escalier
Example Sentences
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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
Ascending one marble flight of the grand escalier, one entered a lofty apartment whose noble proportions and richness of effect were most impressive.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
Leaning back with half-closed eyes, he kept saying over and over to himself: "Devant une facade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier."
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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
This time I ascended the magnificent escalier of Michel Angelo, having the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in front.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
