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Definition of Storeys
1. storey [n] - See also: storey
Lexicographical Neighbors of Storeys
Literary usage of Storeys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Light and air are introduced by means of vertical shafts (luminaria) running up
to the outer air, and often serving for several storeys. The drawing (fig. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... ia eight or ten storeys, giving the appearance of a factory. ... but the upper
storeys are all varied in ..."
3. The Scots Digest of Scots Appeals in the House of Lords from 1707 and of the by Robert Candlish Henderson, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1908)
"A purchased two storeys of a building (the other storeys of which he owned) from
B, the owner of the next tenement, stating that he proposed to make certain ..."
4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"Qua London Bg Act, 1894, " 'Adjoining Owner,' means the Owner, or one of the
owners, of land, buildings, storeys, or rooms adjoining those of the BUILDING ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The different storeys of galleries lie one below the other (6g. 2) to the number
of four or five (in one part of the cemetery of St Calixtus 1 Hieron., ..."
6. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1911)
"... storeys. SCALE or FIG. 15. nxr. breaks in the entablatures above them.
The rusticated courses themselves are pleasantly irregular (see Fig. 13). ..."
7. The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous by Hugh Miller (1860)
"... Beds—An interesting Discovery — Two storeys of Organic Remains in the Old Red
Sandstone — Ancient Ocean of Lower Old Red—Two great Catastrophes—Ancient ..."
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