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65 examples of Stair in a sentence

One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on his face which made him a very different person to the round, jovial man to whom I was accustomed.
We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Hunter had described.
I should not be very much surprised if this were he whose step I hear now upon the stair.
One of them, stationed upon the top stair, naked sword in hand, prevented, or at least endeavored to prevent, the three others from ascending.
In five minutes three were slightly wounded, one on the hand, another on the ear, by the defender of the stair, who himself remained intact--a piece of skill which was worth to him, according to the rules agreed upon, three turns of favor.
Scarcely had he descended the first stair, when a hand of iron seized him by the belt and stopped him.
Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
Holmes stopped him at the head of the stair.
We heard the steps of our visitors descend the stair and the bang of the front door.
A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair.
"I wonder whence that stair leads?" said Jim."Don't go up there, Jim!"I cried, clutching at his arm.
I saw Jim's face as if it had been carved out of ivory, with his parted lips and his staring eyes fixed upon the black square of the stair opening.
And still the step came slowly from stair to stair.
Then, hardly daring to look and yet unable to turn away my eyes, I saw a figure dimly outlined in the corner upon which the stair opened.
Suffice it that we rushed up the stair which led direct to the Captain's room, and there we found him lying with the bone gleaming white through his throat.
The company was swarming through the door and clattering down the stair, so we followed in the stream.
"In God's name, then, tell us who your father is!"Jim made no answer save to point over our shoulders, and glancing round, we became aware that two people had entered the room through the door which led to the bedroom stair.
Tingling with anger and shame, I went straight up that stair, the cards in my hand, and I taxed him with this lowest and meanest of all the crimes to which a villain could descend.
He led me out to the head of the stair.
A heavy step was heard ascending the stair, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath.
In the meanwhile, Gurth had descended the stair, and, having reached the dark antechamber or hall, was puzzling about to discover the entrance, when a figure in white, shown by a small silver lamp which she held in her hand, beckoned him into a side apartment.
The Jew remained, without altering his position, for nearly three hours, at the expiry of which steps were heard on the dungeon stair.
My father and his seven sons defended their inheritance from story to story, from chamber to chamber--There was not a room, not a step of the stair, that was not slippery with their blood.
The prisoner trembled, however, and changed colour, when a step was heard on the stair, and the door of the turret-chamber slowly opened, and a tall man, dressed as one of those banditti to whom they owed their misfortune, slowly entered, and shut the door behind him; his cap, pulled down upon his brows, concealed the upper part of his face, and he held his mantle in such a manner as to muffle the rest.
He re-entered the turret-chamber, and descended the stair, leaving Rebecca scarcely more terrified at the prospect of the death to which she had been so lately exposed, than at the furious ambition of the bold bad man in whose power she found herself so unhappily placed.
"Wilfred of Ivanhoe!" exclaimed the Black Knight--"prisoner, and perish!--The life of every man in the castle shall answer it if a hair of his head be singed--Show me his chamber!""Ascend yonder winding stair," said De Bracy; "it leads to his apartment--Wilt thou not accept my guidance?" he added, in a submissive voice.
"We can bear witness," said Gilbert; "for when we had cleared away the ruin, and by Saint Dunstan's help lighted upon the dungeon stair, we found the runlet of sack half empty, the Jew half dead, and the Friar more than half--exhausted, as he calls it."
The ponderous castle-bell had tolled the point of noon, when Rebecca heard a trampling of feet upon the private stair which led to her place of confinement.
They descended the stair with slow and solemn step, traversed a long gallery, and, by a pair of folding doors placed at the end, entered the great hall in which the Grand Master had for the time established his court of justice.
A flight of steps, so deep and narrow as to be almost precipitous, leads up to a low portal in the south side of the tower, by which the adventurous antiquary may still, or at least could a few years since, gain access to a small stair within the thickness of the main wall of the tower, which leads up to the third story of the building,--the two lower being dungeons or vaults, which neither receive air nor light, save by a square hole in the third story, with which they seem to have communicated by a ladder.
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