Sentences with phrase «upper storey windows»
A family renting a condominium or loft could earn a decrease on premium payments if sufficiently high railings surround upstairs balconies, or if barriers are in place on upper storey windows, for example, that will protect young children from falls.
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For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.
Through the windows that ran along the service stairs in new apartment blocks, little flashes of light could be seen descending: the people living on the sixth floor were fleeing the upper storeys; they held their torches in front of them, in spite of the regulations.
The cool night air was sucked in at once, and in no time at all the fire had a better grip; they heard several dull thuds and then a roar as the flames broke through the ceiling into the upper storey and were soon licking at the inside of the windows.
Residents in the top storeys tossed trash from upper windows with admonishments to those in the streets below to beware.
Most of its high - rise tenements date from the 1500's when residents from the top storeys threw trash from upper windows with warnings to people in the streets below to beware.