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  • But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired.

    Amit Chaudhuri's musical circumnavigation Amit Chaudhuri 2010

  • From their second-storey back porch, the Coffins had an excellent view of our barnyard.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • Finally Mieville proves with this novel that he clearly understands the true terror of the giraffe - I'm now keeping my second-storey windows firmly closed at night.

    Giraffe terror comes to London [Review: Un Lun Dun] Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • Finally Mieville proves with this novel that he clearly understands the true terror of the giraffe - I'm now keeping my second-storey windows firmly closed at night.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • When he's indulging that pleasure, he does face the avenue but doesn't appear to be looking at it but rather directing the same concentrated gaze somewhere across the street at, I'd see, approximately second-storey level.

    David Finkle: Knowing Your Neighbors Even If You Don't Know Them 2009

  • A hotel in Kenya is situated in the middle of a giraffe preserve, and the tame giraffes lean their heads in through the windows of the second-storey breakfast room and get fed by the guests:

    Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Imagine bumping along on a train travelling at about second-storey level.

    01.04 M-mv 2004

  • After finishing the set up, we got a map of downtown Des Moines from the front desk, and set out on the city's Skywalk, four miles worth of second-storey glass enclosed and climate-controlled walkway system that winds through downtown.

    day 1 in the city of monks jlundberg 2006

  • Imagine bumping along on a train travelling at about second-storey level.

    02.04 M-mv 2004

  • Imagine bumping along on a train travelling at about second-storey level.

    "My Kind of Town, Chicago Is" M-mv 2004

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