1 It was dug out under the wing of the house, was plastered and cemented, with a stairway and an outside door by which the men came and went.
2 In a moment I watched her fade down the dusky stairway.
3 The little girl with the rag doll found a place on the bottom step of an enclosed back stairway, and sat with her toes curled up, looking out at us expectantly.
4 While we were talking, the little boy whom they called Jan came in and sat down on the step beside Nina, under the hood of the stairway.
5 He had followed her into the hall and to the foot of the stairway, looking up at her as she mounted with her face half turned to him.
6 Edna hastened upstairs by a private stairway that led from the rear of the store to the apartments above.
7 A wild shriek came pealing down the stairway.
8 Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor.
9 Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway.
10 He found that it curtained a sort of steep natural stairway which was enclosed between narrow walls, and at once the ambition to be a discoverer seized him.
11 Two soldiers were accordingly sent for, and the inspector descended a stairway, so foul, so humid, so dark, as to be loathsome to sight, smell, and respiration.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 12 In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force waiting to save him.
13 A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor.
14 It was already gone half past eleven when someone could be heard in the stairway.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The... 15 At last, however, I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure.