escalier
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This time I ascended the magnificent escalier of Michel Angelo, having the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in front.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
Two lions in basalt on each side of the escalier are very striking objects, and the escalier itself is the most superb thing of the kind perhaps in the world.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
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 Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
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 Oscar Wilde
And then, as he walked away to the escalier d'honneur, he told himself that on the whole the poor Poulains had taken his disagreeable piece of news very well.
From The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes
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