Garret Sentence Examples

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  • He should have gone up garret at once.

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  • Garret Dorset Wall (Declined) .

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  • He left Rouen, went up to Paris, where he found refuge in the same garret which had sheltered him when a boy at the College Louis le Grand, and there wrote his second poem, La Chartreuse.

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  • I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and a brick fireplace opposite.

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  • He had at least one sister, from whom descended the only existing representatives of Burke's family; and he had at least two brothers, Garret Burke and Richard Burke, the one older and the other younger than Edmund.

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  • A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period.

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  • She endeavoured unsuccessfully to eke out her irregularly paid allowance by those expedients to which reduced gentlewomen are driven - fancywork and painting fans and snuff-boxes; she lived in a garret and was often unable to allow herself the luxury of a fire.

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  • The salary was good, but the duties were too miscellaneous, and what was still worse, there was an end of the delicious liberty of the garret.

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  • Edmund Spenser lost his all, escaping only to die of misery in a London garret.

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  • In Nottingham it is common to find 15-20 children in a low garret, 12 feet square, working for 15 hours a day.

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  • A herb garret was also erected for drying and storing medicinal herbs.

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  • Other papers which had been left to Fox lay for years in barrels in a stable garret; they were finally cleared out, their owner, Mary Fox, intending to send them to a paper mill.

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  • They were planning to be married in the spring, and have the garret of the house fixed up, and live there.

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  • Do you dream yet on your old rickety sofa in the dear old ghastly bankrupt garret at No. 66?

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  • No towering gothic castle either, nor ivory tower, nor writer's garret.

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  • Devoted to astronomy from his earliest years, he eagerly observed the heavens at a garret window with a telescope made by himself, and at nineteen began his career with the publication of a short work on the solar eclipse of the 5th of August 1766.

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  • If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

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