escalier
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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
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
The former �v�ch� is to-day the H�tel de Ville, but was built by Mansart in 1666, and has a fine escalier in sculptured stone.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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 Frye, Major W. E
He enters the antechamber from the grand escalier.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
