed in complete silence.

But should not the aperture in the top floor have been observed by the class?

The top floor is given to tapestries and embroideries.

Indeed you may often see the top floor at work in this way; and there is a row of houses on the left of the road to the Certosa, a little way out of Florence, with a most elaborate network of bucket ropes over many gardens to one well.

When that was cleared we took the second, and I think we all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard that the top floor was empty.

When Faith Marvin entered her mother's four-room flat on the top floor of a dingy brick building she was almost out of breath from indignation and rapid walking.

I'll fix him a place on the top floor.

"I thought Pauline's room was on the top floor.

Because Miss Miller had not the least idea what to say in an event so far out of the usual routine, she talked a great deal during the trip through the empty halls and staircases up to the Principal's office on the top floor; chiefly to the effect that as many years as she had taught, never had she encountered such a bad little girl as Judith.

"No treatin' nowadiys," said the Top Floor Chap amiably.

We elders held a consultation, and decided to isolate the top floor from the rest of the house, and to nurse the little lad there; it seemed almost hopeless to prevent such a disease from spreading through a family of children, but our vigorous measures were successful, and none other suffered.

I am not good at estimating altitudes, but I should say that when I first caught sight of it it was not more than a thousand feet above my headand my room was on the top floor of the hotel, remember.

But the life of the crowd in the scrub-girls' quarters on the top floor.

Would you believe that woman is the cut-up of the top floor?

Day in day out, I would take the long dusty climb up to the top floor at the time we were sharing office space with accounts.

We can start a hospital on the top floor.

Scarcely was my little patient out of danger when the youngest boy fell ill of scarlet fever; we decided to isolate him on the top floor, and I cleared away carpets and curtains, hung sheets over the doorways and kept them wet with chloride of lime, shut myself up there with the boy, having my meals left on the landing; and when all risk was over, proudly handed back my charge, the disease touching no one else in the house.

After which he sent for the inspector of police of the section, with the result that that very same evening M. le Marquis de Firmin-Latour was found locked up in an humble apartment on the top floor of a house in the Rue Daunou, not ten minutes' walk from his own house.