"Stairway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... few choice German remarks which I had been practising for just such an emergency, Wilhelmine seized upon her bundles, already packed, and, vowing that she would abide in no place where she could not lie down in the security of strong and hard twisting keys, she disappeared, strewing the stairway with German verbs and expletives in ...
— The Van Dwellers - A Strenuous Quest for a Home • Albert Bigelow Paine
... Byxbee —coming," giving expression to the one idea which my dazed mind at that moment contained. And sure enough, even as I spoke the door opened, and the venerable head of the college, somewhat blown with climbing the steep stairway, stood on the threshold. With a sensation of prodigious relief, I fell ...
— The Blindman's World - 1898 • Edward Bellamy
... child close. "Hush! some one is coming; you'll get sent to bed again." This time it was Lois. Her abstracted gaze seemed to take in the two on the upper stairway as a matter ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various
... a window of the old ruin, for he could not resist the temptation of grinning good-naturedly down from his perch; but he escaped along the broken flooring while they were waiting at the foot of a stairway, and reached 'home' before ...
— The Adventure League • Hilda T. Skae
... Nellie lighted a small lamp, and with this in her hand she and Dan went up the small winding stairway. ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody
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