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teasing without touching across stair rods,
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along the broad corridors and up the sweeping stair case of the grand
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Treading carefully on the left and right edges of the stair treads, he goes up two floors
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The band had already started to play, down stair in the sitting room
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and sat it on the stair
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Would his lighter give enough light to let him see the stair? According to the charts, this abandoned stairway went up twenty three floors before it became unsafe
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From the hiding-place I heard the footsteps upon the stair, with the opening and the closing of the bedroom door
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He wanted to slump into a cushion but realized they were still standing on the stair landing just inside his door
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Hills climbed like stair steps into the heavens
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No obvious doors marked the chipped sides of the brick buildings, though a narrow metal stair on one wall rose in switchbacks to the roof
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It seemed as if every eye were on her as she made her way step by step up the narrow stair to the top level
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Sharon was very hesitant, and it took a long time, but she finally climbed one stair
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So I exited the room and followed the colonnade out to the stair landing with Dorian as a silent escort at my side
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Mai Bell had chosen to explore the upper floor because she weighed far less than her husband, which made it less likely that she would set any stair treads creaking
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This article, which has not been revised in any way, is cited in a footnote to the section on Property Law in the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia of the Laws of Scotland (Edinburgh 1987 onwards)
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At every decision point I chose whichever road seemed to slant upwards most, thinking that the stair which we had descended would be high enough for my death
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Just before the stair case, I looked at the clock in haste as I picked up my pace, hoping that my footsteps were out of Mr
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This morning it was coming down in stair rods, then the sun was out like a blast furnace in the sky and then rain again
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the third story from the stair case
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And there is my small family of ‘Fan-tail zebra’ birds (oriental magpie-robins) who just love to play and shower when I water the garden but are notably absent when it rains, as only it can in the tropics; like stair rods
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but sometimes, ascending the stair,
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As soon as my foot touches the first stair, I wonder what on earth I intend to do
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I also see the body of a guard, his arm dangling over the edge of a stair, and standing over him, a factionless man with an eye patch
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take refuge at the peak of the castle’s monolithic tower, climbing every stair to the top and standing high above the land
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Separated on the bottom floor they take turns entering the stair way
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suggesting each marble stair proved a difficult obstacle to his frail
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She was leaning against the stair banister and her arms were crossed
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“Let’s go,” I whispered as I ascended the last stair and moved into the hall
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I threw a cross-body block into Jeannine, knocking her into Michael and back into the stair well
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Ninety-nine stair steps take the visitor to the pompous, extravagant and attractive temple
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Their cab pulled under the hotel and a long curved stair rolled out
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tripped over the last stair when she saw what had been built under
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” Randel Stair, his financial vice president, said, “I learned very early on that while he was willing to listen to anything you wanted to comment on or propose, you’d better have your homework done
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He abandons his contemplation of the renewed castle stone and turns on his heel towards the stair
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Perhaps I'll hear a light foot on the stair
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But here he was at the stair bottom with Frankie in his arms, trailing a blanket on the floor
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She continued, "I figured we'd leave the stair door open with your room in use—I usually don't because it wastes more heat
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I saw a stair case first, and next to it a door that probably led to a closet
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On the way to the garden, I took the bold face Salome that was sitting on the porch stair savoring an angular sideburn
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grating on the stair steps
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I began climbing the stair accompanied by the sound of my footsteps
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The stair was wood-made and the same as the wooden boat was black, damp and rotten, and could give up at any time
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His casual glance as he passed me on the stair contained the elements of a
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At the top of the stair, just outside the lobby door a microphone was hurriedly set up and tested, the muffled sound of the loudspeakers reached the crowd through the rain
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All the movement at the entrance of the hotel ended, the TV cameras turned on their lights, the uniformed guards stood at the bottom of the stair, beside the cars
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Behind him the horde was yelling with such intensified horror and rage, that he knew he had killed some notable man there on the stair, probably the king of that fantastic city
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All the chambers he had traversed since mounting the stair had been empty
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How far they went she had no idea, before they mounted a long stair and came upon a stone door, fastened with a golden bolt
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'That's where the queen's guard should have been, but they were drawn up at the foot of the palace stair, as puzzled as we, though they had come fully armed, in spite of the queen's order
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Salome mounted a wide marble stair that led to the flat, canopied, marble-battlemented roof
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Salome shrugged her shoulders and descended the stair
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They had emerged into a wide, arched corridor at a point near where a stone stair descended into the darkness
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Valerius lifted her like a child, and with the torch-bearer hurrying before them, they left the dungeon and went up a slimy stone stair
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His flying feet spurned the marble as he darted up the broad stair and through the pillared portico
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He paddled to the carven stair as one familiar with his environs, and moored the boat to a projection of the rock
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In an hour, if nothing suspicious occurs, we'll row up to the foot of the stair and await him there
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I had rather catch him descending the stair, where we can feather him with arrows from a safe distance
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He wheeled back through the jungle, down the carven stair and across the blue waters to the distant camp at the mouth of the Zaporoska
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A narrow stone stair ascended the wall near him; down this he went
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Houses shouldered so closely to the wall that half-way down the stair he found himself within arm's length of a window, and halted to peer in
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Silence hung over the house, but outside he heard a sound which his keen ears recognized as something ascending the stair on the wall from which he had entered the building
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Nearer at hand the tapestry hung in such a way as to suggest an opening behind it, and lifting it cautiously he discovered a narrow stair leading up
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Had he been followed through the tunnel? He went up the stair hastily, dropping the tapestry in place behind him
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A shattering stroke of his scimitar hewed the lock asunder, and as he sprang through to the stair that loomed beyond it, he saw the head and shoulders of Khosatral crash through the other door
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Conan raced up the stair, carrying the big girl over one shoulder as easily as if she had been a child
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Where he was going he had no idea, but the stair ended at the door of a round, domed chamber
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Khosatral was coming up the stair behind them, silently as a wind of death, and as swiftly
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Khosatral was not on the stair, but far below he heard the clang of a metal door
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Swiftly they descended the stair, crossed the chamber, descended the next stair, and came into the great dim hall with its mysterious hangings
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He led her to the southwestern wall, and without difficulty found a stone stair that mounted the rampart
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There was but one way of escape from the island—the stair on the western cliffs
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He laughed and strode with her in his arms toward the stair
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Followed by the bewildered guardsmen, the governor raced for the stair
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He led the girl through a door that opened on a winding stair
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They stood among the rocky teeth that serrated the precipice brink, and from that spot a path wound up a gentle slope to a broad stair, consisting of half a dozen steps, a hundred feet across, cut out of a green jade-like substance
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A hundred feet from the door began the broad jade-green steps of a stair that tapered toward the top like the side of a pyramid
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What lay beyond that stair he could not tell
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But now the muscular arm was brushed aside like straw and the Irakzai moved toward the stair, treading jerkily and mechanically
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Another figure stood at the head of the stair
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With a roar and a curse Conan charged the stair
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Conan charged after it, up the left-hand stair, uncertain as to just what he had seen whip up those steps, but in a berserk mood that drowned the nausea and horror whispering at the back of his consciousness
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One of these towers was built in, or projected into the court in which he found himself, and a broad stair led up to it, along the side of the wall
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At the head of the stair he found himself on a walled ledge, or balcony, he was not sure which
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He went swiftly down the stair, crossed the court and passed through an arch into the court the blacks had just quitted
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They were in the court from which he had watched the torture of the boy, and he led her hastily up the stair that mounted the southern wall, and forced her into a crouching position behind the balustrade of the balcony; it was poor concealment, but the best they could do
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Taking Sancha's hand, Conan glided down the stair, stooping so that his head would not be visible above the wall
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At the foot of the stair lay the swords of the Zingarans
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Softly as phantoms they descended the stair and came to the mouth of a corridor black as night
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Down the corridor they sped, while the swift patter of flying feet drew closer and closer, and then suddenly Techotl panted: "Here is the stair! After me, quick! Oh, quick!"
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She felt herself half dragged, half lifted up the winding stair, while Conan released her and turned on the steps, his ears and instincts telling him their foes were hard at their backs
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Conan lashed down with his great sword and felt the blade shear through something that might have been flesh and bone, and cut deep into the stair beneath
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But Conan renewed his terror by asking: "What was that thing that I fought on the stair?"
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"That was a shrewd cut I dealt it on the stair
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Each tier was named; indeed, the people of Xuchotl had a name for each chamber, hall and stair in the city, as people of more normal cities designate streets and quarters
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"That one"—pointing to a copper-bound door opposite that which opened into the corridor—"leads to a corridor which runs to a stair that descends into the catacombs
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"It's the thing I slashed on the stair," grunted Conan
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He pressed upon a gold ornament in the wall, and a panel swung inward, disclosing an ivory stair leading upward
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"This stair is built within the wall," said Olmec
