escalier

Example Sentences

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He enters the antechamber from the grand escalier.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Before Freeman could make reply, she had passed out of the room, and commenced descending the escalier.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

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

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

L'esquif aborde et me depose,     Jetant son amarre au pilier, Devant une facade rose,     Sur le marbre d'un escalier.

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar