Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. From LearnThat.org. [Lord Byron (1788-1824).]
In the old houses the garret was the children's castle. From Wordnik.com. [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference
The garret was a spacious one, and whilst talking he moved from wall to wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
For the rats he cared nothing, and slept as if the garret were a cellar in heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
But my poor heart never walloped so before; and I had never thought our garret was a sepulchre. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time] Reference
I climbed into this garret, which is at present used as a store-room for agricultural odds and ends. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference
The garret was a world several centuries old that now belonged entirely to him and adjusted itself to all his fancies. From Wordnik.com. [Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel] Reference
The cellar and the garret were the most useful rooms in the house; they were store-rooms for all kinds of substantial food. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
About 2,000 of the Birmingham manufacturers are what are termed garret - masters; they work themselves, and employ a few hands. From Wordnik.com. [Rides on Railways] Reference
Here at home I have a little room I call the garret, and I sit with my laptop in my Ekorne chair (great for backs!) and ottoman. From Wordnik.com. [Chasing the Wistfuls Away...] Reference
Mr. Downey changes the subject, by saying the foreigners in the garret are a great nuisance, and disturb him of his rest at night. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The garret was a big, shadowy place, extending over the whole house, and was lumber room, play place and general refuge, all in one. From Wordnik.com. [The S. W. F. Club] Reference
Your garret is the true kingdom of the poet, neighbouring the stars; side-windows tether him to earth, but a skylight looks to the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
In hole or in garret stored. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
I call my garret classic ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas] Reference
That garret is literally swarming with mice. From Wordnik.com. [Further Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
That there was no "garret" caused endless lamentation. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference
"trap-ladder," there was a kind of garret, six feet high, with a sash-window let into the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Pons] Reference
The garret was the best place for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Minister] Reference
Still, Luhrmann isn't apt to cough his life away in a garret. From Wordnik.com. [Baz Is Broadway Bound] Reference
The king could not see into the garret she lived in, could he?. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
But all was of a piece, the garret, and the child that inhabited it. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
"Jacquemin?" repeated Zilah; and he thought of the garret in the Rue. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He has also left his garret in the Faubourg St. - Jacques and lives on the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
August 14th, six o'clock A.M. -- My garret window rises upon the roof like. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mary Fuller turned her head as the matron came into that dimly-lighted garret. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
She was never seen speaking to any other woman, and no song cheered her garret. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Balzac himself states: "Never shall I cease to resemble Raphael in his garret.". From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
In the garret he found half a cord of wood, and any quantity of goodies for the table. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
And if so, in public? or must she lock herself away in her Brooklyn bedroom, in her garret?. From Wordnik.com. [Hotel Chelsea - Nanette 4] Reference
Then he would return to his garret, and relight his stove and lamp, and work until midnight. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Not all of the flowers, only the ones that were planted in the box of the biggest garret window. From Wordnik.com. [Begonia {part one}] Reference
His wife and others were wounded, but fled with the rest up to the garret and barricaded the door with bedsteads. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Tell what you have seen the family cat doing, how she caught a mouse in the garret and what she did after catching it. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
Among these neighbors there was a single woman, who lived by herself in a little garret, into which came both wind and rain. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The boy painter West, began his work in a garret, and cut hairs from the tail of the family cat for bristles to make his brushes. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Macaulay says, "I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of good books to read, than a king who did not love reading.". From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
A roof light in a garret, even, gives the eye visions dazzlingly beautiful over beyond all the chimney pots, if the eye only looks. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
She went into the open garret closing the door after her, that no heat might escape, and sat down on the upper flight of stairs again. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Little Mary had been in the garret since morning, and here, about nine o'clock, the physician was called for the fourth time that day. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
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