17 Verbs to Use for the Word attics
On reaching the attic, Jacopo stopped, and turned to his conductors.
During the period of waiting the conversation had turned on haunted houses, and no one seemed particularly anxious to claim as it were the post of honour, and be the first to enter the big attic.
[Illustration: Fateh Muhammad] Imagine a small attic, some fifteen feet by ten, under the very eaves of the 'chal,' filled with the smoke of frankincense so pungent that the eyes at once commenced to water nor ceased until we were once again in the open air.
They were then kept in an attic on the top of the leads over the hall.
Scarcely had he left the attic, however, than she too hastened down the steep, narrow stairs.
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He went home to occupy his wretched attic for the last time, and falling on his knees poured forth his soul in prayer.
And boxesoh, above all, boxes; pasteboard boxes, long and flat, square and oblong, each bearing weird and cryptic pencilings on one end; cryptic, that, is to anyone except Mrs. Brewster and you who have owned an attic.
The smell of soap and water, and cedar, and moth balls, and dust, and the ghost of a perfumery that Pinky used to use pervaded the hot attic.
They had been her grandmother's when she was Marguerite's age; and one day, not long before this, Marguerite, pillaging the attic, had found them and brought them down, with adoring eyes, and put them up before her own windows.
He'd have the cockatoos fly slowly round and round the big attic, and I'd watch them and make notes.
They took from them attics, cellars and storerooms, starved them out or bit them to death for they were not at all afraid of fighting.
It transformed the attic; and thousands of amateurs and students, from St. Petersburg to San Francisco, would have gone into that attic with their hats off and a thrill in the spine, had they known what was there and had they been invited to enter and worship.
She visited the attic that afternoon at four, when it was again neat, clean, orderly, smelling of soap and sunshine.
"Do you like cleaning the attic?" "Why, no.
And while they may not be wearing attics in New York, we haven't taken them off in Winnebago.
And if Michel ever wanted to escape the attic, it was to-night, when a windigo was abroad.