Building count

Usage examples of floors.

I found out that the walls and floors have a way to swallow whatever you put on them, like the jakes only slower.

Apparently those floors absorb anything placed upon them except living flesh.

She hurried after the other woman, ignoring the pains in her side, and discovered the difference between the brown and grey floors just as Laurie had done some months earlier.

She glared wildly around at the curved floors rising in the distance, the wall of gates, the distant lights overhead.

The mobile part of her body is composed of the same tiny machines as the walls and floors and everything else in Joy Hall.

I was preparing to inspect the lower floors, where the inmates are reputed to dwell, when Peterson and Selby Thomm stepped out of a closet adjoining the office.

The many small rooms off the ballroom, the ones with padded floors, are intended for men and women to use for copulation -- in a word, for fucking, as I suspect that some of you have already discovered.

With its forty floors and thousand apartments, its supermarket and swimming-pools, bank and junior schoolall in effect abandoned in the skythe high-rise offered more than enough opportunities for violence and confrontation.

Needless to say, no one at the party was in the least concerned about the ultimate destination of this missilebut as Laing had already discovered, people in high-rises tended not to care about tenants more than two floors below them.

The mysterious movements of the air-hostesses as they pursued their busy social lives, particularly on the floors above her own, clearly unsettled Alice, as if they in some way interfered with the natural social order of the building, its system of precedences entirely based on floor-height.

Laing had noticed that he and his fellow tenants were far more tolerant of any noise or nuisance from the floors above than they were from those below them.

Clearly some kind of demarcation had taken place in her mind, like his own facile identification of people by the floors on which they lived.

A number of absurd but unpleasant altercations broke out in the darkness between those who wanted to descend to their apartments on the lower levels and the residents from the upper floors who insisted on escaping upwards into the cooler heights of the building.

The air-conditioning had been switched off, and a woman passenger trapped in an elevator between the 10th and nth floors became hysterical, possibly the victim of a minor sexual assaultthe restoration of light in due course revealed its crop of illicit liaisons flourishing in the benevolent conditions of total darkness like a voracious plant species.

Laing had heard Helen Wilder complain that, rather than use their five high-speed elevators which carried them from a separate entrance lobby directly to the top floors, the dog-owners habitually transferred to the lower-level elevators, encouraging their pets to use them as lavatories.