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Staircase in sentence

256 examples of Staircase in a sentence

They led him away; the hustling of the crowd had thrown the first ranks against the staircase so that the rail was twisted.
But the staircase was too narrow for the pushing crowd, which would have taken long to get in if the rear of the besiegers had not gone off to enter by other openings.
Chapter 5ALL the entrances to the Voreux had been closed, and the sixty soldiers, with grounded arms, were barring the only door left free, that leading to the receiving-room by a narrow staircase into which opened the captains' room and the shed.
The windows and the doors, left open, showed the abandonment within; a forgotten ginger cat, divining the peril in this solitude, jumped from a staircase and disappeared.
She took the shades off the candlesticks, had new wallpaper put up, the staircase repainted, and seats made in the garden round the sundial; she even inquired how she could get a basin with a jet fountain and fishes.
Opposite rose a straight staircase, and on the left a gallery overlooking the garden led to the billiard room, through whose door one could hear the click of the ivory balls.
Over the door, where the organ should be, is a loft for the men, with a spiral staircase that reverberates under their wooden shoes.
"He who, being baptized-baptized-baptized—"She went up the steps of the staircase holding on to the banisters, and when she was in her room threw herself into an arm-chair.
With one bound she came down the staircase.
A large straight staircase led up to the corridor.
She involuntarily smiled with vanity on seeing the crowd rushing to the right by the other corridor while she went up the staircase to the reserved seats.
And he pushed her gently towards the staircase.
She went up the large straight staircase with wooden balusters that led to the corridor paved with dusty flags, into which several doors in a row opened, as in a monastery or an inn.
They climbed two flights of a wide staircase with a wooden baluster, the warped steps of which sloped at a downward angle from the wall, and seemed on the point of collapse.
'And so,' thought Julien, as he heard the sound of their laughter on the staircase, 'I have been allowed to see the opposite extreme to my own position!
At once Julien ran up to his own room, and happened to meet, on the main staircase, the fair Mathilde, who snatched the letter with perfect composure and laughing eyes.
In the distance, he heard the steps of the servitors; he did not want them to be too aware of his presence, so he closed the window and walked towards the main staircase.
Down by the staircase there was a small child lying on its belly crying, but it could hardly be heard because of the noise from a metal-workshop on the other side of the entrance hall, drowning out any other sound.
Speaking of oak staircases reminds me that there is a magnificent carved oak staircase in one of the houses in Kingston.
My friend said he would, and the shopman, thereupon, took him through the shop, and up the staircase of the house.
"All carved oak, right up to the ceiling, just the same as you saw on the staircase."
Gregor made a run for him; he wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase.
They saw a weedgrown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs.
At one end stood a small counter; at the other, a corkscrew staircase afforded communication with the rooms on the first floor.
The staircase led to a dining-room which also did duty as drawing-room.
The married couple entered their room, which had a second door opening on a staircase that communicated with the arcade by an obscure narrow passage.
At night, Therese, instead of going into her own room, which was on the left of the staircase, entered that of her cousin which was on the right.
The sweetheart would pass by the passage which ran into the arcade, and Therese would open the door on the staircase to him.
Then, rapidly entering the passage, he ascended the narrow, dark staircase, leaning against the walls which were clammy with damp.
She rapidly ascended the staircase of the hotel, and on reaching the sixth floor, out of breath, and with wandering eyes, she perceived Laurent, who was leaning over the banister awaiting her.
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