fire escape
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Fire-escape balcony scenes and corner-drugstore Friar Lawrences are not only distracting but tinged with bathos.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is Fire-escape Simmons, the inveterate talker, you know: Exit—in case of Simmons.
From Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Fire-escape work is done with Roman ladders, which are usually planted on two gondolas flung together barge-form, or, if the depth of the canal permits, the lower length is buried in the canal bottom.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
This is Fire-escape Simmons, the inveterate talker, you know: Exit—in case of Simmons.
From Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete by Paine, Albert Bigelow
