The stair was in two long flights, with an air-hole or two at the top of the upper one, but not another pin-prick till you came to the iron gate at the bottom of the lower.
But already his plan had changed; the second speech down the stair well had caused him to change it.
The white houses of Clovelly, piled stairabovestair up the rocks, gleamed more and more brightly out of the green round bosoms of the forest.
Judith saw it in the library door, and stood still on the stair landing, looking down.
But his wife said nothing, and when Smetse went to look for her he found her on the stair with a great bowl of holy water in her hands, in which she was dipping a fair sprig of palm branch.
And when the night was fully dark, went down the stair slowly, sitting-wise.
A ladder-stair led to a closed trap-door in the floor above.
I went across the yard, and ascended a wooden spiral stair by a twilight which just enabled me to pick my way among five or six vague forms fallen there.
They were on their way up the turret-stair now; the west turret.
Can you find your way all down thestair alone, Mavis?
He went slowly down the stair again, his hand, shaking a little, slipping along the polished banister.
She climbed the stair slowly, her heart hammering.
A tall old clock stood at the turn of the echoing stair and as he descended between his two uniformed attendants, grimly watchful of his every movement, he noted mechanically that it was two o'clock.
When the secretary reappeared he went quickly up the stair and along a hall.
But the suspense and inaction weighed upon him, and at last, moving quickly, he went down the back stair and so to the office, where he sought out the friend of Piquette, Monsieur Jacquot.
He was about to take his leave when he heard a man's footsteps upon the stair and went back to his position on the model stand.
What you would have done, Monsieur--I rushed down the stair and gave the alarm, watching the stair and waiting for the police.
That you came up the stair and as the door was unlocked, you entered this room, finding it empty?
You say that one of the crowd who had come up the stair with you examined the room.
You say that you realized that the visitor coming up the stair was a man and that you and Madame withdrew in the darkness into the little hall-room and waited?
She watched him go down the stair and then turned in at the door of her own apartment.
The man was now climbing up the stair and reached the landing.
There was a winding stair which led to the living quarters above, but through a doorway beside it, there was a glimpse of an inner room with tables unoccupied.
But when they reached the porte cochere of Madame Toupin, Monsieur Simon handed her gravely down and Monsieur Matthieu led the way up the stair to the studio where a policeman was still on guard.
She glanced over thestair and then entering the studio quietly, slowly approached him, letters in hand.
One of us went in when we came up the stair and came out saying it was empty.
A stair of flagging, turning sharply round a stone pillar, led incongruously from the light French furnishings to the chamber where Lavinia was to sleep.
Returning from this exercise of his trade he saw Bella descending the stair with a plate.
They entered by a corner tower, then mounted a stair and traversed apartments once magnificent but now gloomy and deserted.
Dolfo, meantime, preceding his company, but without his former braggadocio, mounted the stair of the Palazzo dei Medici.
The dog barked angrily, and up the winding stair which led to the altana came laboriously an old woman habited like a widow.
Messer Leonardo, once I dreamed I was in the dark, going down a long, long stair like this one, only it had no beginning and no end.
He rolled himself to his feet and shuffled along on his crutches, leading his master up the creaking stair to the attic, where the sun burned hot on the tiled roof, and the sunset rays shone upon the dormer-window.
Upon reaching the foot of the stair the king frowned and scratched his head, trying to recall his thoughts.
The winding stairwas steep, and often of late he had been unable to ascend it without assistance.
This morning she was sitting on the stair hugging her knees and sobbing distractedly.
Giovanni saw a man in the black and white Dominican habit girdled with a rope, who slowly ascended the pulpit-stair and removed his cowl.
A stair cut in the rock leads steeply down a rift in the magnificent cliffs to the mouth of a little cave, once shrouded by a portico whose fragments lie scattered among the cacti and wild thyme.
I went again to the door, peered down the steep stair and over the crazy balustrade.
At the top of the stair I was pushed into a dark, fusty room, and guided to a low, fusty sofa or bed.
A Government peon in scarlet and gold ascended the stair at his own pace, bearing a packet with an official seal.
The muffled crescendo of steps on the stair and the sound of an inquiry penetrated from beyond the portiere, and without further preliminary Duff Lindsay came into the room.
Naturally enough, since there is constant need to travel between the two "Towns," this stair is a prominent feature in Heligoland existence.
Access from the Lower to the Upper Town, on the Cliffs above, is obtained by means of a wooden stair of 190 steps.
Then Gladys bade good-bye to the little seamstress, and slipped away down the weary stair and into the grimy street, where already the lamps were lit.
It was nearly midnight when they ascended the long stair to the little garret, and Liz had to pause many times in the ascent to recover her breath and to let her cough have vent.
Then Gladys saw that a straight, steep stair led to the upper floor, but the place Abel Graham called his home was on the ground floor, at the far end of a long wide passage, on either side of which bales of goods were piled.
As I say, he thinks it should be walkin' doon the stair to meet him.
Then, taking a lamp, he led us from the room through a doorway opposite to that by which I had entered, down passages and a narrow stair that ended in a courtyard.
Death, O Prince, is, I think, but a single step in the pylon stair which leads at last to that dizzy height whence we see the face of God and hear his voice tell us what and why we are.
I could not bear to stand listening to her cries and groans; so I climbed the stair on the quake with fear; and when I reached the top I replaced the trap door and covered it with earth.
Madame," said Francois, "I am he who held the stair with the marquis.
He hauled him savagely after him, calling out, "Hold the stair a moment!
On the lowest stairwas a glint of yellow--a cross of gold.
As he spoke they were standing together on the broad landing, before them the great stair which led down to the illuminated hall below.
It was a tedious journey, and while I sorrowed for the cause of it, I was glad to have her away from Stair for a while, and hastened her departure with Dickenson on the afternoon coach of the same day upon which the letter arrived.
Hugh Pitcairn stayed by her until she was enough recovered for me to put her in the coach, and rode back to Stair with us, watching her all the time with an expression of alarm and tenderness, which drew him very near to me.
Will my Lord Stair allow me to introduce myself to him?
No happening which I can think of would have set Nancy Stair more plainly before Danvers than this one, which fell directly beneath his eye.
Danvers, he added, "You must help Lord Stair and myself to take care of her, Mr. Carmichael.
Until ye had a wife there was never one who entered the door more welcome, but as long as I have Nancy Stair to think about, ye'll just have to end these visits entirely.
Mistress Nancy Stair, only daughter of John Stair, Lord of Stair and Alton in the Mearns.
He sprung from the saddle, and Dorothy had scarce time to reply to his inquiries that the glover was in his bedroom, ere the stranger had ascended the stair and entered the sleeping apartment.
He tore his coat from me, and so down the stair like a madman; and I heard his horse clatter down the street, while I prayed for a soul in agony, and that she might not think I betrayed her.
My Lord Stair has spoke to the Regent, who said immediately that the conferences shall be renewed whenever we please; His Excellency then desired His Royal Highness would appoint a day, which he promised to do.
He's up the stair wi his bonny bride, An monny a lord and lady wi him.
