"Stairway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... belongings into a parcel, and without looking up, passed out of the door. She heard his steps echoing down the stairway, and soon from out the lattice she saw him walk across the court and disappear. He ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... the hall and to the foot of the stairway, looking up at her as she mounted with her face half ...
— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin
... scene is a large, whitewashed, disordered room, whose outer door opens on to a corridor and stairway. Doors on either side lead to other rooms. On the walls are unframed reproductions of fine pictures, secured with tintacks. An old wine-coloured armchair of low and comfortable appearance, near the centre of the room, is surrounded by a litter of manuscripts, books, ink, pens and newspapers, ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... time we could get washed up and ready for dinner, the crowd had come back, and when we set foot on the stairway, we were literally overwhelmed by our loving friends. First, I met Sir Francis Villiers and accepted his invitation to dine. He and Prince Koudacheff, the Russian Minister, a lot of other colleagues, ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson
... at the old stone stairway, which seemed to invite them to a higher region, but still as narrow ...
— Crown and Sceptre - A West Country Story • George Manville Fenn
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