Here, half hidden by tangled vines of climbing roses, he came to a flight of steps leading to an iron-railed balcony, and beyond this was a narrow stairway to the rooms in the upper part of the wing.

The bright light showed them glimpses of queer chairs standing about in odd corners and finally lighted up a broad stairway.

And as we pass slowly up the tortuous, steep stairways of the theatre, while the Germans, all talking at once, burden the air with unintelligible gutturals, you say to meif you are the intelligent person that you ought to be"SEEBACH is the greatest actress of this centurygreater than RISTORI, subtler and more tender than RACHEL.

The pain was cruel, but, no matter, I must not lose any time; he might come back at any moment; so I limped on three legs to the other end of the hall, where there was a dark little stairway leading up into a garret where old boxes and such things were kept, as I had heard say, and where people seldom went.

At one end of the cellar was a wooden stairway, very steep, going both up and down.

And it was Victorine who had accidentally brushed the pear-tree boughs as she watered her plants on the roof of the outside stairway.

The walls are crumbling, the windows broken, and the old oaken stairways will soon be sinking to earth again, and its only life will be on the page of history.

The ceiling of the hall was hollow, and reached by a little secret stairway inside of the big staircase.

"I'll appear to regard it as a perfectly lady-like party, which it was," she mused, in the dingy interminable stairways,the elevator being an uncertain quantity"and run no risk of being thrown three nights.

Once I was on the very point of flying, for I was going up the great central stairway, and there came a pelt of dead leaves against a window-pane in a corridor just above on the first floor, which thrilled me to the inmost soul.

Had the man who designed the machinery ever traveled with a pack train, climbing up and down over these rocky stairways called mountain trails, I am sure that he would have made his castings much smaller.

" He stood for a moment looking up at the shield on which were blazoned the arms of the Giustiniani, as if he missed something that should have been there; then, slowly turning back to the central court, now flooded with sunshine, he began the ascent of the grand stairway which led to the banqueting hall.

Untitled drawing depicting fancy stairway for incoming plane.

The Witch came running twinklingly down a spiral stairway.

Further on is the hall, with its short polished oak stairway sloping gently to a balcony; and there are white painted pillars that support the low roof, and these pillars make a kind of entrance to the passage which traverses the house from end to end.

The mountains have been conquered to a considerable extent in this way, and it is sensational to see how thousands of steep places have been cut and walled into gigantic stairways, covering slopes that could hardly answer for goat pasture, until the shelves with soil placed on them for cultivation have been wrought, and the terraces are like wonderful ladders bearing against the skies.

Then we would come to handsome marble stairways conducting right and left into upper chambers ranged above one another three or four stories high, floors, ceilings, and walls lavishly decorated with innumerable crystalline forms.

In 1495 Bishop Oliver King beheld, like Jacob, the vision of a heavenly stairway and climbing angels, and heard a voice saying, "Let an olive establish the crown, and let a king restore the church."

I had never any idea that I should use that passage as a means of getting into my own house, but Marian met me at the station, told me that there was trouble here, and came with me through the chapel into the cellar, and through the hidden stairway that winds around the chimney from that room where we keep the candlesticks.”

She might be in sorrow, in trouble; he could not wait, but leaped out of his office and ran down the long stairways, too hurried and restless to wait for the lagging elevator of the great building where he had suffered so much.

Bates had no manner of business in that part of the house, as the heating apparatus was under the kitchen and accessible by an independent stairway.

Its branches leading up and outward to the green wall were as innumerable stairways.

" Buzz turned toward the inside wooden stairway that led to the half-story above.

"Through the door, down the left stairway, and you will be in the street," said the gentleman.

I climbed a marvelous great stairway of large granite blocks, walked along a pampa where the Indians had a small vegetable garden, and came into a little clearing.