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Example sentences for "upper story"

  • It was a building extended by columns and provided with an upper story: the shafts were of cedar-wood; their form is not mentioned.

  • In some cases they were laid on shelves round a small room; but in others they seem to have been kept in an upper story, and so were injured, when the floor fell through.

  • The bîtu elîtu(622) may be an “upper story.

  • The eleven rooms (F) which occupied the north side of the court (E) contain traces of wooden staircases leading to an upper story.

  • In the interior of the stable are two other similar arches and columns, and above these there are indications of an upper story.

  • Many of these are still standing, and the traces of an upper story are to be seen over some of them (j, j).

  • The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

  • Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

  • Defn: Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

  • Defn: The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.

  • Mazois was long impressed with the idea that there must have been an upper story here, but for a long time he could not find the staircase.

  • The two compartments marked 30 are houses of a very mean class, having formerly an upper story.

  • There was also an upper story, as is clear from the remains of stair-cases.

  • Do you think I'm wrong in my upper story?

  • I feel sure Charlotta the Fourth wouldn't think I was wrong in my upper story when I told her what I think about things.

  • But after this I won't, if it makes her imagine I'm wrong in my upper story.

  • I'm so glad you think I'm all right in my upper story.

  • It has been urged by Mr. Fergusson that there must have been an upper story, because otherwise all the advantage of the commanding position of the palaces, perched on their lofty platforms, would have been lost.

  • In the first place, then, had they an upper story?

  • In an upper story of Walpi also, partitions occur that are not built immediately over the lower walls, but on large beams supported on masonry piers.

  • Of the village of Hampassawan, which is said traditionally to have been one of the seven cities of Cibola visited by Coronado, nothing now remains but two detached rooms, both showing vestiges of an upper story.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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