It was a piece of rotten wood which had fallen from the balustrade upon the stairs, to be seen and picked up by Jane just before she would have passed down on her way to dinner.
If you had gone downstairs before Jane Cupp saw the bit of broken balustrade you might have been killed--by accident again.
One afternoon towards the end of February they were standing by the balustrade of the Pincio watching the sunset.
The dining room occupies the west front, and back of it, in an L extension from the hall, a handsome staircase with gracefully turned balustrade leads to the bedrooms on the second floor.
Where it follows up the stairs, it corresponds to the handrail of the balustrade opposite.
It is of graceful design with free-flowing curves and an elliptical swell front where the balustrade has a solid three-panel insert.
It lacks the grace of the winding stairs and the charm of the iron balustrade so much admired in the former.
There is the similar ramped balustrade and paneled wainscot with ramped surbase and dark wood cap rail along the wall opposite.
Severely plain square newels support an exceptionally broad and heavy handrail capped with dark wood, while attractive turned balusters of distinctive pattern complete a balustrade of more than ordinarily substantial character.
The entrance porch, one of the few of consequence in Philadelphia, is characterized by its chaste simplicity, the fine-scale reeded columns and wrought-iron balustrade of the marble steps being its chief features.
The newel treatment is especially appropriate, inasmuch as it reflects the Ionic order, the balustrade winding scroll-fashion about a slender fluted colonnette, and the first stair tread taking the outline of the rail above.
The scroll-pattern stair ends, balustrade and spiral newel treatment are much the same as at Whitby Hall.
The balustrade at the Wistar house just referred to is a typical example of excellent cast-iron work, the design consisting of a diaper pattern of Gothic tracery with harmonious decorative bands above and below.
In the accompanying balustradeare to be seen motives much employed in the other examples here illustrated.
Of more interest is the balustrade at Number 207 La Grange Alley with its evolute spiral band and slender ball spindles beneath.
He is doomed to wander about his castle until the balustrade has been worn so deep that it will hold two heads of hair like those he cut from his wife.
Long ago he realized how foolish had been his actions, but although he has heartily repented, yet may he never know the rest of his grave until the balustrade has been worn hollow.
And I acquaint your Majesty, 3rdly, that the balustrade next the river, behind the church, is become ruinous.
I crossed the balustrade by sitting on it and swinging my legs over: then strode on light feet down the grassy bank and through an opening in the shrubbery I saw at my right.
So, in spite of your sentinel's vigilance, I crossed the balustrade to the garden, and there had the honour of presenting myself to the Countess.
I walked up the middle path to where there was an opening in the balustradeat the head of a flight of steps.
This part, which was really a terrace, was separated by a low Italian balustrade from the greater garden below and beyond.
Schiarra Palace, the balustrade of the high altar of St. Andrea della Valle, two columns in the garden of the Corsini Palace of L.
This milestone now forms one of the ornaments on the balustrade at the head of the stairs of the Capitol.
Soames rounded the last bend and came in sight of his father's tall figure wrapped in a brown silk quilted gown, stooping over the balustrade above.
Every evening, wherever they had dined, they might be observed about half-past ten, leaning over the balustrade of the Alhambra promenade.
The fashion of raising the bed on a dais separated from the rest of the room by columns and a balustrade was introduced in France in the time of Louis XIV.
With the Palladian style came the classic balustrade of stone or marble, or sometimes, in simpler houses, of wood.
The balustrade was usually of stone or marble, iron being much less used than in France.
So the hall on this second floor, out of which the family bedrooms opened, was an L-shaped room, with the balustrade on one hand.
And upon that balustrade Ruth Fielding beheld a tottering figure in white, plainly visible in the soft glow of the single light burning below, yet rather ghostly after all.
But in a moment she heard the balustrade of the stair creak.
He was balancing himself upon the balustrade and, as she came to the door, he walked gingerly along the narrow strip of moulding toward Ruth.
So he rose and approached the balustrade of a terrace; and beneath him appeared the Forum, and beyond it the Capitoline hill.
It was a broad stairway, with low steps, balustrade of white marble, and walls covered with yellowish stucco.
However, Pierre desired to approach the balustrade so as to get a near view of the colossal statues of the Saviour and the Apostles which surmount the facade on the side of the piazza.
The balustrade was covered with heavy, Persian rugs, and the walls of the hall were also hung with them.
At the end of the hall was a staircase with a balustrade which ended in a sweeping curve.
But as I turned, I saw a man sitting on a bench, which the curve of the balustrade had hidden from me.
A dark cloaked and hooded figure stood by the balustrade that ran along the roof-top.
Elizabeth's grandfather gave the house the balustrade that crowns its roof from its northern to its southern, and thence to its western end.
He clung to it with desperate hands, and, at the moment when he opened his mouth to utter a second cry, he beheld the formidable and avenging face of Quasimodo thrust over the edge of the balustrade above his head.
In an instant the ladder was raised, and propped against the balustrade of the lower gallery, above one of the lateral doors.
Often at night a hideous form was seen wandering along the frail balustrade of carved lacework, which crowns the towers and borders the circumference of the apse; again it was the hunchback of Notre-Dame.
And leaning over thebalustrade of the balcony, he began to shout, "Little one!
A man was, in truth, leaning on the balustrade which surmounted the northern tower, looking on the Grève.
There is an openwork balustrade which surrounds the platform of the bell tower.
He approached him and addressed him, shaking his arm slightly; for the good man was leaning on the balustrade and dozing a little.
In one of these moments he suddenly beheld the long window on the balcony, whose stone balustrade projected above his head, open mysteriously.
Then, with a low cry of anguish, he leaned against the balustrade and covered his face with his hands.
They are left just in the state in which they were in the time of the Republic; the balustrade still surrounds the elevated platform on which the throne of the Doge was placed.
Till the French came the bridges were dangerous; there was no balustrade on either side, and people often fell into the water.
The stone balustrade was so high, and the children were crouched so far below it near the ground, that they could not be seen by people above unless they should lean over the balustrade and look down.
The children were so frightened they could not move, but they rolled up their eyes, and over the edge of the balustrade they saw two shadowy heads looking down at them.
I've dropped from the balustrade into the court lots of times at home.
Bring a torch," cried the voice of the other priest, and soon the two heads were again hanging over the balustrade and a torch in the hand of Lampon threw light on the upturned faces of the Twins.
Within the balustrade the black shadows lay like a pool of ink, and the floor of the balcony was quite invisible, except where the open window through which they had stepped let out a narrow stream of light.
The pungent scent thrown out by the geranium bushes which rose from the curiously twisted vases set at intervals along the marble balustrade floated up to where she sat, giving a delicate keenness to the warm sea-wind.
On a white marble plinth and surrounded by a carved balustrade of the same stone, stood a delicately modelled, tiny temple about twenty or thirty feet high.
Below the house was a large lake, confined by a marble wall and balustrade that passed all round it.
He leaned against the balustradeof the verandah, still faintly smiling.
Two animals, which had once, perhaps, resembled lions, were placed one upon each side of the balustrade at the platform of the highest terrace; and they had been staring there for more than a hundred and fifty years.
For a few moments he leaned over the balustrade of the terrace and looked around.
It had a balustrade about it and within this balustrade hung short yellow brocaded curtains, in a sort of valance, that seemed to Herrick strangely fresh, as though hung there yesterday.
Damaris turned about, resting her hands on the top of the iron balustrade again and gazed out to sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "balustrade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
