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  • R. W., this is the gentleman who has taken your firstfloor.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Gang slogans were spray-painted on the stoop and under the two firstfloor windows.

    Four To Score Evanovich, Janet 1998

  • In the interim, on the weekend of October 13, there had been a break-in at the office of lawyers Paolo Brocchi and Luigi Palazzoli, in which a firstfloor window was smashed - similar to the break-in at Meredith's house.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • In the interim, on the weekend of October 13, there had been a break-in at the office of lawyers Paolo Brocchi and Luigi Palazzoli, in which a firstfloor window was smashed - similar to the break-in at Meredith's house.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • But he presently presented himself under worthier circumstances; for, the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance - on account of the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice of his daughter's heart, by purposely falling upon the object, in a flour sack, out of the firstfloor window - summoned a sententious Enchanter; and he, coming up from the antipodes rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.

    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

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