sky-parlor

Carnot Fonnac, who originally reared and owned the building under discussion, was himself a wretched, reprehensible bachelor, but being also a Frenchman he possessed some taste; and intending to make his abode in the sky-parlor of his structure, he so planned it that there was a hint of grace and beauty in its arches and dimensions, as well as of expanse.

The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington

Others have plenty of sewing; the play may come out, and Mrs.R. will give me a sky-parlor for $3 a week, with fire and board.

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Barbarism is a one-story log-hut, a poor thing, but better than nothing; while such a civilization would be simply a second story, with a first story too weak to sustain it, a magnificent sky-parlor, with all heaven in view from the upper windows, but with the whole family coming down in

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

"How many years will it take to change that fresh-hearted little girl into a fashionable belle, I wonder?" thought Frank Evan, as he climbed the four flights that led to his "sky-parlor."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

On asking him what was the number of his room, he answered, that it was forty-'leven, sky-parlor floor, but that I shouldn't find it, if he didn't go ahead to show me the way.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

M. S., and others, have plenty of sewing; the play may come out, and M.s.R. will give me a sky-parlor for $3 a week, with fire and board.

Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Various 1918

It is hard work, but I can do it; and am glad to sit in a large, fine room part of each day, after my sky-parlor, which has nothing pretty in it, and only the gray tower and blue sky outside as I sit at the window writing.

Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists Various 1918

I told Dinky-Dunk I'd sat in every corner of that old house, up in the sky-parlor with the Italian barbers, in press-seats in the second gallery with dear old Fanny-Rain-in-the-Face, and in the Westbury's box with the First Lady of the Land and a Spanish Princess with extremely dirty nails.

The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

How vividly come back the days in the tower of the Croce di Malta, at Genoa, in our sky-parlor of the Piazza di Spagna at Rome, and in the old ` ` Capuchin Hotel '' at Amalfi, when we held high debate on the analogies between the Roman Empire and the British, and upon various kindred subjects.

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905

He ached with a sense of his absence from Mrs. Vivian's deeply familiar sky-parlor, which seemed to him for the time the most sacred spot on earth -- if on earth it could be called -- and he consigned to those generous postal receptacles which ornament with their brilliant hue the London street-corners, an inordinate number of the most voluminous epistles that had ever been dropped into them.

Confidence 1879