She had no idea of leaving the attics until she had taken a complete and exhaustive list of what they contained.
The thought crossed her mind that, so far as she knew, no male visitor for the old tenant of the attics had so far entered the house.
She was the only other in-dweller in the house, living in the front and back attics with Mrs. Burr, who took jobs out in the dressmaking, and very moderate charges.
She was not exactly nervous, but she scarcely liked to be left in the attics by herself.
At the door of their attics she was met by Jasmine.
Them attics have become rather too uppish for my taste," she said to Dove when she got downstairs.
What I say is this, Dove, shall I give the attics notice to quit?
I mean to make your attics quite charming," said Miss Egerton.
For my part I ain't sorry, for now that them attics are painted up and cleaned, which they did out of their own money, I may be able to rise my rent.
He will find occasion to admire how apartments may be indifferently ventilated by half-windows, and attics constructed so that standing erect within them is only practicable in one spot.
So the Bohemians of 1830, some of whom made their names, while others remained obscure, were all youthful nobodies in the eyes of the world, perching in their attics like a colony of singing birds upon the topmost branches.
There was no question of bare attics on a sixth story, their tiny windows looking on a dreary sea of roofs, of rickety chairs and peeling wall-paper.
And it's not only in attics that I'm able to help.
The old things that are left in attics seem somehow different if I'm about.
In the spring of 1913—the spring after their visit to Cragsfoot—her mother and Lucinda went to stay on the top floor but one in Arsenio Valdez’s palazzo at Venice, Valdez himself inhabiting the attics immediately above them.
This was soon after daybreak one washing-day; and from that time Mrs Winks decided in favour of the central portions of the house, refusing absolutely either to ascend to the attics or descend to the basement.
That left the two attics for himself and Louie, and gave him the front first-floor room, the best room in the house, for an extension of stock.
But into the attics and the parlour kitchen behind the shop, he meant, ultimately, when he could afford it, to put himself and his sister.
Plenty of basements," he used to say, "without atticsand skylights.
We have done with those hypaethral temples, that were open above to the heavens, but we can have attics and skylights to them.
We approached the bed and examined it--a half-tester, such as is commonly found in attics devoted to servants.
We went through the other attics (in all four), the footfall still preceding us.
Coming down from the attics again she held one piece of polished chair-back in her hand.
A narrow door, built on a curve of the staircase, led to an upper storey of large attics and her first dazzled thought was of potential loot for her bedroom.
This seems due to the construction of the house; the attics are more approachable than the rooms from the staircase.
The maid-servants in theattics were often more impressed than the people in the rooms below.
We approached the bed and examined it,--a half-tester, such as is commonly found in attics devoted to servants.
We went through the other attics (in all, four), the footfall still preceding us.
Then he went upstairs to bed, but at the door of his room he paused and went on very softly up the narrow stairs that led to the attics above.
I've got some new things for you I think may fit fairly well, and Mrs. Dawson is going to get one of theattics ready for you to sleep in.
Without speaking again, Rupert left the room and went quickly to the foot of the narrow stairs that led to the attics above.
There was greater quiet also, and more privacy up in the attics than beneath, where all day long people were trampling up and down the stairs, and past the doors of their neighbours' rooms.
There was certainly an advantage in living in the attics of the end house in Angel Court, for the air was a trifle purer there and the light clearer than in the stories below.
Elie Magus himself lived in a couple of attics on the floor above; the furniture was wretched, the rooms were full of rags, and the whole place smacked of the Ghetto; Elie Magus was finishing his days without any change in his life.
Down below, the only sign of decoration was that the high ground-floor windows, barred with huge projecting gratings as though from fear of siege, rested upon large consoles, and were crowned by attics which smaller consoles supported.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attics" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
