pair of stairs

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Friponnet rents two unfurnished rooms up four pair of stairs, at the back of a house in the street d’Argenteuil. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William

Then in a flash he remembered the coat-room, remembered the narrow pair of stairs leading down from one corner with a row of red fire-buckets on a bench beside it.

From Under Boy Scout Colors by Ames, Joseph Bushnell

At this tavern we left the carriage, and went on foot through thick woods, from which a pair of stairs conduct to the falls....

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

It drew me up two pair of stairs into an office where the exchanges lay about in delightful disorder, and a little hand-press was clacking out proofs just in the old sweet way.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

She lies in the watchet-coloured chamber, on the right hand, one pair of stairs.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William