escalier
Example Sentences
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Two lions in basalt on each side of the escalier are very striking objects, and the escalier itself is the most superb thing of the kind perhaps in the world.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
Wives cried from escalier windows to their men to come in by and lie decently down, to be ready for their work in the morning.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He enters the antechamber from the grand escalier.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
A corridor and escalier dérobé at the back of these two apartments admit the attendance of servants, without their passing through the vestibule.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
Ascending one marble flight of the grand escalier, one entered a lofty apartment whose noble proportions and richness of effect were most impressive.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
