escalier

Example Sentences

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

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar

“Monsieur Ebaté is at the escalier dérobé,” said she.

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah

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 Lowndes, Marie Belloc

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)

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