Floors

Examples

• One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our rooms were large, comfortably furnished, and even had their floors clothed with soft, cheerful-tinted carpets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the building of the Cooper Institute in New York City in 1857 he was the first to employ such beams with brick arches to support the floors. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The floors of the entire plant are scrubbed at least once a week, with hot water and a strong solution of alkali, which removes the grease. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Even the floors and ceilings cost a princely fortune. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Chinese ages ago heated their hollow tiled floors by underground furnace fires. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Power was supplied from a fifty-horse-power engine to other tenants on the several floors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These were lighted for about three floors up, but above the third floor all was dark. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The main laboratory was a spacious wooden building of two floors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• More than that, we couldn't improve the mills themselves, unless we laid down Turkey carpets on the floors. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• My only path lay through the upper floors, and to gain these it was necessary to scale the face of the wall. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He also made very beautiful tiles to overlay walls, stoves, and floors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Everything is stone, and stone of the heaviest--floors, stairways, mantels, benches--everything. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Before the coming of bronze there is no evidence of stools or tables; the Neolithic people probably squatted on their clay floors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The unsightly cracks and humps in cement floors are sometimes due to the expansion resulting from heat (Fig. 5). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• At such times, a good flow is obtainable even on the uppermost floors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The body department occupies the greatest amount of space, requiring, with the upholstering department, most of the three upper floors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Practically the entire first floors are used as a receiving department, where all the material consigned to the company is checked and inspected. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Left alone, I ascended the winding corridor to the upper floors in search of suitable quarters. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• At the far end of the corridor I found a spiral stairway leading to the floors above and below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Between the first and second floors of the house represented, you behold a sign on which the Steyne arms are painted. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The elevator passed three floors with a click each time, then clicked and stopped. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I have taken those two floors in an assumed name. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then I joined him, we extinguished the torch, and together we crept toward the spiral incline that led to the upper floors of the building. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The floors were laid in fanciful figures wrought in mosaics of many-colored marbles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The molds represented above are those for straight work, such as walls and floors. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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