escalier

Example Sentences

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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

He enters the antechamber from the grand escalier.

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

It is this tower which contains the "escalier des voitures."

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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

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

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