escalier

Example Sentences

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L'esquif aborde et me depose,     Jetant son amarre au pilier, Devant une facade rose,     Sur le marbre d'un escalier.

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar

The door on the right-hand end, on entering, opens to a less richly ornamented salon, inside which are two admirable bed-chambers and dressing-rooms, communicating by an escalier dérobé with a suite of servants' apartments.

From The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

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

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

Before Freeman could make reply, she had passed out of the room, and commenced descending the escalier.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

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