As Digby hurried down the long, narrow stairways and out in the biting air his fear and apprehension grew.
At last they came to the dingy entrance which led to the long halls and multigenerous stairways of their abiding place.
Because of economic reasons for preserving the space within the walls of the mill so that it may be to the greatest extent available for the best arrangement of machinery, the stairways should be placed outside of the building.
The halls are broad, the stairways wide, ascending in recesses on the first floor that leaves the entrance halls clear from front to rear doorways.
The tenants keep the halls and stairways clean in turn, and the houses generally are well kept up.
The stairwaysare lighted by a window on each landing opening on an air shaft, and on each floor is a lavatory with a large window.
This walk is paved with stone flags, and is reached from any of the towers and by special stairways within the wall.
A covered gallery extends from north to south, with roofed and spired stairways leading up to the church level, and a narrow passage and outside wall enclose the remaining chapels.
Along all four stairways the guards were ranged; and here and there against the ledge stood the shells--in a curiously comforting resemblance to parked motors in our own world.
Before it had died, down the stairwayscame pouring the guards.
It is a railed tank, with stone stairways leading down to the water.
The stairways are records of acts of piety; the crowd of costly little temples are tokens of money spent by rich men for present credit and hope of future reward.
Once the outer doors were sealed, entrance was doubtless by way of the niched vertical stairways in front of each room.
On the east side of the kiva, the veneer facing of the wall had fallen, and it could not be positively determined if these alcove rooms also had similar slotstairways in front of them.
The modern wooden stairways at both these points have been placed there by the National Park Service for the convenience of visitors.
She seemed to have evaporated forever without leaving the least trace of her body on the walls that had so often supported her tottering steps, on the stairways that hardly felt the weight of her feet.
Through many dim corridors, the lackey led them, and up winding stairways until presently he stopped before a low door.
An historic or semi-palatial mansion of the olden time will require to have its great halls and stairways and deep rooms illuminated with colors, and its large spaces intersected with pictorial screens.
These halls andstairways are only too easily blocked by the frantic people in case of a panic.
He dived through a mass of flame and landed three stairways below.
That two iron gates, securely padlocked, acrossstairways in the Randolph street entrance, held scores of women and children as prisoners of death at the Iroquois theater fire horror, was the startling evidence secured on Saturday, Jan.
It is the thought of the many stairways that must be passed quickly, and possibly in darkness, that drives the occupants of the galleries to panic at any alarm.
In addition to the main rules about lowering the asbestos curtain once during the performance, doors opening outward, stairways and passages to be kept free, there are some other precautions which must be observed.
The crowds from the galleries rushed down the stairways and fell or jumped headlong into the struggling mass below.
In a few of the theaters it might be argued that the stairways at the emergency exits were not sufficiently inclosed to allow the crowds to pass down in safety.
This alley wall was pierced by many windows and emergency exits and was studded with fire escapes built in the form of iron galleries, and stairways hugging close to the wall leading to the alley.
The law now requires the stairwaysto be covered at the top, and covering the outside rail with heavy wire mesh raised about two feet above its present level would prevent any one from falling over the side.
The horizontal spaces between the praecinctiones were called maeniana, and each of these was in turn divided by stairways into cunei (section 327), and the rows of seats in the cunei were called gradus.
The interior of the Pompeian structure was reached through two passages and by threestairways only, while eighty numbered entrances made it easy for the Roman multitudes to find their appropriate places in the coliseum.
Access to the higher seats was conveniently given by broad stairways constructed under the seats and running up to the passageways between the cunei.
Access to the seats was given from the rear, numerous broad stairways running up to the praecinctiones (section 327), of which there were probably three in the Circus Maximus.
The stone stairways worn by the feet of generations of audiences have sunk badly out of plumb.
Adjoining these, are special rooms for the Judges, near which private stairways furnish the only access to the jury-rooms in the third story.
The stairways are rickety and groan and tremble beneath your tread.
Each floor is provided with an outside iron verandah, with stairways of iron, and each building will furnish comfortable quarters for 600 people, adults only being admitted.
The floors are of stone, and the stairways and doors of iron.
But he let me pass, and I ascended one of the profane lateralstairways and treated myself to a glimpse of the Sanctum Sanctorum.
It's a rare old place--rising in mouldy bosky terraces and mossy stairways and winding walks from the back of the palace to the top of the Quirinal.
This is another world of wonders, and one which enjoys due renown, every square inch of wall on the winding stairways being bescribbled with a traveller's name.
The first floor contains a modern kitchen, a butler's pantry, and a staircase containing stairwaysto the basement and to the second floor, together with storage closets.
Prior to 1942, the rear portion of the center hallway contained stairways to the second floor and to the basement, while still allowing access to the rear door.
The halls andstairways of the building are broad, light, and airy; the ventilation and sanitary arrangements, perfect.
To the right and to the left of this landing are stairways to the floor, on a plane with the first row of boxes.
Giant stairways and colossal halls, huge frescoes and enormous mirrors, gold and marble, satin and velvet, met the eye at every turn.
Traces of stairways are mentioned as leading up to the terrace, but none of the steps remained in place.
Mr. Waldeck, however, detected traces of stairways on the northern side.
From this small court stairways lead to the other buildings situated around it.
That afternoon I didn't work in front of the elevators, but I did work over where the stairways are.
Patterson the Commerce Street ramp, which is the exit, and I assigned one reserve officer to the southern portion of the basement, to the stairways that lead into the subbasement or the machine room.
The arrangement of the stairways between the terraces and the distribution of the rooms may be more easily understood from an inspection of the plan in connection with the key below than from description.
There was a second story over a part of the rooms on the upper terrace, as indicated by the stairways at e and n and in the corner of u, but the extent of it is not easy to determine.
The second story rooms are not an afterthought but a part of the architect's design; the stairways (4) leading to them are symmetrically placed at the sides of the atrium.
They were supported by the vaults over the entrances (7, 7), and were reached by small stairways near the ends of the stage.
Stairways on the inside gave ready access to the lower part of the towers, which could be entered from the city by a door (Fig.
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