1786, w:John Trusler, The London Adviser and Guide: Containing Every Instruction and Information Useful and Necessary to Persons Living in London, and Coming to Reside There;, Your garret-windows therefore Å¿hould always be Å¿ecured, and trap-doors opening to the leads well bolted.
Bisset Dandyism Displayed|chapter=Dandy Actors|page=8|passage=If he be originally belched out of a kitchen, dropped from a garret-window, or the offspring of an harlot and twenty fathers.
1837, Mrs. John Sandford Elizabeth Sandford, Woman, in Her Social and Domestic Character Chapter On Female Romance, Opposition is its nourishment, for it is her ambition to be a heroine; and though she might disdain her innamorato were he admitted to her mother’s drawing-room, she will think him irresistible as she smiles on him from a garret-window; ...
