After the first time, I followed the figure several times downstairs into the drawing-room, where she remained a variable time, generally standing to the right hand side of the bow window.
He was perpetually rushing out of the rooms and downstairs to see if he had arrived.
The act of courtesy accomplished, she as solemnly reconducts him downstairs again to spread his couch for him—a sheet of brown paper, by his request.
Its scent was reminiscent of the summer breeze that was blowing through the downstairs rooms, though not at all in keeping with the chill October air that was coming through his bedroom window.
Knowing my fondness for pets, F---- took me downstairs to see it very soon after our arrival.
I went downstairs to get coffee for the picket, but when I got out to the gate there was no picket there.
I was dressed and downstairs when, a little before five, the battle recommenced.
I suppose the realistic character of our rehearsal preyed on the servants' minds, for they groped their way downstairs to the cellar in the dark, and none thought to turn on the electric light.
These I put in my box, put directions on the top that it was to be given on my death to Francis, and went downstairs again, where I found him sealing his up.
Oh, very well then; I had better go downstairs again and read.
Bond, had witnessed the downstairs trip in anticipation of a conference.
Her sleep was fitful and she dreamed of Ben downstairs in a casket, again and again, until she fairly feared the night.
Florrie went downstairs and back into the sitting-room, acting at once, as was her way, on the thought that came into her mind.
She slipped out of the bedroom by an outer door that did not lead through the nursery, downstairs along the passage, out at a side door, open to the summer evening, across the grass of the garden, and right into the wood.
Very cautiously, with one hand feeling the wall, and in the other carrying his boots, lest he should wake the Penhaligons, he stole downstairs to his parlour.
It's some trick of Pamphlett's to get me out," he decided, and went downstairs cautiously.
Here, run downstairs and fetch up some more water, if you want to be useful.
Madame has just gone downstairs to receive the Countess de Mussidan and the Marchioness d’Arlange,” said the maid whom he met on the landing.
The Marquis de Sairmeuse is downstairs in the blue drawing-room; and he begs mademoiselle to grant him a few minutes’ conversation.
His satisfaction was so intense that he did not deign to notice the sneers bestowed upon him as he passed along the corridors; but on the threshold downstairs he encountered Gevrol the general, who was evidently watching for him.
At about ten o’clock he fell asleep, and the abbe and Madame d’Escorval then went downstairs to talk with Marie-Anne.
As he went downstairs Eames was still thinking of his meeting with Crosbie, and had as yet hardly said a word to his neighbour, and his neighbour had not said a word to him.
When she had thought of this, she fastened up her hair and began to wash: it seemed more possible to her to go downstairs and try to behave as usual.
Dinah must have risen a little before the sun the next morning, for she was downstairs about five o'clock.
Chapter X Dinah Visits Lisbeth AT five o'clock Lisbeth came downstairs with a large key in her hand: it was the key of the chamber where her husband lay dead.
This desirable event of Mrs. Poyser's coming downstairs happened in the early part of February, when some mild weather thawed the last patch of snow on the Binton Hills.
The good landlady was amazed when she saw Hetty come downstairs soon after herself, neatly dressed, and looking resolutely self-possessed.
In cooler mood they discussed that question, without discovering a solution; discussed it until it was time for Matilda to go downstairs to perform her share of the preparation of the communal dinner.
I believe he is downstairs some place going over some bills Mrs. De Peyster asked him to examine.
Downstairs there are six or seven young men from the newspapers.
Just slip the bracelets on Matilda, too, and carry downstairs the party in bed.
She came downstairs again, and made the tea, and put the teapot on the hob.
As soon as he was able to get downstairs and sit out on the front porch of the hotel he found himself an object of interest as well as curiosity.
I must go downstairs and send a message to Mr. Sparling, for he is very much concerned about you.
She went downstairs again, and returned with another woman, a lodger in the house.
Having resumed her ordinary dregs, Maud went downstairs to the parlour where her aunt was sitting.
The latter persuaded Ida to go downstairs for a while, and the child, whose tears had begun to flow, left the room, sobbing in anguish.
Those uniformed thieves of yours downstairs have robbed me of my watch.
It was the only right course, he reflected distractedly, while the messenger waiteddownstairs chatting agreeably to the officers.
Downstairs in the big kitchen a candle was burning, surrounded by the shadows of the walls, of the ceiling, but no ruddy glare filled the open square of the outer door.
Sir Terence ran downstairs after him; Lord Colambre waited quietly for their return.
Lady Catharine, as they went downstairs to supper, observed that Miss Nugent had not been dancing, that she had kept quite in the background all night-quite in the shade.
The wintry season was at its loneliest when she came downstairs again, very pale and transparent, and began to settle down into the ways of the house.
Yes, happier---- When she camedownstairs Arthur was waiting for her.
The cloud left her brow, and she led the way downstairs with a jaunty air.
I'll go downstairs at five o'clock, and wait for her in the hall.
Clinch stood looking at her for a moment, then he went downstairs heavily, and out to the veranda where State Trooper Stormont still sat his saddle, talking to Hal Smith.
He rose, went away downstairs and out to the barn, where his campaign hat lay in the weed, drilled through by a bullet.
One of the masked men said: "Take her downstairs and lock her up somewhere or she'll shoot us from her window.
Downstairs the flotsam of the forest had gathered again: Mr. Lyken was there in black gloves; the Reverend Laomi Smatter had arrived in a sleigh from Ghost Lake.
Good-bye," said Patty, and she ran downstairs and over home, determined to work fast enough to make up for the time she had lost.
You will find the proofs of my new book downstairs on my desk.
He went downstairs again, knowing sleep impossible, and sat in the deserted dining-room, still pursued by that inevitable footfall.
How Mrs. Aiken stayed downstairs and went to sleep in an arm-chair, and of a curious experience she had.
How Mrs. Aiken stayed downstairs and went to sleep in an arm-chair and of a curious experience she had.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "downstairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: below; down; downgrade; downhill; downright; downward; under
