"First floor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they sat was one of those third rooms on the first floor, by which city house-builders, self-styled architects, have made the second room useless except at night, in their endeavor to reconcile a desire for a multitude of apartments with the fancied necessity that compels some men to live where land costs five ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... Clapeyron, is separated from the Boulevard des Batignolles by the house at the corner. The professor went up to the first floor and rang. A gentleman opened ...
— The Blonde Lady - Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsne Lupin and the English Detective • Maurice Leblanc
... to a Lady, Master, that shall stifle you with Kindness, as pretty a piece of Wild-fowl as paddles about Covent Garden; but you'll tip her a Guinea, her Lodgings are extremely fine; and you must know a first Floor comes ...
— The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) • Thomas Baker
... fifteen minutes' lesson on the blackboard for making out your checks, and the rest's up to you. But look sharp. We've been open to customers for half an hour now. At ten-thirty a two-hours' bargain sale of blouses, sashes, and ladies' fancy neckwear opens on the first floor. That's yours. You must be in the square more than half an hour before the sale begins, to see stock and ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson
... reached the first floor. Opposite to us, not three yards away, was the door of the sitting-room which I knew to be ...
— The Indiscretion of the Duchess • Anthony Hope
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