escalier
Example Sentences
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At length one fell on the centre of the escalier, rolled down a few steps, and, bursting, tore up the whole stair, leaving only a deep gulf between us and the portal.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
Leaning back with half-closed eyes, he kept saying over and over to himself:— "Devant une façade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier."
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Wives cried from escalier windows to their men to come in by and lie decently down, to be ready for their work in the morning.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The Senator's son and daughter had just emerged across the courtyard, from the vestibule where ended the escalier d'honneur.
From The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Two lions in basalt on each side of the escalier are very striking objects, and the escalier itself is the most superb thing of the kind perhaps in the world.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
