It appeared now that the letters were always found on the fourth stair from the top.

Even little Princess said, "Yes, papa, I am sure that the one I found was on that stair; for I now remember Fido came up with only just one or two bounds to the top, as soon as he saw me.

The first thing he saw, on opening the door, which he had himself locked only five minutes before, was a letter lying on the same fourth stair!

All sorts of strange sounds seemed to grow louder and louder, and still he sat, gazing helplessly in a sort of despair at that motionless letter, which he had not lifted from the stair.

Stealthily as any burglar he had crept about his own house, had taken up the whole of the front staircase carpet, and had with trouble pried off one board of the stair in which the letters were hid.

" "Could you not put them back in the stair, and nail it up firmly?" said I.

The last pitch was so steep as to be formed into a sort of stair-way, up which the groaning mules toiled with difficulty.

Into a doorway he went, and up a stair.

" Lucia darted in, and Tom shut the door behind her, and waited at the stair-head.

Noon had struck above the square, When adown the Horse Shoe stair In his well-known coat of gray, Worn on many a hard-fought day, Came the man adored by all As their "Little Corporal," Forced by Europe now to go Far from royal Fontainebleau.

Dead are now those grenadiers; Quelled are Europe's anxious fears; By the Seine the Emperor sleeps; France her watch beside him keeps; But the lonely Horse Shoe stair Still preserves its sombre air, For the light of long ago Falls no more on Fontainebleau.

The torrent's breath hath spread its blight On every darkened room, And oozing mosses drip decay Through corridors of gloom, While Ruin lays a subtle snare On many a yielding rail and stair.

We will have kicked the stuffing out of the bucket and wended our way up the golden stair.

"Is Helen come?" said Elsie, when she heard, with her fine sense quickened by the irritability of sickness, a light footfall on the stair, with a cadence unlike that of any inmate of the house.

When I see women split wood, unload coal-carts, move wash-tubs, and roll barrels of flour and apples handily down cellar-ways or up into carts, then I shall believe in the sublime theories of the strong-minded sisters; but as long as I see before me my own forlorn little hands, and sit down on the top stair to recover breath, and try in vain to lift the water-pitcher at table, just so long

I told him I would take him home, if he could tell me where he lived; but he was frightened into utter helplessness, and could only tell that his name was Tom, and that he lived at the top of a stair.

The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show you when you are there." "Oh, no, no!" said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.

The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many pretty things to show you when you are there." "Oh, no, no!" said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again.

He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den, Within his little parlourbut she ne'er came out again!

" Our limits advise us to quit the principal building, or that appropriated to the panoramic view, especially as we cannot convey to the reader an indistinct notion of the curious stair-work, machinery, and carpentry of the ascents, &c. We were induced to ascend to the exterior, but the mid-day smoke of the town, and the heavy fog of the day, spoiled our view.

* Bannister being impudently asked, "If he was not a relation of Lord STAIR?"

Turnbull thought he heard a step on the back-stair.

Below, a succession of little cliffs fell away, stair fashion, to an exceeding high and narrow gap which separated Little Thumb Butte from its greater neighbor, Big Thumb Butte.

she remarked, with a freezing spectacle-gleam that fixed me to the stair-carpetmy right foot two steps above the left.

How pleasantly would he have mounted the stair, laden with who knows what small gifts?a box of mignonette for the window-sill, an old book or two, as likely as not a live kitten, for indeed there was never an end to the variety or ingenuity of his offerings!

He also knew that if he stood where he was, perfectly still, the bear would get uncomfortable under his stare, and would retreat from him.

Grumps was there, and all that Grumps did was to sit on his haunches and stare at Fan and Crusoe, and wag his tail as well as he could in so awkward a position!

If people trod upon him accidentally, which they often did, Grumps uttered a solitary heart-rending yell proportioned in intensity to the excruciating nature of the torture he endured, then instantly resumed his position and his fascinated stare.

He turned in his saddle to stare wonderingly at her.

Sheila's little face looked out of the whipped windows with a pinched and shrinking stare.

all I know is, that I can draw pleasure from the mere sight of you, as, perhaps, you do from the mere sight of me; so let us sit together, Nature and I, and stare into each other's eyes like two young lovers, careless of the morrow and its griefs.'

I cannot describe her either as to feature, or color of her hair, or of her eyes; she was so young, so fair, so ethereal, that I felt to stare at her would be a violation; yet I was distinctly conscious of her beauty.

My glance immediately turned into a stare.

I felt her hand grow cold, and when I looked up, she was gazing at me with a wild, fixed stare as though I was some object she had never seen.

Joseph sat on a bench, with bent shoulders, and was dreaming with fixt gaze into the west, as seamen stare across the interminable wave at the pale green horizons that are like the grassy shores of home.

Robin's first act was to stand and stare, for the heap consisted of bales similar to those with which he had seen the mules laden a couple of days back, and tied up together a few yards away were the very mules, while the little crowd of men who were busy bore a very strong resemblance to those by whom the attack was made on the previous day.

We send abroad gigantic stories of huge antediluvian lizards, 'larger than the largest size,' and we ourselves are kept upon the stare at our own wonders from Georgia to Maine, until we find out we have been exulting over the stranded remains of a common spermaceti whale.

A show they want, they come to gape and stare.

His audacity so astonished me that in silence I could only stare at him and walk on.

Aunt Cynthia looked at me with her childlike convent stare.

She met his stare, on this evening, with eyes clouded with tears.

" Huckstep came swearing on: when within a few yards of Harry he stopped, looked at him with a stare of mingled rage and drunken imbecility; and bid him throw down his hoe and come forward.

She could do nothing but stare at him.

" The strange look in his face made old Donald stare.

"I always told Ned that no woman could stand him," said Susanna, with sodden vivacity, after a pause, during which Marian had to endure her astonished stare.

and what have you done with her?" The party on the steps ceased chatting and began to stare.

Of course her story was known to all the domestics, half a dozen of whom quickly collected to stare at her, with more or less malicious smiles.

I've got to stare this town out of countenance.

"Shak. 3. Verbs made nouns: "Avaunt all attitude, and stare, and start theatric."Cowper.

There will be royalty for my wife; German officers for Bee; heaps of people for you to stare at, and as for me, I don't need any attraction.