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Stairway in sentence

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We can't hatch plans and climb that stairway of popularity, of success.
As we move across a stairway, the form dictates our pacing, our feeling, our safety and our relationship and engagement with the space around us.
He said that all people with this illness died, and if any of you have seen the film "Lorenzo's Oil," there's a scene when the protagonist kind of rolls down the stairway crying and bemoaning the fate of his son, and that's exactly how we felt about Jenesis.
You come down from this level along the stairway, and you enter the bedroom here, going into the lake.
And believe me, in the Boston area, there's every manner of stairway twists and turns.
So I suddenly looked at the stairway that went up to the top of the station, and I thought, you know, I had just come down that stairway, but I could go back up and then come back down and get a little cardio.
He finished the book before I did, reading it in a concrete stairway with no light.
In the end, we follow them up the stairway to their final moment.
The final court scene is also fantastic, as the judge and jury descend the stairway to heaven to hold court over Peter (David Niven)'s operation.
While we know intuitively that Peter and June will find ultimate happiness at the end of that long-long stairway, the joy is in the journey.
Its tenants take the stairway up and can reincarnate themselves, but apparently can't escape as long as a sentinel is there to block the way.
the review by Julane stated "who knew?",everybody who knows about music history,thats who.Gloomy Sunday ,the song, has been the subject of so many movies,TV shows,plays,books,etc..Several of the "odd tales" type of TV shows,i.e.twilight zone,amazing stories,tales from crypt,etc..have all had some story about a diabolical tune that drives someone mad.Even a crow stairway to heaven episode had this plot line with Eric Daven hearing the "devils song" The real story is extremely sad,and full of dark subject matter.
It was already gone half past eleven when someone could be heard in the stairway.
K. went over to the stairway to get to the room where the hearing was to take place, but then stood still again as besides these steps he could see three other stairway entrances, and there also seemed to be a small passageway at the end of the yard leading into a second yard.
In the end he decided to climb up the stairs, his thoughts playing on something that he remembered the policeman, Willem, saying to him; that the court is attracted by the guilt, from which it followed that the courtroom must be on the stairway that K. selected by chance.
"Thank you very much," he repeated, shook their hands once more and did not let go until he thought he saw that they found it hard to bear the comparatively fresh air from the stairway after being so long used to the air in the offices.
Chapter FiveThe whip-manOne evening, a few days later, K. was walking along one of the corridors that separated his office from the main stairway - he was nearly the last one to leave for home that evening, there remained only a couple of workers in the light of a single bulb in the dispatch department - when he heard a sigh from behind a door which he had himself never opened but which he had always thought just led into a junk room.
As he went down the main stairway at the front of the bank, he looked carefully round at everyone who was passing, but there was no girl to be seen who might have been waiting for somebody, not even within some distance from the bank.
This door was much better illuminated than the rest of the stairway by the light from a small skylight set obliquely above it, it had been put together from unpainted planks of wood and the name 'Titorelli' was painted on it in broad, red brushstrokes.
In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force waiting to save him.
A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor.
The sound of the approaching footsteps of Sitgreaves hastened her retreat down a private stairway, to the side of her sister.
The subaltern flew up the narrow stairway that led to the room of the prisoner, and demanded the meaning of the outcry.
Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor.
Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway.
The steps came creaking up the stairs--the intolerable distress of the situation woke the stricken resolution of the lads--they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten timbers and Injun Joe landed on the ground amid the debris of the ruined stairway.
He found that it curtained a sort of steep natural stairway which was enclosed between narrow walls, and at once the ambition to be a discoverer seized him.
Boots and shoes went whirling through the air, and Mr. Fogg thought he even heard the crack of revolvers mingling in the din, the rout approached the stairway, and flowed over the lower step.
Meaulnes closed the door more gently, and carefully settled in the other corner; then, hungrily, he tried to make out, through the window, the place he was about to leave and the road by which he had come : he guessed, in spite of the darkness, that the carriage was crossing the courtyard and the garden, passing in front of the stairway leading to his room, going through the gate and leaving the manor grounds to enter the woods.
All at once be heard the creaking of the boards of the stairway; some one was ascending.