escalier

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Entering by the tower portal one comes at once to that magnificent grand escalier which is accounted one of the wonders of the French Renaissance.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche

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

Ascending one marble flight of the grand escalier, one entered a lofty apartment whose noble proportions and richness of effect were most impressive.

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian