There is no stair-case within the tower; one goes up by a spiral inclined plane.

He noticed, too, that his arm holding the stair-rail trembled in a silly way, whereas he was perfectly calm.

So Roger, leaping back from the stair-head, turned about and ran to Beltane, stumbling and spattering blood as he came, whereupon Beltane clapped-to the door and barred it in the face of the pursuit.

As there was but one entrance door from the stair-way on this floor, I felt certain that I had found the right place.

On the west and north sides the niches are in three tiers of three on either hand of the tall louvred windows, but on the south and east sides one tier is absorbed by the stair turret.

"All except a chair in the kitchen and three stair-rods," said Betty.

Even that hideous stair-carpet was a little worn, she noted, as noiselessly she mounted to the second story.

Simmonds obeyed phlegmatically, but my hands were trembling so with excitement that I was in mortal terror lest I drop one of my shoes; but I managed to get them both off without mishap, and to set them softly on the floor at the stair-foot.

(He goes to the left, where three steps lead to a stair door.)

The telephone was ringing on the stair landing.

One of her last observations was "how frightfully like this room is to our room in Islington"our up-stairs room, she meant.

Thoroughly worn out with the strenuous evening and the still more strenuous night that followed it, they finally fell asleep, while the sun rose unwelcomed over Carver Hill and the stair clock chimed half past six in vain.

Jutting a story above the one-storied march of Winchester Road, The Convenience Merchandise Corner, Benson, overlooks, from the southeast up-stairs window, a remote view of the City Hospital, the Ferris-wheel of an amusement park, and on clear days the oceanic waves of roof.

" "That wash silk I'm telling you about, though, Mrs. C., does up like a" "There's ma thumping with the poker on the up-stairs floor.

hang him, scrapetrencher, stair-wearer, wine-spiller, metal-clanker, rogue by generation.

The dull raps her scrubbing brush striking the stair corner just behind your wall.

Simplified stair layout.

" Up-stairs misfortune gave her a further release.

We do, however, protest against being tacked on as a sort of outside back-stair appendage to the National Gallery, that will soon want the space we shall be forced to occupy for its own natural and legitimate expansion.

Oh, yes, he would stop her from going down there; he would hold her, just where she was on the dark stair nerveless, breathless, as long as he liked, if he liked he would bring her back, cringing, begging.

Up out of the traplike stair-opening came the head of Mrs. Kantor, disheveled and a smudge of soot across her face, but beneath her arm, triumphant, a violin of one string and a broken back.

From the stair platform came a rapid fusillade of rifle shots that sang through the air above Howland's head, and mingled with the fire was a hoarse voice urging on the cur that followed within a leap of his heels.

The master-statesman Pitt had gone out of power and the back-stairs politician Bute had come in.

She reeled against the stair-post and brought her veil over her face.

I hung over the stair-railing after she had ceased, convinced that she had been playing for herself a farewell, which freed me from my bond to her.