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Sentence Examples Athena wears her high-crested Attic helmet, a colorful and embroidered peplos, and her aegis. British scholar and art historian who identified the various potters responsible for making Attic black-figure ware and red-figure ware. In general, these new ideas came as a result of an influx of Ionian thinkers into the Attic peninsula. Since Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic, critics have assumed that attics house madwomen. The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel. There were also fragments of earlier unglazed Corinthian and Attic lamps of the second to fourth centuries. For instance, an Attic red-figure krater with a sacrificial scene features a votive tablet on a column next to the altar. His house became a treasure trove and even his attic walls were covered with murals which he created by candlelight. A third staircase leads from the second floor to two more bedrooms in the attic. While spending some final quality time together, the kids come across an old map in an attic. The room has a built-in wardrobe and storage cupboard and ceiling access to an attic storage area. The double bedroom to the rear has built-in louvre door wardrobes and access to the attic. A spiral staircase gives access to the attic room, while outside, the paved back garden has a water feature and patio area. If your attic has metal joists, you may want to place rigid foam insulation between the joists and the ceiling drywall. Nail up a set of reference strings on the rafters that protrude the most into the attic. He didn't trust banks for some reason and kept all his money and gold in a stupid safe in the attic. Choking back the bile, eyes streaming with tears, I doused cotton balls and tossed them around the attic. Water dampens and compresses wall and attic insulation, lowering R-values and increasing heating costs. However, apart from that one rather regrettable episode he'd never found the attic room particularly unsettling. A pest-control company has told me there is no evidence of any activity in the attic, though traps and poison were laid. Show More Sentences I pulled a few boxes from the dark attic, using a flashlight, listening to the mice scurry around. Then comb the garage, basement and attic, and hold a yard sale every Saturday morning. When she finally heaved herself up through the trap door onto the floor of the attic Chandra breathed a sigh of relief and relit the candle. A wooden staircase leads from the landing to the attic at the top of the house. Upstairs, the bedroom and bathroom accommodation is located off a spacious landing with ceiling access to an attic storage area. There he could be as quiet and retired as in the attic of his Uncle Robert Manning's house in Salem. From the kitchen, access is gained to the attic space by means of a retractable ladder. Its purpose is as a retrofit over an existing roof where additional insulation is desired but no attic exists under the roof deck. The third bedroom is situated on the upstairs return and there is landing access to the attic. It includes a library, kitchen, four main bedrooms, a dressing room, two bathrooms, three further attic bedrooms and a study. This has turned out to be a problem, because the attic is vented at the roof ridge, and the vent screen becomes clogged with dryer lint. If you have any of the above in your attic, they would gratefully appreciate your permission to use them on their site. Loose-fill insulation, usually made of fiber glass, rock wool or cellulose, is blown into the attic or walls. Finally, the attic conversion has added two further rooms with walls and ceilings panelled in white deal. The good news was that they were rooming together in the drafty, dirty attic. When the fan is activated, the air movement pulls the spring-mounted louvers open, allowing the air to flow into the attic. She was up in her attic one afternoon, trying to concentrate on where to place her asymptotes on her hyperbola, but her mind traveled elsewhere. If you need extra space then the attic upstairs could be easily converted into two more rooms. Hanging the towel on a heated rail to dry, I wandered back up to the attic room, combing my hair with my fingers. There are five bedrooms, a lounge and bathroom on the first floor and two more bedrooms in the attic. Show More Sentences The attic room was a lot bigger then she had imagined it to be and was set up with everything that she needed. I was in a smaller room that was next to the stairs leading to the attic where the servants used to live. Telli woke the next morning to the patter of rain on the roof above his attic room. The space between the attic and the rest of the house is lined with aluminium for insulation. The office was in the attic of one of those six storey buildings in South Kensington. The house now has three bedrooms and a fourth in the attic with a sloping roof that is perfect for his grandchildren. There is a spacious attic bedroom, which could also be suitable for use as a study or home office. Five steep steps led to a low-ceilinged attic bathroom with permanently dim lighting. After turning off the lamp in the attic, she headed back downstairs and into the dark hallways of the school. Within minutes the fire had spread upstairs, trapping the teenager in her attic bedroom. It was one of those houses where the only things in the attic were old toys, clothes, and boxes. Does this mean that there is a good twin, locked away in an attic somewhere? But one day we had to go up to the attic for something and we found these hoops, mallets, timber balls and a peg. Harding, whose funeral train ran the length of the continent with people lining the tracks, roosts in history's attic, a presidential schnook. It's my third visit to his cramped attic workroom in a quiet backwater near London's Victoria. The attic space in each house is illuminated by three fitted Velux windows and there are limestone fireplaces and marble mantelpieces throughout. I have screens and double windows with tight-fitting sashes in my attic office. The Marranos secretly celebrating Passover in their attic behave as holdouts from another age. A staircase with white oak bannisters leads to the large first floor landing which has recessed ceiling lighting and access to the attic. Our archives are up there in the attic, but they haven't been sorted into any kind of order. Show More Sentences Allow yourself 3 to 4 person hours per 100 square feet when installing fiberglass batts and a vapor barrier in the attic. They reached the attic floor and Rocky flicked on the switch that activated the ball return mechanism and the pin re-setter. Somewhere in your garage, attic, basement, shed or rented self-storage space, treasures abound. This comprises the aforementioned sauna as well as an attic room with timber floor, wood panelled walls and a Velux window. When I cleaned out the attic earlier this summer I unearthed it, along with some old scrapbooks and a pair of bell-bottomed jeans. With two main storeys, as well as an attic and a basement, the townhouse comprises 18 main rooms plus a kitchen, and six bathrooms. They were usually symmetrical, with large mullioned and transomed windows, and consisted of 3 storeys and an attic. Ice dams will force moisture under roof shingles where it can drip into the attic or walls. He could put the letters back in the shoebox he'd found them in, hide it away back in the attic. There are crates filled with trinkets and mementos that have yet to be sorted, placed or stuffed in the attic. Using chain pulls, workers then lifted the panel and loosely connected it to attic posts, attached to roof trusses. The attic was musty, wooden, with a low ceiling that reached its peak at the center and sloped gently toward the sides. The attic is converted to offer two more bedrooms, both twin rooms with solid timber floors. Our attic suite was half the size of our Dublin terrace house, with a huge main bedroom and a comfortable twin room for the boys. In one room, children blissfully skip rope, ignoring the water-filled rooms upstairs and the burning attic. She tells Caroline to never go in the attic, but gives her a skeleton key that will open every door in the house. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret. Can an estate agent include an unconverted garage or attic in the total square footage? The agents suggest that the attic rooms could be used as play areas or a study. It is written in Attic Greek, with much studiedly antithetical rhetoric and frequent verbal borrowings from the classical authors, above all Thucydides. Show More Sentences The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens. As in the main scene, she wears a high-crested Attic helmet. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, German, Attic Greek, and Latin in addition to his native Dutch, he turned out to be a sharp and engaging philosophy student. The splendidly schematized figure is shown from a vantage point that allows the contour of his right arm to reinforce the silhouette of the tall Attic stele behind. So it's a good thing, I suppose, that Lifetime has now stepped in and remade Flowers in the Attic for television. Finally, a Cretan youth was allowed only one garment, the Attic ephebe wore a black garment, and in certain mystery cults initiates were required to wear white clothing. Two of the bedrooms have original cast-iron fireplaces while the bathroom has original wainscoting and offers access to the attic. These tiny documents were purchased by a flea market trader in a trunk stored in the attic of a prominent Savannah family during the dispersal of an estate. A proper attic vent system consists of an intake and an exhaust. None of which would have happened if Cathy and Chris Dollanganger hadn't done some freaky stuff in that attic. Thus removal of a small cholesteatoma may allow for reconstruction of the outer attic wall or creation of a cavity that extends to or just beyond the mastoid antrum. Natural light pours in through a mezzanine area with a light well that runs down from the attic and through the centre of the first floor landing. So dump the SUV, tell your kids to walk to school, turn down the central heating, insulate the attic, take shorter showers, use CFL bulbs and lag the hot water tank. With the atmosphere successfully in place you'll find yourself uncomfortably wriggling in your seat long before the ravens start to appear in the attic. My plan was to leave in secret, but just as I was finishing the packing, Father John stepped into the attic, saw what I was doing, and stopped me. Some houses will also have Arts and Crafts-style architraves, covings, skirtings and mantelpieces, while others will feature decorative ceiling beams and attic storage areas. An unconverted attic doesn't count as a third storey, by the way. Do not step through attic floor joists onto the ceiling of the room below. The multivolume Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius is an extended exploration of how Romans constructed their literary culture. As a boy he was always the first to leave his handprint in wet cement or to carve his initials onto an attic beam. Show More Sentences The third bedroom is a well-proportioned double bedroom in the attic. It's more efficient to use insulation with higher R-values in the attic and in rooms with cathedral ceilings than in wood frame walls and basements or crawl spaces with walls. Stairs rise from the landing to the attic room, which is floored and panelled in wood and features two velux windows and a good amount of eaves storage. In Mr. Kirsch's telling, it is more like Mr. Holifield has interestingly presented the deranged notes that a batty aunt in the attic kept in a shoebox. In The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys drew a haunting portrait of the young Mrs Rochester before she went mad and ended her days in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. My mom had a mouton fur coat that was put away in the attic. We created a self-contained house within the rectory, comprising mainly the attic, with steep stairs going through a couple of rooms in the lower floors. And that's why I hid myself away in their attic room for much of my three week exile, tuning into UK radio on the giant wireless set, keeping in touch with home. The property contains a living room, kitchen, scullery and a bathroom while three bedrooms and an attic conversion with Velux windows lie upstairs. Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begetting the Attic hero Hippothoon. They had a small attic room in the roof which was full of old toys. It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes. We spent the evening there, in her small attic room with rain drumming a staccato tattoo on the roof above and a small fire flickering in the grate. Attic collections have been dusted off in new cases which line the walls so that you walk between them under the roof beams. In the attic there are 2,000 Mass cards sent after his death in December. After the fight, infuriated at his loss, Poseidon sent a monstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him. And then, just remember that before you know it, you'll be hitting the back-to-school sales and riffling through the sweaters you have stored in the attic. Stairs lead from the landing to the attic room at the top of the house. Winehouse laid down the track in her attic studio in 2009, at the apogee of her hard-partying ways. She would periodically show up at the house and stay in the attic, where she hung beads and burned incense. Show More Sentences It might be on a closet shelf or perhaps in the attic, wrapped tightly in thick twine. It comes out of the drawer, the attic, the trunk of your car with the first tease of spring. Stairs lead from the landing to the attic level, which has two rooms. Tremaine is as wasptongued as Cinders is wasp-waisted and forces our heroine to sleep in the attic and perform all the household chores. In an attempt to elude them, Starks had climbed into the attic crawl space above the apartments. My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge. Stay in the city-centre in a two-bedroom attic maisonette with a large terrace and views of the Latina district and Madrilenian skyline. He rummaged through the attic for his baseball card collection. We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes. Convinced that his uncle was a warlock, he rifled through his attic, looking for demonic artifacts. The clock was then placed in storage and forgotten until it was discovered in 1929, in an attic of the cathedral. There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes. Above this attic rises the dome, covered with lead, and ribbed in accordance with the spacing of the pilasters. If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow. In return for the work Sanderson was allowed an attic room and board at the Nelson cottage. I don't think I need these papers any more, but just in case, I'll store them away in the attic. This tour-goer stopped everyone in their tracks when she told of seeing a family in the attic window many times prior to this particular night. So much for unretiring the printer in the attic that connects through what's called a parallel port. Project management market with architectural plans to discount for the construction of the Maison des associations and the rehabilitation of the Attic salt. I connect it alternately through an FM yagi antenna mounted in my attic and to cable. Show More Sentences A mansard roof masks the attic, creating a sculptural setting for the colorful tile and crockery roofing materials. The blaze broke out behind an electrical junction box in the kitchen and burned inside the walls and up into the attic. The fire, he said, was kitty-cornered in the front and rear of the top floor and into the attic. But in the attic Faith discovers a forgotten box and a long buried secret about her mother. A police dog led the deputies to the attic access, and Deputy Steve Paul made his way through a crawlspace in a bedroom closet. It may seem like a pain to haul them out of the attic or basement, but if you have storm doors and windows don't forget to install them. Two children discover an old boardgame in their attic and, rolling the dice, unwittingly free a man who has been trapped inside the game for 26 years. They may also nest in the attic or exterior walls of a house, where they may be regarded as pests, as well as fire hazards due to their habit of gnawing on electrical cables. This attic stage is ornamented with alternating pilasters and rectangular windows which are set just below the cornice, creating a sense of lightness. The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later. So, if you have a return grille in the floor of your home, the return air is being sucked into your house from the basement, crawlspace, or attic. The spandrels usually depicted flying Victories, while the attic was often inscribed with a dedicatory inscription naming and praising the triumphator. Until this point, an additional ignition barrier was required by all Spray Foam Manufacturers for open-cell insulation in attic and crawl space applications. We had to clear out the attic so the guest could sleep there. The attic is haunted by a ghostly apparition of a deceased young girl. Nick mines a rich seam of nostalgia taking in clackers in the attic but is firmly in the present when he locks targets on The Incredible Melting Man of British politics. That old table she scored from the attic got new life with a splash of lime-green paint left over from when her parents redid their bedroom walls. Examples from Classical Literature But the government of the ward did not possess the solid attributes of that of the Attic deme. But the cakes called thridacisc by alcman, are the same as the Attic thridacin. A kodrantes is a small coin worth one half of an Attic chalcus or two lepta. Then he too went up the ladder, and found himself with the others in an attic. But methinks he speaks with a spruce Attic accent of adulterate Spanish. Attic doorways are built with the same proportions as Doric. On an Attic red-figure cylix or stemmed drinking-cup there is a surprising scene of two young women who appear to be headed for school. Home energy, Pool heating, Radiant Barrier Attic systems, Photo Voltaic panels are all specialties. The box goes up to the attic, and the parent blows a faint diminuendo, achingly prolonged, on a toy horn. As a result of this free incision, drainage is given to the contents of the tympanic cavity, attic, and antrum. His Uncle William was in the kitchen when he descended the stairs from the attic. Alas, if I had only taken the supposed rapidity of my progress with a grain of attic salt! There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. Thibauts songs blended the courteous poetry of the troubadour tradition with the attic salt of his own most civilized Champagne. And all the while I was tugging at my box of attic salt, to get it open, to get a pinch. In the little house of the baobab, the attic was full of these glorious trophies. It was well that the attic should be cleaned, though the savor of the task was gone. It was an attic at the top of the house, and had a dormer window with a north light. The attic gables, etc., would be half-timbered in oak, and the roof covered with red Fareham tiles laid on felt. It is two stories high, with a third story of attic chambers in the gable roof. Show More Sentences And when it had attended to the mussels it came and whispered to Sep in his attic. All that we have been hepped up about is what is up in the attic and have forgot the cellar. In every attic on the street a rakish craft flies the skull and crossbones, and roves the Spanish Main on rainy afternoons. It was evidently Miss Hathaway's treasure box, put away in the attic when spinsterhood was confirmed by the fleeting years. He flew upstairs to resurrect his last year's skates from the attic, and was back in a moment for his mittens and stocking cap. This attic is panelled, and on it stand obelisk-bearing pedestals, one above each column, and between them pediments of strapwork. Then, after the inquest, I shall give an order that everything in the attic is to be destroyed. When she reached the top flight of stairs and stood before the attic door, it must be confessed that her heart beat rather fast. Those bedrooms under the mansard-roof are miracles not only of ugliness, but discomfort, and there is no attic. Instead, she lay awake in the attic of the moline cabin and cried in her hands, listening to the whirl of the nights without. Even the doctor, himself a hardened man of the sea, showed a brilliant spark of emotion behind his monocular attic window. I raced up to the attic in nothing flat, almost knocking my teeth out on the bottom step of the attic stairs. I stay in my attic room and play upon my tympani, my beloved children. An example might be a linen closet, or an attic or basement rafter for jewelry that isn't worn often. Her best gown was all damp and mouldy in the attic that was her bower. The attic in fisher's house in Cambridge was Howe's workroom. Its roof, the tegmen tympani, is continuous with that of the attic. At a bound I was up in the attic, at another I flew to the garret window. In addition, a missing clue on this issue is that cholera might derive from cholas, an Attic word meaning intestine, which has not survived in modern Greek. The sun had been shining brightly all day on the roof of my attic, and the room was warm. Show More Sentences Then came the sight of Abijah Flagg shelling beans in the barn, and then the Perkins attic windows with a white cloth fluttering from them. His bed was in an attic, next door to his big cousin marten's room. It was a kind of an attic place, Uncle, all beams and rafters and cobwebs. She could not hide it in the attic, for in some moment of weakness she would be sure to take it out again. That holy glow was attic light by which she watched him limn the son of God. The following day Friday, at the OAC 3 in a H division game Times of Oman face off against Attic Outdoors followed by a F division match between Arabian Ind. While Tom Kitten was left alone under the floor of the attic, he wriggled about and tried to mew for help. Harriet Jacobs was the brave woman who hid in an attic for seven years, unbeknownst to her family, to avoid capture from her master. At the earliest possible moment after supper, Nancy crept up the back stairs and thence to the attic room. This time, however, he sat down in the attic and began to read it. Between one and two in the morning our driver descended from his attic. He has crept out of the lascar's attic, and he saw the light. Miss Polly read the telegram, frowned, then climbed the stairs to the attic room. When Anne got home that night she stacked all her textbooks away in an old trunk in the attic, locked it, and threw the key into the blanket box. Margaret hunted about in the attic, and found a box of ninepins. The two men descended from the attic and went down the back stairs. Railroads seem to run through a steel mill from cellar to attic. I am in the front attic, which is the bedchamber to be preferred. In addition there was an attic, made by the peak of the roof, and having one small window in each end. Up stairs I went to a window opening on the shed roof.Biddy, who slept in the attic, practised getting out on the shed roof, so that she might run away at the first alarm. Show More Sentences After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic, we came to the conclusion that the dining room contained any effects which might belong to the Count. I've been up into the top attic, but there's no seeing anything for trees. Full many a creaking stair he climbed before he reached some attic rooms in a corner, turned the latch of their unbolted door, and stood beside the table of Neville Landless. They both heard a curious roly-poly noise under the attic floor. Find more words! 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What is the adjective for Attic? What is the noun for Attic? Translations for Attic Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words attic at this time at this point in time at this point at this moment in time at this moment Attica attics Atticus attila Attila attila's