Samarendra Babu went downstairs to his parlour, clad in a wrapper, to find his agent pacing up and down in evident agitation.

Feeling almost a member of the family, he went downstairs and fell asleep on the bed in the basement.

I ran downstairs and rushed to where my mother was sitting, with a piece of work in her hands.

On passing downstairs I was told that the third and top floor of the house was occupied by the proprietor.

His eyes were in wretched shape, but when the doctor questioned him, he persisted in saying he had injured them by falling downstairs.

Oliver fell downstairs.

I heard Percy moving downstairs still, and I nearly went down to him to communicate my suspicions to him at once.

On the other hand, he may have lost his own balance, as they decided at the inquest, and tumbled downstairs on to his head.

'People are going about saying that he pushed Hobart downstairs.'

We sat downstairs, at a table at the back, and there I told him, in what hardly needed to be an undertone, of the rumours that were being circulated about him.

Wouldn't one own to it, if one had knocked a man downstairs in a quarrel and killed him?

'There was a young journalist Yid, Of his foes of the press he got rid In ways brief and bright, For, at dead of the night, He threw them downstairs, so he did.

Why, all sorts of people.... Aren't they, Chloe?' Chloe, who was showing a spoon and glass trick to the Monsignor, said, 'Aren't who what?' 'Isn't every one saying that Arthur Gideon threw Oliver Hobart downstairs and killed him?'

I was quite prepared to believe that Gideon had knocked Hobart downstairs, or that he hadn't.

To knock a fellow human being downstairs in a quarrel, so that he diesthat may be impulse and accident, and is not so vile.

And then he went downstairs and left the house.

That frightful Ayres woman had a vision in a glass ball of Arthur knocking Oliver downstairs.

They are not busy downstairs.

Lightning has struck downstairs, and it is raining surprises!"

And soon after they heard sounds of trunks being dragged along the passage; furniture was being moved, and when she came downstairs she just said she was going to sleep with Mary.

One twin writes that she and her sister "have both the defect of not being able to come downstairs quickly, which, however, was not born with them, but came on at the age of twenty."

At nine o'clock he went downstairs, tapped civilly at the door of the front parlour, and by an untuned voice was bidden enter.

Though Mark had ordered the girl to be confined to her room until further commands were given on the subject, no one in the house would think of questioning Ruth Tolliver, if she took the girl downstairs to the street and told her to go on her way.

"Got an idea you're going downstairs, Miss Smith.

When I came downstairs and took a preliminary glance at the rough memorandum-book, kept by the bottle-boy, or, in his absence, by the housemaid, I stood aghast.