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  • Her motherly heart thought a great deal about the matter, and her thoughts finally ended in her fitting up a large garret-room, which had never been occupied, with four little white beds and other necessaries and conveniences, and taking the four convalescents home with her as permanent boarders.

    Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

  • But she had a garret-room up two stairs where properly she abode, the close flat being reserved for trade of vending _uisgebeatha_ and ale.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • One night I had to lock the poor thing into her garret-room before I could sleep.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

  • He gave one big dry sob and mounted to his garret-room.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • At night, when they got home to their garret-room, "Old Man" Drubb would take off his green goggles, and was perfectly able to see Peter, and if Peter had made the slightest mistake during the day he would beat him.

    100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923

  • At night, when they got home to their garret-room, "Old Man" Drubb would take off his green goggles, and was perfectly able to see Peter, and if Peter had made the slightest mistake during the day he would beat him.

    100% : The Story of a Patriot 1920

  • Or during my tedious sickness and first paralysis (’73) how you used to come to my solitary garret-room and make up my bed, and enliven me, and chat for an hour or so—or perhaps go out and get the medicines Dr. Drinkard had order’d for me—before you went on duty? …

    Small Memoranda. November Boughs 1892

  • The tower at Wishing-Brae was then a large, light garret-room, used for trunks and boxes.

    Holiday Stories for Young People Various 1875

  • It was fashionable in his school to have private herbariums and cabinets, and before a month was passed our garret-room began to look quite like a grotto.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • On the first floor of his house lived a rich man, a nobleman and a royalist, whose coachman, also a reactionary, occupied a garret-room on the sixth floor, facing the street.

    Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871

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