escalier

Example Sentences

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Wives cried from escalier windows to their men to come in by and lie decently down, to be ready for their work in the morning.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Before Freeman could make reply, she had passed out of the room, and commenced descending the escalier.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

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

Adolphe, sauve la Marquise, cet escalier n'est pas perdu.

From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Tytler, Sarah