escalier
Example Sentences
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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
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
I loved that escalier electrique; one day I will return and ascend and descend upon it for hours.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
It was défense d'entrer, so we only wandered round the grounds and looked in at the windows, down the avenues and round the ponds and hundreds of statues, and went up the great escalier.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
Descending by the grand escalier he found himself in one of the narrow corridors which communicated by private staircases with the left wing of the palace.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
