"Step down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one of her precious quarters to get rid of the attentive porter, and started off with a brisk step down the long platform to the station. It was part of her plan to get out of the neighborhood as quickly as possible, so she followed the stream of people who instead of going into the waiting-room veered off to the street door and out into the great, ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... men, of the few in all that multitude who had rank and power—he who had won as his promised wife the daughter of one of the dozen mighty ones of the nation! What an ill-timed, what an absurd, what a crazy step down this excursion of his! And for what? There he summoned her before him. And at the first glance of his fancy at her fair sweet face and lovely figure, he quailed. He was hearing her voice again. He was feeling the yield of her smooth, round form to his embrace, ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... got back from Southampton, interviewing everybody, and he's been about here since eight this morning. He's in the library now—that's where the open French window is that you see at the end of the house there. Perhaps you would like to step down there and ...
— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... darkness. I could probably, I knew, have scrambled over the whole of the building with perfect ease had there been light. I might already be close to the ground, but at the same time I might be many feet above it, and I therefore could not venture to step down without going through the same process as before. Leaning on my elbows, I stretched my arms along the top of the chest. I slipped off, and unexpectedly found my feet touch the ground. I was too eager to escape to allow myself time to rest ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
... if the woman asks a man to drive with her, he should help her to her seat, and be ready to step down when a halt is made to assist her ...
— The Book of Good Manners • W. C. Green
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