escalier
Example Sentences
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Before Freeman could make reply, she had passed out of the room, and commenced descending the escalier.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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
Descending by the grand escalier he found himself in one of the narrow corridors which communicated by private staircases with the left wing of the palace.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
At length one fell on the centre of the escalier, rolled down a few steps, and, bursting, tore up the whole stair, leaving only a deep gulf between us and the portal.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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
