With a desperate gathering together of her relaxed forces, she mounted the stairway.

" "No, I cannot understand it," Morriston replied, as he turned and began to ascend the winding stairway.

Prudence and Marjorie had climbed the narrow stairway once this summer to take a peep at his books, and Prudence had inquired if he intended to take them all out West when he accepted the presidency of the college that was waiting for him out there.

"Oh, Julia, I want to talk to you!" said Sadie Corn as Julia reached the stairway.

Through the wide hall and up the stairway, flowers of various kinds mingled their fragrance and loaded the air with their rich perfume; and expressions of delight burst from the lips of the guests as they passed up the brilliantly-lighted stairway and thronged the spacious drawing-rooms.

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.

Above, he heard footsteps descending the stairway at the foot of which he stood; Mr. Heatherbloom slipped out of the passage to the sidewalk and moved on.

Between eleven at night and seven the next morning, this mute ghostly waif from Palestine, with the half-century old dust of a pomegranate flower in its keeping, had come up that dark stairway.

Victorine called again impatiently; and the next minute she bounded down the stairway, crying, "Why dost thou terrify me so, thou bad Benoit, not answering me when I" She stopped, face to face with Willan Blaycke, and gave a cry of honest surprise.

She laid Will's letter in Hollis' hand, and slipping past him hastened up the stairway.

Then Carlen was sure it was some ill to Wilhelm, and with a loud cry she darted to the barn, and flew up the stairway leading to his room.

Untitled drawing depicting fancy stairway for incoming plane.

Six locks, set pretty close together, here formed a stairway for its descent, and Sam would hear no word of breakfast until they had navigated the whole flight.

Before Tony had a chance to demand what it was all about the door opened again and a righteously indignant house mother appeared on the threshold, demanding by what right an unauthorized male had gone up her stairway and entered a girl's room, without permission or escort.

Their footsteps echoed hollowly as they clattered down the worn old stairway.

"And if you climbed as many stairs as I did" "I beg your pardon," said he, and started up the stairway.

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

There was a fearful rush of feet overhead, then with shrill shrieks of fright great crowds of women and children swept down the stairway.

CHAPTER III THE SPY AND THE DEAD BOATSWAIN Three steps at a time I took the matted stairway, which was reckless speed, for the shell-paned windows were shut, and the awnings pulled down to keep out the heat of the blinding sun, making it quite dark.

"I tried to find a servants' stairway, but it seemed all were grand and confusing.

Her fringed hunting-shirt fell to her knees, the short shoulder-cape from throat to breast; gay fringe fluttered from shoulder to wrist, and from thigh to ankle; and her little scarlet-quilled moccasins went pat-patter-pat as she danced down the stairway and stood before me, sweeping her cap from her golden head in exaggerated salute.

The children hereabout, at any rate, will revere the Russians, for their pioneers had carried that winding stairway up to the very tip-top of the tree in a manner only seen in dreams or picture-books.

Dante mentions a similar stairway in canto XXII of the Paradiso, and intimates that the vision of it is disclosed only to true mystics.

Oh narrow back-stairway, where the step of the milkman rings out for me like a morning angelusfarewell!

A light foot went pattering up the stairway and a door slammed in the tower.