pair of stairs

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At this time Marvell was living in a court off the Strand, up two pair of stairs, and there Lord Danby, abruptly opening the door, discovered him writing.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.

In another, a ladder-like pair of stairs, suggesting a ship’s companionway, lay half out of the water.

From The Dragon's Secret by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)

I was led up two pair of stairs, and found myself in the same lobby with which I had already become somewhat familiar.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

They broke into his committee room, and he and McDonald were forced to creep out of a two pair of stairs window into the churchyard.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry

At a little distance from the falls is a tavern, where they left the carriage, and went on foot through thick woods, from which a pair of stairs conducted to the falls.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton