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"Mansard" Quotes from Famous Books

... LeMonde erected was an ornament to this beautiful site. It was two stories high, crowned with a French mansard roof. It faced the river and a country road which ran along the river bank. The visitor stepped upon a broad piazza, and then entered through a wide and ornamented doorway a large hall from which ascended a broad flight of stairs. ...

— The Kentucky Ranger • Edward T. Curnick

... in a little box of a house at the foot of B Street, the first house to the right as one went up from the station. It was two stories high, with a funny red mansard roof of oval slates. The interior was cut up into innumerable tiny rooms, some of them so small as to be hardly better than sleeping closets. In the back yard was a contrivance for pumping water from the cistern that interested McTeague ...

— McTeague • Frank Norris

... parapet, finally, and instead of a crushed and unspeakable body, there was Mr. Harbison, sitting about eight feet below me, with his feet swinging into space and a long red scratch from the corner of his eye across his cheek. There was a sort of mansard there, with windows, and just enough coping to keep him from ...

— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... Seth coaxed the shuddering Celia down the steps into the cellar-like habitation dimly lighted by a single half window dug out mansard ...

— The Way of the Wind • Zoe Anderson Norris

... kinds were left to his son Alexander. The printed books, comprising a number of finely illustrated works on archaeology, were sold at the Hague in 1722; the sale included the old library inherited by Francis Mansard, and the MSS. relating to Roman antiquities that had been the property of Lipsius. A thousand splendid volumes on parchment, the pride of the elder Petau, described by all who saw them in terms of glowing admiration, ...

— The Great Book-Collectors • Charles Isaac Elton and Mary Augusta Elton

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