"Stepladder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... feel the necessity of upsetting the whole apartment. She had the inside man bring up the stepladder. "What's this for?" ...
— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller
... lieutenant," Tex answered. "Red-headed, freckle-faced, and so runty that he'd have to set on a stepladder to ...
— Aces Up • Covington Clarke
... voice: "I went to get those powders I'd put away in father's old spectacle-case, top of the china-closet, where I keep the things I set store by, so's folks shan't meddle with them—" Her voice broke, and two small tears hung on her lashless lids and ran slowly down her cheeks. "It takes the stepladder to get at the top shelf, and I put Aunt Philura Maple's pickle-dish up there o' purpose when we was married, and it's never been down since, 'cept for the spring cleaning, and then I always lifted it with my own hands, so's 't shouldn't get broke." She laid the fragments reverently on the table. ...
— Ethan Frome • Edith Wharton |
