The kettle was singing, and she stuffed more wood in under it and began to hunt for a tray and the other concomitants of an up-stairs breakfast.
My goodness, and to think that only a week ago I laid up-stairs wanting to die.
Jane had unpacked her small trunk the night before, and so was able to dress quickly and get down-stairs without a minute wasted.
I watch till she goes to the garden, and then I skip down-stairs and make a good meal and lay it all on the cat.
She went up-stairs to her own room and shut the door softly.
She ran down-stairs with the tray and found Madeleine sitting in the kitchen, waiting.
As she spoke, she saw again the thin, hopeless face on the pillow up-stairs and knew that Matilda herself was to know a glad surprise over the change which should welcome her home-coming.
Jane followed up the stairs in silence; Matilda marched ahead with a firm, heavy tread.
Nagsukarap ku nga nagsaka sa hagdan sa ngitngit, I groped my way up the stairs in the dark.
As one climbs thestairs the formula is recited one word for each step.
B56] for children or young animals to differ in height by small intervals, be like stairs when lined up.
Túa siya sa sílung sa hagdan nanghangad samtang nanáug si Pitra, He’s at the foot of the stairs looking up while Petra is coming down.
Katulu ra níya tikanga ang hagdanan, He climbed the stairs in three steps.
He was coming up three stairs at a time, but he stopped and drew me into a corner.
And on Christmas morning he comes down stairs awfully glum, with one hand behind him.
And when after a while Roger slipped down the stairs he had no shoes for me.
And once, when we dressed in our best gowns and went to a reception for the Cabinet, or something of the kind, Daphne stood on the stairs and began to make a speech.
A sound on the stairs alarmed her, and with a fleeting smile of sympathy she was gone and the door locked upon him again.
Baron leaped from his bed, and headlong down the wooden stairs they clattered for freedom.
What else could the strange words of Dugald have meant, save that some friend proposed to climb thosestairs and gently open that stubborn door?
The stairsstill exist, with remains of some little turrets which formed part of the design.
Immediately he went off, and in a little after Mr. Moncrief went out; and was not well down stairsbefore the guard came up and searched his house.
A flight of stairs or an elevator leads to the summit whence a splendid view may be obtained over the City and the St. Lawrence.
On this occasion the galleries of the house were packed with “loyalist” opponents to the bill, and a tumult immediately arose which was continued as the crowd went out down the stairs to await Lord Elgin’s departure.
She had been shown the baths the day before and ran down-stairs to the great stone tanks, enjoyed her swim in the sea water quite alone, and returned to her room happy and normal, not a dream lingering in her brain.
You are lovely and your gown is quite perfect," said Anne warmly, and then the two girls went down-stairs arm in arm, vowing eternal friendship.
So, both she and Esther ran upstairs and out into the street, crying "fire!
The author saw Esther coming down stairslate in the afternoon, and when she had reached the hall a chair from his room came down after her.
She jumped out, opened the gate, entered the cottage and ran up stairs without noticing Jane, whom she passed in the hall.
This was Evan's first experience of the below-stairs point of view.
As Evan went up the first flight he heard flying feet on the stairs overhead, and he made no pause on the second floor.
He let himself in softly and managed to get on the stairs without attracting Carmen's attention.
At the head of the stairs Deaves said nervously: "Better let me take a look to see if Maud's around.
He pointed up-stairs and laughed his noiseless laugh.
She came down the stairs after you; she passed through the gate, almost touching you, and she drove past you in a hansom cab.
Jack came smiling and bounding up the stairswith agile spring--a good-half hour before the time.
And thus she opened the door, and slid down the stairs of the great silent house as stealthily and almost as fearfully as the Lady Godiva on a certain memorable day.
But I guess that, after all, stairswill survive, and attics, and the servant-problem.
And observe also, not only the vanishing of stairs and attics, but the disappearance of the servant-problem.
For many generations, stairs and service have been inseparable from the amenities of domestic living.
Nor could I hold them responsible if our guests fell down the cellar stairs; although there I think they would be morally responsible, for a steeper flight of cellar stairs I simply cannot imagine.
Work becomes a pleasure to the happy housewife for whom climbing a flight of stairs is ofttimes all too strenuous--so keen and persistent a pleasure that domestic service is 'undesirable!
The one thing which my palace needs is a merry little maid, to run up stairs and down, and cheer up the rooms with her smile.
The car drew up before the house, and Florence and Peggy jumped out and hurried up the stairswithout waiting for Felipe to open the door for them, but Jo Ann lingered a moment to thank him for granting her request.
Up the long flight of stairs they ran to the Blackwells' apartment, each girl eager to be the first to solve the mystery.
There at the head of the stairs sat Felipe, sound asleep.
As soon as she had stopped talking, the boy took the old man by the hand and led him down the stairs and into the street.
And he had been awakened by the unusual bustle below stairs in time to hear the welcome news that Dicky was all right since Dr.
Phronsie, ascending thestairs to the lumber-room, with careful deliberateness, found no hint of joy at the prospect before her, reaching into the dim distance to that enchanted time when she should be grown up.
Come up to our room, then, and think it out," cried Van gleefully, flying over the stairs three at a bound.
So she mounted the stairs laboriously, counting herself lucky indeed in finding the upper part of the house quite deserted, and shutting the lumber-room door when she was well within it, she proceeded to open the door of the closet.
So persuaded, the two boys stole out into the hall in time to see Phronsie go down the stairs with her armful, and carefully using their ears they soon rushed back with "Phronsie's giving away her dolls!
He's the best thing there is in this house," cried Dick, going over the back stairs two at a time.
To be sure; that would indeed be dreadful," said Mr. King, getting over thestairs very creditably.
Polly waited to hear no more, but on the wings of the wind, flew out and up the stairs once more.
So Polly ran over the stairs with delighted feet, and into the library, beginning to rummage over the papers and magazines on the reading table.
Quietly, as though nothing unusual had happened, they descended the stairs together.
Then he went silently down the stairs by her side and helped her into the carriage, which had been waiting since his return.
The Wanderer drove to Keyork Arabian's house, and leaving his carriage to wait in case of need, ascended the stairs and knocked at the door.
The next minute daddy was running up the stairs two at a time and I could feel him inside my head for the first time and I knew he was angry.
Then I heard her coming up the stairs and into my room and she opened the closet door and found me.
He reached the stairs at last and, groping for the banister, began to ascend slowly and cautiously, often pausing to listen, and to stare into the darkness before and behind.
Upon the dark stairs he encountered Mr. Smivvle, who had been sitting there making nervous havoc of his whiskers.
He walked down the stairs with an easy, swinging movement, keeping a little behind the Prince; waited until Alcorn had opened the street door and with a nod of thanks followed Polinski out into the night.
Hungerford Stairs of a morning I could not resist the stale pastry put out at half price on trays at the confectioner's doors in Tottenham Court Road.
After Kugel's arrival at headquarters Jackson was ordered brought up-stairs and a dramatic scene followed.
The prisoner persisted in his story that he knows nothing about the murder, and after a little further examination he was taken down stairs and locked up on the charge of murder.
The enemy duly arrived, dimpled and plump, an honest thirty-five, a solid widow, who stopped at the top of the stairs with the distant respect which the Comte de Bonzag inspired even in his creditors.
Then I ran home without changing my clothes, the people staring at me, and ran up the stairs and flung open the door and stopped and called: 'Fanny Montrose!
Down stairs I rushed, through the hall, pushing aside waiters and overturning chambermaids in my course.
Saying which, he dashed up stairs after the waiter, and left me to my meditations.
I pleaded the multiplicity of my professional engagements as a reason for at once seeing the patient; upon which I was conducted up stairs by my two brethren, and introduced to a half-lighted chamber.
Hastily drawing on my coat, I put on my shako, and buckling on my belt as dandy-like as might be, hurried down the stairs to the barrack-yard.
The footsteps reached the head of the stairs and advanced to the door, on which there was a distinct knock.
Pretty soon Jones came racing up the stairs and burst into the room.
The sound of voices and of many feet ascending the stairscould be heard.
Then one person seemed to ascend the stairs very slowly, but he made out that there were two or three others with that one, the others stepping as softly as possible.
There were footsteps on the stairs and the sound of laughing voices.
He was made to mount some stairs and then his feet were kicked from beneath him, and he shot down a steep and slippery incline into the very midst of the shouting demons.
A few moments later some one ascended the stairs and there came a knock on the door.
He went down stairs again, but he could not go back to the others and have them ask him why he had been sent for.
I jumped up in a hurry without waiting for a lantern, and in the darkness I fell against something, which tumbled headlong down the stairs and never stopped till it reached the bottom.
In descending the stairs the doctor accidentally knocked over the corpse, and finding him dead believed that he himself was the murderer.
When we reached the bottom of the stairs we stepped into a sort of ante-room, filled with such a dense smoke that it was hardly possible to see anything.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stairs" 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
