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Second story

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in America, the second range of rooms from the street level. This, in England, is called the first floor, the one beneath being the ground floor.

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The neighbouring houses had all been wrecked, but none had been burned; their walls stood, sometimes to the second story, with smashed windows and shattered doors.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
Falk" -- the second story in the volume -- offended the delicacy of one critic at least by certain peculiarities of its subject.
Typhoon by Conrad, Joseph View in context
It was one of those rusty, moss-grown, many-peaked wooden houses, which are scattered about the streets of our elder towns, with a beetle-browed second story projecting over the foundation, as if it frowned at the novelty around it.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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