To get to the door it was necessary to pass through the hall, and before doing so she paused on the bottom of the staircase which descended into one corner, to take a last look at the gathering.
As it grew later the fire was made up in the large long hall into which the staircase descended, and all encumbrances were cleared out for dancing.
Every staircase was blocked, and as no one cared to leave the place so long as the torrent continued, the vast circular structure was more like a huge barrel of soaked sardines than anything else.
Dorothea's person blocked up the staircase before him, or he would have slipped by and locked himself unnoticed in his chambers.
The staircase of the building looked extremely neat and orderly, yet in no way luxurious--being lined only with drugget pinned down with highly-polished brass rods.
Vance kept urging Eva across the lobby, toward the staircase leading up to the bar.
From the staircase up above, the crickets had resumed their high-pitched medley.
A polished mahogany staircase led to the upper floors.
The first steps of the rock staircase by which the gorge is descended lay in grateful shadow.
Underneath the round towers of the crumbling ruin an old broken staircase descends towards the town, skirting the castle wall.
I left Santa Chiara by the northern door, which opens on a handsome double staircase descending to the courtyard.
It leads to Anacapri, and is cut along the precipices of Monte Solaro, doing violence to the face of those solitary cliffs on which the winding staircase offered until recently the only mode of approach.
An old monk admitted me, and without waste of words, pointed out the staircase which gave access to the upper story.
The wind being as fierce as ever, we did not care to endanger the light in the lantern by rekindling the extinguished lamps on the staircase, but we examined the staircase from the bottom to the top and found no one there.
Tolerably, for I had gone up the staircase in the dark, many a time.
So, up a dark brownstaircase into a series of three dark brown rooms on the first floor.
I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated.
Then, the two nurses left the room, and had a lively scuffle on the staircase with a dissipated page who had waited at dinner, and who had clearly lost half his buttons at the gaming-table.
The lighted candle stood in the dark passage within, as of old, and I took it up and ascended the staircase alone.
When we had shaken hands and he was gone, I opened the staircase window and had nearly beheaded myself, for, the lines had rotted away, and it came down like the guillotine.
Now, in groping my way down the black staircase I fell over something, and that something was a man crouching in a corner.
When I had gone into Herbert's room, and had shut off any other communication between it and the staircase than through the room in which our conversation had been held, I asked him if he would go to bed?
The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers's room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years.
To get her shawl and make her way down the staircase was the work of a few moments, and the brougham was rolling away toward Walmington Square before Jack had got down to the hall.
Chance had favored Una in her escape; no sooner had she reached the staircase than she heard Mrs. Davenant's carriage announced.
Having made the circuit of the gallery, she reached a narrow staircase which wound still higher upward.
Opening the glass door, they saw before them a narrow staircase in two flights.
She saw Lord Chandos that same evening; they met in a crush on the staircase at one of the ducal mansions, where a grand dinner-party preceded a soiree, and the crowd was so great they were unable to stir.
Behind it was a dark staircase leading from the floor above to some outer door below, whose opening had given ingress to the chill humid current from the ravine.
Midway of the staircase he heard the droning of pipes.
He glided quickly up the staircase and entered the corridor.
They were descending some staircase at the back of his bed--he could hear the regular tap of a light slipper from step to step and the rustle of a skirt seemingly in his very ear.
Don't be alarmed, old man; I came up by that staircase and saw the door open, and guessed you'd be returning soon.
This was the staircase where he had just heard the footsteps--and this was, no doubt, the door through which the mysterious figure had vanished from his room a few hours before!
He re-entered the billiard-room, passed the unchanged group of card-players, and taking a candlestick from the hall ascended the dark and silentstaircase into the corridor.
Nevertheless, she descended the staircase more deliberately than her companion, who brushed past him with an embarrassed self-consciousness, quite in advance of her.
Every door and window is on the south side of the house, save a single door to the north, contrived behind the staircase to give access to the vineyard.
Entering the house, you find yourself in a little lobby with a crooked staircase straight in front of you.
A short, steepstaircase like the companionway of a ship leads up to a landing about the size of a kitchen table.
Mr. Griggs and I are convinced that they are lunatics escaped from the asylum, and we have locked them up securely in the staircase beyond the study.
The staircase below was dimly lighted by gas, but there was none at the upper landing, and in a few seconds a dark form appeared, casting a tall shadow upwards against the dingy white paint of the wall.
That was all, and they went on in the gathering gloom, through the three rooms of the library, to the door of the old study, from which a short winding staircase led up to the two small rooms which Griggs was occupying.
It would be an easy matter to trick the three men into the short winding staircase that led up to the rooms Griggs occupied, and if the upper and lower doors were locked and barricaded, the prisoners could not forcibly get out.
Logotheti, having meanwhile made the upper door perfectly secure, descended by the open staircase to the hall, and sent the first footman he met to call the butler, with whom he said he wished to speak.
Then walk up to the Barrier near the Transepts, where sit again, in order to observe the Choir and Transepts with the staircase which leads to the raised Ambulatory.
It has an entrance on the quay, before which the guillotine-carts received the victims of the Reign of Terror, and another to the right of the great staircase in the Cour d'Honneur.
Mount to the Upper Chapel (or Sainte Chapelle proper) by the small spiral staircase in the corner.
The beautiful twisted staircase in front of the central pavilion was executed by Lemercier for Louis XIII.
A staircase now leads to the first floor, and we enter the apartments of Napoleon I.
The mulatto let him into a house, the staircaseof which was quite close to the entrance.
By nine o'clock that morning there was not a sign to show that either staircase or wire-cables had ever existed, and Sister Theresa's body had been taken on board.
Arrived in her own courtyard, as she supposed, she entered a vestibule almost like that of her own hotel, and suddenly saw that the staircase was different.
That miraculously light, yet perfectly firm, staircase cost them twenty-two days of toil.
And the dreams went on just the same: the dream of the ghost in the passage, the dream of the black coffin coming round the turn of the staircase and squeezing you against the banister; the dream of the corpse that came to your bed.
She stood on the nursery staircase at Five Elms; the coffin came round the turn and crushed her against the banisters; only this time she was not afraid of it; she made herself wake because of something that would happen next.
The pretty, Flamboyant, two-storied building of blue stone, containing the staircase which leads to the upper chapel, dates from 1530.
The staircase leads to the Salle des Echevins, which occupies practically the whole length of the story.
Pass under the vaulted entrance, to the staircasewhich leads to the upper stories and tower.
I need hardly say that, when this substructure and the staircase were made, the Chapter-house was already designed; for both staircase and substructure are simply buildings subordinate to the Chapter-house.
In 1286, then, the staircase and substructure were already finished, but the works were at a standstill, and the Chapter-house itself had not yet been begun.
It consists of a rotunda, the floor of which is about twenty-five feet below the level of the street, with a staircase leading down to it.
A staircase leads down to the floor of this building, which, like that of the former, is considerably below the street.
The narrow staircase leading to the vaults, down which only one man could pass at a time, was by order of the directors filled up with sand during the siege.
Thélin called to the workmen on the staircase to come in and have a glass of wine.
The Duc de Chartres was for some time lost, and was in great danger, having been knocked down on the staircase by an ascending crowd.
The prince's plan depended on there being workmen in the prison, and he had been about to make a request to have his rooms papered and painted, when the governor informed him that the staircase was to be repaired.
He crept through, and took the precaution of pushing the stone back, then began to descend the steps of the narrow spiral staircase on which he found himself.
Ahmed was taken down by a narrowstaircase like that which led to Dr.
Instantly he slipped out, and ran lightly up the staircase to the first floor.
On a staircase near the east bastion, on the lower part of the slope, a stone runnel for carrying off the surface water follows the line of the steps.
But the chief glory of the palace at Phæstos is the great flight of steps, 45 feet in width, which formed its state entrance, the broadest and most splendid staircase that ever a royal palace had (Plate XXVI.
At the head of the entrance staircase stood a columned portico, behind which was the great reception-hall of the palace.
He tried to address them, but they caught him down from the head of the staircase where he stood, and flung him at once over the marble banisters.
No more he gives on thestaircase The stoup to the thirsty squires, And a hurried thanks for the hurried gift Receives, nor more requires.
It led into a winding passage of such a totally different character from the stone staircase they had just mounted that Juliet stood gazing down it for some seconds before she obeyed his mute gesture to pass through.
He guided her up the branching staircase to the gallery above, bringing her finally to a tall oak door at the further end.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "staircase" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: companion; incline; landing; ramp; stairway; step; steps; stile
