escalier
Example Sentences
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Leaning back with half-closed eyes, he kept saying over and over to himself: "Devant une facade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier."
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
Bernin s'ing�ra de creuser un des fameux piliers de St. Pierre pour y pratiquer un petit escalier montant � la tribune; aussit�t le d�me prit coup et se fendit.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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
Leaning back with half-closed eyes, he kept saying over and over to himself:— "Devant une façade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier."
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
A corridor and escalier dérobé at the back of these two apartments admit the attendance of servants, without their passing through the vestibule.
From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
