pair of stairs

Example Sentences

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She had but one small room, up one pair of stairs, and a very small bed in it.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

The hospital is pretty big, and we had to go down a long hall and a long pair of stairs.

From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Dale, Daphne

In another, a ladder-like pair of stairs, suggesting a ship’s companionway, lay half out of the water.

From The Dragon's Secret by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)

With many flirts of the tail she hopped down to the nest, jumping from branch to branch as if tripping down a pair of stairs.

From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.

At a little distance from the falls is a tavern, where they left the carriage, and went on foot through thick woods, from which a pair of stairs conducted to the falls.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton