Taking the kitchen lamp down from its hook, I made my way from cellar to cellar, and room to room; through pantry and coal-holealong passages, and into the hundred-and-one little blind alleys and hidden nooks that form the basement of the old house.

All who knew him pitied him; orders flowed in, and soon a quite exceptional activity pervaded the establishment from basement to roof, inspiring Mons.

The golden statue of the goddess was made by Phidias, and his name appears upon the basement in the inscription.

Generally there is one tap and one sink in the basement for the needs of all the families in the house.

An old man who was in the basement with us went upstairs because he heard someone groan.

A basement beneath the house is advantageous, but the greatest of care should be given to construct it in accord with sanitary laws.

The water had got into the basement at the store, he telephoned, one of the flood-gates in a sewer having leaked, and they were moving some of the departments to an upper floor.

Of course, there was nothing to show that I had; but we were alone in the house with the exception of the caretaker, who was down in the basement out of ear-shot.

The modern visitor to the old town walks beneath the gloomy archway, with its time-worn stones, which forms the basement over which the Moot Hall stands.

In spite of this distance I have seen that, on stopping the water-tap in the Battery-Basement under the North-East Turret, the pressure in the gauge of the Water Clock has been instantly increased by more than 40 lbs.

What would happen if something should loose those churches, or, at any rate, their big Sunday-school rooms and their ample basements from this icy exclusiveness, this week-day aloofness from humanity?

This compressed the work of the house into such small quarters that the maid was given a room down in the basement along with the furnace, or in the top story adjoining ten or more other roomsa dormitory arrangement without supervision and without the quiet needed for rest.

The training over, I would lock him in the basement as usual.

In the basement below this wing there will be offices for the use of the Royal Academy, and a separate set attached to the dwelling-house of the keeper.

He hastily washed and tied up his head, enveloped himself in the biggest coat he could find, and let himself down into the basement by the coal-lift, for fear of observation.

And a little while later when he returned from the basement after admitting Mr. Quinn, the plumber: "Do you know that this is a most heavenly luncheon?"

The kitchen arrangements do not interest me greatly, but they will interest the cook, and for this reason should be as delightful as possible; after which warning anybody with a really bad basement on his hands will see the wisdom of retiring from the queue and letting the next man move up one.