Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the
first floor , the one beneath being theground floor .
Examples
“Besides basic renovations, Morris made substantial additions—an icehouse, a second story over the kitchen, a free-standing, three-story bathhouse, and stables for twelve horses.”
“A few of the shops with a second story boasted beam construction with clapboard siding.”
“This is her second story appearing in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the first appearing in Chicken Soup for the Bride’s Soul.”
“One of his youthful feats was to ride his horse to the second story of the Raleigh Tavern; and when his income from the Norfolk bar reached thousands, and his dicta were deemed the infallible utterances of Themis, he has been known in a country frolic to leap from a horse's back into a carriage in full motion; and at a later day, when the country sprang to arms to avenge the insult upon the Chesapeake, and he might have taken what civil or military post he pleased, he chose the command of a troop of cavalry.”
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon Littleton Waller Tazewell
“* A Hint of Jasmine* by Richard Parks A Novelette Richard Parks's first professional sale was published in _Amazing Stories_ in 1981 and, thirteen years later, his second story appeared in _Science Fiction Age_.”
“At Harper's Ferry I made my headquarters in the second story of a small and very dilapidated hotel, and as soon as settled sent for Lieutenant John R. Meigs, the chief engineer officer of the command, to study with him the maps of my geographical division.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“The upper floors of this wing, reached by a broad stair-way from the hall, was appropriated to the ladies 'rooms, as the second story of the opposite wing was assigned to the gentlemen, a court in the center separating the two divisions.”
“Now he occupied a sunny room on the second story of the busy house, served by the Clune girls and often Hestia herself.”
“I selected Deputy Sheriff J.W. Bell, and Deputy Marshal Robert Olinger, for this duty, and assigned them a guard room in the second story of the county building, separate and apart from other prisoners.”
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