escalier

Example Sentences

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He enters the antechamber from the grand escalier.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

"L'esquif aborde et me dépose, Jetant son amarre au pilier, Devant une façade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier."

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar

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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

And then, as he walked away to the escalier d'honneur, he told himself that on the whole the poor Poulains had taken his disagreeable piece of news very well.

From The End of Her Honeymoon by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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 Frye, Major W. E