At this moment the general came down the stairs, clinging to the banister and supported by Matrena Petrovna.
Madge held up the skirt of her gown with one hand while she grasped the banister with the other.
Within a minute or two Madge came down stairs holding up the skirt of her gown with one hand, while she grasped the banister with the other.
Euphrasia, undaunted, ran through the darkened front hall to where the graceful banister ended in a curve at the foot of the stairs, and there, on the bottom step, sat a man with his head in his hands.
Her stepdaughter, all ready from the earliest hours, almost leaped over the banister to respond, and they dashed out together in quest of learning as hard as they often dashed back to release Mrs. Beale for other preoccupations.
Banister died in 1679, and was interred in the cloister of Westminster Abbey.
Banister was one of the first who established lucrative concerts in London.
Johnny, whose legs were rather short to interlace in the banister rails and thus heave himself upwards as the other boys did.
And she might have got to her destination in safety had the passenger been a boy accustomed to banister sliding instead of a weak, fragile little girl.
And Banister himself, when he became of extreme old age, was found guilty of a murder, and was only saved by the intervention of the clergy, to whom he had paid large sums.
XII Over the Banister WHEN Aunt Cal saw that letter and I watched that funny, almost frightened look pass over her face, I knew of course that there was nothing for it but to tell her everything.
Over the banister I now had a clear view into the lighted room below, and there, seated at the old-fashioned secretary in the corner, was Aunt Cal.
The youngster complained that it was very little, to which Banister replied that one of the casks had leaked amongst the cargo of guano or he would have had more.
The mate and Banister replied that they were, whereupon the master took a candle, examined the hold, and afterwards the sleeping-berths, but he could not see anything of the brandy.
On Monday the boy went down to the hold and saw the brandy was gone, and the same night about half-an-hour before midnight the mate and Banister brought four gallons of the brandy to where the boy was lodging, as his share.
Presently the mate and Banister removed the hatches and handed up about two tiers of guano, sent the casks of brandy below and placed bags on their top.
For at that time both the master and Banister were ashore.
Dilapidations, a Text-book for Architects and Surveyors, in tabulated form, by Banister Fletcher, Fellow Royal Inst.
Colonel Banister resided near Petersburg, at Battersea, which house he built.
John Banister was the son of an eminent botanist, of the same name, who settled in Virginia toward the close of the seventeenth century, and devoted himself to the study of plants.
Lawson's corps was dissolved when Leslie retired from Virginia, and thus the horse commanded by Colonel Banister was lost to the State, at a time when cavalry was so pressingly required.
During the invasions which Virginia was subjected to, Colonel Banister was actively engaged in the efforts made to repel the enemy.
I began to wonder, as I felt for the stairbanister and groped my cautious way down the treads, just how the burglar himself had effected that final exit from the house.
So I groped and shuffled my way onward, rounding thebanister and advancing step by step up the second stairway.
But it was Creegan himself who confronted me as I swung about the banister turn of that shadowy second landing.
Convulsively grasping the banister with both hands, his broad shoulders formed a mighty buttress against the pressing flood.
After this fight all the spectators were taking breath; the capuchin friar Johannes, seated upon the banister facing the field of battle, shook his stick, smiling with satisfaction in his long brown beard.
Our bumper took the entire banister and laid it out in the road ahead of us.
One cute little fellow, with a neck about as long as four telephone poles, came toward us and stuck his head up over the rock banister where I stood.
Nancy Banister has told me, Rose, how cruelly you spoke to Priscilla-- what agony your cruel words cost her.
Would not Nancy Banister take the part better, Maggie?
Maggie Oliphant and Nancy Banisterpresently rushed in for this purpose.
At half-past two Nancy Banister came hastily into Priscilla's room.
After a time she bade Nancy Banister "good night" and went off to her own room to study the notes she had taken that morning at the French lecture.
She did not want Nancy Banister to see that her eyes were full of tears.
She was glad that Maggie was alone; she felt more at ease with her than with any one, but the next moment she said with a look of apparent regret: "I thought Miss Banister was in your room?
Nancy Banister was really attached to her, Maggie was most faithful in her declared friendship and Miss Heath took more notice of Priscilla than of any other girl in the hall.
Nancy Banister had declined her invitation with decision; Constance Field had withered her with a look.
I heard a rustling, however, and on the staircase over the banister I saw the folds of her silk dress as she descended.
Emboldened by her boiling indignation, she stood on the step she had reached with both feet firmly planted there, and finding that the banister rattled under her hand she withdrew it, and folded her arms.
Judith stood motionless, her bosom rising and falling quickly, her lips set, the breath racing through her nostrils, and one hand resting on the banister at the stair-head.
And then without saying any more, she set the lamp down on the flat head of the top banister and herself began to shuffle downstairs again into the dark house.
I put the jug on the banister and hastened to admit him myself.
