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"I have three rooms here, and the back one opens into a kind of areaway from which I get into an abandoned storeroom, or I guess it's an attic.

The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905

If you have family, I thank them for their sacrifice and courage and I trust they are surrounded by friends and family while you areaway.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Private Sector Experience of Cabinet Secretaries (Updated and Purged) 2009

This photo from the excavation, dated July 11, 1950, shows the areaway that had ventilated and lighted the floor rooms since the mansion was built.

Fixing Up the White House 2008

Hence, you cannot "throw, drop or place" a used hankie "upon any public way or public place or upon the floor of any convenience or upon the floor of any theater, hall or assembly or public building or upon the surface or any lot or parcel of ground or on the roof on any building or in any light or air shaft, court or areaway."

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Hence, you cannot "throw, drop or place" a used hankie "upon any public way or public place or upon the floor of any convenience or upon the floor of any theater, hall or assembly or public building or upon the surface or any lot or parcel of ground or on the roof on any building or in any light or air shaft, court or areaway."

Craziest Laws in America 2007

Without an instant's hesitation he ran down the steps to the basement entrance in an areaway.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

The black areaway rail is broken, and the basement-door grill is rusty.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

He hated the areaway grill, and a big brown spot on the pavement, and, as a truck-driver hates a motorman, so did he hate a pudgy woman across the street who peeped out from a second-story window and watched him with cynical interest.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

For a week after that visit her lights had failed to go on — darkness brooded out into the areaway, seemed to grope blindly in at his expectant, uncurtained window.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

At another time she had come to the window and stood in it magnificently, and looked out because the moon had lost its way and was dripping the strangest and most transforming brilliance into the areaway between, turning the motif of ash-cans and clothes-lines into a vivid impressionism of silver casks and gigantic gossamer cobwebs.

Tales of the Jazz Age 2003