In the vennel stood a tall dark bit of masonry called Gilmour's Lordship, which was pierced by long closes from which twisting stairways led to the upper landings.

"We'll always make 'em little love landings, Jimmie, so we can't ever get tired climbing them.

It was straggling and irregular, with wide passages, wide staircases, broad landings; the rooms large but not very lofty; the arrangements leaving much to be desired, with no economy of space; a house belonging to a period when land was cheap, and, so far as that was concerned, there was no occasion to economize.

Mark Gilmore's lucky landing.

Even these gave him no great alarm; at least, they did not seem sufficiently serious to warrant an immediate landing.

Lovely landing.

The rude landing wharf along which we lay was already densely crowded with men, their appearance and dress largely proclaiming them to be planters from the interior, either gathered to inspect the consignment of prisoners, or eager to purchase at low prices the stores hidden away in the vessel's hold.

The fifth landing was too remote for the postman, for I never got a letterat

And when she was on the dark little square landing under the roof, Sarah, holding the lamp, called out in a whisper.

At last I thought a step had passed even the fourth landing, and was approaching mine; but I would not think too fast, and damped my hopes a little on purpose lest they should burn too brightly and too fast.

Besides these great defects and irregularity, the Philippine custom house observes the singular practice of not allowing the temporary landing of goods entered in transitu and for re-exportation, as is done on the bonding system in all countries where exertions are made by those in authority for the extension and improvement of commerce in every possible way.

Despite the mishap to the enginecaused by his own carelessnessMortlake managed to bring the Silver Cobweb to a gentle landing in a broad, flat meadow, inhabited by some spotted cows, which fled in undignified panic as the monster, silent now, swooped down like a bolt from the blue.

The next moment the door itself was thrown open from within; a flood of light burst forth upon the gloomy landing from the room beyond, the babel of many voices became loud and clear, and as the two men stood for a moment beneath the lintel a veritable chorus of many exclamations greeted them from every side.

It is defended by a fort and strong batteries, adequate to prevent a hostile landing.

I have so much faith in my old friend's theory, that when I feel that idle vein returning upon me, I presently subside into my proper element of prose, remembering those eluding nereids, and that inauspicious inland landing.

"Well, take the Panther around to the inner landing.

No Macedonian landing in Italy was thought of.

On the mid-way landing I laid down the shot-bag and paid out the coil of line as I descended the next flight.

At the top they came to a narrow landing and a closed door.

After this there was more boatinglong afternoons spent on the winding river, with occasional landings upon picturesque little islands or wooded banks, where there were the wild-flowers Marian Nowell loved and understood so well; more idle mornings in the cottage gardena happy innocent break in the common course of life, which seemed almost as pleasant to John Saltram as to his friend.

She went back to the outer landing to see.

"Sure they don't," laughed Frank, feeling particularly good over the grand success that had attended their perilous landing.

Not many hours remained in which to make their permanent landing.

The subsequent turn taken by events had compelled the Romans to embrace in their scheme of the war a simultaneous landing in Spain, chiefly to prevent the Spanish army from appearing before the walls of Carthage.

It is in this that is located the vast staircase that leads to spacious landings at which ends on every story a large corridor common to all the halls and workshops.