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Example sentences for "stone steps"

  • But we were not to be baffled by stone steps, we only pushed on a little more vigorously, and started the climb into St. Pierre to post the precious letters which had been written under such stress of circumstances.

  • The last described semi-subterranean kiva and the similar one in the court of the village, show a short flight of stone steps on their eastern side.

  • At Tusayan, on the other hand, ladders are of rare occurrence above the first terrace, their place being supplied by flights of stone steps.

  • However, the wing flights of stone steps on the sidewalk leading to a broad landing before the door and the handsome wrought-iron rail lend individuality and rare charm to this notable example of a familiar type.

  • The second type of stoop consists of a broad stone step or platform before the door with a straight flight of stone steps leading up to it.

  • Generally similar, the doorway of the old Shippen mansion, Number 1109 Walnut Street, with its straight flight of stone steps unadorned in any way, is less attractive except in the paneling of the doors.

  • They went down the first flight of stone steps, but stopped at the top of the second.

  • Ethan remembered the wilderness as being inexorably confined to that vast region (pitifully shrunken to the older eye) below the second flight of stone steps.

  • So saying, he unlocked the door and admitted the whole party into a small square chamber, in one corner of which was the arched entrance to a flight of stone steps.

  • Proceeding along the ascent leading towards the green, and mounting a flight of stone steps on the left, we arrive in front of the ancient lodgings allotted to the lieutenant of the Tower.

  • Then he reached a flight of stone steps, leading downward.

  • Matlock Styles entered the old mill and then descended a flight of stone steps.

  • Then it's all right," returned the other man, and walked away up the flight of stone steps.

  • He gazed around, and soon learned that there was no exit from where he was, save by the flight of stone steps.

  • It is a simple but irregular two-storied pavilion, standing on a stone- faced terrace approached by a flight of stone steps.

  • At the same time, however, I see men and women descending the stone steps of the wharves on the opposite side of the Ohashigawa, all with little blue towels tucked into their girdles.

  • Before us rises a hill, with a broad flight of stone steps sloping to its summit, between foliage of cedars and maples.

  • This curious street ends at another torii, a wooden torii, with a steeper flight of stone steps ascending to it.

  • Opening a secret door within it, he descended a flight of stone steps, and traversing a number of intricate passages, at length stopped before a strong door, which he pushed aside, and entered the chamber he had mentioned to Ipgreve.

  • On reaching it, they found it communicated with a flight of stone steps, evidently leading to the roof.

  • A flight of stone steps led up to the porch, and within was a wide oak staircase, so gentle of ascent that a man on horseback could easily mount it--a feat often practised in later days by one of the descendants of the house.

  • In front of us was a short flight of stone steps, and another great wooden door set in stone posts under a Roman arch.

  • At the end of the last alley we entered was a flight of stone steps, up which we climbed to the roof of the house on which I had seen Grim the night before.

  • It did not look unlike one of the old-time New York precinct stations, with its big windows protected by iron grilles, and a flight of stone steps leading up to a door exactly in the middle of the front wall.

  • It proved to be a room like a monastery cell, up one flight of stone steps, with two other rooms of about the same size on either side of it.

  • We climbed a long, steep flight of stone steps, walked through a shady orange garden, and came out upon a cool terrace fronting the sea, with the Rispoli Hotel behind it.

  • Descending a flight of stone steps, the custode admitted us into two fine vaulted chambers, decorated each after its own manner.

  • From the court yard the passage leads, by a long flight of stone steps, to the visiting rooms, to which strangers and friends of the imprisoned are admitted.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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