escalier
Example Sentences
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"L'esquif aborde et me dépose, Jetant son amarre au pilier, Devant une façade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier."
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
Leaning back with half- closed eyes, he kept saying over and over to himself,— Devant une façade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier.
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar
Entering by the tower portal one comes at once to that magnificent grand escalier which is accounted one of the wonders of the French Renaissance.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
It is this tower which contains the "escalier des voitures."
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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 Frye, Major W. E