Pegs driven into the wall served as a stairway to the loft, where there was another bed of leaves.
A ladder against the wall was the stairway by which the children reached the loft.
An iron stairway is attached to the wall on the outside of the building.
The women huddled, screaming and excited, on the stairway a little below the place where Katherine crouched, holding her breath and peeping through the railings.
At the right of this hall, as you went in, a broad oak stairwayinvited you to the sleeping floor above.
And upon the stairway landing, near by, two old women, on all-fours at their work, were likewise pessimistic.
He could not reach the stairway without passing the open doors of the library, and he was convinced that the mere glimpse of him, just then, would prove nothing less than insufferable for his father.
The first, from the Arch of Marcus Aurelius, now on the stairway of the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitol, represents the arch on the left of the Temple-Tomb of the deified Caesar.
Arising resolutely, she hastily performed their simple toilets, and descended the narrow stairway to the breakfast-room.
There still are lacking the construction of the porter's lodge, the principal stairway of the house, the school, and the infirmary, with which the said work will be preserved and extended.
The main stairway would allow five or six to go abreast.
After riding up 5th Avenue on one of those busses that had a spiral stairway at the back leading up to the open air top (it was January and we were up there alone of course), the better to get the panoramic view, we alighted.
She entered the dwelling-place and ascended the stairway leading to the tower, relic of an ancient time when the low white-walled building had been fortified and armed against the pirates of the sea and the freelances of the land.
A young man in his college study sees the fireplace turn into a silver stairway down which a lovely gray-robed woman comes to him.
She throws her little skipping-rope carelessly on the stairway where he must trip up in it when he sees her phantom figure in front of him in the gloom, so to fall headlong to his death.
The head of the stairwayleading down to the abyss of the crater floor was visible.
That stairway must lead to the top of the building, and thence there should be some access to the amphitheatre.
He ran out from under the table, but softly and on his hands and knees, and reached the stairway without making a sound.
There was a gallery all around this hall at the level of the second floor, and a stairway went up on either side.
Sam glanced toward the stairway and held his silence for a while.
She hurried up the stairway and left the frail mistress of the house to meet her formidable guest.
At the bottom of the stairway the boys stopped and looked about.
At five o'clock a tall, dark, slender man whose black hair was turning gray in places entered the front room by way of the secret stairway in the side wall.
Ned placed a foot on the top step of the stairway and slowly and cautiously rested the weight of his body upon it, to make certain that no trap for the protection of the place had been set there.
Out of this a wide stairway led upward, branching at the first landing, one flight going to the east and the other to the west chambers.
Aunt Sarah stalked up the main stairway without a word.
There were tenements above, with a narrow hall and stairwayleading to them at one side.
Order away those boys or I'll go and stand on the main stairway and tell 'em just how they're being used as tools by political tricksters.
But when he approached the head of the stairway he moved more slowly.
She found a narrow, curvingstairway which served employees.
At the foot of the grand stairway Stewart's self-possession left him.
When she and her friend descended the broad stairway of the mansion Lana was discoursing on the need of coaxing men of big commercial affairs into politics.
From the hall she could look down the broad, main stairway which conducted to the rotunda.
The half-hour's slackless concentration of nerve and muscle in the defence of the stairway had drained him of strength and energy like the crisis of a fever.
There was the clang of iron-shod feet on the stones, a glimmer in the half obscurity, and behind the pickets the stairway bristled with steel.
Entering the narrow hall, lit only from the courtyard and with a much-shadowed stairway rising from the further end, Commines pushed open a door on his right, fastening it behind him as he entered.
Illustration: The New Idea: a Stairwayof Public School No.
Behind the parlour is the kitchen, which looks into a tiny garden with one lovely apple tree in it; and a back stairway almost like a ladder leads to what used to be servants' rooms.
We had come up the secret stairway in the wall, because I wanted Barrie to miss no thrill this place could give; but it was not the thought of the murder-scene which most caught her imagination.
Barrie had dreamed it might be, with her eye at the keyhole of the stairway door.
Presently the straw was in a blaze, and from this the fire extended to the furniture, to the stairway leading up from the cellar, and was working its way along the entry under the stairs leading up to the apartment where Maurice was lying.
At the foot of the stairway Kenwick spoke with an almost curt suppression to Granville Jarvis.
On the broad landing the stairway divided and took opposite ways.
When General Kearney first departed we took his office at Larkin's; but shortly afterward we had a broadstairway constructed to lead from the outside to the upper front porch of the barracks.
This building was a mere shell, and our office was reached by a stairway on the outside.
Indeed that was one of the jumping-off places; for a steep stairway led down the hill to the dock two hundred feet below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stairway" 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
