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.
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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; ...