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  • Happily, with the actor's fame rose his salary; and as both rose, the actor and his wife descended from their lofty attic-room -- into whose one window the stars looked with, it seemed to Zelma, a startling nearness -- to respectable lodgings on the second floor.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • Before Nicholas had finished, Ivan jumped to his feet and began to pace up and down the attic-room.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • So saying, she went to a dusk corner of the cheerless attic-room, and returned with a little Brazilian monkey in her arms, -- a poor, mild, drowsy thing, that looked as if it had cried itself to sleep.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

  • He was sitting in his single rocking-chair, by the open dormer of his attic-room, in one of the narrow dwelling streets on Vassily Island -- the poorest quarter of Petersburg.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • The four of us stared at each other in silence for a space, while the attic-room, with its cobwebs reeled -- the sun rose, and sank, like a floundering ship, and

    Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

  • There were four girls living up there in one attic-room.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • He is in the small attic-room at the head of the stairs.

    The Mad King 1914

  • He is in the small attic-room at the head of the stairs.

    The Mad King Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • This door was locked, but he opened it with a key which hung from his girdle, and, entering the low-roofed attic-room to which it led, he locked it again carefully behind him.

    Tales From Scottish Ballads Elizabeth Wilson Grierson 1908

  • In spite of the flood of advance notices and personal paragraphs, in spite of envious gossip, he lived on quietly in his attic-room at the

    The Light of the Star A Novel Hamlin Garland 1900

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