The ground-floor entrance is kept locked.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"Who lives in the ground-floor on the left in No. 8?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Two constables were placed on the ground-floor night and day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

Instead, it will be dealt with openly in a ground-floor exhibit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CLINTON: READY FOR HIS CLOSE-UP] Reference

On the ground-floor are the fire arms, labelled and ranged in rows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Some jumped through the windows of the ground-floor into the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

In the ground-floor apartment in this is a carved mantlepiece, the work of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Poste-Restante, “guichet,” on the ground-floor, opposite the entrance door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

I was just on the ground-floor of Number One as he was locking the door behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference

Street, where the ground-floor is sometimes situated about the middle of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The ground-floor of these houses, as usual in the South, are all stables or cellars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

On the ground-floor were a huge hall, kitchen, pantry and sitting-room, all flagged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Other small houses in towns consisted of two or three stories above the ground-floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

At King's, the numbers were three in ground-floor rooms and two in first-floor rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Medieval University] Reference

Very few of the best private residences have more than one storey above the ground-floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

On the ground-floor are the more massive, and in the first story the smaller antiquities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

If only there were a telephone in the room -- but the one instrument was on the ground-floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

On the ground-floor, just beyond the foot of the stair, a door opens into what is called the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

These had only a basement story, or ground-floor; and few houses exceeded two stories above it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

It formed, with the dining-room, the entire ground-floor, or, rather, the entresol of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

On the ground-floor is a room which leads into the kitchen, and from that again into the passage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Ghost Stories] Reference

After breakfast the next morning, Cortin asked Medart to accompany her to her ground-floor office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference

The cells on the ground-floor were very small, without any aperture from without for light or air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

It is not clear whether they were all on the ground-floor, or whether they formed different stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The chemist's shop occupies the large ground-floor room, the windows of which have appropriate key-stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denmark] Reference

The old torture-chamber on the ground-floor of the convent of Baliuag (Bulacan) is still shown to visitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The room in which he took this meal was on the ground-floor, and was an extension from the original building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Inside the ground-floor ward set aside for land-mine victims, a sickening odor still fills the provincial hospital.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Not A Pretty Picture] Reference

The ground-floor consists of two large unfurnished rooms, and a staircase, with iron railing, leads to the story above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

He moved his desk to a glass ground-floor office where citizens now queue up to view his daily routine from the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking On The Machine] Reference

The ground-floor being always open, all the features of domestic life and of mechanical labor are exposed to the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

The ground-floor is either uninhabited or used for lodging the native servants, or as a coach-house, on account of the damp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

With only seven ground-floor rooms in the courtyard (and a whopping 12 rooms in total) you can create your own private getaway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teresa Rodriguez Williamson: From Jilted to Jetset: How to Get Over a Bad Breakup With Travel] Reference

Such being the case, it is evident that other means must have been adopted to admit light to the inner rooms on the ground-floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Roger himself tried the fastenings of all the windows on the ground-floor, and the doors leading onto the terrace from the salon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

The ground-floor exterior walls are of stone or brick, and the whole of the upper storey is of wood, with sliding windows all around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

There was a message on her ground-floor office desk: His Majesty wanted to see her at her earliest convenience between interrogations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alembic Plot A Terran Empire novel] Reference

It is scarcely more than a hut, having but two little rooms on the ground-floor, and I know not what narrow, low-roofed chambers above.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

The Buckley dinner salons were held at Bill and Patricia's Park Avenue apartment, a ground-floor maisonette at 73rd Street in Manhattan.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference