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... domes and towers, high narrow windows, gates bound with fine metal cover, stairways carved out of cool marble, colonnades engraved with elegant trace...

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...ery. There are almost 18 miles (c. 29 kilometers) of corridors in the building, 131 stairways, 19 escalators, 13 elevators, 672 fire hose cabinets, ...

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...ng for her as she searched down shadowed corridors and up endless, twisting stairways. “I will go, Bridey, with you or without. And the longer I...

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...re is frequent pain in my back and legs: insomnia exhausts me: I think of stairways, dikes, weaving machines, cylindrical sails, cadavers, faces... ...

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.... She knocked; the door opened. She led Sarrasine through a laby- rinth of stairways, galleries, and apartments which were lighted only by uncertain g...

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...e procession plunged into one of the gruesome doorways. They crawled up dark stairways and along cold, gloomy halls. At last the father pushed open a ...

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...e astonished to see, as he went along, the marks of a large foot along the stairways and corridors of the house. Carefully avoiding those precious foo...

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...nd a central shaft carved with a grape-vine. This style, which recalls the stairways of Louis XII. at the chateau of Blois, dates from the fourteenth ... ...hile speaking, the portress was showing Godefroid up one of those horrible stairways of brick and wood so ill put together that it is hard to tell whe...

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...he river, allowed its dwellers to get down to the water by stone or wooden stairways, closed and protected by strong iron railings or wooden gates, cl... ...ages who fifty years earlier had carved the key-stones of Louis XII.’s two stairways. However dazzled we may be by these recurring forms of indefatiga... ...e artistic kings. Making our way through the labyrinth of chambers, halls, stairways, towers, we may say to ourselves with solemn certi- tude: “Here M...

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...recognition, and watched and turned back or went up and down by the middle stairways, into some transverse sys- tem of ways at a lower or higher level... ...rowd. A lad weeping with ter- ror thrust against him, pressing towards the stairways, yell- ing “Clear for the aeropile!” The bell that clears the fly...

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...over- hanging balconies. Craziest structures, riddled and honeycombed with stairways and passages, shut out 29 Frank Norris the sky, though here and ...

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... certain of seeing Raoul, who was, in fact, watching for her on one of the stairways leading down to the stalls. With what delight did she observe the...

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...ces, the Princess scaled the long garden, skimming like a bird the starlit stairways; crossed the Park, which was in that place narrow; and plunged up...

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...thirteenth of June, the Board of Trade, its halls, corridors, offices, and stairways were already thrilling with a vague and terrible sound. It was on... ...ring. Or, perhaps, that meant only a momentary check. As she descended the stairways, with the departing spec- tators, she distinctly heard a man’s vo...

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...idge and disappearing in the leafy sea beyond, make a picture whose grace and beauty entirely sat- isfy the eye. We descended from the church by steep... ...again. The Castle grounds are very ample and very beautiful; and as they joined the Hotel grounds, with no fences to climb, but only some nobly shaded...

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...logne Cathedral, the great unfinished mar- vel by the Rhine; and after a long while in dark stairways, he issued at last into the sunshine, on a platf...

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...s for a trifling wrong, you will find the same dark corridors, ill-lighted stairways, doors with oval panes of glass like eyes, as at the theatre. In ...

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...ted out that pumps were very useful in silently passing through a house—up stairways and along corridors—without dis- covery. So Jean-Francois Tascher...

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...acen architects with balconies on each story, which were reached by spiral stairways. T o add to this effect, the rock is capped by a Gothic church, t...

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...ourth floor, the young men were forced to climb one of the steep, straight stairways that are almost ladders, by which the attics of Parisian houses a...

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... bearing flaring torches, we tramped along echoing corridors, and down stone stairways dank and dripping, and smelling of mould and ages of imprisone...

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... animal, And said to me: “Now be both strong and bold. Now we descend by stairways such as these; Mount thou in front, for I will be midway, So ... ...-guided, above Rubaconte, The bold abruptness of the ascent is broken By stairways that were made there in the age When still were safe the ledger... ...Faith In Christ had taken, these are the partition By which the sacred stairways are divided. Upon this side, where perfect is the flower With e...

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... the tresses of the flower; because these are the wall by which the sacred stairways are separated according to the look which faith turned on Christ....

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...d, there was no help for it now, and he led the way along the passages and stairways till they reached a large room on the second floor immediately ab...

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...f spirits which affects the eyes, and is an inevitable adjunct to all dark stairways in St. Petersburg houses—ascending the stairs, Akakiy Akakievitch...

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...ompanies and heavy tools for ladder companies). 111 Firefighters found the stairways they entered intact, lit, and clear of smoke. Unbeknownst to the ... ...to reach the stairs and descend were also stymied by the deviations in the stairways and by smoke doors.This con- fusion delayed the evacuation of som...