escalier
Example Sentences
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I loved that escalier electrique; one day I will return and ascend and descend upon it for hours.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
From the Nu descendant un escalier, considered "an explosion in a fireworks factory" to his celebrated ready-mades, Duchamp pursued the call to "de-artify" art.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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
He enters the antechamber from the grand escalier.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
It was défense d'entrer, so we only wandered round the grounds and looked in at the windows, down the avenues and round the ponds and hundreds of statues, and went up the great escalier.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
