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Indeed Indiamen seem to have been the most technologically sophisticated sailing ships of their time, three and four-storied vessels capable of surviving both the ice storms of the African cape and the cyclones of Asia.
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It was a lofty, four-storied building of red brick, with considerable architectural pretensions.
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If we could but get the history of a single day as it passed in any one of those four-storied houses in the dingy court where our friends Pen and Warrington dwelt, some Temple Asmodeus might furnish us with a queer volume.
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I found the street and the address, a four-storied rooming house of some sort.
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On the right hand, the blank unwhitewashed wall of a four-storied house stretched far into the court; on the left, a wooden hoarding ran parallel with it for twenty paces into the court, and then turned sharply to the left.
Crime and Punishment 2002
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` A four-storied house, 'grunted Conan, ` and this hall extends to the roof.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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The houses themselves were four-storied and four-sided, as were almost all the houses in Mereklar.
Brothers Majere Stein, Kevin, 1954- 1989
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It was a colonnaded mansion, four-storied, on the far side of the tree-lined praia.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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Even as they talked, his gigantic body had grown as high as the four-storied buildings lining the Square, and his feet were becoming too large for the place where they had first been put.
A Scientist Rises Desmond Winter Hall 1950
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Built on the corner, in the shape of a huge, four-storied, red brick "C," it was really composed of a number of apartments with separate entrances with a common, cement-paved inside court on which the back porches fronted.
A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life Herman Gastrell Seely
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