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  • While beside him sat his sister, in the garret's dismal gloom,

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • "The whole garret's on fire -- and I can't carry Phenie -- and she's asleep and can't walk anyway!"

    The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905

  • "The trap-door to the garret's 'roun' that a-way," she said to the soldiers, still keeping her position at the narrow entrance, as if to let them pass.

    Two Little Confederates Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • The garret's bareness, its whitewashed walls and rickety furniture, realized to her mind an existence whose simplicity she had sometimes dreamt of in her girlhood.

    A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871

  • "That's the pint of what I got out of him, and you know, Miss Panney, that that garret's hanted."

    The Girl at Cobhurst Frank Richard Stockton 1868

  • Let him only keep close in his snug garret's dim ether, 450

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

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