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  • So enjoy the new birds nest if you dare and I'll watch the result from the lower etage.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Good thing is, got to know Mlle 2ième etage so well I was coucou-ed by her in the street next morning.

    match 2006

  • Ce qui paraissait bizarre aux gens puisque ct bien moi qu'elle insultait j'etais le seul en face de sa fentre d'appartement (oui elle etait un etage plus haute que moi) et aussi le seul dans la rue.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Our room was two windows up/2eme etage on the left.

    I Love Paris in the Springtime... 2005

  • I sport a natty lycra green one on my daily 5km ‘etage’ from the Manchester suburbs to the town centre.

    stand and deliver 2005

  • The gentleman informs her she is on the third, not the second _etage_, and she scurries away simpering, but not before confiding to me -- the aforesaid gentleman -- that her mistress will give her fits for being late with her hair, whatever that may signify.

    The Prince of Graustark George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Moscow, we should have had a spacious room on the _bel etage_, handsomely furnished, with rugs on an inlaid floor.

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • She appreciated the delicacy, refinement, and cheerful equal responsibilities of that household, so widely different from the accepted Anglo-Saxon belief, but there were certain restrictions that rightly or wrongly galled her American habits of girlish freedom, and she resolutely tripped past the first etage four or five flights higher to her attic, the free sky, and independence!

    Tales of Trail and Town Bret Harte 1869

  • You did, indeed, act "kindly as ever"; and I have thanked you for it a thousand times, since I came to my senses in the dismal altitude of my "sixieme etage" at Paris.

    Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Viewing the front of the building thus wasted and defaced, his eyes naturally sought the little balcony which more properly belonged to Rose's apartment, her troisieme, or rather cinquieme, etage.

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

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