Upstairs the excitement was great, and as soon as Gladstone had taken his place, in swept Gerasimus the bishop (followed by scores of swarthy priests in their picturesque black robes) and tendered to him the petition for union.
She scarcely attended to them, but, bounding upstairs to her mother's room, flung her arms round her neck, and poured into her ear her precious secret.
Edmund did not hear half what she said, for he and Walter were obliged to hasten upstairs to the chamber which was to be their prison for the night.
I saw them from upstairs come to the bottom of the lane.
Yes, I will go upstairs and lie down a minute or two.
At the door of Lerwick Gardens he was informed that Mrs. Leyburn was upstairs with an attack of bronchitis.
He stayed bowed there a while, then he roused himself with a half-groan, and hastily extinguishing his lamp he groped his way upstairs to his wife's room.
They pushed their way upstairs through a medley of packing-cases, and a sickening smell of paint.
With the help of the neighbour from next door, Jim got her upstairs into the room that had been hers.
Rex, 'my father is upstairs very ill, and if you fire the shock may be fatal.
I sneaked upstairs to the roof and watched his play.
Papa, dear, go upstairsand apologise to Uncle James.
Sir John went upstairs furiously, taking three steps at a time--twice.
Meanwhile she went upstairs to change into her habit.
After dinner she spoke for a moment to the priest and then went upstairs to the verandah to take coffee.
They had dined upstairs in the little room that had formerly been Domini's salon, and had not seen Father Roubier, who always came to the hotel to take his evening meal.
She said nothing more, but I ran upstairs crying, fell upon my knees and prayed--trying to think where my father was and what he could be looking like.
What is meant, in the case of chemical affinity, is, that the pull of that affinity, acting through a certain space, imparts a motion of translation of the one atom towards the other.
From no possible application of this theory, pure and simple, can we obtain the slopes and forms of the mountains.
We cannot for an instant regard them as the final achievements of Science, but rather as an earnest of what she is yet to do.
Portia has wished "good-night" to a very sleepy Dulce, and has gone upstairs to her own room.
Mrs. Rossiter took Clare upstairs to help her to take her hat off.
Upstairs there was a clean and neat bedroom with a large bed in it, an old sofa and two chairs.
But she shook her head--"No, I'm going upstairsto lie down.
One day about tea-time they were sitting in Peter's upstairs study.
Stephen was sitting in the upstairs room scratching his head over his accounts, whilst his old mother sat dozing, with her knitting fallen on to her lap by the fire.
It was defiance and I believe the minute after uttering it he would have liked to have rushed upstairs to see that his baby was safe.
When they went upstairs again Peter and Cards exchanged a word: "You'll come and see us?
It seemed to him as he went upstairs to dress that the world was too full of too many things and that his outlook on it all was confused.
At last one evening, after dinner, when Clare and Mrs. Rossiter had gone upstairs he demanded an answer.
Then at last, and all this time he had spoken to no one, upstairs to bed.
The Countess (as well as I can make it out) has raised the money that is wanted by borrowing on the security of her jewels at Frankfort; and the Courier upstairs is still declared by the Doctor to have a chance of recovery.
Considerably surprised at this last new manifestation of the famous 'English eccentricity,' the man looked at the hotel register, and led the lady upstairs again to the room occupied by her maid.
Henry advised taking herupstairs first, and then asking the manager's opinion.
I will read it willingly,' said Henry, 'if you will go upstairs to bed.
When I got inside the hall I hastily took off my waistcoat, rolled it up, and put it under my arm; after which I went upstairs and knocked at the office door.
If I only set about it carefully, I might be able to get upstairs without being heard; there were eight steps in all, and only the two top ones creaked under my tread.
I was just screwing up my courage to come upstairs and find out for myself what had happened to you.
Uncle John met Joan on her way upstairs late that evening.
Upstairs he met Mabel just coming out of the nursery and would have passed her without speaking, but that she put out a hand to stop him.
But before she went into her own room Fanny ran upstairs and knocked softly oh Joan's door.
He wondered at the back of his mind how glad his mother really was to see him, and strolled away upstairs presently to his own room to unpack and change.
When Fanny creptupstairs in the early morning and knocked timidly at the door, Joan opened it to her.
Joan took it upstairsto read, lingering over the opening of it with a pleasurable thrill.
Wingfold took him up, carried him to it, got in with him in his arms, and held him on his knees until he reached the manor house, when he carried him upstairs and laid him on the sofa.
A young woman ran to fetch it, while Mr. Drew went upstairs for a glass of wine.
Will you walk upstairs with me, where we shall be undisturbed?
On their way upstairs the Senator took his companion's arm.
Afterwards we will go upstairs and take your sister into our confidence.
She was amazed to hear her son speak like the master of the house, and she wentupstairs with her maidens to her own room.
Theseus saw the token, and he bowed, as did all his company, to Minos and to the princess, and they were led upstairs and along galleries, each to a chamber more rich and beautiful than they had seen before in their dreams.
He went upstairs to pack, suffering from as severe an attack of the blues as any youth of eighteen had experienced since blues were first invented.
The window of the upstairsroom was evidently open, and now and again the door creaked faintly.
He returned to the upstairs room; Stott seized his cap and went out into the chill world of sunrise.
Ever and again she stopped and listened intently, and looked back towards the half-open door of the upstairs room.
Either you would got to settle with me now oder I would go right upstairsand tell them commission houses and customers which you got there all about it.
Either you would give me cash a hundred dollars oder I would go right away upstairs to the customers.
Twenty minutes later he laid away the empty dish on top of the kitchen sink, with the empty beer bottle beneath it; then, after supplying himself with a box of matches, he crept upstairs to his room.
Bro asked permission of the sick man for me to go upstairs and see his Méduse.
Consequently, I received one morning, through the agency of Féresse, a request to stepupstairs and appear before the director-general.
Villenave went upstairs to his own rooms--or home> as the English say.
He had given orders that I was to be shown upstairs as soon as I arrived.
So Ruth and Mrs. Cullen followed Nancy upstairs to see the windows.
Just now Ted was upstairs dressing; also singing and telling stories to Nero, most of which racket could be heard down in the store.
George and Marie Anne were delighted to receive this old friend; and immediately an upstairs room was got ready for him, and he made himself at home.
Aunt Sarah helped her upstairsto the room she had occupied at her former visit, undressed her, and put her to bed.
I really admired your staying upstairs last night; but I did not dream that you really were not well.
After making some notes of my impressions I finally got upstairs again to bed.
I went upstairs to bed, my mind teeming with thoughts that were unusual to me, and of rather a haunting description.
There is always a bed upstairs if Herr Harris will accept it,” said one.
I understood from the doctor’s glance that my presence would not make the interview easier for our host, and I went upstairs to my own room--shaking.
It was while lounging in the courtyard half an hour before the evening meal that Vezin made this discovery, and he at once went upstairs to his quiet room at the end of the winding passage to think it over alone.
And when Cromwell stayed here,” she babbled on, “he occupied the very rooms upstairs that used to be mine.
And the talk ran upon the Leonards, till they rose to go upstairs to the drawing-room.
The ladies went upstairs at last, but Mark would not give in.
So he went upstairs to Miss Wygant's own sitting room, and found her in a morning gown, even more beautiful than the one she had worn before.
But I want you to stay in the hall, and if there's anyone stirs in that room you're to dart upstairs and give one whistle at the top.
Meanwhile there was a cloudiness in the moral atmosphere upstairs which betokened a storm.
Hardly had the tray been set down before there was a double knock, and on going upstairs Vidler found John Huish at the front door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "upstairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
